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Lipari Landfill
... and Burroughs to dump household solid waste, liquid and semi-solid chemical wastes, and other industrial materials. Records were not kept, but it is estimated that roughly three million gallons of liquid wastes and 12,000 cubic yards of solid waste were deposited on the site. Dumping continued for a fourteen year period, beginning in 1958 and continuing through 1971.
Out of over 700 ranked sites, LiPari is listed number one (1) on the National Priority List (NPL), a list created to rank all landfills and hazardous waste sites identified as particularly dangerous. Due to its high concentrations of hazardous wastes, toxins, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) ...
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Social Institutions
... of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who live together and share economic resources. American families are organized by different types of form groups. A nuclear family consists of one or both parents and their children. The nuclear family is the family form that is most recognizable to Americans. Then there is the extended family. The extended family consists of three or more generations of a family sharing the same residence. Nuclear families and extended families often are part of a much larger kinship system. Kinship refers to a network of people who are related by marriage, birth, or adoption. American marriage patterns are us ...
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Aging As A Mental Issue
... have the mental power to turn it into a fulfilling experience.
Aging means change, a process which is inevitable. The real problem is that people tend to see it in a negative way. They feel threatened by aging and tend ‘slow’ down their lives since they aged. This type of negative thinking does not have any future. People tend to give up on their daily exercise and they sometimes forget about their healthy eating. In their mind, a light went off, meaning their prime is over, it is time to switch to a more laid back lifestyle. It is time to think about the retirement plans and forget about those exercises, they will only make you tired. What is the point of a h ...
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Night Rider
... see something cool. Who would have thought that a weird sound from a simple machine would change all of our lives.
Life in Smallstown, Maine, was said to be everyone's dream. Living just a few miles away from one of the most beautiful beaches in the country. I love living out in the country. I never had to worry about my daughter walking herself to the bus stop. I even got into the habit of forgetting to lock my car and house.
A favorite time of year was upon my life. The time just after all the summer people went home and gave the beach back to me. It was the end of the excitement of summer and began the preparation for the holidays and the cold of winter. ...
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Technology Has Influenced Our
... away from us they will appear redder (longer wavelengths).
In the early twenties Edwin Hubble used the technology of wavelengths developed by Slipher and realized that there was a definite trend of the galaxies moving away from us at a velocity directly proportionate to their distance. This brought about the first evidence that we live in a constantly evolving universe. This was the first observational analysis to suggest an initial starting point to the universe. He used a ground-based telescope to investigate the masses of stars called nebulae to help with proving his theories. In the twenties some believed that we were all part of one huge galaxy and still ot ...
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Overpopulation And The Economi
... proportion of the world’s population within it’s own boundaries and this has created many problems throughout the country. It is possible, that with the knowledge of the problem, with an education, infrastructure, and some sort of work skills this problem can be turned around.
Developing Countries
The developing countries, are the main concerns for overcrowding. 1996 statistics show that 75% of the worlds population live in both Africa (13%) and Asia (63%). The overpopulation in these continents, is so much higher for many different reasons. The main reason being culture. When comparing a continent like Africa, to a continent like North America, there are many dif ...
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Urban Consolidation
... and interest in both the urban area and their work.
? Conservation Activist’s commendation of the lower consumption of resources, and reduced pressure on sensitive environment areas, suggestive of a reduction in urban sprawl.
? The Development Industry’s equations of profit established through better and higher levels of land use.
Essentially urban consolidation proposes an increase of either population or dwellings in an existing defined urban area (Roseth,1991). Furthermore, the suburban village seeks to establish this intensification within a more specific agenda, in which community is to be centred by public transport nodes, and housing cho ...
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A Look At Public Key Encryptio
... secret message,
such as "Meet me by the swings," by replacing the letters of the
alphabet with substitute letters from a certain number of places
away. For example, let's say we decide to use the key "+4." That
would mean we'd switch each letter in our message with the letter
that comes four places later in the alphabet. D would become H; R
would become V, and so on. You, or anyone else who knows the key
can easily switch the H back to a D, the V back to an R, and
figure out where to meet. Theses two examples are on opposite
sides of the spectrum, but both have their similarities and their
differences.
The major difference complexity, the governme ...
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Why Is The Ten Commandments Al
... into two groups of promises. Commandments one to four, tells us to promise to love and honor God. Commandments five to ten, tell us to promise to love and respect our fellow man.
Personally, I think the first promise of "integrity" is the most important one out of the ten. It would be difficult to promise to keep the other nine promises, while breaking the first promise of integrity. We promise to have integrity by serving no other gods but God. God wants us to our lives in his hands so he can guide us. We as Christians must devote ourselves to God. We must have faith in God. God wants us to put him first in our lives and not let any other gods or idols block o ...
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Stats
... Importance of Saving For the Future . . . . . 4
Process of Evaluation . . . . . . . 4
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . 13
LIST OF TABLES AND GRAPHS
Table A. Average, Range and Standard Deviation Comparison. . 4
Table 1. Returns for Conservative fund one and two . . . 7
Graph 1. Returns for Conservative fund one and two . . . 7
Table 2. Returns for Secure fund one and two . . . 8
Graph 2. Returns for Secure fund one and two . . . 8
Table 3. Returns for Moderate fund one and two . . . 9
Graph 3. Returns for Moderate fund one and two . . . 9
Table 4. Returns for Balanced fund one and two . . . 10
Graph 4. Returns for Balanced fund one ...
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