(Source: Canadian Centre for Energy Information compilation‚ 2013) There are now 3‚133 megawatts of solar power installed in the U.S. That’s enough to power nearly 3 million homes. The average cost of solar power fell 27%‚ from $4.10 per watt in 2011 to $3.01 per watt in 2012. The solar industry grew 76% in 2012 alone. A single Air Force base in Nevada has saved $83‚000 A MONTH since it switched from using traditional energy sources to solar energy produced on site. You can lease your property (such
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Who was the most important inventor in the industrial revolution? In my essay I want explain who was the most important inventor/scientist industrial revolution. My essay includes James Watt‚ Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers. James Watt was not the inventor of the stream train but he made significant adaptations to it which made it more efficient. This vastly improved the speed and decreased the amount of time during delays and the amount of delays also decreased. He also made a coping machine
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Why Did the American Government Decide to Take Part In World War I? World War I was a global war originating in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.More than 70 million military personnel‚ including 60 million Europeans‚ were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. Over 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war‚ a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents’ technological and industrial sophistication‚ and the tactical stalemate
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Martin Luther King once said “We are not makers of history. We are made by history‚" which interprets how the surrounding events played a big role in my great grandfather’s life. At the age of 103‚ T.W. Cooper‚ my great grandfather witnessed plenty of extravagant events. Some of these events include: The Waco Horror‚ KKK‚ Emmett Till case‚ The Watergate scandal‚ O.J. Simpson trial‚ and the Trayvon Martin Trial. The Waco horror took a great toll on the African American community in 1916. Jesse
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likely to happen and repairing the damage will take longer. Structural violence is something that will most likely end up as direct violence and it will be from the ones who are being oppressed and unequally treated. This is exactly what happened in Watts‚ LA during the 1960’s‚ when African Americans were being treated unfairly. Even though the civil rights movement changed a lot of things for African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s‚ inequality and racism was still very prominent. With the Civil
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have to question ourselves is the George Zimmerman way the American way? We are not all bad people‚ but with all of these gun laws and opportunities that we have we can
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The Media and Its Responsibilities Lucinda Ramon SOC120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Raymond Hudson June 24‚ 2013 The Media and Its Responsibilities Malcolm X captured it best when he stated‚ “The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent‚ and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” Media is defined as the use of any form of communication to reach and influence people
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Luther King Jr.‚ emerged as a national leader of the American civil rights movement. This event triggered the change of the U.S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watts Riot I do not believe this riot was a success due to the fact that so many died and were injured and arrested. When 34 people die in event‚ you cannot consider it a success. It was violent‚ brutal‚ and barbaric with looting and property damage occuring
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- Chantel’s is off too. - Where’s her dad? I can’t get hold of him. There’s something in the water‚ and it’s not chlorine. Zimmerman says you and Addie ganged up on him. What the hell are you doing? - Making sure I’m loaded and ready. - Just till tomorrow. 24 hours is all I ask. - And you run off to Zimmerman. - He knows she has drama school. - Her teacher’s nosy and loves cops. - Could’ve waited till tomorrow. We’re meant to be partners‚ dammit! What’s happening tomorrow? I don’t think you’ve
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positively improved over the past years and that may be true but it is still long from gone. For example‚ in America on the 26 of February 2012 17 year old black male‚ Trayvon Martin was shot dead by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman saw Trayvon who was walking back from a convenience store and assumed the boy to be a threat as he was a young black male wearing a hoodie. He later told police that he shot Trayvon in self defence and was not charged for murder at the
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