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    Life and Earth

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    endless life in a tree. Paraphrase of the Poem: [1-9 lines] It takes a lot of time and strength to kill a tree because it grows slowly and rises out of the earth by absorbing years of sunlight air and water. So‚ it is not easy to kill a tree with a single stroke of a knife. [10-19 lines] The tree has deep roots which draws its sap from the earth. It gives rise to tiny twigs and miniature boughs. We hack and chop to kill a tree. But hacking and chopping cannot destroy it completely as green twigs

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    Good Earth

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    In the book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck‚ the fall of the House of Hwang and the rise of the Wang family was shown. The story completed a "circle of life"‚ with Wang being the center of the circle. While Wang at first was intimidated‚ he also looked down on the House of Hwang‚ he soon found that when his family became rich‚ his house fell onto some of the same "curses". In both houses‚ a lack of love for the land was highly noticeable (except for Wang Lung)‚ opium was used‚ slaves were

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    Layers of the Earth

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    There are many different layers within the Earth. The core is at center of the Earth. The Earth’s core takes up sixteen percent of Earth’s volume‚ containing thirty-three percent of its Mass ..Pressure rises steadily inside the earth because of the weight of overlying rock. Therefore ‚the Pressure at the outer boundary of the core reaches 1.37 million atmospheres‚ 3.7 million Atmospheres. The core is made mostly of iron and nickel and possibly smaller amounts of lighter elements including sulfur

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    crust). The lower mantle runs slowly‚ at a rate of a few centimeters per year. 3. Core: The Earth has an iron-nickel core that is about 2‚100 miles in radius. At the core-mantle boundary‚ composition changes. Seismic waves suggest this material is of a very high density (10-13 g/cm3)‚ which can only correspond to a configuration of metals rather than rock. The presence of a magnetic field around the earth also indicates a molten metallic core. Unlike the crust and the mantle‚ we don’t have any samples

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    Earth Resistivity

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    soil will vary geographically and at different soil depths. Moisture content changes seasonally‚ varies according to the nature of the sub layers of earth‚ and the depth of the permanent water table. Since soil and water are generally more stable at deeper strata‚ it is recommended that the ground rods be placed as deep as possible into the earth‚ at the water table if possible. Also‚ ground rods should be installed where there is a stable temperature‚ i.e. below the frost line. For a grounding

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    Earth Science

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    direction with height that turn storms severe. • Thunderstorms with rotating updrafts are called super cells commonly producing tornadoes. animation – audio http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/Domain/7724/animations/animations glencoe earth science/thunderstorm_stages_332.swf • Stages of thunderstorms: Cumulus stage(no rain‚ mainly updrafts) ‚ Mature stage(updrafts and downdrafts caused by rain)‚ Dissipation stage (lingering downdrafts). http://my.hrw.com/sh2/sh07_10/student/tabpages/hq7c/c24/s02/vc04/hq7c_c24s02_vc04fs

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    Earth in Danger

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    Earth in Danger Nobody can negate that a lot of phenomena has been changed in our world recently while wondering the reason of these changes. One of the main reason for a lot of change in our life is the rapped raise on temperature which is called global warming. Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century‚ Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8

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    Giants in the Earth

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    O.E. Rölvaag’s thesis in the novel Giants in the Earthis well hidden throughout the text of the novel‚ but his purpose is very clear. The purpose of the book is to give the reader a full experience of how life was like for an immigrant to start all over again in an unknown‚ unexplored habitat. It also furnishes the reader with the knowledge of the hardship and consequences that the alien settlers dealt with on the prairie. The topics that Rölvaag writes about in the novel are those

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    Earth and Pot

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    The Fox and the Crow A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree. "That’s for me‚ as I am a Fox‚" said Master Reynard‚ and he walked up to the foot of the tree. "Good-day‚ Mistress Crow‚" he cried. "How well you are looking to-day: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds‚ just as your figure does; let me hear but one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds."  The

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    Man Of Earth

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    MAN OF EARTH Amador T. Daguio (January 8‚ 1912-1967) obtained his M.A. in English at Stanford U. as a Fulbright scholar. In 1954‚ he obtained his Law degree from Romualdez Law College in Leyte. Daguio was editor and public relations officer in various offices in government and the military. He also taught for twenty-six years at the University of the East‚ U.P.‚ and Philippine Women’s University. In 1973‚ six years after his death‚ Daguio was conferred the Republic Cultural Heritage Award. The poem

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