International Baccalaureate Internal Assessment Subject: Geography Standard Level Option: Populations In Transition Title: The Effects of Locomotive Vehicles in the Population and Growth of Green Lake‚ Wisconsin Fieldwork Question: How did the invention of locomotive vehicles affect the population of Green Lake‚ Wisconsin? Candidate Name: Abigail Dee Polzer Candidate session number: Date of submission: April 10‚ 2013 Word count: 2‚192 Contents Page Page 1. Contents Page . . . .
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Good afternoon to Ms. Cheryl and my classmates‚ the topic for my interpretive speech today is ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’. This is an idiom which carries the meaning of - it is always possible to get something positive out of a situation‚ no matter how unpleasant‚ difficult or even painful it might seem. So‚ people always use this idiom to comfort others who are facing difficulties. First I want to tell about how I got to know about this idiom. In this semester‚ I was very stressed when
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A Summary of “Once More to the Lake” Jason Mraz Eng 101 Essay#1- Revision In his essay "Once More to the Lake"‚ E.B. White shares the story of reliving his childhood memories of going to a lake in Maine. As an adult‚ E.B. White lives by the ocean and has a love for the salt water‚ but every so often he get the urge to revisit the lake he knew as a child. One day that desire was strong enough to motivate him to take his son to the same place his father had taken
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Crater Lake Crater Lake is located at southwestern off Highway 62 in Oregon. It is Oregon?s only national park. It is the deepest lake in the United States and is the seventh deepest in the world. Crater Lake has an average diameter of 5.3 miles in length and is approximately 1‚932 feet deep. Crater Lake is a result of a volcanic explosion that happened about 7‚000 years ago. A long time ago‚ the pacific oceanic plate was gradually moving under the pacific continental plate in the process
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Another reason Lake Erie’s water is polluted is due to toxins. First‚ there is a lot of bacteria entering Lake Erie. A few years ago much of Lake Erie was very contaminated with dangerous toxins from algae: “In 2011‚ bright green slime spread across one-third of Lake Erie. The slime was a harmful algal bloom‚ caused by cyanobacteria” (Kowalski 34). As a result of Lake Erie being polluted people must find the issue and resolve it. One theory of the pollution in Lake Erie is that the species are not
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STUDY: LAKE VICTORIA Krystle Baxter University of Phoenix August‚ 2012 Lake Victoria is the second largest fresh water lake in East Africa. Lake Victoria was the home to over 400 cichlids; which today more than half of the population are now extinct. A major destruction of Lake Victoria’s ecological balance was due to the Nile Perch. The Nile perch is a large voracious predator. The Nile Perch was brought to Lake Victoria to help out fisherman but instead the ecological balance of the lake stared
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Non-point Source Water Pollution Caused Eutrophication of Dianchi Lake in China and Possible Solutions Abstract: Eutrophication is a big problem around the world and especially in China where laws and regulations are not followed in rural areas. This is the case in Kunming‚ Yunnan‚ China at Lake Dianchi where eutrophication is the highest in the country. This case study will set up to study the effects of phosphate in the lake‚ the quantity of phosphate‚ and the possible source of the phosphate
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The timeless Swan Lake is today prized as one of the world’s greatest and most renowned classical ballets to ever exist. For over one hundred years Swan Lake has been performed‚ adapted and rewritten innumerable times to enthrall a wide range of audiences all across the world. Whilst the foundation of how Swan Lake began and came to be is still‚ to some extent‚ unknown‚ it is widely believed that the production was originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger with the accompaniment of celebrated
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everyday life and threatening your existence. This is the sad reality of the Great lakes which have been bombarded with over 70 invasive species‚ including the Zebra Mussel. The Zebra Mussel has taken over the Great Lakes bottom‚ disrupting native food chains‚ environments‚ and species. The Zebra Mussel have endangered many native species and pose a threat to humans as well. With Zebra Mussels taking over the Great Lakes and threatening our natural resources‚ it clearly shows that action must be taken
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In Elwyn Brooks White’s essay “Once More to the Lake” we learn about a trip‚ that the author took with his son to a lake in Maine. The lake is very sentimental to White because his father brought him to very same lake as a child. During E. B. White’s trip to the lake with his son‚ he is able to compare and contrast what he sees to experiences from his time at the lake. Some of these experiences led White to believe that he was experiencing events from different family member’s lives. This leads
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