We know that oil is decreasing, the stocks of it are decreasing inevitably and that some day, since they are finite, they will run out altogether, but that day hasn't, of course, arrived yet and new reserves are found from time to time to enable us to go on in the same old ways. ... The sea birds, for example, are covered in thick black oil, and they have no chance of survival unless people can get to them early and clean their bodies, clean their wings of this oil. ... And the economic cost of cleaning up these oil slicks is enormous and fines that are imposed upon owners if tankers fro...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great, a patient and often devious man; had never struck without careful planning. ... It required a large army to move an enormous distance from its supply bases, through and unfamiliar country, against a power incalculably rich in money and men. ... _Darius was no leader-in fact, he was not even a brave man. ... The Persian Empire_s subject were unloyal to and had very little affection towards their ruler(s) and would be unlikely to resist and invading army. ... _Alexander was a man incapable of shrugging his shoulders and walking away from an ...

• Word Count: 2709
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• Grade Level: High School

Even as a young boy Eli showed great promise with his skills with tools. ... Then came a man, and an invention, which changed the course of history. ... Cotton began to be grown in enormous quantities because it was good for making clothes, and with the invention of the cotton gin easier to produce. ... This time, though, the slave trade was not between the U.S. and Africa, but instead between the Old South, and the New South. The Old South began to "breed- slaves to sell to the cotton farmers in the New South. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Only one man has the insight and the genius to portray this regime for what it was, a failed experiment of fatally flawed dogma. ... To truly understand the role that these two books, 1984, and Animal Farm played in our society, we must first understand the man that wrote them. ... Eric grew up with a deep distrust of colonialism due to these facts, as his father played a small, but important role in the two defeats of china in the 19th century, that of keeping the opium dens very, very well supplied. ... Eric also has a sister, Marjorie, who was five years older then Eric. ... Although t...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At the center of this redesign was a man from General Motors" - Harley Earl. ... After the 1948 Cadillac's enormous success, Earl increased the fin size and other designers and divisions of General Motors followed suit: the Oldsmobile in 1949, the Buick in 1952. ... These automobiles emerged in "full regalia of fantasy bullets and bombs, breasts, portholes and jets, spears and wings. "Assembly lines rolled off car after car with "frenched"" headlights and "toothy" chrome grilles "-- these "monsters with bedroom eyes "clearly exhibit the blending of the two design staples of sex and ...

• Word Count: 7127
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate