Did you know that about 14 billion pounds of garbage is dumped in the ocean each year? This is very concerning because if we don’t choose to get rid of our garbage the right way, we aren’t only hurting the lives of plants and animals, we are also putting our own lives on the line. Most of the garbage is plastic from bottles, wrappers, straws, and bags. These plastic objects harm the plants and animals living in the ocean. This is one huge reason we need to recycle. Additionally, we need to recycle
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Amelia Earhart was a stunt pilot who is known for her amazing feats and long distance travels. She is also known for disappearing on her trip around the world. She crashed in the Pacific Ocean 1937. To this day no one knows what happened to Amelia Earhart and no one has found any wreckage of her plane. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897. She had one sister, her name was Grace Earhart. Her parents’ names were Edwin and Amelia Earhart. She lived mostly with her grandparents until
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The Coastal Plains are one of the 5 physiographic regions of Georgia. One of the major industries of the Coastal Plains is the Coastal Industry. In this industry, they market sea foods and wood products. There is a lot of shipping in the ports of Savannah and Augusta. There is also a papermaking and commercial fishing industry. However, over time, the paper and pulp industry expanded, and the pollution from the paper mills has resulted in a great suffering for the fishing industry. The Coastal Plains
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America countries, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, the United States of America, as well as Greenland - the world's largest island, located in the planet's northern and western hemispheres, it's guarded in the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, along the southeast by the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and in the west by the Pacific
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In order for the Panama Canal to be built, there needed to be an in-depth take on geotechnical analysis. The geotechnical team working on that project had divided up the area into the big and small picture, which are: geotechnical characterization, stability analysis, retaining walls, and the design of accessibility for the ships. In order for the project to begin, the geotechnical engineers had to take the small picture approach for the research on the type of rocks and soils that were in the area
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Plastic in the world’s oceans has reached an unfathomable, and frankly disturbing level. It is speculated that there are at least 5.25 trillion plastic particles weighing a combined 268,940 tons currently floating in the world’s oceans (“Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans” par. 17). What’s more, of the quarter million tons of plastic in the ocean, anywhere from 7,000 to 35,000 tons is comprised of micro-plastics measuring less than 5mm in diameter. Take a moment and consider the sheer magnitude
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Amelia Mary Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison Kansas, United States. She studies in Columbia University. Earhart received many awards for not only flying purposes, but also for writing many best-selling books about her flying experiences. She was declared dead January 5, 1939. The story of her death has not been prove and because of this many theories have emerged about her. Most people believe that on July 2nd,
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Does the Ocean need more help than our people? Well the Ocean has more damage done to it, that it isn’t the same wonderful, heartwarming, wedding crying Ocean anymore. Humans done so much to it, that it is worn down, and the Ocean can’t handle it anymore. According to Ocean Geography Society “We should keep the Ocean alive by not killing the Coral Reefs, and rare fish, or any fish at all, and bring back the past of the wonderful, clean, and mysterious
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On the crisp cool morning of April 8th in Perigeux France, a son was born. Not a first chilld for this deeply religious couple , not even a second to complete a family, but the fourteenth baby out of fifteen. Upon his arrival in 1761 even though hugely devoted to the lord themselves his parents had no idea what an intuitive, compassionate, strong, brave, forward thinker they were to embark on the journey of raising. After watching three of his older brothers become priests, he felt a strong strong
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dating from the Baroque period all the way into the modern age but the paintings that really caught my eyes were those from the 17th century. Of these the ones that made an impression on me were: 1. “Virgin and child with Angel” painted in 1642 by Simon Vouet in France. This portrays a virgin half sitting, half crouching with a cherubic infant on her hips while her focus was on the basket of fruits that she was eating from, oblivious of the angel to her right that was playing with the infant
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