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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Causes and Effects of Water Pollution in Lake Huron Sandra Mack Professor Pamela Van Hook Strayer University- English 115 June 06‚ 2013 Introduction: Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes in North America and also serves as one of the largest freshwater systems on the earth itself. Lake Huron‚ being such a huge source of fresh water‚ also holds numerous amounts of wildlife. For a long time‚ the Great Lakes have served as a ground where many harmful
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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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SWAN LAKE Swan Lake’ was re-choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in1895‚ after initially being choreographed by Julius Reisinger in 1877. The musical score was composed by Pytor Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake’ was created towards the end of the romantic period‚ so the culture and style of romanticism was prominent‚ with glimpses of the beginning of the classical era. Because of this‚ it contains elements of both eras. Some of the romantic characteristics include the pursuit of the unattainable
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BIODIVERISTY AND CONSERVATION OF PULICAT LAKE S.K. M.BASHA*‚ E.RAJYALAKSHMI‚ B.RATNESWARA RAO P. UMA MAHESHWARI drskmbasha@gmail.com‚ swathisayani@yahoo.co.in‚bratnashrao@yahoo.com‚mahepm@yahoo.com Assocate Professor and Research scholars‚ NBKR Medicinal Plant Research Centre‚ Vidyanagar – 524413‚ SPSR Nellore Dist‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ India. The lagoon’s boundary limits range between 13.33° to 13.66° N and 80.23° to 80.25°E‚ with
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One of the concerns is the great lakes and working towards protecting them from invasive species as well as keeping them cleaned up. Currently‚ the invasive species in the great lakes are zebra mussels‚ sea lamprey‚ and types of plants. There is not a way to get these invasive species out of the great lakes; however‚ we can work towards preventing more from getting in. Right now a major concern for the great lakes is to keep Asian Carp from entering the great lakes. Currently‚ there is a small fence
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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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The Great Lakes (Lake Superior‚ Michigan‚ Huron‚ Erie and Ontario) are the largest surface freshwater system on the Earth. They form a great part of the American and Canadian physical and cultural heritage. They form 84% of America’s fresh water and about 21% of the world’s surface fresh water‚ providing water for consumption‚ energy‚ transportation and recreation. One of the biggest problems to these lakes is sediment toxins caused by such factors as industrial and municipal discharges‚ sewer overflows
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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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Book Review - The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy. The Initial setting for this setting book is small backwater village in Ireland. Set in the 1950s it highlights the rules of moral decency‚ the importance of the Church and its effect on everyday life. It spans a period of approximately 10 years and follows the life of the main character Kit Mahon through her teenage years. Kit is a normal school girl with an on off friendship with her best friend Clio‚ who makes her question life. She starts to
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