felled‚ it will take centuries for them to grow again. Humans have caused four main kinds of danger they have changed or destroyed the plant life of huge areas of the world‚ leaving many animals with nowhere to live; they have polluted the world with soot‚ chemicals and oil; they have moved predators onto countries where the local animals have no defense against them; and they have hunted animals for food‚ for their skin‚ or for sport‚ until species have become rare or have died out. When the
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parading down the streets of Iloilo. In the beginning‚ the observance of the feast was confined to the parish. The Confradia patterned the celebration on the Ati-atihan of Ibajay‚ Aklan‚ where natives dance in the streets‚ their bodies covered with soot and ashes‚ to simulate the Atis dancing to celebrate the sale of Panay. It was these tribal groups who were the prototype of the present festival. In 1977‚ the Marcos government ordered the various regions of the Philippines to come up with festivals
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For as long as I can remember‚ I have found reading to be tedious for the most part. I felt reading was something appealing only to teachers as a vehicle to improve our literacy and comprehension skills. As I grew up reading the assigned chapter books‚ I found they stood as hurdles for me to jump before I could return to my regular schedule of video games and mindless television. These books never established any significant conflict or brought forth tension; so I became overtaken with indifference
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I am inspired What is it that you really want to do ? What is your own special dream that you want to live out ? Do you believe your life is going to be a masterpiece like the Mona Lisa‚ or is it some smudged finger painting ? Ultimately it begins with a choice. It begins with a decision that no matter what‚ you are going to live your life as a work of art by getting inspired from all the great people around you. TMOD‚ fellow TMs and guests What Is Inspiration? “To succeed you need to find
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The burning flames of orange and red blaze down the walls of Overcast News Industries‚ creating shadows of controversy flickering in the still air. As the burning building crumbles to ash‚ the world is sent into turmoil by the prospect of mass repercussions. The intense devastation wrecked against this integral pillar of society‚ courtesy of the long standing rebels determined to destroy the harmony felt between the citizens of this world‚ will undoubtedly create rippling effects succeeding the original
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believe that is the only right thing to do so. Imagine‚ this woman wakes up at dawn‚ goes outside and starts polishing her pans‚ baking trays and frying pans by rubbing them with sand because she is convinced that is the best way of getting rid of soot from the dishes. Can you imagine the sound? Once I woke up at 5 a.m.‚ went out because of the terrible noise she was making and asked her "What are you doing in such early time?". To my surprise‚ she answered "It is so nice to polish the pans at dawn
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A flurry’s begun to fall‚ adding a dash of white to the soot covered ground. The starkness of the two colors remind him of his conversation with Beetee months ago‚ about black and white things. Life can only exist in the gray‚ but Gale had been a major asshole‚ and had shoved Madge into the black and white‚
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We breathe it and burn fuels in it. Plants use it to grow. It is all around us but we hardly notice it except when the wind blows. Aircraft and birds fly in it. More than one hundred kilometres above us‚ satellites look down through it. In the apparatus shown here‚ air is passed from one syringe to the other while the copper in the tube is heated. The oxygen from the air joins with the copper‚ so the volume of the air gets smaller. The amount of oxygen in the air is the difference in
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With an increasing awareness in the fight against global warming and greenhouse gas emissions‚ governments around the world are looking for alternative sources of energy. These include wind‚ solar and hydro energy sources‚ known as renewable sources (Able to be regrown). However‚ one fuel source in particular is currently being used and produced to power both vehicles and electrical generators around the world; biofuels. Biofuels are renewable gas or liquid fuels made from plant matter such as corn
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The term of measurement for this is ``particulate matter ’ ’ or the number of particles of potentially hazardous substances as percentage of air. This includes a wide range of pollutants. Examples of particulate matter includes road dust‚ diesel soot‚ fly ash‚ wood smoke‚ nitrates in fertilizers‚ sulfate aerosols‚ lead‚ and arsenic to name a few. The suggested Federal limit of an ``average ’ ’ of 50 micrograms of ``particulate matter ’ ’ per cubic foot of air in one year period is considered
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