Papers 1531-1540 of total 53012 found.
…and diverse products nature has to offer. So it would be a disaster if they were to vanish. Once cleared of trees, rain forest topsoil, which can take over a thousand years to accumulate, can be eroded in just one decade. This makes the land unusable, and can…
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…five to ten million elephants in Africa but because of poaching and some natural disasters (fires, droughts) their numbers were reduced to about 1.3 million by 1976 and to about 600,000 now. The African elephant was really threatened by hunters…
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Category: /History
…when they suddenly disappeared. Why they disappeared is somewhat of a mystery; theories attempting to explain it cite war, disease, environmental disaster, etc as possible causes. This essay will present the most reasonable explanation for the rapid…
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Category: /Literature/English
…Floods, devastation, drought, fires, cyclones. Some claim that what planet Earth has been suffering for most of this year, and the past few years, is related to satellites spinning around the globe. Others believe these natural disasters are punishments…
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…A common misconception held by most people is that the "greenhouse effect" is a phenomenon mainly caused by human CO2 production. This is a gross misunderstanding; actually, the greenhouse effect is a natural occurrence. Certain gases…
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…been left to nature to repair. To understand the effects of the oil to the area, it is best that you know a little bit about the oil itself. There are many types of crude oil, but in general they contain hundreds, even thousands of different compounds…
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Category: /Literature/English
…a old man named Santiago who has to over come the great forces of nature. Things seem to always go wrong for him because originally he started out going to fish for some dinner, then he caught the biggest marlin ever and it pulled him out in the bay…
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…Survival of the fittest. A term familiar to most, and more importantly, a phrase lived by all existence. It is Nature’s most basic ideal that resides in all living beings. From the ancient times of the dinosaurs to the modern generation of the human…
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…"Dover beach" is a beautiful poem written by a famous poet, Matthew Arnold; from the romantic era. The poem is melancholic and pessimistic in nature and shows human misery through the ages. The diction changes as the poem progresses, from the beginning…
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…is not always ideal. Both forms are venerable to things such as unforeseen natural disasters that would cause death and money to be spent on things un planed for. These forms don't take things such as this into consideration. Both capitalism and utopias can…
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