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    with a focus on supporting the coal, wind, and natural gas industries, in addition he is against policies that may burden small businesses. The Great Lakes and environment are a priority for Joyce as he wants to protect the Great Lakes, but mainly for economic purposes. Joyce has sponsored three bills that work to protect and/or restore the Great Lakes. He has not been vocal in regards to whether or not he believes in climate change, although his stance toward coal and natural gas would suggest that

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    Crow Lake By Mary Lawson

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    Aly Fahmy ELA A30 Ms. Stoner June 5, 2015 Crow Lake Essay Introduction The Canadian novel ‘Crow Lake’ by Mary Lawson, published in 2002, was awarded in Canada as First Novel Award in the same year it was published and won the McKitterick Prize in 2003. The author Mary Lawson was born and brought up in a small farming community in southern Ontario. After graduating from McGill University, she moved to England in 1968. She still lives there with her husband and sons, though she returns to Canada every

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    Lake Tahoe: A Short Story

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    The black, murky waters of Lake Tahoe glimmered before my father’s boat. I was on my annual fishing trip with my father on his big, black sail boat. We hadn’t caught one fish, despite the 5 hours we spent on the boat. ”Hey Tess! Steer us away from that big black thing!” my father shouted. “What black-” I started to say, when all of a sudden I heard a crash and the boat shook violently. Our ship started tipping, with the front slowly sinking into the water. I didn’t let myself believe what was happening

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    A Lake District Rendezvous: A Dramatic Dialogue in One Act Characters WORDSWORTH: This Lyrical Ballads enthusiast passes his time splashing around in the Lake District, or finds pleasure sitting on a comfortable hillside, all the way from Great Britain, Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. MOLIERE: The master of comedy, and the proud harlequin of Louis XIV court, he was born to make people laugh, all the way from Paris France, Enlightenment playwright Moliere. TOLSTOY: This high class aristocrat

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    Watching Silja Schandorff’s fully realized performance in Swan Lake teaches much about what it takes to make a swan, and what it takes to dance Peter Martins’ choreography. Schandorff, a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and one of the originators of the role when it was created on the Danes in 1996, replaced Miranda Weese in the dual role of Odette and Odile. I’ve now seen four women in these roles (Meunier, Weese, Whelan and Schandorff) and there’s no question that Schandorff was the

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    The Great lakes have had many struggles throughout the years. Such as, invasive species, pollution, and habitat loss. All of these affected the lake in a bad way and here is how. Species have been invading the Great Lakes for a very long time. “Scientists estimate that there are more than 185 invasive species in the Great Lakes today.” One of the species that invade the Great Lakes is the Round Goby. This animal usually feeds on fish eggs, Yellow Perch, Bass, and Walleye. The Round Goby is an invasive

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    Pollutants on the Great Lakes”. The essay explains that there is a problem going on in the Great Lakes with people who live around the Great Lakes area in that what they are throwing into the lakes; whether it would be from trash or fecal matter it is all causing major effects on the ecosystem on the Great Lakes, in turn effecting the fish and water we consume. This is not only a major problem for the lakes but also the humans that depend on those lakes. Claim The Great Lakes have been under threat

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    Water quality in the Great Lakes is something that has been a criticall issue in the Great Lakes Region for a number of years. Water quality can be anything that affects the benefits humans derives from water. It can include drinking water, food, recreation, and any other use of water that is possible. Many invasive species including zebra mussels and Asian carp pose a great threat to the water quality of the Great Lakes. The ecosystem and industry relying on the Great Lakes are also affected by this

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    The way of Non-point source pollution in the Great Lakes • Atmospheric precipitation Many contaminants settle out of the atmosphere, such as acid rain, the pollutants and nutrients will transport from distant places by air depositing into the lake as the form of rain. The first pollutants as atmospheric deposition on the Great Lakes were phosphorus. It is found that about 20 percent phosphorus entering Lake Michigan comes from the atmosphere by determination of rain, snow and dust. Since phosphorus

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    hypothetical leak into lake michigan. All of the great lakes are connected so the leak from lake erie is able to travel to any other body of water i tis connected to. In order for the leak to travel to lake michigan the chemicals would have to travel through Lake Huron first. This is a large lake and it would take a while to get to Lake Michigan through lake Huron. Even though there is a great distance between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie, the Phosphorus could definitely travel through Lake Huron overtime

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