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    Drowning In Plastic

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    Drowning in Plastic: The Throwaway Society Since it birth in the decade of the ‘90s, plastic have play such an important role in every aspect of the modern-society. Thanks to its unique combination of properties such as durability, versatility, and cost of production, plastic’s dependency seems to not have end. Packaging, construction materials, medical devices and a surfeit of consumer goods are examples of products manufactured from plastic. It is estimated that 100 millions tons of plastic…

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    Plastic is a new foundation for human life: food comes packaged in plastic, sports are played on grass made out of plastic, supplies are wrapped in plastic, and accessories are encased in plastic. Plastic also has a way of getting into trees, bushes, oceans, animals, and makes the environment look awful. As of watching our backyards and oceans get filled with plastic bags, we have realized the trouble plastic causes for the environment. San Francisco, California, Laredo, and Eagle Pass have…

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    Polyethylene Terephthalate

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    commonly known as plastic, is a material consisting of a wide range of synthetic and/or semi-synthetic organics that are malleable/ductile and can be molded into many solid objects. Plastics are typically made of organic polymers (chains of carbon or chains of carbon that have been bonded to other elements such as oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur) having high molecular masses, but often contain other substances. Usually being synthetic, and most commonly made from petrochemicals. Due to plastic…

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    The Aerospace Industry

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    1.1 Overview of aerospace industry Globally, 3.57 billion passengers travelled on aeroplanes during 2015 and the demand for air travel is predicted to keep rising.1 As the frequency of air travel is increasing, it places a pressure on the aerospace industry to improve material performance and the efficiency of their transportation.2 Classically aircraft were constructed from metallic materials such as aluminium and titanium. Therefore, new materials must have specific properties and…

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    Bottled Water Essay

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    As you consume bottled water, you are also taking the risk to get cancer and various reproductive damages. Human body need water, it is our biological needs. However, people choose to drink bottled water is just for them to meet their secondary needs. If you could choose between bottled water and drink water fresh out from the tap, I believe you would go for bottled water. No doubt that our body needs water to survive. In US, most of the people have the access to tap water, but there is a large…

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    Life Without Plastic Essay

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    Introduction: Plastic materials simplifies life for most humans. Plastic has amazing properties, for example it is durable, strong, flexible, lightweight, inexpensive, stainless , and insulates against heat and electricity. Plastic can be used to make almost any object, which is evident just by looking around. Trying to spend a day without touching anything plastic is almost impossible in a modern society. Plastic is present in things that are often very close to the user, as the mattress of the…

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    The New York Times finishes an update on Saturday’s bombing in New York by quoting an unnamed official, “We don’t understand the target or the significance of it,” the police official said. “It’s by a pile of Dumpsters on a random sidewalk.” It’s a valid question - why here? So often we’ve seen terrorist attacks (and this is a terrorist attack) take on symbolic importance: two of the largest buildings in New York, a concert, a football game, an airport. We understand the choice of target and…

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    spurred speculation about a possible connection between those crimes and the marathon bombing. Police pursued the stolen vehicle and Improvised explosive devices were thrown at the police, as many as 300 rounds were exchanged, and a police officer was shot and wounded watertown identified as one of the two suspects in the bombing, was seriously wounded by explosives and multiple gunshot .Tamerlan Tsarnaev was taken to a hospital and was pronounced dead. In the early morning hours a resident…

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    Plastic is a material that never decomposes back into its original form; this means it lasts forever. While this plastic is laying around it poisons people and mammals, chokes animals to death daily, and is an eyesore on Earth. A decisive action needs to be taken to get the existing plastics removed from the environment and use alternatives to this deadly material… before it’s too late. Plastic is currently the number one most preferred material in today's industrial world; this is posing an…

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    Resilient Qualities

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    To describe a human being, you would have to pick many qualities in order to truly paint a solid picture of a person. You can describe them and the subject might say “yes that sounds like me” but the reality is that we probably missed something. This is a really tough situation to be in and you could either insult someone because you missed something about them or they could think you do not really know them. Now imagine having to do it on yourself. You will read about how I am a mentor, how…

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