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- 15711: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... Buendia shouts, "God damn it! Macondo is surrounded by water on all sides!" Whether it is, in truth, an island is irrelevant. The town believed itself to be cut off from the rest of the world. In addition, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula are looking for solitude. The founding of Macondo was a result of escaping Jose Arcadio Buendia's murder of Prudencio Aguilar. Aguilar's ghost haunted them, eventually forcing ...
- 15712: Animal Testing: Animals Suffer
- ... it. Singer argues that medical interventions have only a small effect on the mortality rate. He says more money and focus should be set aside for health care and the major health problems of the world. That is the only reasonable and at the same time justifiable step to take care of the entire animal rights issue. Cohen, the author of a piece called The Case for the Use of Animals ...
- 15713: The Environment Is Going To Hell
- ... day, 10 per hour, another dead species every 6 minutes. We're trashing the planet, washing away the topsoil, paving over our farmlands, systematically deforesting our wildernesses, decimating the biota, and ultimately killing ourselves. The world is getting progressively poorer, and it's all because of populating, or more precisely, over-population. There's a finite store of resources on our pale blue dot, spaceship Earth, our small and fragile tiny ...
- 15714: Life On Other Planets?
- ... matter of time and odds. Some feel that simply given enough time, some kind of life will emerge on a planet capable of sustaining it. One equation that has been made widely popular among the world's extraterrestrial life hunters is one that was proposed by Francis Drake, now president of The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute. The Drake Equation, as it has come to be known, was first presented by ...
- 15715: What is A Plant?
- ... be dated back to 105 AD in China. Drugs made from plants are essential to some people's health and if those plants were not in existence, it could mean a huge difference in our world. Fossil fuels would not be here if there weren't any plants around. Whole economies of some countries depend on plants. Plants were, and still are, important in life. Plants do more than just provide ...
- 15716: Mescaline
- ... effects blamed for bizarre behavior like jumping out windows. It holds a mystique that has been popularized by the media, movies, and groups such as the Doors. It certainly effects a persons perception of the world for a time and alters the brain. I think the information about this drug is inconclusive and only vaguely informative. So, until we learn more, this drug will be mired in mystique and perhaps stuck ...
- 15717: The Dung Beetle, What a Marvelous Creature.
- ... I have chosen this topic for a tribute speech, or maybe why I would even consider talking about it at all, but do you realize what an important role these beetles play all around the world. I remember several days when I was young that I would just go for a walk in my grandfather's pasture. I would enjoy the quiet walks, and sometimes try to scare the cows, but ...
- 15718: The Importance of the Ozone Layer
- The Importance of the Ozone Layer The February 17, 1992 edition of time magazine's cover story started like this: "The world now knows that danger is shining through the sky. The evidence is overwhelming that the earth's stratospheric ozone layer-our shield against the sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays-is being eaten away by man ...
- 15719: The Depletion of the Ozone Layer
- ... chemicals for the developing countries to keep the radiation and amount of heat balanced on Earth. The problem is much more complex than anyone could ever explain it to be. If the population of the world keeps polluting carelessly, this planet could experience a complete breakdown in only a few centuries. This is an extremely important environmental issue that must be confronted and known about.
- 15720: Rasin In The Sun Two Influence
- ... money. His theory on the matter, saying that the money basically should not have been relied on, would probably differ than George's relative to what we know. Both men have different views of their world but both are valid influences on Beneatha.
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