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back several centuries ago. With that being said, the scope of this paper deals with the modern emergence of Islamophobia in the United States, particularly in the last three decades. Significant events such as the September 11, 2001 attacks (a watershed moment in American history), the emergence of extremist groups such as al-Qaeda, and domestic terrorist attacks such as the 2015 San Bernardino shootings lead to negative media rhetoric that paints American Muslims with a broad brush. Often…

When two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom come together they form water. Water is one of the most important things that humans need to survive. It is so important that humans can’t go more than four days without it. Water effects in more ways than you could imagine. It shapes the land we live on and has been doing so for tens of thousands of years. What makes this all possible is the water cycle. The cycle starts with evaporation. Water evaporates from lakes, rivers, streams and the ocean.…

Four decades ago, Edward Abbey's iconic novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang" served as a wake-up call to environmental activists. In it, self-appointed guardians of the Colorado River become so incensed by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam that they conspire to detonate the massive 710- foot concrete structure. Although the dam remains intact, the sentiment behind removing the dam has since resurfaced. Both Lake Powell, the reservoir formed by the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead, located 300…

1. By the end of the 1600s, the Chesapeake Bay region was an agro-export economy specializing in the cultivation of tobacco. One geographic benefits of the region to this endeavor is that the Chesapeake Bay region is surrounded by a lot of rivers where it makes trade and transportation of good accessible between different states. According to the Chesapeake Bay River 1 map, there are many rivers such as the Potomac River which extends to other states. In the map the whole region is highlighted…

The American Civil War and the post-war Reconstruction caused a drastic change in American life and America itself. Following the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was Andrew Johnson’s form of Reconstruction. During Johnson’s Reconstruction, the 13th Amendment was ratified, which abolished slavery within the United States of America. The ratification of the 13th Amendment lead to the 14th and 15th Amendments promising national citizenships and equality for all and to…

Sitting on kid-sized benches during Open House for the Henrietta Storm Water Basin Improvement Project and with our backs to the bright morning sun, John Dettle, P.E. and Engineering Manager for the City of Torrance, answered my questions about the Machado Lake Trash TMDL project. "You start with the regulations", he said. (J. Dettle, November 7, 2015). The US Environmental Protection Agency declared Machado Lake impaired in 1998 and 2002, and in 2008 the State Water Resources Control Board…

The Local History of Osage County circa 1867 Thesis statement: Settlers came to Osage County in Missouri for the prosperous land resources of trees, hunting, rivers and hills; and to establish a community based on strong roots. Part I: Facts of population and the county itself Osage County is in Central Missouri. The county came into existence after having been detached from a part of Gasconade County. In 1855, the bottom part of Osage County was given to form the top half of the new…

those trees and sold them and make it a daily routine until no trees were left that is why it must be stopped .Secondly it can cause flashflood, landslide and other destruction. Trees sustain water and soil resources through recycling nutrients. In watershed where forest are degraded or destroyed, minimum flows decrease during the dry season, leading to drought, while peak floods and soil erosion increases during the wet season. Thirdly logging those trees can affect the biodiversity of the…

Roanoke island is an island in Dare County on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States. It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration. The lost colonists were the third group of English arrivals on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, settling near the modern-day town of Manteo. Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World. It was…

The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers who were accused(falsely) of raping two white women on a train ride from Chattanooga to Memphis Tennessee in 1931. The case was a landmark moment in African American liberation and rights. The boys were traveling on a freight train when police stopped the train upon hearing that African Americans were attacking white travelers. When they opened up the train car, they discovered two white women were traveling with the boys. The women…