Geography H/W – The Disappearing Aral Sea This essay intends to first introduce the disappearing Aral Sea‚ which due to the extensive agricultural activities devised by the Soviet government in the region‚ the former fourth-largest lake of the world is now the world’s eighth largest lake. This has resulted in perhaps the world’s most prominent man-made ecological disaster‚ giving its location and background knowledge with a map‚ and then describe its future in terms of how it is going to be utilized
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main cash crop decided to plant cotton in the desert areas of middle Asia. To water these areas‚ the communist engineers decided to use most of the main rivers that fed the Aral sea as the water source. When the cotton plant did not take to the hard ground. In affect taking more and more water from the source of the Aral sea. What environmental and human costs have resulted? The environment has eroded away and become nearly inhabitable by human. Buildings have fallen to the ground from the salt
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Look‚ I dig Ghost Rider. As I said when reviewing the first Ghost Rider movie (one that I still believe holds up as a passable guilty-pleasure) the comic-book antihero’s appeal lies in his darkness‚ his badassery and his extreme heavy-metallitude. That‚ and the motorcycle. Having said that‚ I don’t think most issues of Ghost Rider I pored over as a child were ever actually well written. The story -- of a man who sold his soul to the devil‚ to moonlight as a bounty-hunter by night‚ covered
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Atsuki Yamamoto (David) Empathic response on the Whale Rider You are Kahu at the end of the concert when Koro didn’t show up. Write your thoughts. Paka didn’t show up to the concert today. That speech that I gave at the end was for him. I wrote it because I wanted him to know how much I love and admire him‚ but the seat that was reserved for him was empty throughout the whole concert. If only I was a boy‚ Koro would have loved me more than he does. At the beginning of the concert I thought
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Sea Animals Sea animals are very helpful to people. They are also unique in their own ways. The world would be completely different without sea animals. My experience of sea animals was when I went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. In the aquarium‚ I saw many fish that can do cool tricks and live in interesting habitats. One thing I learned about stingray fish is that the eat shrimp and other small fishes. Also‚ the aquarium contained many other animals such as monkeys‚ snakes‚
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Customer Satisfaction Survey Report Assessment of PART Express Riders August 10‚ 2011 Prepared by: Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation Page |2 Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................... 3 Objectives............................................................................................................... 3 Methodology ..................................................
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Sea shells by the sea shore “She sells sea shells by the sea shore” ~ A tongue twister. I was at the beach today. It was a family picnic and my husband‚ his cousins‚ their children‚ their friends‚ their children‚ were all in attendance. Unlike the last one‚ there was less tension in the air‚ but that is another story. The real story is about a seashell. I picked up a seashell by the edge of the waters‚ i.e. ‘by the sea shore’. The picnic was actually a business meeting in disguise but I felt
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A.J. Skiba Dr. Boler English 1341 D 28 October 2011 The Blind Truth Dramatic irony is strewn throughout Oedipus‚ stemming from Oedipus’ vehement quest to find out Lauis’s murderer‚ and his fate that is foreseen by the seer Tiresias. In addition‚ Oedipus’s constant search for the truth‚ and his unwavering to ability to not heed to the warnings constantly given to him by Tiresias and Creon. Oedipus’ supposed “sight” in the play and his coexisting “blindness” are both inherent to the development
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Mayer/1 Unusual Animal Report SEA CUCUMBER The ubiquitous holothurian‚ or the sea cucumber‚ is an echinoderm‚ a species like sea urchins and starfish. The sea cucumber has about 1‚500 species worldwide. Some species are less than an inch‚ and some are longer than six feet. The sea cucumber usually lives from five to ten years. The sea cucumber’s body is like a cucumber‚ but some look spiky and have lots of different colors and patterns on their skin. Sea cucumbers live on the ocean
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Sea Pollution... Why Are We So Bent On Killing Everything that moves‚ everything that feed us and every animal that God created?. I mean‚ why are we so self-destructive toward the fishes‚ the sharks‚ the whales‚ the sea lions‚ the dolphins etc. And until the day I die I will never understand why mankind has such a Big Hole in their heart‚ and the irony of it all is that God placed us in charged of everything He created. And yet we violate our office‚ just like the Politicians do‚ just like the Judges
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