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    neck appeared to be in a elongated position with head facing to the side,” Kadle said. “There was marks on the torso and on the head.” Officers found Kiya Kitchen lying nearby in a brushy area beside the road. Medical responders took Kiya Kitchen to Redwood Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Tsarnas was pronounced dead at the scene. Adams said when he arrived at the scene about 9:16 p.m. a man by the name of Dwayne Ashbach flagged him down to tell him he had witnessed the…

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    the earth. By helping the environment, you are ultimately doing a service to mankind, like I did during my tree-sit. For 738 days, I brought to attention the environmental issues some people did not know about, including the cutting down of old redwood trees (Hill, Julia. “About Julia.”). The other goal of my charity is to share with society that there are ways to change the outcome of our destructiveness to the Earth and to protect it. On the website for this charity, clean-living techniques…

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    Yosemite National Park

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    National Park System to all areas managed for parks, monument, historic, parkways, recreational, or other purposes used to exclude recreation. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was set up so that our actions do not threaten plants or animals. The Redwood National Park Expansion Act amended in 1978 expanded the parks boundaries to protect watershed and a fragile ecosystem from logging. The Archeological Resource Protection Act of 1979 corrected seven decades of inadequate protection for…

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    The Invasive Species There is an invasive species amongst us and it's destroying our world. It doesn't seem to stop at anything and is professedly unaware of its destructive habits upon the earth and nature. It plows through our forests, desecrating our ancient trees in it’s path while strangling itself in the process. It sucks up our water sources so fast that they cannot replenish naturally, and yet it cannot quench its thirst for more. It scours the world's worth of crops but leaves the…

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    Welcome to the Pledis Islands! The Pledis Islands are comprised of two main islands and twelve smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean, specifically at 42 degrees latitude and 162 degrees longitude. These islands where man made in 2012 by architect Sabine Toews, and have the smooth lines of traditional man made islands, as well as many natural features that truly make it unique. These islands generally experience a climate similar to that of the marine west coast, with warm summers, cool winters,…

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    Oracle Case Study

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    Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, Jeffrey O. Henley as the Vice Chairman of the Board, and Safra A Catz and Mark Hurd as the Chief Executive Officers, Oracle was founded in Santa Clara, California, but was relocated to Redwood Shores, California in 1989. Oracle offers many products and services, such as Oracle Cloud, Oracle Database, Engineered Systems, Java, Enterprise Management, to name a few. Oracle is traded on the NYSE under the code ORC. With a volume of…

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    window frame from his room that he used to watch people through. At the end of the movie Caesar unties the apes in the sanctuary and plans an escape for his ape brethren. Through planning and environmental awareness, Caesar leads the apes to the redwood forest where he used to go with Will. When Will catches up to Caesar he says to him that he will take him home and protect him, but Caesar says to Will, in front of all the apes he leads to the forest, “Caesar is home”. Both of these stories show…

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    What Is Asylum Seeker?

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    general, which profoundly inform the sentiment towards asylum seekers today. The United States for example had the Chinese Exclusion Act from 1875 to 1882, and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act which limited the total number of immigrants per year (Rose-Redwood, The United States: Historical and Contemporary Migration, 2016). These two examples show the racialized and restrictive immigration policies of the United States, which no longer exist but the ideology behind them still does. Framing the asylum…

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    Study Of Physical Properties Of Cashew Nut Shell Oil Bio Diesel Blends G Sujaykumar1, Ravikumar R2, Vinayak Baddi3, Santosha P V4, 1, 3, 4Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yenepoya Institute of Technology, Moodbidri, India 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Christ University, Bengaluru, India Abstract The modern scenario reveals that the world is facing energy crisis due to dwindling source of fossil fuels. Biodiesel which is an alternate fuel, is produced…

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    further purify the existing stream, reducing its salt content by a third. That, water district officials hope, will attract more customers such as Silicon Valley "clean rooms" and property owners with concerns regarding possible impacts of salt on redwoods and other sensitive landscaping” (Paul Rogers “California drought: San Jose's new high-tech water purification plant to expand recycled water use” Paragraph 22). Implementing water filtration systems throughout water systems could ameliorate…

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