... fear and horror as unknown assailants attacked the American people on our own soil, a feat that has not been seen since World War II. The atrocities of this day have evoked an abundance of overwhelming emotions that have spread throughout the world like wild fire. The diversity of my emotions is still pulling me ... nations bond together and aid us in order to fight a common foe. If nothing else good comes out of this atrocity at least we have proved that the majority of this world can come together and work as one. My pride at watching this world come together is not ... our home front...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . As in the prairie of the west, The Native Americans used fire as a tool to keep the forest clear. Over thousands of years the annual burning created an intricate fire dependant ecosystem The ecosystems of South America are as dazzling as those of North America, I would even go so far as to call them amazing. The amount of human conversion in the Amazon is mind blowing, from the fertile ground to the trees in the forest, much ... can be marked by the rise and fall of natural species of an area, within a few years of Columbus's arrival the population of buffalo, elk and deer among others...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... has been so rapturously portrayed by the more romantic environmentalists who question the direction of modern life and call for a new environmental ethic. It would appear that Indians exploited the environment just as carelessly and as effectively as does modern man. The mythologized Indians used wasteful and ecologically unsound methods of altering their habitats with the same negligence. The forests of New England, the Midwest, and the Southeast had been disturbed to ... to manage the growing list of national parks, monuments, and historic sites. The National Park Service Organic Act ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate