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Take A Bite Of Wisconsin (Cheese)
Number of Words: 296 / Number of Pages: 2
... Known as
"America's Dairyland", today Wisconsin has more than 250 varieties, types,
and styles of the best-tasting, superior-quality cheese in the world.
Many Americans today aren't eating a well balanced diet and neglect
many of the important nutrients that our bodies need. The dairy group is
one we should be concerned about. This group provides us with calcium,
protein, riboflavin (Vitamin B2) and phosphorus, which are necessary
nutrients for our bodies. By using the Food Pyramid guide, we should have
2-3 servings per day of the milk, yogurt, & cheese group. We should strive
to get these very i ...
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China's Population Problem
Number of Words: 1176 / Number of Pages: 5
... as the
citizens in the west half of China have a desire to live in a more urban life
where jobs can be found easier, and the citizens in the more populous eastern
half have a stronger desire to live in the more rural western China (Hsu 4).
The Chinese have always had a large population (Hsu 1). Even in ancient times
where the population would never fall below sixty million (Hsu 1). Later, in
the eighteenth century the population rose exceedingly and China became the
strongest and most economically wealthy (Hsu 1). By the time the Qing Dynasty
ruled, the fertile people of China had reached a popula ...
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Australia's Future
Number of Words: 3173 / Number of Pages: 12
... good reasons to defer such dangerous indulgence.
Immediately north of our spacious continent is a group of islands that are burgeoning with humanity. Our neighbours are very different to ourselves in race, creed and religion. Their booming economy is dominated by a military regime that grows stronger as the nation grows richer. Their actions over East Timor show a ruthless expansionist policy. Indonesia is a nation with a desperate shortage of space, which must regard our empty country with some envy. An attitude that poses a threat to the tenure of our lands, if not our lives, and makes questio ...
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Venezuela
Number of Words: 960 / Number of Pages: 4
... a continental shelf, and it has over 300 islands and keys. A mountainous region about where Caracas is located, that includes the western coastal chain. The valleys in this region are semi arid and dry. The Andean Mountain region borders Columbia and contains 's highest mountain peaks. Mount Pico Bolivar is the highest elevation in ; it is 16,429 feet tall. The flat tropical Savanna is another region which lies between the coastal range and the Orinoco River. The last region is south of the Orinoco River. It is known as the Guayana Jungle. The Guyana is 45% of the national territory and a sma ...
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Ecuador
Number of Words: 310 / Number of Pages: 2
... Abourt 650 people died of it last year. The infant
mortality rate is also high, although it has lowered drastically in the past
three years. Only 16% of the roads are paved and many houses do not have
running water or electricity.
People are trying to improve these conditions in any way they can. The
man who started the clinic is trying to help the children. He will use the
money for medical supplies, food, clothes, or bedding. Trying to run a
hospital/clinic is hard in Ecuador and he and his helpers will surely appreciate
your money. Consider the conditions described in the report when y ...
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Mexico
Number of Words: 5779 / Number of Pages: 22
... of the plains of the southwestern United States. Comprising more than half the total area of , the plateau slopes downward from the west to the east and from the south, where the elevation varies from about 1830 to 2440 m (about 6000 to 8000 ft) above sea level, to the north with an elevation of about 1070 to 1220 m (about 3500 to 4000 ft). Two large valleys form notable depressions in the plateau: the Bolsón de Mapimí in the north and the Valley of , or Anáhuac, in central .
The coastal plains are generally low, flat, and sandy, although the Pacific coast is occasionally broken by mountain sp ...
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"A Bridge So Far": Japan's Alkashi Kaikyo Bridge
Number of Words: 327 / Number of Pages: 2
... is equipped with a feature that no other bridge has.
That feature is mass dampers that include pendulums that help stabilize
the towers. This stabilizer was needed since the two towers are almost as
tall as the Eiffel Tower.
I love to watch how we accomplish so many great things and
hopefully I can be one of those people who is on the cutting edge someday,
but we can't develop a god-like complex or we will be in a lot of trouble.
The problem is many people could be going down that road, so some people
need a reality check so that they will get back on the straight and narrow
path.
Works C ...
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Peru
Number of Words: 917 / Number of Pages: 4
... annual yield (in metric tons) in the late 1980s, were sugarcane (6.2
million), potatoes (2 million), rice (1.1 million), corn (880,000), seed cotton
(280,000), coffee (103,000), and wheat (134,000). Peru is the world's leading
grower of coca, from which the drug cocaine is refined.
The livestock population included about 3.9 million cattle, 13.3 million
sheep, 1.7 million goats, 2.4 million hogs, 875,000 horses and mules, and 52
million poultry. Llamas, sheep, and vicuñas provide wool, hides, and skins.
The forests covering 54 percent of Peru's land area have not been
significantly explo ...
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The Pyramids Of Egypt
Number of Words: 1356 / Number of Pages: 5
... at Sakkara was the world's first
large stone structure, a tomb copied in stonework from earlier brickwork
piles (Peck). In its most common form, a pyramid is a massive stone or
brick structure with a square base and four sloping triangular sides that
meet in a point at the top (Pyramids 810). However, the pyramids are
anything but simple. Pyramids have been built by different people at
various times in history. Hundreds of thousands of men were used to
construct these massive monuments and they took many years. The pyramids
were tombs for the pharaohs (Gardner 140).
The pharaohs in Egypt w ...
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Atlantis: We Will Ever Know
Number of Words: 1001 / Number of Pages: 4
... the achievements of prehistoric
Athenians, because when the rulers of Atlantis threatened to invade all of
Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlanteans
to avoid enslavement. (4)
The works of Plato opened the floodgates to endless speculation on
whether the continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been
placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden,
Greenland and Yucatan. Every nook and cranny of the globe has been
hypothesized; mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and even the barren
wasteland of ...
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