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    This poster is for a movie called An Inconvenient Truth. It is an American documentary film about global warming‚ presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore. The poster is simple. Using a picture created by cartographic software then just put the information on it. The poster is generally divided into 2 parts – the sky part and the land part. In the land part‚ you can see penguins walking in queue in a desert like they are migrating. As we all know‚ penguin lives in south polar

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    The Southern Cross Expedition‚ officially known as the British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900‚ was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration‚ and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. The brainchild of the Norwegian-born‚ half-British explorer and schoolmaster Carsten Borchgrevink‚ it was the first expedition to over-winter on the Antarctic mainland‚ the first to visit the Great Ice Barrier since James Clark Ross in

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    Hourglass Dolphin

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    Name: Hourglass Dolphin Location: They live in the Antarctic but they go as far as New Zealand. Description: The hourglass dolphin is most easily recognized by its unique white "hourglass" marking against a largely black body. Its underside is also white‚ though both sides of the fluke are black. The two white patches that make up the hourglass shape are often connected by points or at least a thin white line‚ though in some individuals the two white patches do not touch. The dorsal fin is easily

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    1. Discuss the visual images of Omai. 2. How do they fit in with other British images of exploration in the Pacific? * Who painted Omai * Comparison – of other british images of exploration Exploration of the pacific was inspired by two main factors: the search for the fastest routes to the spice islands of the Moluccas as well as the notion that somewhere in the South Pacific lay a vast undiscovered southern continent‚ rich in gold and spices. It was the British and the French

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    Physical Journeys The concept of physical journeys creates and shapes understanding by revealing that journeys are complex‚ entailing both physical and mental components in which travellers often embark on an exploration of themselves physically‚ intellectually and emotionally. The experience of journeys provides opportunity for obstacles and determination. Bystanders possess an important role in journeys as they maybe the facilitators‚ of change or be the audience who themselves have to go on their

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    Alfred Wegener started a proposal of continental drift that simply stated that there was once a supercontinent called Pangaea. He believed that 200 million years ago the continent began breaking into smaller continents which began the layout of where they lie now. Many people and geologists rejected Wegener?s idea especially the North American geologists due to most of his evidence to back his proposal up had been gathered from Southern continents. Evidence that Wegener had listed to support his

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    Ernest Shackleton set out on October twenty-sixth‚ 1914‚ prepared for an incredible journey. He was going to cross the antarctic‚ which was obviously going to be an amazing trip‚ which it was. It did not‚ however‚ go as expected. Their ship the Endurance was trapped in the ice‚ and crushed. For the next three years‚ they were trapped on the ice‚ alive only so long as they had the will to survive. Through this experience‚ Ernest Shackleton learned that to live he needed perseverance‚ positivity‚ and

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    At the Mountains of Madness 1 At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft I I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. Doubt of the real facts‚ as I must reveal them

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    A Pearl in the Storm

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    Shelby Wilkins Instructor Beck GSW 10:30-11:20 31 August‚ 2012 Determination‚ Admiration‚ Preservation Every year the BGSU Common Read Experience Committee selected the common read book for the incoming freshmen. This year the committee chose A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean as the common read experience. This book is a rip-roaring adventure that really catches your attention and really explains in great detail the struggles a hardworking woman has went

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    Our World in 6 Degrees

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    1 Degree Warmer: * The Artic is ice-free for half the year. * Opening the legendary north-west passage for ships. * Tens of thousands of homes around the Bay of Bengal are flooding. * Hurricanes begin hitting the South Atlantic. * Servere droughts in the Western US causing shortages global grain and meat markets. 2 Degrees Warmer: * Greenland glaciers are disappearing. * So much ice has melted‚ polar bears struggle to survive. * Insects migrate in strange

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