The "cost of producing non-renewable energy is low since they are naturally available," or abundant, making them cheaper to transform from one form of energy to another (Miller 352). ... To put things in perspective, "about 95% of the commercial energy used in the United States comes from nonrenewable energy sources," with 86% coming from fossil fuels alone (Miller 352). ... "Coal mining may result in underground fires that are virtually impossible to extinguish"(Enzler). These underground fires lead to degradation of habitat to much wildlife living with the area....

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Historian Timothy Warnock notes, "Orville personally trained or oversaw the training on Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, of at least 115 individuals.... The impact only grew exponentially further from this point in time, with the erection of monuments in honor of the Wright brothers, the rapidly growing business of commercial flights, and specifically the induction of the Wright Flyer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 1948. ... It remained there in "the place of honour", except during World War II when it was moved to an underground vault 100 miles (160 km) from London...

• Word Count: 784
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first point he notes is that "improvements on the TAAS are not correlated to improvements on other standardized tests", moreover, "teachers were teaching them how to take the exam "(Boese). ... Boese extends his argument by noting that "if used differently the exams could be much more effective in meeting students' needs" "(Boese). ... A Toch and Wagner survey says "1 in 11 teachers reported pressure from administrators to cheat on standardized tests." ... In Kozol's article, "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society"," Kozol's purpose was to educate and make aware to the ...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The standard pentatonic blues scale always added the tritone, or flatted fifth, as the so-called 'blues note;' Sabbath simply extracted it and came up with one of the simplest yet most definitive heavy metal riffs of all time. ... Without warning in 1995, Headbanger's Ball was abruptly pulled off the air from MTV. ... Following the popularity of grunge, several subgenres of hard rock and metal continued to have an underground following to this day, although not at the level of success attained by Metallica, for example, in 1991 with the release of their fifth eponymous album (al...

• Word Count: 1231
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate