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Industries and associations such as the tobacco industry and NFL are known to protect their money and reputation. Any claim made against them could cause them to fall apart. When scientists claim that second hand smoking is harmful or that football players are at risk of brain damage, the tobacco industry and NFL will attempt to falsify the claims without proper evidence. The process by which the industries attempt to falsify the claims lacks in reliability and does not make clear the effects of…

There is an area within the Pacific Ocean called the “Ring of Fire,” that is a region of high volcanic and seismic activity ranging from parts of Asia, to Australia, and to North and South America. Majority of active volcanoes on Earth are located within the Ring of Fire. In fact 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes are located in the Ring of Fire. Within it’s boundary in the Pacific Ocean, the Ring of Fire consist of the Pacific Plate, where it runs along against other plates such as…

Zachary Campanelli Gsci-131 Final Paper Mount Tambora is a volcano located on the northern coast of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. The volcanic eruption in April 1815 is the largest recorded eruption in history. Mount Tambora forms the 60 kilometer long Sanggar Peninsula, previously standing at a height of approximately 5000 meters high. After the eruption, the volcano lost most of it’s top, now standing at 2,851 meters. Today the volcano still remains active. Smaller eruptions have taken place in…

La Nina is a climatic pattern that distinguishes the cooling of sea surface temperature along the tropical coast of South America. La-Nina is described as the opposite to El-Niño which distinguished by warm sea surface temperature in the equatorial region of the Pacific ocean. The Southern Oscillation (SO) is a change in air pressure between the western and central tropical Pacific. The pressure variability changes the strength of the trade winds, that results in affecting the surface ocean…

Namita Gokhale has become a well-known fiction writer.Her literary disposition rendered a great amenity for counting upon the women of prominence and relevance, so far, unsung, in the days gone by. Our ethos may see the uncharted consciousness experience as a sign of psychological ailment. There are many types, stages and steps of visionary experience. An encounter with the mystical can be devastating and petrifying as well as lifting and stirring. The streak unraveling the farsighted, the…

the Malaysian Borneo region, which comprises two states (Sabah and Sarawak). It has a total area of 329,847 square kilometers. Malaysia’s climate is topical and characterized by the annual southwest (April-October) and northeast (October-February) monsoons. The humidity is high and the temperature is usually moderate. The politics in Malaysia is based on a federal constitutional monarchy, which means that the King…

I walked into the operating room, bile rising in my stomach as I saw all the shiny sterile equipment. Fear is a small price to pay for knowledge, but at this moment, I weighed the possibility of oblivion. No, I had gone through too much to back down now. This exploratory surgery was supposed to give me more information than the MRI and Catscan that I had months earlier. My doctor told me that this surgery would finally explain why, at the age of eighteen, I still had not had my period. I…

The Question of Hu showed lot interactions between Chinese and Europeans in the early eighteenth century, most of them are about the religion and the trades. Because many missionaries like Father Jean-François Foucquet came to China and persuaded people be drawn into their religion. There was more and more Chinese follower, including the main character Hu, one of the followers. “Hu’s devotion to the Christian faith, moreover, is well known and of long standing.... At his baptism Hu took the name…

Yuma’s Irrigation Irrigation is significant to yuma for so many reason’s. Irrigation has brought Yuma a more reliable and clean water source which has and powerful sprinklers, has helped this area master year round farming increasing the number of agricultural products being produced and sold.Throughout the process of developing irrigation many developers had challenges to overcome like flood’s, population and town’s increased and most of all technological inventions. All of these were…

Algeria was a country that was once controlled by France for the majority of its history, but eventually gained independence in 1962. Algeria has overcome political turmoil and conflict that resulted in Abdelaziz Bouteflika becoming the president in 1999, and the government today is still under his leadership, while relying heavily on the usage of hydrocarbons. Algeria’s main language is Arabic, and the people there are predominantly Muslim.Flag of Algeria.svg Papua New Guinea was a…