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    “The History boys” by Alan Bennett is a play that depicts different educational styles, which give divergent points of view of the 1980s scholastic system. “The History boys” mirrors the progressions in instructive approach and procedures under the government of Margaret Thatcher, and promotes many problems about the way of training and information that stay vital even for today’s education. During Thatcherism, league tables were introduced to allow parents to see how local schools measured up…

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    Cancer, skin disease, plants and wildlife all around us dying, the ozone hole is dangerous and the threat is real. The hole in the ozone layer has the potential to cause mass damage to the Earth. The Antarctic region is devastated due to the exposure to ultraviolet light and the climate across the world has begun to shift. Due to the harmful impact humans have has on the environment, this even could cause a major catastrophe for the earth and its inhabitants. The ozone is a layer of gas in the…

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    Mt. St. Helens is a stratovolcano part of a group of volcanoes called The Ring of Fire. These are created from the convergence/subduction between the Juan De Fuca plate and the North American plates. Its most common type of eruption is intermediate eruptions, which is what the composition was in its most recent eruption. Mt. St. Helens most recently erupted on May 18, 1980. An earthquake right under the mountain caused an enormous landslide/avalanche going close to 150 mph. A huge hazard from…

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    Causes and Effects of Global Warming Aside from war, poverty, and crime, one of the major world issues is global warming. Global warming is a phenomenon caused by the hole in the ozone layer. This hole allows ultraviolet, also known as UV, rays to cover the Earth like a blanket since the purpose of the ozone layer is to block these rays. The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the air that wraps the UV rays around the Earth which causes the warming of the Earth. In…

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    solar UV radiation, it is greatest in areas with larger amounts of radiation, the tropics. However, the ozone layers are found to be thicker at higher latitudes rather than at the tropics. Meridional and downward transport of ozone molecules in the stratosphere carries the O3 away from the equator and tropics, towards the poles where it collects to form thicker layers. In the northern hemisphere, the greatest column densities occur during spring at the polar latitudes. Therefore, airline…

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    3. Current situation 1995 was the final year in which Australia produced any CFC substances. No ozone depleting substances are produced within Australia today. (Department of the Environment and Heritage 2001) Management strategies to cease the import of CFCs were implemented into Australian borders. The total imports of CFCs decreased from 2101.0 tonnes in 1991 to 9.5 tonnes in 2000 (Department of the Environment and Heritage 2001; refer to Appendix B, Table 2). A small percentage of CFCs…

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    On April 25, 1917 a star was born Ella Fitzgerald , She was born in Newport News, VA and raised in New York . Ella and Her Mother Temperance Fitzgerald where homeless for some years before she got her big break, In 1934 . She appeared the Apollo theater in Harlem winning a contest and got discovered by a big artist . http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ella-fitzgerald Years later she was called “The First Lady of Song,”. But growing up in New York, She was inspired by “ Shake hips” Tucker…

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    The Slice: A Short Story

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    "She'll make her own trap with enough time, we just have to keep our eyes out. Strange things have been happening lately. Just a month ago, we had unbelievable amount of microwave radiation in the stratosphere for no apparent reason, most of it originating in Eastern Albion. Our entire Grand Archive seemed to switch its native software with no outside sources, no one from the Archive remembers modifying the servers. Additionally, Hector LeBeouf was released…

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    Review the arguments for and against. There is such concern about the threat posed by anthropogenic climate change because of the affects it has on land surfaces, oceans and the ozone layer. The depletion of the concentrated ozone layer in the stratosphere is a big concern as it is believed to be cause by gas emissions which include, methane, carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons and many more (Middleton, 2013). The levels of the input of these gases have been rising, for example carbon dioxide…

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    Byproducts of Rising Global Temperature The terms global warming and climate change are often thought of as interchangeable, while they are to some extent, particularly within the context of politics, in science the terms are taken more literally. As discussed earlier, the scientific community is in agreement with regards to the fact that global temperatures are increasing. So calling the phenomenon global warming is not technically incorrect, however, global warming does not encompass the…

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