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    Choosing Lots Case Study

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    people who live in this area get treated not as well. They have expressed anger about the city dumping bus garages, sewage plants, and trash disposal plants in their neighborhood. Given this, if we were to put the bus terminal in this area, this would not be fair, because the city is already putting things there that they do not want. Since the city is already dumping bus garages, sewage plants, and trash disposal plants in that area, we need to put the bus terminal someplace else to be fair.…

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    earth. Over the past few decades extensive human activities have affected these oceans in a very disastrous manner. Marine pollution also known as Ocean pollution, is the introduction of harmful substances such as waste from industries, effluents, sewage, oil , agricultural waste etc into the ocean (Derraik,2002). The oceans are a known home to a large variety of flora and fauna. The pollution has started affecting the marine habitat adversely. Marine pollution not only affects the seas and…

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    One of the top reasons is sewage, in which polluting substances flow through the sewage and goes right into the ocean. The release of chemical nutrients leads to the reduction in oxygen levels, as well as a serious decline in the quality of sea water and that affects the life of plants and animals. Ship pollution…

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    My project is how recycled water, tap water, and distilled water affect plant growth. I chose this project because if anyone would like to grow plants they would want to know which water makes their plants grow the biggest and tallest. The reason I chose this project is because I would like to learn more about plant growth and how different types of water would affect it because then I could grow multiple types of plants and get bigger plants then ones watered with tap or distilled water. My…

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    Polio Research Paper

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    detection element. My first article was about the detection of the polio virus in river and sewage water. As Pavlov (2006) states, “the aim of the study was to determine the occurrence of [polio] strains in selected sewage and river water samples” (p. 1). They collected 138 samples of river water and 213 samples of…

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    Social Suffering In Haiti

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    health and social problem because the diseases are so easily spread between people living together with a lack of required resources and poor sanitation systems. The cholera outbreak was caused by the sewage leak from the United Nations camp which then created a major health problem because that sewage was leaking directly into Haiti’s largest river. The river that many depended on for gathering to use as a water source for daily living. Despite, the serious contamination, people were still…

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    The Roman Empire faced many issues in its final years. Some of the problems included sanitation, military shortages, and economy issues. Sanitation was a big problem because sickness and plagues sprang up from consuming contaminated water, sewage bacteria, or rodent issues. (Alchin, "Reasons why the Roman Empire fell") Another problem is the military, during Rome’s decline, it was tough to recruit soldiers and harder to provide resources for its heavy armies. Economy was also a big problem for…

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    For 16 years, scientists wondered just what had happened with corals in the Florida Keys. In this time period, over half of the corals had perished. They later discovered that the greatest decline was in elkhorn coral. Finally, research showed that the massive coral disappearances were caused by a disease by the name of white pox. The scientists have solved the elkhorn coral mystery using the scientific method - by making observations, conducting experiments, and drawing conclusions. Initially,…

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    this generation with polluted air, water, and sound as a so called “gift”. Over the years, the world has become more and more polluted. 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage and waste is dumped into waters around the United States every single year. Pollution is irreversible and we’ve been left with trillions and trillions of gallons of sewage. We can’t reverse the damage it’s done to our country, our planet, and our people. Our water sources are becoming toxic due to the waste, and with the amount…

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    Arguments Against Polio

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    Documented in a stone carving from ancient times of the Kingdom Period of Egypt around 1300 BC, a man is depicted with a dangling foot and withered right leg who was very likely to have been suffering from the effects of poliomyelitis. Poliomyelitis, an infectious viral disease that was easily contracted in unsanitary conditions, has been around since ancient times. The ruthless virus attacked the nervous system by specifically targeting gray matter, tissue in the spinal cord and brain…

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