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    Have you ever had something that happen affected you in your life? I have experiences a hurricane .It was not so nice I was really scared . And when we lost power and it was nothing to do . The hurricane have affect emotionally , physically , socially . Emotionally the hurricane has affected me .because all of my family was in Florida . And that state that got destroyed the most . A not only that one of my cousin died because on the hurricane . That next week we was going to Tennessee

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    At a time just before the Age of Exploration when very few had the ability or even desire to explore the unknown, a muslim man was doing the opposite of that.Often referred to as “ The Marco Polo of the Muslim world” Ibn Battuta was a great scholar, writer, as well as an extensive traveler. Unlike Marco polo Ibn Battuta traveled a total of 75,000 miles which was far greater than his european counterpart. During his travels he traversed much of the Dar al Islam as well as territory such as modern

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    was associated with the hurricane because of the hurricanes’ large area and powerful winds.  According to a study by McCallum and Heming in 2006, the unusually high storm surge was because of “the long, gently sloping shelves and shallow water of the Gulf coast” (McCallum & Heming, 2006 p. 2014). The storm surge brought massive flooding and residents who were in low-lying areas had to go to their rooftops and attics to stay dry. Hurricane Katrina flooded almost 80% of New

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    “After the Spill is gone: The Gulf of Mexico, Environmental Crime, and the Criminal Law [dagger]” covers the deep water oil rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico that took place on April 20, 2010. The most devastating spill to our environment, causing the death of eleven people and three months of oil gushing into our waters harming our environment. There was an estimated 4.9 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of oil spilled. This law review relates to the reading in the Effective

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    The Deep Horizon oil spill caused by British Petroleum (BP) changed the entire economy of the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 5 million barrels of oils was released from the spill caused by an explosion in the oil platform. The explosion was caused by negligence by BP. In the New York Times article, BP Shortcuts Led to Gulf Oil Spill, Report Says, it states the central problem was with the cement at the base of the well escalating into human and mechanical errors which led to gas to shooting up to

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    The Comb Jelly Sea Walnut, Rippenqualle (German) Venus' girdle, warty comb jelly, these are just some of the name for the Comb Jelly. This animal is “any member of a common genus (Mnemiopsis) of gelatinous, planktonic marine invertebrates of the order Lobata (class Tentaculata, phylum Ctenophora).” (Encyclopædia Britannica) Because of its pronounced abundance in estuaries in the heavily populated parts of the US and its precarious population growth after the 1980s, the Mnemiopsis Leidyi or Comb

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    When Hurricanes Attack Colby Tibbitts Natural Disasters 02/25/16 During the last few months of 2012, the world was in shock when Hurricane Sandy formed and disrupted the lives of many people. Hurricane Sandy began on October 22 as a tropical storm in the Caribbean, then a couple days later developed into a hurricane in the Jamaican area. On October 29, Hurricane Sandy made its way into New Jersey as a category 2 storm, but eventually started effecting the northeastern region

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    Atlantic, distributed from the shelf off northern Labrador, south to Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine: (1) northern Labrador, (2) southern Labrador – northern Grand Bank, (3) southern Grand Bank, (4) Flemish Cap, (5) St. Pierre Bank, (6) northern Gulf of St. Lawrence, (7) southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, (8) Sydney Bight, (9) eastern Scotian Shelf, (10) southern Scotian Shelf –Bay of Fundy, (11) Georges Bank, and (12) Gulf of Maine.” Nine of the twelve cod stocks (1-9) in the northwest were protected by

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    Initial Operational Approach The Iranian threat to the Strait of Hormuz (SOH) The current environment The Arabian Gulf region is currently in a fragile status. Iran is emerging as a regional hegemony trying to expand its sphere of influence over the GCC states and even beyond to the entire Middle East, increasing the tension with its neighbors. Its growing military capabilities along with its nuclear program and ballistic missile technology have risen the instability in the region. On the other side

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    peak fishing seasons. The coastline as we see it today is, from a geologic perspective, a very recent phenomenon that dates back only about 3,000 years. In fact, prior to around 8,000 B.C., the area of the modern shoreline was high and dry, with the Gulf coast far to the east of its present position. This is because, in earlier millennia, global sea level was as much as 300 feet lower, with much of the world’s water supply inaccessible in vast continental ice sheets and montane glaciers that were far

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