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Horner is Las Angeles native, born on August 14th,1953. James Horner started playing piano at the age of five. At a young age, James studied in London, where he attended the Royal College of Music. He returned to America, where he attended Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona, and later received his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California. After he earned a master's degree, he started work on his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles where he would

other hand, the Youth of the Chicano Movement used protest and walkouts to get more rights and better treatment for themselves. “Chicano students in East Los Angeles, in an effort to get school administrations to address their many pressing problems, walked out of several local high schools.” (Gonzalez P212) The students in East Los Angeles High Schools were being discriminated against, segregated into different schools or classes, and were not receiving the same quality of education as their white

didn’t want out in public. On top of this, The Lorax had positively influenced several businesses to be more environmentally safe. For example, a Los Angeles Times article commented on a 2012 movie based off of Seuss's Lorax book, “ Nearly 70 promotional partners are involved with the film, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Forest Service as well as companies such as Hewlett-Packard (which is encouraging eco-conscious printing choices), and Seventh Generation (which claims to

in North America, after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles.[15][16] An alpha global city,[17]Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture,[18][19] and is widely recognized as one of the mostmulticultural and

Background: What is Air Pollution? What is this alarming issue that we all hear about in the news almost everyday and are being warned about it because about every action of our daily life has an impact on it? Air pollution is the introduction of foreign particles into the atmosphere that can have detrimental effects on human, animals, plants and the planet Earth itself (Dalisay, C). Air pollution not only affects our health but also has huge impact on the well being of the planet we live on, from

Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, 3APEC Climate Center, Busan, South Korea Abstract Live Fuel Moisture (LFM) is a dryness measure used by fire departments to determine the level of dryness from the current situation in different parts of the forest. This work deals with mapping LFM using remote sensing products including an analysis of a standardized regression methodology and the examination of various vegetation indices derived from MODIS. The analysis revealed the use of standardized NDVI

Now with new technology, such as satellites systems, low altitude photography and side looking radar, scientists can now figure that the world is losing about 20.4 million hectares of tropical forests annually and if these figures are not reduced, we will lose all of our tropical forests in about 50 years. It has been suggested that the high deforestation rates are caused partly by the fact that the new surveys are more accurate and thus reveal old deforestation rates that have not been

control projects. In March 2004, the Department of Homeland Security permitted the National Incident Management System (NIMS)

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” (Wood, Harold. “John Muir: A Brief Biography.” John Muir Biography - John Muir Exhibit, vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/muir_biography.aspx. Accessed 22 May 2017.) This quote is one of John Muir’s most famous quotes. In this quote, John Muir is expressing his view on the world. John Muir always loved nature, he was a naturalist ever since he was a young child. John Muir grew up on a farm where he was surrounded by plants

Life without trees seems unfathomable. Trees provide us with paper, timber, oxygen for us to breath, etc. Without trees, life on Earth may probably cease to exist. Trees, specifically forests, make up for thirty percent of the Earth’s land (National Geographic, 2017), while water covers seventy percent (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, 2017). Out of that thirty percent, only a mere six percent is what tropical rainforests cover (Butler, 2008). According to Butler (2008), tropical rainforests