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    bad reasons to clear cut or not to clear cut and most people don’t understand that clear cutting isn’t bad per say but can be helpful in the long run. There are two versions of clear cutting‚ one called a commercial clear cut‚ where only the merchantable tree is cut‚ leaving the unmerchantable tree behind to be either left or burnt in the slash piles. The other is a plain old clear cut‚ where everything is cut‚ from the merchantable trees to even the unmerchantable are cut. Clear cutting proscribes

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    Dark Ages

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    Russell Lebo The Dark Ages 12/4/12 The period called the Dark Ages is a period of time where Europeans made progress despite enormous difficulties. There are six main things that contributed to calling this time the Dark Ages. They include the fall of Rome‚ a mini ice age‚ The Great Schism‚ plague‚ peasant revolt‚ and the Hundred Years War. The fall of Rome began when a man named Alaric launched his third attack on the city of Rome. Alaric‚ the leader of the Visigoths‚ was forced out of Germany

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    Plants Which Produce Oxygen at Night‚ Debunked. Can some plants produce oxygen at night? I hear you ask‚ after all the internet is filled with articles stating that plants suck as snake plant‚ and some types of daisies and others produce oxygen at night. But remember your primary school science classes‚ when you learnt that plants practice a ‘magical’ process called photosynthesis? A plant needs light and water‚ to turn carbon dioxide into carbohydrates‚ and oxygen is the waste product of this

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    Lab Report: Flame Test

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    this‚ rinse it with distilled water from the wash bottle‚ dip it into the Hydrochloric Acid‚ and place it in the burner flame for a few moments. 4. Take note of the color of the flame when the wire is clean. This is the color you should see after each cleaning. 5. Once the wire is clean‚ dip it into one of the solutions‚ place the wire in the flame‚ and observe the color of the flame. 6. Clean the Nichrome wire as directed in step 3‚ then repeat step 5 until all of the solutions have been tested.

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    Night

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    Many themes exist in Night‚ Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps‚ Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful‚ civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more

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    We often lament that we can’t change the world; that we just have to accept things for what they are. More often than not we are right‚ we can’t change the world. Or can we? I was in WALMART the other day (how many world-changing stories begin in WALMART?) and there was a young woman in the check-out line in front of me buying a car battery. After she paid‚ she picked up the battery and walked it out of the store; I wanted to help her‚ it looked heavy‚ but I still had to check out my purchases

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    Cast Away

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    Cast Away In the film Cast Away‚ I was interested in Chuck’s transition between his communication process from before he was stranded on the island and his communication skills when he got back. Being stranded on an island for four years‚ having no one but a volleyball to talk to would of course have some effects on how anyone would present themselves when they returned. I noticed that in the beginning of the film‚ Chuck had sufficient communication competence and was able to connect well with

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    The dark knight

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    film “The Dark Knight” directed by Christopher Nolan the beginning of the film was memorable as it introduced a main character The Joker. Nolan used many visual features to capture the audience’s attention and to portray The Joker’s character. In the opening scene of “The Dark Knight” Christopher Nolan uses to build tension before Joker is introduced to us throughout the whole scene the sound of the cello is playing it starts of at a slow pace and is silent and as the scene goes on it we hear the

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    Is there a clear divide between books for adults and books for children? On the surface one may feel that there is a clear divide between children’s books and adults. For instance if we take a look at a typical children’s book cover we often find them to be colourful and decorated with illustrations. In contrast to the supposed adult books that often have mundane simple covers. However‚ to distinguish if there is a clear divide between children’s books and adults books one must look further

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    The Green Mile Analysis

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    The Green Mile a very interesting slow paced movie deals with the injustices of racial profiling and the criminal injustice of the murder and rape of two young girls. It also deals with a man with supernatural powers to help clean the world of hatred by people during the time of major racism and that man was John Coffey he showed that he was a good man. Frank Darabont the director for The Green Mile) did a great job on showing the good and bad in people and how the simplest things can make you happy

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