... appointed onto our local government to put a stop to the acid rain problem. The acid rain in our area is becoming a major hazard. Gasses released from factories close by combine with the moisture and eventually fall back to earth, sometimes 1000 times more acidic than natural rain. This is causing significant problems within our local lakes, rivers and streams. Although acid ... rain is not concentrated enough to burn through human skin, it kills many trees and other wildlife. Thousands of lakes throughout Canada, Europe and the United States are now useless because the water is too aci...

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The age of the Enlightenment is when, during the eighteenth century, people began to question authority, religion and philosophize about life and science. The influential thinkers and writers of this period were called philosophes. These included Descartes, Pascal, Bayle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. Their four main points were: 1. To question the traditional authority, and traditional ideas of the Old Regime. 2. Believe in the existence of natural laws. 3. establish these laws as basis of human activity through human reasoning and 4. Hope everything would be perfected when we...

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... time to 1950s and then to the 21st century. The European Economic Community (EEC) was created by the treaty of Rome in 1957,then in 1967 the EEC came together with the European Atomic Energy Community and the European coal and steel community and formed the European Community (EC). In 1992 the treaty of Maastricht established the European union (EU). The ... ...

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Evils of Christianity It has been my experience, through my upbringing as a Christian, that Christians are often blind to the evils of the religion. They are taught from a young age that God is almighty, and should never be questioned, so the less-finer points in the religion are often skipped over. Many problems in society have arisen from this religion, which include discrimination, anti-Semitism, sexism, violence and war. Christianity has fought over hundreds of years to become the only religion, scaring people away from other religions in the process. Christians continuously fight among th...

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... a civilization created by the people of Europe. Where, in fact, it is made out of multinational influences. He mentioned some examples of countries that are not European, questioning their influence on American civilization. In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century ... in this country should be recognized and mentioned when it comes to talking about American civilization as well as other cultures that did too. People should not u...

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... dedicated to the imagination as revealed in dreams, it was free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention, its emphasis was on positive expression. It flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew out of the earlier Dada movement. It was founded in 1924 ... in Paris by Andre Breton with his Manifeste du surrealism, according to him surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience, so completely that the world ... be joined to the everyday rational world, in an absolute reality ,a surreality. Surrealism became dominant...

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... airlines in the world, but the post 9/11 American era and European rivals are threatening that status. In the past year, German carrier Lufthansa recorded net income of $774 million with revenues exceeding $18 billion. All this prosperity in Europe despite the badly damaged travel industry. Unfortunately United Airlines is expected to post a first quarter loss of over $1 billion. The article ... then goes on to criticize the American firms for they complacent strategies seen after congress awarded huge subsidies and low interest loan guarantees to the industry to bail them out of the po...

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In & Out of Morocco In the Book In and Out of Morocco we are led on a journey into Northern Africa. In Morocco the society has been split in half, the migrants who went to work in Europe and the people who stayed at home. The migrants were usually uneducated men who left there families at home in hopes of making money. But what happens to those who stay home? What happens when cultures begin to evolve and change? How did migration have such a large effect on women and their freedom? Why do men feel that they should pressure their women to stay at home? Does a migrant become a part of a bi-cult...

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Germany has more festivals than any other country in Europe. In winter, the main celebration is Christmas. This is celebrated all over the country, with houses and streets decorated. On 5th December, St. Nicholas" day, it is customary for children to leave their shoe filled with sweets outside their door. There are beer festivals in many parts of the country at the end of summer. The Oktoberfest beer festival is held in Munich every year in September and is the biggest beer festival in the world. Carnival, which takes place in February or March, marks the end of winter and the start of Lent. I...

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