SAVE TREES Trees are very important for our survival in many ways. They clean the soil by filtering sewage and chemicals used in farms. They help control noise pollution and reduce flash flooding. Trees absorb carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming. They also clean the air by absorbing pollutants like carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide. They also help to lower temperatures. They give shade during the summer and act as windbreaks during winter if they are located on the windward side
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Name: Date: Assignment 1 – Research Assignment: DUE ON week 7_______________________ Choose ONE of the following topics for your assignment: 1. Select an advertisement for a quit smoking program‚ weight loss or sports nutrition supplement and research the scientific validity behind the program or product. Your report must include: A description of differences between primary and secondary resources An explanation of how secondary resources usually contain bias and how these
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Trees in our Life Nature is a great teacher. Nature without trees is akin to ’Fish without water’ or a ’Head that sports no hair on it!’ Trees occupy an important place in the life of man. They give us so many good things and yet expect nothing in return. Trees add beauty and color to an otherwise colorless background. They have been a source of inspiration to many artists around the world. They come in all sizes‚ shapes and colors adding to the amazing variety of flora around us. Trees are our
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Ministry of Education Importance of trees Student name: Grade: 10-g Introduction Trees are important to humankind not only economically‚ environmentally and industrially‚but also spiritually‚ historically and aesthetically‚ for they sustain human life through direct and indirect gains by providing a wide range of products for survival and prosperity. However‚ it is not always easy to define “tree.” A tree is a large‚ long-lived (i.e.‚ perennial) woody plant that attains a height of at
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SOLUTION FOR LONE PINE CAFE CASE: A)Each of the partners contributed $16000 cash to the partnership and agreed to share in their profits proportionally to what they had invested which amounts to 1/3rd of the total profit. Therefore‚ each Owner’s equity : $16000 cash They signed a one year lease at a nearby cafe called the Lone pine cafe and agreed to pay a rent of $ 1500 every month. The partners borrowed $21000 from the bank . They used $35000 out of their partnership money and
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to self-discovery‚ Taylor Greer manages to overcome her weaknesses and start a new way of life and while traveling she obtains a small Indian child (whom she subsequently names Turtle) who would later prove to have a huge impact on the course of her life. Throughout the novel‚ The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver‚ one discovers Taylor and Turtle’s process to obtain a better life: to escape‚ to seek a new way of life and to discover oneself by depending on one another. Symbols constantly present inside
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The Witch of Colchis As she was ferried ’cross the River Styx‚ what thoughts too harrowing to contemplate came coursing madly through her consciousness? Her children whom she killed with her own hands as vengeance for their father’s faithlessness‚ ensuring they would not be reared as slaves? The hapless rival she engulfed in flames— a marriage of political convenience kindling blind rapacious jealousy? Her husband’s cousins she enticed to cast a heinous spell of mutilation‚ thinking they’d
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Trees alter the environment in which we live by moderating climate‚ improving air quality‚ conserving water‚ and harboring wildlife. Climate control is obtained by moderating the effects of sun‚ wind‚ and rain. Radiant energy from the sun is absorbed or deflected by leaves on deciduous trees in the summer and is only filtered by branches of deciduous trees in winter. We are cooler when we stand in the shade of trees and are not exposed to direct sunlight. In winter‚ we value the sun’s radiant energy
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trees are the largest and the longest living organisms on earth. To grow tall‚ the trees display miraculous feats of engineering and a complex chemical factory. It has the ability to absorb water and salts from the earth and transport them up to the leaves‚ sometimes over 400ft above. By means of photosynthesis‚ the leaves then combine the water and salts with carbon dioxide from the air to produce the nutrients‚ which serve as food for the tree. In this process‚ trees create wood‚ as well as many
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“The Beauty of the Trees” Imagine a place with giant trees‚ tall bluffs overlooking the ocean‚ and green water lapping on the rocks below. The wind is cool and moist‚ the aroma of sea foam and grass fill the air‚ and water as far as the eye can see. Imagine this place and you have the Pacific Northwest‚ the home of Chief Dan George and the setting for his poem “The Beauty of the Trees. “ Chief Dan George was a leader of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation‚ a band of the Salish Indians located near coastal
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