Arctic National Wildlife Refuge‚ or ANWR‚ is a refuge geared toward preserving national wildlife in northeastern Alaska. ANWR is about 19 million acres‚ in space‚ and contains a potential drilling spot for oil and petroleum. The potential drilling spot is a small area known as the 10-02 Area. It is only 1.5 million acres‚ or 8%‚ of ANWR‚ would even be considered for development (What is ANWR). The controversy surrounding ANWR is whether to drill or not to drill into the 10-02 area. Some people want
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht uses epic theatre to bring forth an idea or meaning for the audience to consider while entertaining the audience. Epic theatre involves the use of alienation techniques to distance the viewer from the story but still concentrate on the overall meaning. The person who just views the story would likely take it as fantasy and not reach the true depth of the play. Brecht shocks the viewer by making the events and actions in the play "strange and abstract" this contrasts
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north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Around the solstice (June 21 in the north and December 21 in the south) and given fair weather the sun is visible for the full 24 hours. The number of days per year with potential midnight sun increases the farther towards either pole one goes. Although approximately defined by the polar circles‚ in practice midnight sun can be seen as much as 90 km outside the polar circle‚ as described
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problem with the climate in the Arctic zone and how it has been causing the population of the Polar Bears to drop. There are organizations around the world helping the Polar Bears survive. Polar Bears have been endangered for ten years now and without organizations such as the WWF (World Wildlife Fund)‚ the Polar Bear’s survival rate will drop drastically. The survival of the Polar Bears rely on the WWF organization’s Margaret Williams‚ the managing director for the Arctic program for the WWF‚ is an expert
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are the Arctic people and they came from the north . Nowadays‚ the Inuits still live in the Arctic regions. The Inuits have interesting homes‚ clothing‚ foods‚ traditions and culture. The Inuit people live in the cold places‚ there are more than 100‚000 of them are living on the earth. Almost of them live in the southern part of the Arctic Circle. They used simple material to make their homes like woods‚ because it was hard to find other material in the frozen tundra of the Arctic. In the
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the types of clothing they used‚ tools used to sew‚ etc The point is that the links were very effective in teaching what those tools were‚ what they were used for and why. Here at this website I learned a whole lot than I knew about people of the arctic region. I was taught by what I read that their traditions‚ beliefs‚ language‚ kinship and values were extremely important and was a big part of their distinctiveness. I also learned about the types of foods they ate. The residents of these small villages
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High inside the Arctic Circle‚ in one of the most unforgiving environment on the planet‚ two teams of paleontologists investigated a 70 million year old mystery. The paleontologist have unearthed dozens of dinosaurs‚ their bones complied together‚ fossilized‚ and preserved in permafrost for eons. The startling discovery of ancient reptiles‚ also known as the “thunder lizards‚” had taken scientists by surprise because it lived and thrived in the arctic. This discovery raises questions as to how
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Many argue that we should reduce foreign oil dependency by reducing our consumption and by drilling for oil right here in the U.S. For approximately forty years‚ a debate has been brewing about oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is 19‚000‚000 acres of land in northern Alaska‚ a U. S. state."It is the largest protected wilderness in the United States and was created by Congress under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation
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the arctic‚ he felt it wiser to stay in the dark and ominous cave to avoid the maddening cold and coal darkness of the arctic night‚ than to stay outside and freeze to death. He had no more matches and the temperature was plummeting‚ so he made his way back into the cave and soon fell asleep cuddled with the warmth of his dog. The sleep was fitful and dreamless and the cold woke him throughout the night. No matter what he did‚ he could get no rest. When he awoke in the early hours of arctic daylight
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taken in Thunder Bay in northern Ontario‚ featuring Eskimos fishing in the frigid waters. According to Payne‚ these images presented an entirely different view as compared to the Prairie farm photos. The Eskimos presented in the second set were shown Arctic char fishing. The Eskimos used ancient tools such as spears and the procedures included wading into the cold waters with the fish catches lined up on the water’s edge. Payne utilizes the concept of gaze to illustrate that the concept of colonialism
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