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    How can anyone preserve the Earth? Many people inculcate others on the influences of cutting down trees or littering, but not many of them explicate how to stop the world from dying. Sure, not littering is advantageous, but it doesn't obligatorily plant a tree. With so much pollution, it seems virtually infeasible. But not for this woman. Wangari Maathai was the first woman in East Africa to earn a doctorate degree. With her organization, The Green Belt Movement, a myriad of trees were planted. This

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    ruled a planet called Zoggar where there were Zoggardorians that lived peaceful lives. Zog was mad at Barack Obama because Barack wanted to take over Zoggar and make it his moon. Meanwhile, on the Earth, Barack Obama was feeling annoyed because an alien named Zog wanted to keep his planet and not let Earth have a moon. So Barack yelled at his secretary Bobby to get Lord Zog on the universal phone. “Hello Zog, how are you doing? Have you thought of giving up your planet yet? None of your people will

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    The Earth existed for at least 4.5 billion years before modern humans came into being. The different cultures of the world have different ideas or stories of how humans came to be. The Hopi and Zuni tribes have creation stories that were passed from generation to generation. These stories claim that the world, despite being made before man, is meant to be ruled by and sustain mankind. Daniel Quinn’s novel, Ishmael, imagines its own creation myths to showcase how these stories work and the messages

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    consideration within the implications of the abuse we humans have upon planet earth. The Ecological Footprint associates societal and personal impacts we have on this earth ourselves. It influences us to essentially make healthier choices. Thus, influence our governments as well. My survey results disclosed the following: My personal earth overshoot day was April 7th and if everyone lived like me I would essentially need 3.8 earths compared to USA needing 5. The results were kind of shocking to say the

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    these civilizations has created unique descriptions and accounts of such events. However, when comparing them to each other, are they really different? Look at the ancient Greco - Roman creation myths as told by Hesiod in his Theogony and Works and Days and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, when compared to the creation myths as seen in the Old Testament’s book of Genesis they may not be as different as one would think. Taking a more in-depth look at both Genesis and Hesiod’s and Ovid’s work more closely, the

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    see this same use of chaos in Metamorphoses; however, Chaos was not an empty space because it contained all the unformed objects of the universe. In Metamorphoses, a creator god, who remains nameless, uses these unformed elements to create the earth, skies, animals and humans. Theogony, however, uses 4 primal gods depicted

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    entire universe (Elliott). From Chaos, there were Gaia (the earth), Tartarus (the abyss), Erebos (the gloom of the underworld), Nyx (night, the gloom of the earth), and Eros (desire) (Power of Myth and Symbol). This was how the world started for the Greeks. There are also a few versions of the Chinese creation story, but I will choose the story of Pangu. Pangu was known to be the first supreme being and creator of the heavens and the Earth in Chinese mythologies. Even till today, the Zhuang people

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    human form the planet earth showed me that we really don’t know how to be human into we are put in are nature averment. The book is bass on the idea that human have distort them self’s in a war. The way that are society is we depend on race, religion, and cuter. In the early days we did not always black to be with white. In the book Lilith go throw awakening, were she does not know where or how she got in a hole that she thinks on earth. She things that she is still on earth and that the people have

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    to explore. I would play with models, and use computer programs to look at planets and stars. I was given a telescope when I was ten or eleven for Christmas and became even more entrenched with space. It was just always fascinating to me and to this day it still is. That’s why when NASA announced that they had found seven exoplanets orbiting a star not too far away, called Trappist. When I say not too far away it is still not reachable for humans at this point. Trappist is two-hundred-thirty-five

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    Day Three (40 minutes) Prepare the Learner: Remind the class that with divergent plate tectonics, plates are moving away from each other and new crust is being made, then ask the question: Why is the earth not getting larger? Poll some of the answers from the learners and begin the session. Convergent Boundary:(20 minutes) Explain to the class that another type of plate tectonics, when the plates crash into each other, is called convergent, and that this causes the Earths crust to be pushed into

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