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    prominent values of the dominant ideology to get votes, “wilderness hides its unnaturalness behind a mask,” (Cronon, 69) so that it is accepted. On the other hand, wilderness spaces such as conservation parks promote surreal landscapes while hide mining, logging and development in zones off-limits to tourists. Despite the hidden hypocrisies, wilderness is widely accepted as a space of beauty, nature and…

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    vehicle tires. More plantations were established to supply demand, increasing deforestation. Tucker explains this when he writes “In order to create the plantations, they clear-cut the forest, burning the biomass or in some cases organizing salvage logging of valuable hardwood trees” (Pg 148). Even though rubber consumption increased dramatically over the decades, its consequences were not as significant as they could have been because synthetic rubber derived from petroleum was invented. This…

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    The North Korean Famine

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    punishment are: political opposition, economic and social disobedience of the law, illegal trade, drug deals, and religious affiliation. Furthermore, North Korea inhumanely executes its prisoners through the use of starvation rations, arduous mining, logging, and farming labor, and public executions (Haggard and Noland, 663). Overall, showing how the country’s use of capital punishment is to regulate and affirm its general public’s allegiance to the state; while, the country continues to build…

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    An electronic health record (EHR) is a computerized aggregate of a patient’s official health record that is to be made directly available to multiple authorized agencies and practitioners. It is much more than just a collection; rather it is an efficient approach of sharing digitally organized information of the patients across the health care providers and organization. This digitized system is intended to prop up the goals of Population Health Management (PHM) i.e. to enhance the quality of…

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    Target Executive Summary

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    In December 2013, criminals forced their way into systems, gaining access to guest credit and debit card information. It was determined that certain guest information was also taken, for example, the information included names, mailing addresses, email addresses or phone numbers. The massive data breaches at Target were broken into the retailer's network using login credentials stolen from a heating, ventilation and air conditioning company. The hackers first tested the data-stealing malware…

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    Hamza Nadeem Persuasive Essay “The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other” (JR). According this quote by JR, we are really disconnecting from each other by using social media rather than connecting, and this is a problem nowadays, especially with teenagers. And this is the main reason why understanding the benefits and risks of social media are important for teens before they go on and get in trouble for not using social…

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    However, we seems to be destroying them by harvesting them faster than they can regrow. For example, between the year 1840 to 1920, 19 million acres of white pine forest were logged in the state of Michigan alone in the United States. Those who started logging believed that they would never run out…

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    The Importance Of Hemp

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    We need to use hemp based materials instead of tree based materials because hemp bast metals are stronger than tree based materials. We use the dumbest possible way to make paper, trees are made up of only 30% cellulose. The rest of the tree has to be removed using toxic chemicals and bleach, until the cellulose can be formed into paper. Where as hemp is 85% cellulose due to this, hemp makes a stronger paper without the need for toxic chemicals or bleach. It would be incredibly stupid for humans…

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    We can all agree that social media has revolutionized the internet and technology. There are hundreds of social media sites and app’s for your phone that change how you interact with the world. Social media puts all of the information we would ever need to know right in the palm of your hand. Whether it is world news about natural disasters in foreign countries, local news about a town hall verdict or your second cousin from Oregon who posted a picture of him eating a bowl of cereal. We all use…

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    Have you ever been to the Sedgwick County Zoo and walked out of the tiger exhibit and see an empty exhibit? Although it may look empty it’s really not, if you look inside the tree stump you’ll see a shadowy figure which is really a red panda sleeping. Red panda’s sleep during the day and are most active at night. You know the feeling when you eat something sweet for the first time in a long time? Well red pandas do too, they love the taste of aspartame which is used in most fake sugars. The red…

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