... about to occur, and a third time by the way the teacher delivers the lesson. Percy uses the discovery of a dogfish washed up on a beach to illustrate this point. He compares the man who knows nothing about dogfish discovering it on a beach to the student who has been prepped in a laboratory for a dissection of a dogfish. The man who discovers the dogfish on the ... beach is like the child picking up a rock not knowing that this object is a rock. He knows nothing about the dogfish so according to Percy has had an experience similar to ... the teachers guided their students into unexpec...

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... and ruined the natural landscape. A great example of this very issue of the beaches that everyone of every nation seems to enjoy visiting. What happens typically in a beach area is that instead of a natural beach setting, hotels, motels, and resorts are built right on the shoreline. This overdevelopment leads to a huge environmental impact. Habitat for animals is lost to an ocean front ... natural area is lost. Tourists are no longer even able to see many of the native or natural plants. The next thing that happens is that the once nice, wide beach begins to erode because the overdevelo...

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... Kenya and accounts for over $500 million in annual revenue and 500,000 jobs. (Kenya, CIA World Fact Book). The bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi in 1998 and of a beach hotel in Mombasa in 2002, as well as a missile strike against a charter flight of Israeli tourists, has caused governments around the world to warn their citizens against travel to Kenya ... ...

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... a land can accommodate with out ecological degradation. Most tourism destinations are energy intensive and highly pollutive and tend to be built in "cluster sites," such as a chain of hotels along a beach. This pattern of development diverts resources (energy, land and water) away from the local population to accommodate the tourist sector. It also puts heavy stress on the environment since tourist ... ...

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