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    Rachel Carson had many great reasons for writing the book Silent Spring. The main theme of the book was to prove the effects of the careless spraying and dusting of people, crops, fields, and forests with harmful chemicals in the mid 1900s. This book was published in 1962, so a lot of the “new” advancements and findings are outdated as of 2015, however this book marks the important history of what happened when humans interfered with nature by using chemicals, and how that affected the…

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    The Red Planet Constitution 1. Objectives and purpose The purpose of the Red Planet Constitution is to maintain a habitable, peaceful, sustainable, self-sufficient, and civilized society across the planet of Mars. Hopefully this society will thrive and expand into its own human colony. Everybody is affected by the law and no exceptions are to be made based on social status, religion, ethnicity, or any other irrelevant characteristics. The purpose of law is to govern a nation, as opposed to…

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    Beechworth Research Paper

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    plush green rainforests, red sandy deserts, craggy ocean cliffs, emerald green hills, golden bays, and stunning blue water that has over twelve-hundred miles of coastline with ocean roads that meander along one of the most scenic coastal drives the planet has to offer. Victoria has also had her share of dark secrets. One of those…

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    Religion In The Matrix

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    After analyzing the 1999 thriller “The Matrix”, it brought up a lot of interesting topics for which can now be analyzed more thoroughly 18 years into the present. The movie itself is about when a young computer genius Thomas Anderson, who went by the alias Neo in the computer world, gets recruited by a man named Morpheus. After the two men had met, Morpheus showed Neo the real world, and told him how people were living in a programmed system called the matrix and that the real world was run by A…

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    Fear In Maacandra's Life

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    After finding out the real purpose of being kidnapped to Malacandra, Dr. Ransom starts his adventure to find Oyarsa. Oyarsa is the greatest eldila on Malacandra, which is acted as a ruler. During the conversation of Dr. Ransom and Oyarsa, he knows more about the culture…

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    She pieced together environmental concerns of urban and industrial reforms with the ecological issues that were relevant to that time. In documenting the damaging impact of unregulated pesticide use, and eloquently speaking of the barren trees and silent birds, solidarity was formed under the care and sympathy for the environment. Carson’s audience, like Friedan’s, was largely housewives. This part of society had time available to read the piece, and had personal experience with the issue at…

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    think about possible outcomes in the topic of his research. This may cause him change the pace of his research, or remove information that contradicts his the paper that he would write. Taylor usually has interest in topics that can make a room go silent or make someone's blood boil. He enjoys a topic like that,yet it is difficult to find info that supports his…

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    The little booklet that Charmaine had bestowed on him contained his flight tickets, itinerary, hotel accommodations, and a full booklet outlining his trip to the Paradise Planet. Trent clutched it like it was a holy manuscript. “I think it’s a splendid idea, honey,” Sally said as she perused the pathways of the Baal flower show and convention. Conventions of all kinds were quite popular on Baal, and there were convention centers seemingly on every street corner, but the flower show was one of…

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    Mercy! The Frieza Force!'''== Inasp walked to the destroyed pillar, and grabbed Melait's arm and pulled him out of the rubble. Inasp put his hand up and formed a ki blast, and since Melait fainted, he was completely helpless. Just as Inasp was about to throw it down onto Melait, he stopped, and thought to himself, "Lord Frieza would be furious if I lost men to this planet! This kid could get me out of that! I'll say that he killed all the others, and that he'll make up for it by joining! Even if…

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    However, in their desire to rule over the laws and will of nature, humans have introduced substances into the environment that threaten all lifeforms, from the smallest insect and the tallest tree to the most unsuspecting person. The opening chapter of Silent Spring sets the scene of a beautiful American farm town that seemed to be full of life with healthy crops and livestock. However, this beautiful land was quickly corrupted by some mysterious and evil force that brought death to a…

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