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The Keystone Pipeline: Is This Black Gold Worth It?, Claudia Salazar
The Keystone Pipeline: Is This Black Gold Worth It?, Claudia Salazar
A with Honors Projects
In this persuasive essay, the student describes the negative impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline, and argues that it is culturally threatening, socially unethical, economically unwise, and environmentally dangerous. Lists the negative consequences that may arise from the construction and operation of the pipeline, and concludes that the pipeline should not be constructed, since the danger it represents is greater than the benefits it may have.
Using The Pert Exponential Growth Model: Predicting Past And Future Chinese Populations Involving Their Famous Population Control Policies, Greg Gancarz
A with Honors Projects
This project serves to examine the hypothetical effects of the implementation and repeal of China’s famous One Child Policy on the rate of population growth in that country through the use and applications of the basic exponential growth model. Calculates growth in three different scenarios and estmates the population for China in the year 2045.
Eco Friendly: Ecology Meets Economy, Neal Shannon
Eco Friendly: Ecology Meets Economy, Neal Shannon
A with Honors Projects
Sustainability is a word that gets used a lot, but it’s important to properly define how we are using it. In general, sustainability is the ability to continue an activity indefinitely. Environmental sustainability is defined as using environmental sciences to manage the rates of renewable resource harvest vs consumption; limit pollution creation vs natural sink potential; and slow non-renewable resource depletion; in a way that our behaviors can be continued indefinitely (Harich). An environmentally sustainable society would prioritize processing waste efficiently and promoting the regeneration of resources, just as a business would prioritize efficient use of equipment to lower costs …
Black Holes And Einstein: A Commentary Of The Types Of Black Holes That Produce Gravitational Waves, Sage A. Russell
Black Holes And Einstein: A Commentary Of The Types Of Black Holes That Produce Gravitational Waves, Sage A. Russell
A with Honors Projects
Perhaps the most the notorious player in the astronomical field, objects known as black holes captivate the imaginations of scientists and average folk the world over, but as much as we adore hypothesizing about what black holes are like, there is so much that we’re only just finding out about. From 1909 until 1918, famed physicist Albert Einstein predicted many characteristics of spacetime and the effect of massive objects on it, including the notion of an energy-carrying wave moving at the speed of light that causes ripples through the fabric of spacetime, otherwise known as gravitational waves. A relatively recent …
Desalination Of Ocean Water, Daniel Wright
Desalination Of Ocean Water, Daniel Wright
A with Honors Projects
This honors project compares two methods of desalination of ocean water: hollow fiber membranes and porous nano-graphine sheets.