But oil is quite literally the wheels of industry throughout the world. ... First, dependence on oil – this rapidly dwindling resource – is one of our major problems, and we hope, all of us, that scientists will be able to find alternative sources of energy: solar energy, water power from the seas, so to say, and it is derived from sea power and the building of dams. ... 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. ... For many decades after...

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The Year 1000: Life at the Turn of the First Millennium The Year 1000, a book by Robert Lacey and Danziger, explores how people lived in the year 1000, at the turn of the millennium. Life in the year 1000 was very different from life today. Lacey and Danziger used the Julius Work Cale...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The battle of Concord and its "shot heard round the world" would mark the unofficial beginning of the colonies war for Independence. ... To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. ... He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: • For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: • For ...

• Word Count: 4402
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography

However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is because the country is an island surrounded by the sea. ... When the Ice Age ended the sea levels rose and Ireland and Britain were both cast away from Europe, hence preventing the spread of snakes to Ireland. ... The Celts were originally from lands around the Caspian sea and they were a proud tribal and warlike race. ... By the 9th Century Irish monasteries were so widespread throughout Europe that Heiric of Auxerre complained in 870 "Almost all Ireland, disregarding the sea, is migrating to our shores...

• Word Count: 10019
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction Ireland is the third largest island in Europe and the twentieth largest in the world. Ireland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean and separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea. ... The Irish banking sector, like so many around the world, came under extreme pressure in 2007 and 2008 following the fall of the construction industry and an end to Ireland's property growth. ... The understanding of how to do elaborate knitting is not being passed down from generation to generation due to the change in today's world; an entire region of Irish popular culture is changing day ...

• Word Count: 3989
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate