In coastal areas new development and landscape can cause runoff. The runoff can include excess nutrients‚ sewage outflows‚ and other pesticides from agricultural areas. These pollutants can reduce the oxygen levels of the water which leads to a decline in coral growth and reproduction. The runoff can also cause different types of coral diseases. Another type of ocean pollution is marine debris. Marine debris is trash that is disposed of in the ocean. The trash consists of metals‚ plastic‚ glass
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• What were the reasons behinds the decline of Abbasid caliphate? Harun al-Rashid was the last ’Abbasid caliph to rule a clean-cut empire and after his death‚ the empire was divided in two. One son‚ Amin‚ got the western area and the caliphate‚ and his other son‚ Al-Mamun got the eastern area‚ the army‚ and the right to succession. Moreover‚ the 4th Fitna (811-813) was not about religious principles‚ but it was a civil war between Amin and Al-Mamun; Amin wanted his son to be the next caliph‚ but
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MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND DECISIONS OF THE FIRM Briefing Memo A Look at Sony’s Decline 12/04/2012 Description and Background Setting. Sony corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo‚ Japan. it is ranked 86th in the 2012 list of Fortune Global 500. Over the years‚ Sony has established the reputation of a leading manufacturer of electronic products in both the professional and consumer markets. But Sony’s good name has started to erode. Recently‚ Sony’s
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Subject: Impacts of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) - Decline in Food Crop Production – Emergency refinement required to balance the Food Production and Rural Employment… Introduction: The World Bank says that more than 30 per cent of the Indian population lives on less than $1 a day‚ but Indian economists believe that the figure of poor could be much more than the estimate. Successive governments tried various means to fight poverty with little success. The UPA government
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Decline of American Comics Since the 1930’s American comic books have been one of the most popular forms of reading material. The reason for this is that not only does give the reader an interesting plot line to follow but it also gives good visual aids in the prints on each page. Another reason for this is that they are cheap. Action comic number 1 was only 10 cents. Now you can get most comics for a buck or two at most. From the early 1930’s till the late 1990’s the comic book industry was
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1. INTRODUCTION General Motors is a motor vehicle company in the United States that started manufacturing in 1915. The purpose of this report is to examine the decisions that were made within the company‚ in the lead up to their financial crisis in 1991. In the years preceding this downfall‚ the CEO Robert Smith made several decisions that contributed to the declining financial status of General Motors. Consequently‚ when Smith retired‚ the Black Swan Event of America’s recession left the next
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Norway restricted its hunting to the minke whales only‚ that has the “Least Concern” label on the Red List of Threatened Species‚ and the number of specimens taken every year is almost twice below the given quota. In fact‚ whaling currently is on the decline in Norway due to the various effects of globalization‚ and it doesn’t hold a lot of macroeconomic significance. However‚ the sustenance of a handful of coastal fishermen and small companies greatly depends on whale hunting and whaling is tightly coupled
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Decline of the British Empire 1945- 1970’s 1945: End of World War II The catastrophic British defeats in Europe and Asia between 1940 and 1942 destroyed its financial and economic independence‚ the real foundation of the imperial system. It also erased the old balance of power on which British security - at home and abroad - had largely depended. “Britain had survived the war‚ but its wealth‚ prestige and authority had been severely reduced.” The British found themselves locked into an imperial
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Liberty University The Decline of European Christianity A Paper Submitted to Professor J. Earls By La Dawn Brooks Church History 302 February 10‚ 2012 In this paper I will attempt to explain the decline in European Christianity and what attributed to itt. When did it actually start? What caused people to move away from Christianity? More importantly will we ever see an increase in these
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people who make the things we use; they are the backbone of America. Over the next 60 years‚ the technology will change the world and the way it does business. These changes will affect America’s working class‚ changing how Americans live. The Decline of the middle class could be related to industrial changes in business‚ stagnant wages and high taxes in America’s working class. Who is the America’s middle class? According to Jack Brubaker of Lancaster Online‚ “90 percent of Americans consider
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