ALS Helpful or Hurtful The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social networks‚ but is it too successful for its own good? ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) often referred to as “Lou Gehrigs Disease‚” is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord (ALS Association). It’s like Parkinson’s on super-steroids. Now‚ the challenge aspect was a simple dare. You had 24 hours to drench yourself in a bucket of ice water‚ and if you didn’t complete
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The little ice age The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling where the world had all round colder temperatures than are experienced now in the 20th century‚ with Europe being‚ on average‚ 1.8℃ colder. The exact timing of the LIA is disputed‚ with some records suggesting it begun as early as 1250AD‚ NASA standing by 1550AD and most other sources with years that fall between the 1300AD and 1350AD. The end is universally accepted as around 1850AD. It covered the northern hemisphere‚ most prominently
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Climate Change Chasing Ice was a very informative documentary on climate change. Environmental photographer James Balog sets up time lapsing camera’s to show how glaciers around the world were changing due to climate change. He sets up cameras in Iceland‚ Greenland‚ Alaska and Montana and captures images of the glaciers breaking off‚ degrading ‚and receding. It is very scary to see the glaciers changing so drastically only over the course of a couple months at a time. James Balog sets up a project
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Monet: The Break Up of the Ice In 1879‚ Europe had one of its coldest winters and Monet was living in Vetbeuil to experience this winter. When the Seine thawed‚ the ice flooded the countryside and damaged bridges. Monet took advantage of these conditions and began a series of motif paintings in which he would paint the same scene again and again under different light conditions. The ice and water landscape were perfect for this type of painting because they were able to better capture the reflections
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In George R.R Martin’s novel series A Song of Ice and Fire‚ there is a long standing prophecy about Azor Ahai or “the chosen one”. The legendary figure in the R’hllor faith who led the crusade against the White Walkers (White Walkers are supernatural beings that can reanimate the dead) who invaded Westeros 8000 years prior during the “War for the Dawn”. The prophecy states that he will return with the flaming sword “Lightbringer” to defeat the White Walkers and save the world once more. The theory
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observing rocks paleontologists were able to see a stunning diversity in living organisms‚ this time period was known as the Cambrain Explosion. Ice Flows‚ do to the start of last Ice Age cut deep incisions into the Earth which ultimately lead to many of the mountains being created today. For example the Akademikerbreen Group was the result to the ice flows. The
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Breaking Ice I walked on a thin layer of ice in high school; every time someone judged me‚ I could hear the ice slowly cracking under my feet. My life was in a fragile and brittle state during my junior year. I didn’t have the support of my parents‚ nor of my closest friends at this stage of my life. My own parents‚ teachers‚ and classmates had lost faith in me; to them it seemed as if I had ruined my life and that I would no longer succeed. On the contrary‚ I was determined to be successful because
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The Unexpected Ice Storm Imagine going to sleep while freezing rain is falling from the sky. Upon waking up‚ ice has formed on your trees‚ your power is out‚ and trees in your area have split right in half or even worse‚ branches have snapped off. The trees may look beautiful‚ but it can become a hazard at any second because a branch might snap off and land on you. That is what happened in Ontario’s most recent ice storm. Over 500‚000 people in Ontario had no power‚ which affected many
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“The first ice of human hurt”. The theme that is put across from the poem is of growing up‚ and the experience of loosing someone for the first time. Both of these poems are very similar‚ but they have both been translated in two different styles. This helps to alter the meaning a little from the original Russian version. The titles of the two Russian poems by Andrei Voznesenky ‘First ice’ and ‘First Frost’ differ in many ways. Examples of this are the word ‘Ice’ used in the first poem‚ ice I hard and
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Ice Age Columbus Watching this documentary helped me realize the conveniences and things we live with today are not needed at all to survive this life. Even though the movie didn’t seem one hundred percent accurate‚ I feel that it gave me a good perspective to the way people lived twenty thousand years ago. We use so many technological devices in our everyday lives that we would not be able to survive outside of our usual environment without them. The Solutrean people had no means of transportation
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