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Tricia Nguyen Mr. Seals Honors Chemistry - Period 6 23 November 2014 A Game Changer or Simply a Danger? With every choice, there is a fine line between making progress and losing everything one has worked for. The use of nuclear energy is the very epitome of this. While it provides an alternative to the energy sources we use today, nuclear power comes with great risks that can take a lot to fix. However, I believe that with the proper precautions in place, we should continue the use of nuclear…

Smoking Bans By: Nathaniel, Alexis, Devyn, and Logan We see people smoking, everywhere; in their cars, at their house, in bars, outside, at parks, almost anywhere at almost any time. We see our dad smoking a pipe on the couch, we see our friends mom smoking at the park, we see our own family and friends with cigarettes in hand puffing away. Smoking bans are set to help save the lives of smokers, non-smokers, and the environment around us. Smoking harms the human body in many ways. Although some…

E-cigarettes, invented in 2003 by Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik, are battery-operated devices that emit doses of vaporized nicotine or non-nicotine vaporized solutions without tobacco. The primary purpose of e-cigarettes is to replace traditional cigarettes, which have already existed in the world for more than two hundred years. People have known that traditional cigarettes contain harmful compounds which threaten health, but people easily ignore the harm which tobacco causes in the environment.…

academy ground for nuclear training, teaching sailors on how to detect radiation, repair radiation instruments, decontaminate ships after a nuclear explosion. They were also taught how to handle samples of Cesium 137, along with tritium, plutonium, cadmium, cobalt, strontium and krypton. Boats from the Bikini Atoll tests were moored up to the island, one such ship the Uss Independance was used as a classroom, along with another ship monikered the Uss Pandemonium, to teach sailors on ship…

In South Australia the Pyrite mine (iron sulfide) initially began in the mid 1950’s and the mining operations stopped and closed at the end of 1972. The production of iron sulfide was to manufacture and create fertilizers such as, superphosphate fertilizer. Superphosphate fertilizer is used in agriculture where is helps to sustain the rapid change of social economic after WWII. (http://www.minerals.statedevelopment.sa.gov.au/mining/former_mines/brukunga_mine_site/brukunga_mine_site ) After the…

Introduction The objective of this paper is to discuss how Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse and Pablo Picasso can be seen as in being inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s work of art The Large Bathers. Through this paper I will briefly discuss the lives of all three individuals and their influences in an effort to understand how these painters each had their own unique style. Who was Matisse? Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse lived from 1869 to 1954, he was a french citizen. He started early…

Stores visited: Comp-Tech Electronics Enterprises a) AX53 4K Cam Recorder The AX53 4K is palm-sized handy-cam recorder with a 1 2/5-inch ((7.20 mm) back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor that supports UHD 4K video capture at 24 or 30 fps using Sony 's XAVC S codec and features pixels that are approximately 1.6x larger than the previous model for enhanced performance in all conditions, particularly low-light scenarios. The recorder is powered by a lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery type:…

Recycling is one way to reduce the waste taken to landfills. Recycling is also the process we use to reuse recovered items. In my household, we recycle aluminum cans, glass, newspapers, plastic bottles, and magazines because I care about the environment. Recycling is good for the environment because it conserves our natural resources, it saves energy, and it reduces pollution. The problem is that we need to convince the community to recycle more than they are doing. We need to convince…

Introduction: In the northwestern areas of Washington sunshine is a rather rare occurrence. Approximately nine months out of the year the sky is full of gigantic grey clouds filled with rainwater. During those nine months there's usually a relatively constant amount rainfall covering Bothell. Many citizens who have been experiencing the phenomena of rain for countless years are unaware that there's a difference in rainwater from previous decades. The pH of rainwater has been slowly decreasing…

effect on the typical human and water quality. When wastes are not treated this causes major effects on aquatic life. Often than not, dead fish and other aquatic life animals are killed because of the pollutants that attack their habitat. Lead and cadmium are pollutants that are consumed by aquatic animals that often contribute to their death. Not only does pollutants affect aquatic water quality life, but ground water is also affected. The most common sources of contaminants are pesticides,…