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    Why Blackstone River is A National Corridor The Blackstone River changed Rhode Island horrendously. I think the Blackstone river is a National corridor. The reason why Blackstone is a national corridor is because of it change the way how people looked at, its destruction it had caused and the mills. The Blackstone River caused a whole lot of destruction and havoc around Rhode Island. “similar amounts of rain fell throughout the Blackstone Valley. These rains slowly, but steadily raised the…

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    Summary Of Brian's Return

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    Brians Return is a sequel to Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. This book is about a boy who spent a large amount of time surviving in the woods by himself, went home for about a year, and had a hard time re-adjusting to the life in the city. In the beginning of the book, Brian got into a fight with a boy named Carl. Carl took the first swing, and that is when Brians survival instincts were triggered all over again. Brian seriously injured Carl and as a result, started seeing a therapist named Caleb who…

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    Boscastle is a village located in the county of Cornwall in the south east of the UK on the coast. It has a natural harbour within a narrow ravine and is the point at which two rivers, the Valency and its tributary the Jordan, converge. On the 16th of August 2004, these rivers flooded which caused the destruction of many buildings and roads. A flood is a natural event in which water flows over its normal limit, submerging usually dry land. There were many physical factors which led to the floods…

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    Sprinkler Case Study

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    The problem is that we need to give the football field a new irrigation system. The problem asks for us to find the route of the pipelines and the location of the sprinklers. We have to know the amount of materials, measurements of the field, determine the configuration of the pipes and etc. When setting up the sprinklers for the angle of water, you need to program them to spray 90 degrees if it is the quarter circles in the corners of the field. You need to program the sprinklers to spray 180…

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    Amazon Basin Dam

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    #1- How will the dam affect the environment in a positive way? The dam on the in the Amazon Basin will cause a positive impact on the environment. Conversely, the dam will reduce the consumption of fossil fuel for electricity reproduction. Opposing to many environmentalists that believe that the dam will make a negative impact on the environment by causing waste and pollution. But the structure will reduce air pollution by using hydroelectric power to help control and stop flooding. Instead…

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    Texan writer, John Graves in his memoir, Goodbye To A River, published in the year 1960 addresses the topic of his experience on the Brazos River and argues that the Brazos River is important to keep. He supports this claim by illustrating the plant and animals, then the sounds of nature, and finally the life of the river. Graves’s purpose is to protect and convince the people to save the Brazos Rover and land around it, to preserve the river for future generations. He adopts an informative tone…

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    The Delaware Nation also known as Western Delaware, was federally recognized on July 5, 1958 in Oklahoma. They however were not always in Oklahoma, they came from southwest New York and most of New Jersey and Delaware. They were then pushed westward down to Kansas and Oklahoma. In 1867, they made a settlement along the Caney River in Oklahoma. They had quite a few struggles that they bumped into but overcame along the way. After settlement and resettlement, they became the Delaware Nation they…

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    Stretching a total of about 3,964 miles, the Yangtze River has played a considerable role in the lives of Chinese citizens for thousands of years. Along with serving as a major form of water transportation and trading, Asia’s longest river is considered a key role in China’s agriculture and economic system. Where the river runs through Sandouping, one would find the Three Gorges Dam—the largest, and possibly the most infamous, dam in the world. Even though the Chinese government had intentions…

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    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in the United States. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, the Havasupai people and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. The Grand…

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    John Fitch Research Paper

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    idea that branch from the original. Fulton was testing many ideas and end with the old idea of using water wheels instead of the paddles. During the time, Louisiana purchase United Stated on the west for settlement and trade, which the Mississippi river provide a trade route for the steamboat and Fulton sailed a trial run about 150-mile and it’s appearance to be 146 ft. long and 12ft wide that many people were laughing at it. The first trip, he invited his friend and ladies to ride free on the…

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