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    effects what goes on underwater. Did you know about 25% of the carbon dioxide from burning oil, coal, and gas affects the oceans and marine life in the oceans because it does not stay in the air. 525 billion tons of carbon dioxide has absorbed in the waterways since the start of the…

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    President al-Bakr announced his resignation on July 16 1979, Saddam Hussein immediately succeeded him as President. Under Saddam tensions between Iran and Iraq escaladed due to violations of the 1975 Algiers Accord which designated the Shatt-Et-Arab waterway as the border. As a result Saddam abolished the 1975 agreement in September 1980 and proceeded to bomb Iranian air bases and other strategic targets. Immediately the U.N. Security Counsel called…

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    Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato Mexico and grew up there until his family moved to Mexico City in 1893. Accepted into the San Carlos Academy at the age of ten, Rivera began his education and his career during a troubled time not only for Mexico but also within the world stage. Socialism and Marxism were on the rise and at the time his native Mexico was struggling to re-establish its own identity before Spanish influence. Diego Rivera’s art would contribute to the voice of the oppressed…

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    How did expansion and technological development in the United States change the nature of government? How do we see progress, is it accomplishments that pile can reach the heavens, is it bringing safety of your people, or is it gaining strength for your nation by expanding. Isn’t that the expansion and technological boom in the United States was bound to happen at some point in which would have been beneficial to the government and the people as a whole and that is “progress”. It is change that…

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    On April 1808, “New York authorized the construction of the Erie Canal which was 363 miles long connecting Albany on the Hudson River with Buffalo, New York” (“Transportation Revolution”). By building canals, man-made waterways, inland transportation was inexpensive and easier. “Not only were foods able to be transported faster, but the cost went down from $100/ton to less than $8/ton” (“Transportation Revolution”). This shows that transportation also changed people’s welfare…

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    3 million sq. km. Its area is smaller than the U.S; its population is 1.4 billion that reported on July 2015. (CIA, n.d) According to the report from CIA on 2013, its transportations are: • Airports (44) • Heliports (37) • Pipelines • Railways • Waterways • Merchant marine (2,030) • Ports & Terminals Another report on 2014 regarding of China’s energy use are: • Electricity • Fossil…

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    tons is the amount of factory-farm animals waste generated in the U.S each year. The minimum number of diseases that can be transferred from farm – animal’s waste to human is 40 and the miles of the river across 22 U.S states reporting polluted waterways 35,000. The numbers are there to prove the toll factory farming is doing to this country. Two springs ago, Sarah was hired at a breeding barn called Wyoming Premium Farms, it was long as four football fields and she was one of the 12 to 15…

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    Ogden v. Gibbons, Heart of Atlanta Motel, and Solid waste cases are all closely related to the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the Obamacare act. Each case deals with the specifics of commerce, mostly with commerce “among the states.” With the commerce clause being viewed from many different perspectives over time, it has given great importance to the meaning of our laws and regulations that we have set today. These three cases alone along with the Obamacare…

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    to come by, now, with the exception of flame and blood. Rampant fires and firestorms consumed forests and cities long ago, and everyday continue to demolish what was once taken for granted. From the fall of ashes and soot, the world is grey, and waterways are black. Remnants of hydrangeas, wild orchids, and daisies stand brittle in what were once great forests, sculpted by fire into ashen effigies of what they once were, waiting earnestly…

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    The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebel states “are, and henceforward shall be free.” This proclamation was an important step towards abolishing slavery and conferring American citizenship upon ex-slaves, although the proclamation did not actually outlaw slavery or free the slaves in the Union states that still permitted it (“The Immediate Effects”). The proclamation also broadened the…

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