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    total of 283 million tons of coal were mined, providing about 64% of the state’s electrical production (Reese and Loughlin, 61).” Mining has caused severe environmental impacts ranging from the toxic chemicals seeping into the watershed, the altering of landscapes, and large amounts of waste (Reese and Loughlin, 61). New laws have been developed in order to reverse the negative trends from mining, which include the following: Abandoned Mine Land law, Open Cut Land Reclamation Act, Surface Mining…

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    England, France, and Spain struggled to gain control of Colonial North America. The settlers from each country came to the New World for different reasons, and with different concepts of governance from their own countries. Because of these differences the colonist’s from different countries had advantages and disadvantages that impacted the destiny of the New World. Settlement location, political affiliations, religious beliefs, and economic strengths all contributed to the English…

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    Introduction One of the most popular methods of surgery in gynecologic oncology is the Laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgery technique. This method of surgery has many benefits, such as quicker recovery time, shorter hospital stay, less post-operative discomfort, and smaller scars (“What is Laparoscopic Surgery”). This surgery procedure is one of the safest for this type of oncology. While laparoscopy is one of the best surgical methods, it still has its limitations. These limitations can…

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    Research Paper Results: Q1: (How is the clothing of the two generations differing from each other?) The two generations differ from their choice of clothing greatly. Teenagers from the 90’s prefer to be comfortable and conservative in their daily wear whereas modern teenagers nowadays would rather wear tight and a bit revealing, at times. This is proven by our survey when we ask which choice of clothing they prefer. A fair amount even admitted, when we asked them (just light conversation), that…

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    the SEALs head out to the border, they are discovered by a group of herders. Rather than kill them, the SEALs let them go, only to discover the herders revealed their position to members of the Taliban. This book begins with Navy SEAL training in Coronado, san Diego is outlining the difficult process of becoming a SEAL. "Somehow, shifting positions in the big Hercules freighter, we were leaving behind a place which was systematically tearing itself apart and heading for a place full of wild…

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    Empire of the Summer Moon is about the 40-year battle that ensued between the Comanche Indians and the first American settlers that tried to inhabit the West. The author of this book is S. C. Gwynne. He has been writing for a better part of 15 years or more and has been the writing for The Dallas Morning News, he also has served as bureau chief, a national correspondent, and senior editor for Time Magazine. He has won many awards for his books and articles over the years. He now lives a relaxed…

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    from Texas and Mexico to find a new home elsewhere. They traveled for years settling in Oklahoma, Kansas, and parts of Nebraska around 1750 C.E. (“Pawnee Tribe History, Facts, and Culture”). Around the 1540s, Spanish explorer, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, reported that the Pawnee tribe had “large and organized farming and hunting villages, situated along rivers” (“Native Americans House”). The tribe lived in permanent villages for most of the year. In addition to living on rivers, they were…

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    Coronado, California. North Island Naval Air station (NAS), Admiral Meyer’s headquarters. Admiral Meyer’s had called his senior staff as well as those from Naval Base San Diego, 32nd Street, to his headquarters to discuss how they could support the defense of Washington D.C., they needed to act now. As far as the Admiral could tell, was that they didn’t have the aircraft to send a few thousand Marines along with their equipment. The C-17’s, all five of them, were a God send and they were…

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    Costa Rica Research Paper

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    Costa Rica is a country in Central America filled with forests, volcanoes, mountains, and dramatic skies. North of Costa Rica is Nicaragua and to the south is Panama. Costa Rica has a population of about 4.872 million people as of 2013. The total land area of Costa Rica is 19, 560 square miles and the total area is 19,730 square miles. The main spoken language of Costa Rica is Spanish and the second most spoke language is English due to all the visitors. A very big number of people in Costa Rica…

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    tell that some of the old Spanish cities have been in America long before the “American Dream” was even thought of. Something I didn’t mention earlier is that I am related to the first European explorer to set foot in Kansas. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was a Spanish Conquistador around the 1500’s, who after exploring, married and spent the rest of his years in Mexico City, Mexico (biography.com). My mother was working on our family tree and happened to come across his name. He is my 16th…

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