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    Climate change is responsible for environmental changes in the world, such as rising ocean levels and increased global temperatures. Climate change is having more of an effect on the earth already than most people would believe. Looking at the animal populations on small islands reveals a decline in various species. In fact, due to human induced climate change a small mammal has gone extinct. What’s significant about this is that this is the first mammal to go extinct due to human induced climate

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    Climate Variability Of California California feature is that it has almost all of climate types such as: windy, hot, cold, and etc. What’s the impact of climate variability and change? Well according to the (sciencedirect). There is increasing concern over the consequences of global warming for the food security and livings of the world's 36 million fisher folk and the nearly 1.5 billion consumers who rely on fish for more than 20% of their dietary animal protein. With mounting evidence of the impacts

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    looking around age of 16, gives us this idea at age of maturation because we see how throughout the movie he makes mistakes but acknowledges towards the end that he is wrong. Nino, Victor’s brother, looks around the age of 12, and gives us this idea that he is beginning to learn how our bodies develop throughout time. Nino admires Victor for several reasons, he admires how he gets all the ladies from the neighborhood, and of how his personality is. Grandma, who looks like she’s in her 60’s, seems

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    however, occur as part of an El Niño event. El Niño is the when winds and surface currents change over the Pacific Ocean, resulting in inland drought. In a normal year West blowing winds and warm surface water moving East bringing rain to Australia and drought in South Africa. In an El Niño year, the opposite is the case, Australia experiences drought and South Africa receives rain. In 2015 Australia experienced one of its strongest El Niño years on record. El Niño is explained in figure 2 below.

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    What forces are responsible for the movement of ocean water in currents? What forces and factors influence the which direction and how strong ocean currents are? Forces are responsible for the movement of ocean water is wind, sun heat, gravity and the density of the water. The forces and factor influence the direction and how strong the ocean are gravity, Coriolis Effect also the the shape of the ocean basins. What is a gyre? How many large gyres exist in the world ocean? Where are they located

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    sculpture, Cruzando El Río Bravo, created by Luis Jiménez in 1989, Jiménez, a Texas native, depicts and tributes the story of his grandfather, grandmother, and father crossing the Mexico and Texas border illegally. In contrast, the sculpture San José y el Niño, which was created in Guatemala in the 18th century by an unknown artist, was constructed as a traditional wooden sculpture of St. Joseph holding the Christ Child. In both sculptures, the artists carry out different approaches to humanize their subjects

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    John William Waterhouse

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    throughout his life they referred to their son as “Nino”, for Giovannino (‘Little John’), he was the eldest of three; a younger brother Edwin and a sister named Jessie. When Nino was eight he experienced the death of his mother and it was shortly afterwards that his father remarried. Between 1861 and 1870 his father and new step mother birthed four children, which was a drastic life change for Nino and his two younger biological siblings. In 1861 Nino had to leave school and his sister Jessie went to

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    Amelie is like most movies in that it revolves around finding true love. However, its ways of introducing characters and the colors used accompanied by its brilliant soundtrack swoon the audience into accepting a fairytale world that is arguably different from other movies. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie uses elements of mise-en-scene and narrative to create a colorful and extravagant story. Mise-en-scene is French for “putting on a scene” (Barsam 173). Every director has to make the decision of what

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    Climate Change In Brazil

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    Marengo, 2011). In the winter 1997 and 1998, El Niño hit Brazil hard with storms, floods, drought and fires, demolishing roads, bridges, homes farms, lives and livelihoods (The Economist Newspaper Limited, 1998). In 2015 scientist predict El Niño to be much stronger and Sevier with catastrophic effects. Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge has given his year's El Niño the name Godzilla El Niño. Strong signals from the Pacific Ocean indicate

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    Enso Cycle

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    Cycle has a large impact globally and locally in California as we have seen with the long-term drought Southern California is currently in. The ENSO cycle can be defined by sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly in the Pacific Equatorial Area known as Nino 3.4 region (5oN-5oS, 120o-170oW). Unusually cooler waters (-.5 degrees centigrade) occurring for three consecutive months outlines a La Niña. La Niña’s bring wetter weather to Australia and Indonesia but often leaves the Eastern Pacific dry. Unlike

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