Earth Day Essays and Term Papers

The Importance Of Insects

Insects are commonly categorized as harmful or beneficial, but such sorting is done arbitrarily, as all insects' effect our lives greatly. That is not to say that certain insects may not be of a more obvious and positive use to us than others may be, as many have functions which translate ...

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Hemp...A Help For Today

For our purposes, hemp is the plant called cannabis sativa. There are other plants that are called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of these plants. In fact, cannabis sativa means "useful (sativa) hemp (cannabis)". "Hemp" is any durable plant that has been used since pre-history for ...

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing

Fifty four years ago, the detonation of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima (and later on Nagasaki) ushered to the Nuclear Age. It was a moment full of horror, in which the eyes of the whole world were opened to the unimaginable possibility of nuclear holocaust. The ...

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Hurricanes 3

A natural hazard is when extreme events which cause great loss of life and or property and create severe disruption to human lives, such as a hurricane. Editor Philip Whitefield brings up an important point in ‘ Our Mysterious Planet’ when he comments; ‘At a time when we know ...

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Brave New World

then to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories in the twenties and thirties. He also wrote essays and novels, like ''. The first novels he wrote were comments on the young generation, with no goal whatsoever, that lived after WW I. Before he became the ...

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Beowulf: The Ultimate Hero

A hero is one who places himself or herself at risk for another by performing great deeds of courage. Often in our society today, athletes are looked up to as heros. Brett Favre is an excellent example of a modern day hero. He is looked up to by many for his strength, leadership, and success. ...

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The Life Of Sally Ride

Women such as Harriet Quimby, the first licensed women pilot, and Amelia Earheart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, were unknowingly paving the way for other women, like Sally Ride, in the field of women in science and aeronautics. Sally Ride was born in Encino, California on May ...

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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" Only through a journey into hell can we hope to attain paradise... His Early Life: Dante Alighieri was born under the sign of Gemini, he was thought to be born on May 29, but this is not certain. He was born in Florence, the son of Alighiero II, his ...

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The Scientific Revolution In The 17th Century

Sci·ence n. The systematic study or knowledge of the physical or material world . One might think that with all of the great scientific discoveries that happened in the 17th century, that they happened over night and that the discoveries seemed to have happened in a relatively short period in ...

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Neil Armstrong

Background was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio in the year 1930. His services as a pilot were called upon during the Korean War. Shortly after graduating from Purdue University in 1955, Armstrong joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, then known as the National Advisory Committee ...

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Chad

is one of the most underdeveloped countries in the world because of its climate, geographic location, and a lack of infrastructure and natural resources. It's main cash crop that is helping it's economy is cotton, which accounts for 48% of exports.1 The industry of is mainly based on ...

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Dante's Inferno

Dante’s inferno was a poem written by Dante Alighieri in the year 1300. The purpose of this was to show people of this time period the effects of their sinful ways during their life on earth. The moral lesson of the book is to be morally their life on earth in order to end up in heaven instead of ...

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Solar Sails

Sailing Into the Final Frontier Space, the final frontier, it has always been a goal to explore the universe and unlock its mysteries. Science had yet to create a method that allows man to travel fast enough or far enough to discover what lies beyond what we already know is there, until now. ...

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Why You Should Plant A Tree

Perhaps because of their constant presence, most of us rarely lend much thought to the importance of trees in our lives, communities, and histories. We may take them for granted, or see them as mere decorations. Trees, however, are a vital and nurturing force. They benefit our environment, ...

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The Beverages Sector

Introduction This paper discusses about the two very well known and competitive brands of beverages (soft drinks) in the world; Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Both are major global companies in beverages and other branded products that are enjoyed in over 190 countries. Discussion Both ...

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Matthew 26-28 Reflection

Ashley Matgen Assessment: Walking with Jesus 4/15/10 Matthew 26-28 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” I asked him timidly. He looked at me, paused, then answered, “ You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This ...

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Pawnee Tribe

A-LOCATION=The Pawnee Indians are original people of Nebraska and Kansas. The Pawnee tribe was forced to move to a reservation in Oklahoma during the 1800's, and most Pawnee people are still living in Oklahoma today. B-POPULATION=were over 10,000 members of the Pawnee Tribe along the North Platt ...

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Hamlet

Characters of Shakespear's Plays - By William Hazlitt (First Published 1817) This is that Hamlet the Dane whom we read of in our youth, and whom we may be said almost to remember in [74] our after years; he who made that famous soliloquy on life, who gave the advice to the players, who ...

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Buddhism

Buddhism is one of the biggest religions founded in India in the 6th and 5th cent. B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha. One of the great Asian religions, it teaches the practice of and the observance of moral precepts. The basic doctrines include the four noble truths taught by the ...

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Comparing the M-16 and AK-47

The great military debate that has existed for decades attributes to which firearm has the better rifle platform, Eugene Stoner’s M-16 or Mikhail Kalishnikov’s AK-47? Both are used extensively by police and military forces around the world. These two weapons platforms have been going head to head ...

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