...in an extreme need for water. A drought means less water for us to use at our leisure, leaving us with the fear of how much of it we are left with to use and how long it is going to last us. Weintraub, author of the article,”River Restoration Project Offers a Sprinkling of Hope”, argues that the San Joaquin River Restoration Project is a positive and benefiting project. On the other hand McEwen, author of the article, “River Plan Too Fishy For my Taste Buds”, argues that is is not so good, nothing worth celebrating over and won’t help. So the question is, is it worth it to have spent almost half a billion dollars on the San Joaquin River Restoration Project? I believe...
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...New Water Sources Mark Harbison Southern New Hampshire University Water is one of our most preciouses and sought after resource. With cities facing rapid population growth, sources of fresh clean water are running low and some of these cities are looking at the possibility of creating new water reservoirs to solve this problem. On paper these reservoirs look good. They provide ample supplies of water, while giving people a place to relax and for recreation. But is the cost of the new reservoir worth the damage to the existing ecosystem? One such proposed reservoir, the Marvin Nichols Reservoir, is the center of much debate here in Northeast Texas. The new lake will cover over 72,000 acres of hardwood forest, river bottoms, farmland, and ranchland. With most of the water going to the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, is the damage to the current ecosystem really necessary? Can the Metroplex enforce more water conservation regulations to save water without expanding their water sources? What will happen to the native plants and animals in the area? All these questions are at the center of a huge debate over the proposed reservoir. Now the Dallas area is one of our nation’s fastest growing areas. From 2010 to 2013 this area has seen a growth rate of 6.0 percent, which brings the current population to just fewer than 7 million people. This Growth can be attributed to the relatively low cost of living in the area. The State of Texas as a whole profited a great...
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...What Does Marginality Mean? By Robert Murphy 8/11/2004 What does it mean to act "on the margin" or to think in terms of "marginality?" Economists use the term often. On the very first day of my principles courses, I teach my students that people make decisions "on the margin." Of course, this pronouncement is greeted primarily with looks of resigned boredom and/or helplessness. I try to clarify by saying that if we look at a piece of paper, the margin is just the edge, not the entire sheet. This explanation also does little good. The fact is, economists are so used to marginal thinking that they have a hard time explaining it to someone who's never heard of it before. And so what I do is jump quickly into some examples. The Water-Diamond Paradox The most famous application of marginalism is the solution to the so-called water-diamond paradox, which seemed to stump Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations.[1] The problem is this: Why do diamonds have a higher exchange value than water, when diamonds are a mere frippery while water is essential to life? Shouldn't people be willing to offer more in exchange for a unit of water than for a unit of diamonds? The solution, of course, is that no individual is ever in the position of choosing between all of the diamonds in the world and all of the water in the world. A given choice is made on the margin. If offered a choice between a cup of water and a handful of diamonds, most people would pick the latter because the marginal...
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...didn’t take,” (Lewis Carroll). In Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing, Jerry shows us that some risks are worth taking. Jerry displays that even if the risk is life threatening that we must try. Some risks are worth taking while others are not, however, we take both kinds of risks. Sometimes we mistake what we want to do with what others want us to do, and take risks that are unnecessary. Jerry and his mother are on vacation near a beach. Each day Jerry and his Mom walk to the beach and spend the day there. Usually Jerry explores by his Mom, but one day Jerry decides he wants to play by some rocks. Jerry meets some boys and they play happily, diving into the water. When the other boys dove into the water and...
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...Do you think that doing something risky or for a title or personal achievement is worth it? To me personally, I believe that the reward is not worth the risk because the risks usually way out the rewards. Although the move is bold, it usually has the risks of hurting yourself or even death. Back in 2010, a 16 year old girl tried to break the record for being the youngest person to sail across the world, by herself. Abby’s reward of this would be that she is the new record holder of this, but her risks are that she could get hurt, die, or ruin her boat. I would have to say that getting a fancy name or plaque is not worth the risks of dying, getting hurt, or ruining your boat. In the text, “Ship of Fools” it claims, “Here's a proposed rule of thumb: any record that requires more than 10 syllables to explain does not need to be broken.” It is saying that all of these records with very long requirements and parts are dumb and don’t need to be messes with, especially if the risks are life threatening. I have to agree with this...
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...his ultimate loss against natural causes, his strive to survive and the adequacy of his whole experience. Imagining how his life could be so surreal, there’s no part in the story that is not interesting enough to not tell. He involved everyone who made a difference in his life. His uncle, who taught him how to swim; the one who swam in the clearest of waters in a French hotel, gave the idea of his name to his own father. The name he dare corrected to his peers and professors. By memorizing every number in the equation of pi, he proved that he is pi. Complicated as it were, no matter how different your name is, challenging your belief of anything brings you closer into harnessing the essence of it. In his quotes, lines as it were, he emphasized that religion should be challenged in order for your faith to grow stronger as climbing through the metaphorical ladder to God. As Pi grew, so did his religious beliefs. Meeting or being introduced, discovering three different religions made him see that there is one god and many gods to believe in. He met Christ as his older brother dared him to drink from the holy water. He grew ever so curious as to why God would give his son to suffer humanity’s sins. His curiosity grew fonder and his questions grew more specific yet still unanswered. He met Muslim faith as he walked pass a temple full of men bowing on their knees, embracing the ground before them. He said, “I felt serene, as I bowed down to the ground. The feeling of...
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...Bottled water Bottled Water Name: Institution Affiliation: Introduction Consumers in the Unites States of America spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on bottled water since they have the belief that bottled water is safer than tap water. Well, it is not. Tap water has proved to be safer than bottled water as well as it is highly regulated with standards tested for safety. Therefore, it being less safe than tap water makes it not worth the money consumers spend. It as well they cause environmental hazards. Thus, bottled water is not safe and worth the consumer's money. Also, these plastic bottles when disposed are non-biodegradable and pollute the environment when disposed. Bottled water safe and has negative environmental impacts Bottled water organizations are not needed to unveil or inform shoppers of the nature of the water. This incorporates the event of contaminants in the water Furthermore in many states, to tell their clients where the water originates from, how and on the off chance that it is cleaned, and on the off chance that it is only bottled tap water. Additionally bottled water assembling does not hold fast to the same strict testing that metropolitan water does. While city water must be tested all the time (in many regions even a few times each day), bottled water does not experience the same testing. Indeed the bottled water may be tested upon the arrival of creation...
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...Lab 2 – Water Quality and Contamination Experiment 1: Effects of Groundwater Contamination |Table 1: Water Observations (Smell, Color, Etc.) | |Beaker |Observations | |1 |No smell, clear, 100 ml | |2 |No smell, oil settled at the top of the water, 110 ml | |3 |Bitter scent, clear color, 100 ml | |4 |Soap smell, thick,110 ml | |5 |No smell, dark, small dirt particles at the bottom of the beaker | |6 |Dirt smell, Dark with oil spots on top, 70 ml | |7 |Bitter scent, a little dark color, 70 ml | |8 |Soap scent, extremely dark,...
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...I chose this article because I think the river plan is a good idea since we are in a drought again. I believe he is credible because he has been working for “The Sacramento Bee” since 2000, and his articles appear three times a week. The San Joaquin River is in California, and is one of California’s largest rivers. This river is one of California’s water sources, and provides water for 4.5 million people. I do agree that this river plan will help California with it’s drought. I believe that it is worth the $100 million dollars because of the experts that had supported, the studies that proved the river plan would help California, and the great impact that the plan would have on people’s lives....
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...Clinton tried to keep sealed many scandals. Some include White Water, the bimbo eruption to the recent Benghazi, and email server scandals. They continually surround her and her ex-President husband like no other politicians in recent memory. The cattle future scandal, or should we call it “Cattlegate”, was one of the first “ethical dilemma” problems of the early Bill and Hillary to rise to political prominence. This financial scandal occurred during 1978 and 1979, and now seems to be mostly forgotten amongst all the other scandals that are nothing more than tabloid headline grabbers. Hillary made a fortune from cattle future trading. She made a whopping $98,540 in 1978-1979 from these trades,...
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...“The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret” Response” While I was reading this section in Marx’s “Capital Volume One” I really didn’t understand what far out, groundbreaking point Marx was trying to make. He kept going on and on for way too long on different points he could make very clearly in a sentence or two. Overall, the point that Marx was trying to get at was how the value of a commodity and the magnitude of labor to create a final product affected its worth. Obviously the more valuable a commodity, the more valuable what you make out of it will be. I don’t quite understand how Marx can say this was discovered by a “scientific study” since it is rather simple, but either way he’s correct about how an item made of a more valuable commodity makes it a more valuable product. Anybody looking to turn a resource into a new product in search of making a profit understands this very well. Nobody in their right mind is going to take an expensive resource like gold, mold it into some type of jewelry, and charge less for it than what the raw gold is worth. Scarcity is what drives the price of gold to be so high at $1,725/oz. right now. Since gold is a hard resource to find it makes it more valuable. On the other hand, a resource like wood isn’t going to be an expensive resource since it’s so readily available and common. Wood comes from trees which are found almost everywhere in the world. Being that it’s so easy to obtain, if I make some sort of product out of wood such...
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...answer is incorrect, but only if you show your work! 3.) Be sure to include units (amu, g, mL, etc.) on any answers that need them. This is worth points! 4.) Be sure to use the correct number of significant figures in your answers. This is worth points too! 1. Tell what kinds of intermolecular forces could occur between the following pairs of solute and solvent, and place the list in order from weakest to strongest solute-solvent attraction. Some pairs may experience more than one type of force. a. water dissolved in ammonia b. NO dissolved in H2S c. CO2 dissolved in ammonia d. Mg(NO3)2 dissolved in water 2. At sea level, the partial pressure of O2 is 0.21 atm. However, the Dead Sea is not at sea level -- it’s at a much lower altitude, where the atmospheric pressure is 806 mmHg and the temperature is 20˚C. Use Henry’s Law and Table 13.2 to calculate the molar concentration of O2 in the Dead Sea. 3. Suppose we make a solution by dissolving 42.5 g of I2 in 1.50 mol of CCl4. a. What is the molality of this solution? b. Suppose we wanted to use our 42.5 g of I2 to make a 0.500 m solution. What volume of CCl4 would we need? The density of CCl4 is 1.589 g/mL. 4. We dissolve 200.0 g of NaCl in 684.5 g of water and find that the density of the solution is 1.15 g/mL. Calculate: a. The % by mass of NaCl b. The mole fraction of NaCl ...
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...Lab 2 – Water Quality and Contamination Experiment 1: Effects of Groundwater Contamination Table 1: Water Observations (Smell, Color, Etc.) | Beaker | Observations | 1 | No smell, clear color | 2 | No smell, layer of oil formed on top of water, bubbles floating around after mixing, no smell | 3 | Strong vinegar smell, clear color | 4 | Sweet smelling detergent smell, green in color, bubbles | 5 | A little soil residue at bottom, light brown in color, no smell | 6 | Soil particles at bottom, no smell, brown color | 7 | Lighter brown color, not as much soil particles, hint of vinegar smell | 8 | Olive color, brown film formed on top of water, more soil particles, same smell, soap bubbles formed in soil, | POST LAB QUESTIONS 1. Develop hypotheses on the ability of oil, vinegar, and laundry detergent to contaminate groundwater. a. Oil hypothesis = If oil is added to groundwater, it will have the ability to contaminate the water. b. Vinegar hypothesis = If vinegar is added to groundwater, it won’t have the ability to contaminate the water. c. Laundry detergent hypothesis = If laundry detergent is added to groundwater, it will have the ability to contaminate the water. 2. Based on the results of your experiment, would you reject or accept each hypothesis that you produced in question 1? Explain how you determined this. d. Oil hypothesis accept/reject = Accept- The oil left residue in the soil contaminating the water...
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...Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723; he attended the University of Glasgow at the tender age of 14. Adam published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1976, this publication is responsible for the opinionated economy that launched the beginning or the Industrial Revolution, and measured to be the primary works of contemporary economics. It is known as the first comprehensive defence of free market policies and it is divided into five books between two volumes (Martin, 2012). Adam saw the concept of value as the merely the universal, as the only precise calculation of value. Adam had two situations of that speculation Value and worth of merchandise is resolute by work spent on it. Cost, it is work that becomes visible in the product. Cost and worth is fabricated from the cost of manufacture goods. Basically, from labor cost, revenue and lease for property. Adam argued two conditions, one for primitive society, and the other for realistic situation in a modern capitalistic world. While discussing the provisions of the labor theory of value, lacking several significant adjectives it must hypothetically submit to the quantity of work essential to the creation of a profitable product, counting the labor essential to the progress of any genuine wealth engaged in creation. Both David Ricardo and Karl Marx tried measuring and personifying the work mechanism to categorize and set the authentic cost, or normal price of...
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