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    Message of Hope in Eliot's The Waste Land, Gerontion, and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock             Thomas Stearns Eliot was not a revolutionary, yet he revolutionized the way the Western world writes and reads poetry. Some of his works were as imagist and incomprehensible as could be most of it in free verse, yet his concentration was always on the meaning of his language, and the lessons he wished to teach with them. Eliot consorted with modernist literary iconoclast Ezra Pound but

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    Urbanisation In Blacktown

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    Blacktown including the main issues affecting the land which consist of land degradation and the other main issue of waste. This report will consist of the effects of urban growth and suburbanisation in Blacktown and the implications for future government planning to aid these issues. The main issues to be discussed are the degradation of the land including the salinity, soil erosion and land contamination and the other issue to be discussed involves waste including littering and landfill. And the implications

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    Land Pollution in Ibadan

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    A TOWN PAPER ON LAND POLLUTION IN IBADAN, THE CAUSES, EFFECTS, REMEDIAL MEASURES AND HOW EFFECTIVE THEY ARE. COMPILED BY ONIFADE SADIAT T MATRIC NO. 073862 TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE DEARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OGBOMOSHO. COURSE CODE: URP 305 COURSE TITLE: PLANNING STUDIO III LECTURERS IN CHARGE: TPL A.O AKINDELE TPL E.A TOYOBO MARCH, 2010 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION LAND POLLUTION Land Pollution is the degradation

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    business has created much waste. There have been many steps to reduce the amount of waste by gathering it all in landfills, recycling, burying hazardous waste underground and burning what can be burnt but there is always some waste not collected. Also our means to get rid of waste are not totally efficient. All the waste building up is causing many problems to the environment; contaminating the land, water and air, which affects every living thing on the earth, waste is building up in such large

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    Recycling is a very essential and crucial process in our world today. The term recycling means that waste can be converted into new products instead of being discarded. As the population continues to grow, humans are using more and more products. In order to reduce the amount of waste on planet Earth, and to preserve its resources, recycling is significant. Not only does recycling allow the environment to thrive, but it also allows living people to thrive as well. There are many materials that can

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    begin explaining our topic (land pollution) on a broad scale, relating things to the whole world. As we get deeper into our topic we will go more in depth into how land pollution affects our community and how we can relate to it in our everyday life. The main questions that we will be answering in this paper is;what is land pollution?, what are the causes and effects of land pollution?, what are the different types of land pollution?, and how can we prevent land pollution? According to

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    The Need for Waste-to-energy on Ships Waste-to-energy power plants are lowering the amount of waste we have in landfills and turning that into energy to meet industrial needs. What if there was a way to shrink these power plants and put them onto cargo and passenger ships? According to the Palm Beach Post, the Environmental Protection Agency says, “a cruise ship with 3,000 passengers can generate 210,000 of gallons of waste and sewage and 1 million gallons of grey water from showers and drains

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    Superfund Case Study

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    A Superfund is a program that was created in 1980, that oversees the management and cleanup of abandoned Hazardous waste sites. Hazardous materials at the given locations consist of gases, explosives, flammable liquids, mineral deposits and numerous others but are not limited to only such hazardous wastes. Once an abandoned location is determined to contain forms of hazardous materials by individuals (citizens, state levels, or the Environmental Protection Agency) can locate the sites. The Environmental

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    accordingly. T.A “MAIN CAUSES OF POLLUTION IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS” CAUSES OF LAND POLLUTION: [pic] REASON: Land pollution is a major global health concern, and occurs when humans fail to manage their waste

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    comparison of the theme of human society as a waste land in two of Eliot’s famous works, ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘Preludes’. Although both the poem discusses the theme of human society as a waste land, the way in which Eliot portrays the theme differs in the poems. ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ subtly implies the ideas of the aftermath of World War I and uses a single point of view that of Prufrock’s to indicate human society as a waste land. However, in ‘Preludes’

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