plate is continuing to move‚ so the rocks along the edges are distorted (what we call "strain"). As the motion continues‚ the strain builds up to the point where the rock cannot withstand any more bending. With a lurch‚ the rock breaks and the two sides move. An earthquake is the shaking that radiates out from the breaking rock. People have known about earthquakes for thousands of years‚ of course‚ but they didn’t know what caused them. In particular‚ people believed that the breaks in the Earth’s
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Kumar 60347 Writing 101 – 10 AM 04-Nov-14 Is Terrorism the Answer? To what extent will you go‚ to prove your point? Would you kill someone for it? Terrorism is defined as an act of violence intended to instill fear in the minds of people and is organized to achieve a political‚ religious or ideological goal. The number of assassinations and bombings in the recent years has increasingly gone up that even a 4th grader knows what a terrorist attack is. Due to the actions of a few groups of people terrorists
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Edgar Allan Poe Since time began‚ the mystery of addiction remains. Our forbears‚ scientists‚ professionals‚ user’s‚ family‚ friends and society in general still struggled to grasp concepts of addiction. What causes it? Is it inherited‚ psychological‚ a social
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Topic: The causes and effects of sleeping late at night Introduction: In this day and age‚ many adults‚ teenagers and even children sleep very late at night. People are always saying that they don’t have enough hours in the day to complete the things they have to do. However‚ most people simply do not know how to manage their time wisely. There are many causes and effects of sleeping late at night. Body 1 C E First‚ many people sleep late at night because they are working on their
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3-9-2015 Air Pollution Thesis Statement: Air pollution is caused by the following factors: exhaust gases from cars‚ uncontrolled factory releases‚ and burning of low-quality coal for heating‚ also air pollution will affect people health and environment. Causes: A. Exhaust gases from cars Topic Sentence: Because of there is not enough control from government‚ there are more gases from cars in recent years. 1. Government does not have enough control 2. Citizens are not conscientious B. Uncontrolled factory
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that played a part in ass the assassination. National tensions had risen so high that even the slightest wrong doing of a nation’s rights by another might be considered a cause for war. Serbians wanted to expand the size of their country to include places outside Serbia that had ethnic Serbian populations living in them‚ what they want is a bigger country they will call ’Greater Serbia’ this will include places like Croatia‚ Bosnia‚ Kosovo‚ Montenegro‚ and would mean taking chunks out of other neighboring
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CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY 1 Have you ever wanted to seek revenge on someone? Have you ever felt like getting back at someone for something they did? It is said that ninety-two percent of people have sought revenge at least once in their lifetime. Jealousy‚ payback and satisfaction are all reason why someone would seek revenge. Being jealous is one of the main reasons why one may feel the need to seek revenge. Someone might get jealous because another
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Causes Hacking and the study of computer insecurity play an important role in the protection of assets. No computer system or network achieves perfect security; even a system switched off with its hard drive removed sunken in a lead case in the bottom of a deep pool in an underground facility lacks security‚ as it guarantees integrity and confidentiality but completely sacrifices availability. As a security professional‚ you must understand the risks a network faces; you must‚ in essence‚
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Causes of Crime Carolyn Whatley‚ Eddie Blanco‚ Laura Rushing‚ Adrian Garcia‚ Mel Bravo University of Phoenix Causes of Crime Throughout history the study of what causes crime has been an important part of helping in the reduction of some of the crimes. Studies have shown that there are several contributing factors as to the reason individuals commit crime. Among these factors there is Biological Theories‚ Sociological Theories‚ Psychological Theories‚ Economic Theories‚ and
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Causes of Poverty In Chapter One of Essentials to Economics‚ we learned the basics of what poverty is. However‚ in Chapter Two‚ we got more into how it forms and why it is so difficult to solve. Poverty all over the world has always been an issue‚ but lately it seems to be rising. According to Global Issues‚ “Causes of Poverty”‚ statistics say there were nearly a billion humans who were not able to read or write when they entered the 21st century‚ over three billion people live on $2.50 or less
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