... two or three. In the early colonial families, every member had a different job. The head of the family was mostly the father. He presided over family prayers and worked on the family farm. Mothers usually raised the children, acted as midwives to other women in town, and tended to household chores. Up until about the age eight, boys and girls wore the ... area (Larkin 157) . The way people dressed and wore their hair changed throughout the years. Men started out wearing powdered wigs and breeches and changed to wear long pants and short hair. Woman would wear long skirts and long sleeve...

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... of meat, sugar, canned goods, shoes and gas. Victory Gardens were planted in every vacant lot. Families participated in the recycling of animal fat, cans, paper, cigarette and gum foil, and every type of scrap metal so that those materials could be used for the ... Floyd Carlson invented xerography in 1938. Xerography makes paper copies without using ink. L. Robert Hutchings Goddard launched the first rocket with a pivotal motor on gimbals using his gyro control device. He lived in Roswell, New Mexico. M. Ida Henrietta Hyde, an American physiologist, invented the microelectrode in the ....

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... plants in the water of wetlands or bogs (Encarta 2001: "Peat"). Peat is still mined today for its fuel uses, which is another cause of destruction to wetlands. So in short peat is both a protectors of the atmosphere and a useful fuel source, unfortunately wetlands are destroyed for it. Lets say for a moment that there is a utilitarian who doesn't eat fish, cares ... spawning or as a habitat. Since most pollutants are dumped first into the water then fish and other aquatic life are the first to feel the effect of contaminants. Another animal that depends on wetlands are crocodiles, not c...

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