humanity. The Jamaica Bay is one of the primary components to The Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway NRA), whereas it is a large body of water which drains portions of Queens, Brooklyn, and Nassau counties of New York, and discharges into the Atlantic Ocean. The Jamaica Bay Unit is approximately 6,500 hectares (16,000 acres) in area, about 75% water and wetlands and 25% uplands. The bay is protected by a barrier beach and it connects with the sea through Rockaway as its Western end. The Jamaica
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large amount of money from it, people were forced to admire their sumptuous(adj.) living standards. After one of their party nights, the main conductor woke up with a turgid(adj.) leg and arm. This was the day when they were supposed to cross the Atlantic Ocean in their train. The only problem was that his mind was so abstracted(adj.) that he could barely concentrate on what he was doing. He ended up falling asleep along with his extremely drunk partner and the blue train has never been seen
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RADOSLAV RAFAILOV Student id: AC1303980 Computer information systems EN120.3.1 English Composition Assignment 2_02 My recent trip to the beaches at The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico reminds me of one of the most beautiful and spectacular places I’ve ever been. The beach smells fresh, almost like a new tropical breeze air freshener. Next to me is the Caribbean ocean, bright as a cloudless noon sky, washes onto the white sand. Looking at the waves’ white foam; then, I let my
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Assignment #1 1. Quezon City, Philippines is located in Asia. 2. There are no countries bordering the Philippines because it is an island like Japan. 3. The closest major body of water is Pacific Ocean. More specifically the North Pacific Ocean. 4. The Philippines is in the Southeast Pacific Asia region. 5. I associate some of my friends to the Philippines because they always come in with Lechón, a popular fiesta food that is made of a full adult pig being roasted. Sometimes baby pigs
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sport or commercial harvest. Atlantic Bluefin tuna, the most valuable fish among the fish market is in danger of becoming extinct within the next couple of years due to over fishing. Part of the problem is that they are being caught as early as four years old, and don’t start to reproduce till around eight years of age; many are caught before they can even reproduce. This has lead to a ninety percent drop in the species from 1970. Location of the Problem Atlantic Bluefin tuna live in open
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intoxicating odour that infused your breath. You stared over the russet, rusted metal railing, absorbing the blackened chaos of the storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean. A sensation of rebellion and pleasure, both startling and exciting, surged through your lungs. You exhaled deeply, your warm breath tainted with alcohol, which tangoed and twisted, transfusing the salty Atlantic air. You firmly stoppered the empty bottle with a rubber cork, and safely sequested it in your cobalt, cotton pocket: it was to be dealt
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Collision of Culture Panama is a country that has had a collision of culture. It was never really a country of its own, but an extension of Columbia. When the idea of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean together so that the cargo routes can circumvent traveling around South America, is when it became an area of name. First the French tried to create this connection and failed in the 1880’s. Again in the turn of the century the U.S. had an interest in creating this passageway and developed
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English Coursework The sands were pearly white. I was memorised by the sea, as sapphire blue as my dear wife’s eyes. It was peaceful. Tranquil. The sun starred it’s raze down on the razor sharp sand. The aroma of hot dogs and filled my nostrils, permeating through the air. Just like the busy streets of New York, but the calm morning breeze of amity island was all I could feel around me. Not a single cloud in the sky, the day seemed as though it was going to be a perfect day, but what is perfect
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Christopher Columbus was an explorer he traveled and made discoveries one of his discoveries were when he found America, he was looking for china but ended up in America. In 1499, Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci were the first to sail along the coast of Paria. The following year was uncommonly rich in voyages of discovery. In the western ocean, the equator was first crossed by Vincent Yanez Pinson, who doubled Cape Saint Augustin, discovered the mouths of the Amazon river, and then sailed northwards along
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Part : A Australian disasters DISASTERS | WHEN IT OCCURED | WHERE IT OCCURED | 1 bushfires | 2003 | Canberra | 2 floods | 1990-2006 | Queensland | 3 droughts | 2002 | Eastern and southern australia | 4 earthquakes | 2012 | 10kmwest of moe Victoria onshore | 5 cyclones | 2006 | Far north queensland | Part:B international natural disasters. The disaster I have chosen is the “hurricane Ivan” that happened in Windward Islands (especially
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