Lake Erie The Walleye Capital of the world needs major help! Lake Erie was polluted in the 1960s and 1970s‚ it’s happening again and they need our help. As a result of the pollution Lake Erie contained high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen. Since Lake Erie has such high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen it’s known as the “dead sea”. Factories cause some of the pollution; most of the pollution is caused from fertilizer on fields‚ agricultural runoff‚ and city sewer plants. “As a result of these
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The Silver Lake Sand Dunes are a natural phenomenon that attracts more than a million visitors to western Michigan each year. Sand‚ sun and fun await you at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes nestled between the shores of Lake Michigan and Silver Lake in Oceana County. Tourism in this area dates back to the early 1920’s. At that time people usually travelled by train to the station located in Mears‚ Michigan. From there visitors and their trunks would be brought to the lake by horse and buggy. The area
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People of Lake Huron Amy McGowan Strayer University English 115-021 English Composition Professor Metz May 18‚ 2012 The Causes of Pollution and Their Effects on the Economy and People of Lake Huron
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Determining Causes and Effects of Lake Huron Brian Jones Weber English Composition 5/19/2013 In today’s Ecosystem there are so many factors of cause and effect of pollution in any areas of the world. Pollutants affect the air that keeps us breathing‚ the animals that we hunt or fish‚ and even the water that we drink. Food‚ water‚ and oxygen are the most important things we need in order to survive a world full of life. With this being said Lake Huron and the other Great Lakes are being extremely polluted
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Lake Tahoe‚ an enormous expanse of clear‚ blue‚ fresh water surrounded by meadows and dense forests and rimmed by snow-capped peaks‚ is one of the world’s great scenic and ecological wonders. Tahoe’s water is world famous for its amazing clarity. Even today‚ one can see objects 70 feet below the surface‚ a clarity matched almost nowhere in the world. The Tahoe Basin had a slowly evolving and essentially balanced environment for thousands of years‚ with surrounding forests‚ meadows and marshlands
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The rise of toxic Microcystis algae blooms in Lake Eerie A combination of climate change and agricultural practices have led to an excess run off of phosphorus in Lake Erie‚ resulting in excess algae blooms spread across the surface of the water. Phosphorus is the key nutrient that dictates algae growth and abundance. Microcystis‚ a species of cyanobacteria characterized by its blue colour continually contaminates the waters‚ and damages marine ecosystems‚ due to its toxicity. Being the smallest
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The Great Water Debate Canada is a country that is well known for being a global competitor due to its vast natural resources. However‚ the trade of some resources has been a subject of argument for many years; specifically water. It is a well-known fact that Canada has a fifth of the world’s fresh water resources. Making Canada the target of many global and domestic arguments ranging from “No Way!” to “Without any doubt‚ certainly!” Beyond personal opinion‚ there is also the issue of whether‚ under
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Beyond Realism “Artists deliberately set out to provoke audience reactions.” The purpose of this essay is to argue how “Artists deliberately set out to provoke audience reactions”. The essay will explain how artists have used abstraction‚ stylisation and distortion in artworks through the ages through the analysis of Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” and Colin Lanceley’s “Night Garden”. This essay will discuss‚ compare and analyse the development and evolution of abstract art. “Abstract art can
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shape. The location of the ‘Spiral Jetty’ attracted Smithson for its isolation from society and the reddish quality of the water in that section of the lake‚ which reminded him of blood. He designed Spiral Jetty so that the earthwork could be submerged according the lake’s water level. The relationship between the Spiral Jetty and the Great Salt Lake emphasizes the process of erosion‚ with which he was continually interested
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geographic mobility‚ receptivity to change‚ and a sense of collectivity would be the hallmarks of this new world community. Over the past four decades‚ McLuhan’s futuristic vision has become a reality” (Fiero). Through the decades art has been such a great form of expression for all‚ from the people who create‚ to the people who just like to look or collect. Art has also gone through such an incredible form of change. When I think of art I think of Vincent Van Gogh‚ Pablo Picasso‚ Salvador Dali‚ Donatello
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