Instead, long before the earth was made, Niflheim was made, and in it a spring gave rise to twelve rivers. ... To the north was frigid Ginnungagap, where the rivers froze and all was ice. ... As the ice dripped more, it formed a cow, and from her teats flowed four rivers of milk that fed Ymir. ... Those two children were so beautiful that their father named the son Moon and the daughter Sol. ... This is why fifteen hundred children are born each day and one thousand people die each day. ...

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Its big oceans lakes and rivers were home for millions of gorgeous creatures that swam peacefully in clear water. ... Will be this picture of a world just available to decorate the walls in the future houses, or just a bed story that our children will tell their grandchildren? ...

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He looks out the window and sees children playing baseball and he sees that things are in a cylindrical shape. ... However, when NASA produced a study recently, they predicted the world as we know it to have a major decline and it could possibly meet its demise with in the next few decades (Rivers). The things that NASA predicts that the Earth will be lacking is water, climate, agriculture, energy, and population (Rivers). ...

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If we use all the Earth has to provide today then our children's children will have nothing. ... If they cut down all the trees and grasses around their fields, the chemicals along with the soil run down to the rivers and streams and get washed away which pollutes the water and kills organisms in it. ... While I'm on the subject of rivers I feel it is also important that we talk about factories. ... Many companies just dump it straight into the rivers; others bury it. ...

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The fertilizer is then washing down into rivers and streams and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. ... "uneducated people have more penurious children and the whole lack of family planning is due to the stark absence of basic education.... "Developing nations and their patriarchs will tell you that owing to an infernally high infant mortality rate and deaths of mothers, they have extra children – just in case." (Kulkarni) Having health care systems that provide nations who have a high infant death rate will decrease the need for one family to have so many children.  ...

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The rivers and little streams with their hidden cresses and pale-coloured pebbles and their fool's gold must be washed and starched or shined into brightness, the sheets of lake water smoothed with the hand and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness. ... She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including three books for children. ...

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Surface water is water that is visible above the ground surface, such as creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes. ... Of children who need to be watched yet there are relatively few who choose to baby-sit from the already decreased amount of the babysitter work force. ...

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These external transactions may include industrial output and energy consumption, as well as the unpaid work of women and children hauling water or fuel-wood, the burning of rainforest to clear land on which to grow food for one's family, drug-trafficking and other crime, traditional barter, and cooperative labor exchange. ... River systems and aquifers have been seriously depleted by water withdrawals. ...

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The blue flame was responsible for creating great oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, ponds and all the life that would reside in them. ... He then began to weep for the loss of his children and started to turn blue. ...

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Edith Hamilton discerns that "it was natural to think of these fearful creatures as the children of Mother Earth, brought forth from her dark depths when the world was young. But it is extremely odd that they were also the children of Heaven." ... The four points of the compass and the mountains arose from his limbs and trunk, his blood formed the rivers and his veins the ways and paths, his flesh became trees and earth, the hair on his head became the stars in the heaven, his skin and the hairs on his body turned into grass and flowers. ...

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Native American Religious Beliefs Through out history, historians have had the ability to pass on the knowledge of the past because of written documents and other forms of evidence that acknowledge the existence of past civilizations and cultures. When there are no written documents, whether lost or...

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In some regions, river flow will be reduced or stopped all together completely. ... We as inhabitants of this Earth must do our part in preserving it, or there won't be much left for our children to live on. ...

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Massive flooding and rivers that are well above their normal levels are threatening the crops and homes in the area. ... In my lifetime I know that I won't see anything too drastic happen due to global warming, but there is a chance that my children and grandchildren will. ...

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Theodore Roosevelt said "To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very property which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed" (Nature Node). ... We continue to rape our rain forests of their very life, we buy huge sport utility vehicles that pollute our air like the factories of the industrial revolution, and at the same time endlessly pollute our lakes, rivers, and oceans. ...

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From review of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, This is a book that can be read by both children and adults. It has a message of love that is true and touching, and it is a book that has stood the test of time.1 Hence, how can The Little Prince obtain these good reviews and made a great effects even if it seems like only a book for children? ... The world of adult is much complicated and contradict than children, but it is seemed like not good for us, as we will easily lost ourselves. ... Adults always use amount to measure their life, such as salaries, marks, even how many children they have....

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ABSTRACT: In the contemporary world environmental crisis is considered as one of the burning issues for human being. We are now entering into the post modern era, yet environmental degradation exists as a major concern. Though it touches the mind of all the key thinkers, it seems to remain a threat. With the help of world organizations and governments, we are trying to get rid of this problem. But if the people of all walks of life do not become conscious about the prevention of such kind of degradation, obviously these will not have any result. ...

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ABSTRACT In the contemporary world environmental crisis is considered as one of the burning issues for human being. We are now entering into the post modern era, yet environmental degradation exists as a major concern. Though it touches the mind of all the key thinkers, it seems to remain a threat. With the help of world organizations and governments, we are trying to get rid of this problem. But if the people of all walks of life do not become conscious about the prevention of such kind of degradation, obviously these will not have any result. ...

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• Grade Level: High School