...Indentured Servants were basically men, women, homeless, prisoner, kidnapped or orphaned kids. These people wouldn’t work for money but in return, their master would have to shelter, feed, clothe. They would be free after about 4-8 years. They have a chance of obtaining land or other valuable items. Slaves, on the other hand, were from Africa. They were caught and sold by slave traders. Like animals, they were shipped around to colonies so they could work their butts off. The Masters had no power to change the status of the slave. They didn’t know English and were also most likely born into slavery. Some similarities were that they were both bought by their masters and had listened to their masters. They usually had died from serving their master and did lots of hard work. Families could be separated and if one ran away, they could be punished by being whipped or branded which was pretty officious of the masters. They never really got enough of anything. They did not have good clothes like people that were slaves did. They were also both transported far away from their...
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...pride and heritage. The debate about if it should be removed from public places as been going on for a long time. It’s all depends on what you think about it, but keep an open mind about this topic. Is the Confederate flag a flag of hate? A little history lesson; in the mid 19th century there was a large war on american soil. The Civil war was of the northern states ( California, Illinois, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Vermont), and the southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee) in America. The southern states (Confederacy) where for slavery and they then broke of from the Northern States. They then adopted the flag, and later they lost the war and the north and the south were reunited and together in peace....
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...1) Modern astronomy basically begins with the re-emergence of the heliocentric view of the universe by Copernicus. Who were the four other major contributors to the development of modern astronomy after Copernicus? Explain what those contributions were. Finally, why did it take so long for the geocentric view of the universe to be overthrown and what does that tell us about scientific research and our society, even today? Copernicus release his theory of the heliocentric view while he was on his death bed. Primary reason for this was because of the Catholic’s church control on society at the time and the effects it would have on religious society stating that the earth was not the center of the universe. After Copernicus released his theory, other key astronomers that supported and advanced Capernicus’ theory included Galileo, Keppler, Brahe, and Newton. Galileo Galilei, a contributed to astronomy and physics, advanced the use of the telescope towards use in astronomy. because of his invention, and ability to view the planets and starts, he identified four of Jupiters moons, and the phases of Venus which directly supported Copernicus’ theory, that earth, like the other planets, revolved around the sun, and moons, revolved around their planets. Tyco Brahe, an astronomer, under the support of King Frederick the II, established an observatory on the Danish island of Hveen. The establishment of this observatory was critical for the next 20 years in establishing observations...
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...The section on air quality in chapter 7 where air quality within major cities will fail to meet national standards on a more consistent basis is already a reality in my neighborhood of Astoria, as the area from the low income section, to the middle class section, and to the upper class section is bound from all sides by industrial factories, and coal burning power plants. Populations in the Northeast will be facing higher rates of respiratory illnesses including asthma, chronic respiratory disease, and higher incidences of lung cancer. According to the article “ 25 of the nations worst ozone areas are those spanning from Buffalo to NYC to Bridgeport to Philadelphia.”(Confronting Climate Change, p.96.ch.7) These diseases, and illnesses do not only place a physical burden on those affected, but an emotional and financial burden on family members who have to see loved ones suffer, and spend large amounts of money on high medical...
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...com Brian Coffey received his B.Sc. degree in geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995 and his Ph.D. in geology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1999. He has worked at ExxonMobil, Simon Fraser University, and Maersk Oil and has been a private consultant specializing in carbonate reservoir characterization. He currently works as a carbonate specialist at Apache Corporation in Houston. Richard F. Sunde ∼ EnCana, 500 Centre Street, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G1A6; richard.sunde@encana.com Richard Sunde earned a D.E.C. degree (Diplôme dietudes Collégiales) at Dawson College, Montreal, in 2000 and a B.Sc. degree in geology at McGill University, Montreal, in 2004. He then completed an M.Sc. degree at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, in 2008; his thesis research focused on the content presented in this article. Richard currently is employed as a Geoscientist at Encana Corporation in Calgary. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT This study presents a lithology-based sequence-stratigraphic framework and depositional model for Lower Cretaceous, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments of the Mid-Atlantic coastal plain (eastern United States). Lithologic data from cores and cuttings were integrated with wireline logs and twodimensional seismic data to document lithofacies variability and stacking patterns across the Albemarle Basin of eastern North Carolina. Ten facies associations are defined, which are variably present within siliciclastic-...
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...school district in the state of North Carolina is Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), the eighteenth largest in the United States. Regardless of its size CMS’s funding is derived just as all of the other smaller school districts throughout the state of North Carolina. There are multiple contributing sources of taxation to fund school districts; coupled with state financing and federal financing, CMS depends upon county and local municipality tax revenue to fund its schools. States possess the constitutional right of taxation, upon their residence, to fund government entities and school districts. There are multiple sources of taxation imposed by local, state and federal governments. The greatest source of funding is derived from real property taxes, levied by the local, city, and county governments. CMS enjoys a small amount of discretionary funding; in 2010-2011, 26% of CMS’s entire annual budget was provided by Mecklenburg County; 55 % was allocated from the state; 16 % came from the federal government; and 3% from miscellaneous and special revenue sources. Local county funding is derived from multiple resources, including real property tax and businesses, county sales taxes and fees. This paper will discuss the various sources of tax and funding received by CMS; how those monies are allotted; the effects of student achievement in relation to funding, and recommendations for improvement. Funding Sources As all school districts in North Carolina, CMS is dependently funded:...
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...The Gulf Stream and Its Influence on Climate and Marine Life Oceanic Studies 3021 December 8, 2010 Table of Content Title -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 1 Table of Contents--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 2 Abstract--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 3 Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 4 Gulf Stream description-------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 4 What causes the Gulf Stream-------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 4-5 Gulf Stream Features-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 5 Gulf Stream function------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 6 Influence in the dissemination of seeds & fruits----------------------------------------------------pg.7 Upwelling zone------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 7 Conclusion------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg7-8 References------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pg. 9 Abstract The Gulf Stream is one of...
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...“The Future of our Planet from Global Warming” Everyone around the world has been living on this planet for years and hasn’t really thought about what would happen with everything that people are doing to the earth. All the climate changes have been going on unnoticed most of the years and our environment and people have been dealing with the changes. Our climate needs to be taken care of since we live on this planet and it is our food, animals, and plants need to survive as well. People have come to realize that our planet is in trouble and need our help. Group’s people around the world have been trying to get people to understand about our environment. I think that the issues that surround Global Warming are very important and need to be made an issue. Even with all the environmental groups people still do take the time out and do the little things that can help our planet. The issues that are starting to happen in the past years are beginning to take notice around the world. With all the changes in our climate it is starting to become very dangerous and will result in a catastrophic climate change if people continue to not do nothing about our planet("Greenpeace", n.d.).. Some of the issues that are here in the North Carolina area are clean water, Preservation, Clean energy, Global warming, and Clean air. The Global warming issue will cause the sea levels to rise on our coast lines and they will begin to disappear. With the warmer water it will produce severe tropical...
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...Clicking Clean: How Companies are Creating the Green Internet April2014 greenpeace.org For more information contact: enquiries@greenpeace.org Lead Author: Gary Cook, Greenpeace Co-Authors: Tom Dowdall, Greenpeace David Pomerantz, Greenpeace Yifei Wang, Greenpeace Editor: David Pomerantz, Greenpeace Creative Direction & Design by: Arc Communications Published in April 2014 by Greenpeace Inc. 702 H Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20001 United States greenpeace.org 2 Contents Executive Summary 5 Company Scorecard 7 Cloud Source 9 Global Energy Snapshot 13 The Cloud’s Next Stop: China 17 The Road Map to a Green Internet 19 Your Online World: Green IRL, or #dirty? 25 Green Internet Leaders and Best Practices 29 Where the Cloud Touches the Ground -- Map: Global Data Center Hot Spots -- Map: US Data Center Hot Spots -- US Regional Profiles 35 36 38 40 Appendix 1: Methodology 42 Appendix 2: Company Scores Explained 44 Appendix 3: Company Data Center Facilities and Estimates of Power Demand 64 Notes 78 03 4 © Frank van Biemen / EvoSwitch / Greenpeace Greenpeace USA Clicking Clean: How Companies are Creating the Green Internet Executive Summary Executive Summary For the estimated 2.5 billion people around the world who are connected to the internet, it is impossible to imagine life without...
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...Thought Paper Writing Assignment on: Life in the South Many colonists came to America because of a desire to prosper and to start a new life. The majority of the settlers were males under the age of twenty. They didn’t realize how harsh it was going to be in the South. I am sure they did not expect to die like so many of them did. The life that they hoped for was not the life that they received. The Southern colonies were an ideal place for agriculture. The long, warm, and moist climate was perfect for growing cash crops such as tobacco, cotton, rice, and indigo. Its rivers were useful for transportation. The hot weather made life in the south harsh and a death expectancy that was shorter than New England’s. There were four classes of settlers; they were the plantation owners, the middle class farmers, the indentured servants, and the slaves. Almost half of the settlers were indentured servants or slaves. How life was in the Southern colonies depended upon which class of people you came from. In a plantation, the wealthy planters’ children were educated at home by teachers that their parents hired; they had easy lives. They learned reading, writing, dancing, and music. Boys learned to ride horses and hunt, and spent lots of time outdoors. The older boys were taught how to run the plantation. The indentured servants were people who came to the colonies on contract. Their hopes were to come to America for a better opportunity of a good life. They would have their fare...
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...from the crocodilia family and is found normally in the north and even the south. Alligators can grow as big as 14ft and 970 lbs. The largest alligator is in Lousiana and is 72 yrs old. When the alligators reproduce their populations they are found as far in the north as 35 degrees latitude in the freshwater marshes and rivers of coastal North Carolina, and they are also found in the far south as 25 degrees latitude in the Florida Keys. Some of the alligators live in the ocean and they are known as “Salties”. They can't live in the salt water because they dont have the saltwater glands. These different areas are exposed to very different annual thermal cycles. Alligators stop eating when the water temperature drops below 16 degrees C. This anorexia lasts for about 6 months at 35 degrees latitude. In southwest, Louisiana alligators stop feeding in October and they do not resume feeding until the late March or early April. The only time that the alligators grow is in the warmer months, this is their growing season, because they are constantly feeding during this time. Even with this restricted growing season Louisiana alligators grow about 30 cm a year for the first 6 years.(www.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator) When alligators reach their sexual maturity at about 1.85 m total length growth slows in both sexes, but is significantly slower in females than males. As a result of the different temperatures in North Carolina and Lousinana, the sexual...
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...day I can go for a walk and see Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Black, and White people. I can recall always thinking that my prior hometown of New York City was a melting pot and although it was home to many ethnic groups and races. There was a definite lack of melting because most groups lived quite segregated. I can remember thinking to myself when I moved south to North Carolina that I would likely encounter racism. My time of eight years spent here has rendered those thoughts to be true. I am older and wise enough to know that the location of a person bears no weight in the content of his or her character. In my apartment building there are people who look like me as well as people who do not. The population of Raleigh as of 2010 was 394,744 and the majority of the people are White at 61.8%, Black or African American at 29.6%, American Indian and Alaskan Native at 06%, Asian at 3.9%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander N/A, Some other race at 5.5% (Raleighnc.gov, 2011). The city of Raleigh is home to Shaw University, which is the first Black college of the south. While living in North Carolina I have had the pleasure of interacting with people of different races and ethnicities. This has helped me to learn about them and their traditions. The place where I gained the most insight was at my workplace. I worked for a company...
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...included with a flood of cheap labour compared to the United States. Certain quarters like the people of Mexico, people of the United States, apparel companies, and etc both benefits and lost at the same time. The impact on long-term trends were noticeable, while the short-run impact is more difficult to assess due to competing factors such as changes in business cycle patterns, immigration laws, economical climate, weather conditions, and exchange rate movements. Finally, there is the idea that protecting the textile industry from painful free trade agreement is not a perfect solution, bringing a solid and positive outcome to many with only a little much to sacrifice for the betterment of the countries’ wealth and dependency. Introduction The first major international trade agreement in the world was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) formed in 1947. Countries, including the United States and Canada, were members of this agreement. Mexico joined GATT several years later. Many countries had economies that had collapsed due to the World War II, so GATT was designed to increase trade liberalization between countries. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented on January 1, 1994, designed to take away tariff barriers...
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...main causes for it were infringement on civil liberties, infringement on states rights, and the collapse of a two party system. Another cause of it was the north and south had different ideas regarding what a Government looks like. Much like the rest of Europe, the north’s economy was more industrial, with factories, railroads and shipyards while the south’s was agricultural with slavery playing a major part in; the north had their own ideal of a government in which slavery would be abolished, the south’s ideal involved slavery which would naturally cause tension between the two. The South favored an agricultural system, while the North was centered around a city life. it meant that the North’s economy grew through people of different ethnics and backgrounds working together, while the South had a fixed social order. Both sides did their best in trying to reconcile with each other but different events such as the fugitive slave act, bleeding kansas, and the dred scott decision only managed to pull them further apart; although they did create different compromises which managed to quell the tension for a little while but ultimately failed to unite them in the long term. Slavery was a major factor in the early to late 1900’s as well as the precursor towards the impending civil war,as constant inward battles between the North and the South, which both shared two completely different ideals would eventually have to reach a climax, since both of the sides refused to give in to each...
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...A Meta-Analysis of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change Policy in the United States Adam Rose* and Noah Dormady** This paper provides a meta-analysis of a broad set of recent studies of the economic impacts of climate change mitigation policies. It evaluates the infiuences of the impacts of causal factors, key economic assumptions and macroeconomic linkages on the outcome of these studies. A quantité regression analysis is also performed on the meta sample, to evaluate the robustness of those key factors throughout the full range of macro findings. Results of these analyses suggest that study results are strongly driven by data inputs, economic assumptions and modeling approaches. However, they are sometimes affected in counterintuitive ways. 1. INTRODUCTION The macroeconomic impacts of climate change mitigation policies are controversial among both scholars and the policy-making community. Results range from predictions of severe economic harm to significant overall economic gains. Given the unresolved nature of this debate, this paper seeks to shed light on it by evaluating a wide range of macroeconomic studies through a metaanalytic approach. Meta-analysis is a method for evaluating a cross-section of studies on a given topic, and evaluating the impacts of assumptions, input variables and modeling approaches on the overall findings of the studies. In essence, meta-analysis is a study of studies (Borenstein et al., 2009; Lipsey and Wilson 2001). The Energy...
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