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illegal to fish for. Over 70 percent of the world is water. Yet only .8 percent of the entirety of the ocean is protected. Issues on land have also prevailed on land. The United states has put forth a system of National Parks to protect natural ecosystems, like yellowstone. Dr. Sylvia asks why the oceans do not have their own Parks. In the ocean there are millions of species. (that we know of) When we look at how much of the world is ocean and how little we have explored the oceans, it's saddening

While we all learned some thing in elementary, middle and high school regarding Native Americans and their significance to not only Thanksgiving but their “discover” by Columbus when he discovered the new world. And while I have read up on the latest news regarding the Washington Redskins name and its tarnishing expression to Native Americans and heard of the few laws congress have implemented to the safety and reservation of Native American lands. I was largely unaware of anything else pertaining

are typically towards the downtown area. Furthermore, class in this area aligns with the income distribution, thus people with a high class are located on the outskirts. To no surprise, the few pockets of high income neighborhoods within the city are also found near the river along Columbia Parkway (Cincinnati). Also higher incomes are located near main roads and city parks. As a curve

Heroin is one of many street drugs notorious for addiction, death from overdose, and ruining not only the lives of users but also the lives of the people around them. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the national number in the United States of heroin overdose deaths in 2014 alone was around eleven thousand, a number that is six times higher than it was only fifteen years ago in 2001, and it continues to rise. The issue of heroin is growing not only nationally but even locally in

Chicago is a city located in the north side of the United States, in the state of Illinois, on Lake Michigan. It was founded in 1830. It is among one of the largest cities in the U.S. and it is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles with over 2.7 million residents. It is the most populous city in both the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern region of the United States. The city is an international hub for transportation. O'Hare International

 That however, is dangerously untrue.  It is one of the biggest crime industries in America, behind drug and arms dealing.  It’s happening right in our backyard, human trafficking is extremely prevalent in big American cities and states with international borders and national highways. “Sex Trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 (5-stones).” 80

1955, Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. The leaders of the local black community organized a bus boycott that began the day Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws. Led by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the boycott lasted more than a year, during which Parks not coincidentally lost her job as a seamstress and ended only when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Over the next half-century, Parks became a

was considered as a crossroad by early settlers and Native Americans because of its locational value at the converging point of the three rivers; the St. Mary's, the St. Joseph, and the Maumee Rivers. The city of Fort Wayne is named after General “Mad” Anthony Wayne. He was a bold leader in the military, who established the first American fort. This fort was right at the meeting point of the three rivers. Fort Wayne was originally the region where the capital of the Miami nation was located, at

you face for the rest of your life and on a daily basis. In reality, you have another everyday challenge as well. Society will forever look down at you and your disorder as if it did not matter or you were crazy. In the Fall of my sophomore year in high school, I was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety. I live with it every day and I lived with it for a long time even before I was diagnosed. The problem with telling someone about it was crucial yet so difficult because I knew I would

States Report Chapter 1: Introduction This is Arizona, a state that is well known for its desert Basin and Range region. Its state nicknames are The Grand Canyon Region, The Copper State, The Valentine State, and The Apache State. These nicknames mean and were chosen because the Grand Canyon was located in Arizona, copper was in abundance, Arizona’s date of statehood was February 14(Valentine’s Day), 1912 and the Apache Indians inhabited Arizona at the time. These nicknames were chosen on 1959