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    POLLUTION The pollution that is produced through our current energy generation techniques is terrifying. With dangerous pollutants such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium all coming from different forms of coal, how do we prevent these pollutants? As well, one must remember the problem with carbon emissions. Coal is anywhere from 35 to 86% carbon (Fox, 2014). This produces dangerous greenhouse gases that lead to rising ocean currents, ocean acidification, and rising yearly average…

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    Our group project was based around up and coming solar technologies. The research we did as a group were framing ways that our world can collect the suns energy and make a useful output. I did my research on The Tesla Powerwall. Tesla Motors is an automobile manufacturer that has a concentration in electric motors. By producing cars with an electric motor is decreasing air pollution. The effects of air pollution are, and can be very devastating. Tesla thrives on making these motors silent and…

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    Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was created to adhere to the peoples fear of an over exertion of power by the national government due to a lack of divided power among the three branches of government in existence at the time. Under the Articles of Confederation the U.S. Congress did not have the ability levy taxes or regulate the trade industry. As a result of a presence of a lack of power in the judicial branch, there was no federal court system to intervene and help control the…

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    (Global Wind Energy Outlook, 2014), however the questions remains whether the UK should continue to invest in wind power compared to other renewable sources of energy. The extraction of energy through wind has been proven to be environmentally friendlier than other sources of energy, through emitting less greenhouse gases and reducing water consumption. On the other hand, wind power is seen as too expensive, less reliable…

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    Globalized Issue: Pollution With the escalation in its severity in recent years, society is increasingly gaining understanding on the global issue of air pollution. Air pollution is the contamination of the air as a result of smoke, dust, and essentially, harmful gases mixed into the atmosphere. People from all around the world are growing more concerned with the issue of air pollution each day, thanks to the emphasis the media has placed on it. As society develops awareness and grows…

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    military, what his foreign policies were and how he conducted war, and one could extrapolate from this that he used his military, foreign policies and war as a tool to achieve his overall goal. This goal was have to have Nazi Germany become a super power within Europe, and essentially redeem themselves for the shame they faced post World War I due to the Treaty of Versailles amongst other things, and Operation Barbarossa is another way reaching his…

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    this role, the state must have a system of checks and balances to preserve the voice of the individual. In many nations around the world, the balance of power between branches of government is weak or absent, leaving democracies to fail in their mission, to vest the power to the people. In this paper, I will analysis and compare the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches of government in the British parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy and Russia’s…

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    Donovan Strachan Dr. Druann Heckert Principles of Sociology (Sociology 210) Black Panthers The Black Panthers was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist group that was active in the United States beginning in 1966 and ended in 1982. (Wikipedia, May 2016.). It only had 1 international chapter that operated in Algeria, Africa which started in 1969 and came to an end in 1972. (Wikipedia, May 2016.). Scholars view the Black Panthers political party as the most influential black movement…

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    Wind Energy Advantages

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    requirement and technology, wind power is a possible choice for humanity because 90 percent of electricity from renewable energy comes from wind energy (Vidal, 2016). Actually, wind power has a long history of development. It has mature technology and is extensively used by European countries. In this case, those countries have already demonstrate that wind power is helpful in some areas. Even though wind power has played an important role in human life, the question is if wind power can replace…

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    not have more power than another. In our government, there is a hierarchy of power. Congress, the legislative branch, is the most powerful of the three, the president, executive branch, is next in the order of most powerful, finished by the Supreme Court, judicial branch. Their powers each lie in different areas and there is a great separation of power as the framers intended, however, there are some aspects in which these branches overlap and that is where the different amounts of power can be…

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