For instance, studies have shown that dams along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts on North America have reduced salmon populations, even thou most dams have fish ladders installed. *Another disadvantage of hydroelectric dams is the need to relocate the people living where the reservoirs are planned. Additionally, historically and culturally importants sites can be flooded and lost. *Dams can be vulnerable to bombardment during wartime, sabotage and terrorism. I would like to conclude by saying that the hydro energy is the simplest and most known renewable energy there is. It is perfect for balancing the energy system and for supplying power at peak times of the day. And it does not create greenhouse gasses. Thank you for listening. If you have any questions then you may ask them.
superintendent of the hospital, accuses him of bringing the disease on himself through excessive drinking. Believing Henry's illness to be an attempt to avoid his duty as a serviceman, Miss Van Campen has Henry's leave revoked, and he is sent to the front once the jaundice has cleared. As they part, Catherine and Henry pledge their mutual devotion. Henry travels to the front, where Italian forces are losing ground and manpower daily. Soon after Henry's arrival, a bombardment begins. When word comes that German troops are breaking through the Italian lines, the Allied forces prepare to retreat. Henry leads his team of ambulance drivers into the great column of evacuating troops. The men pick up two engineering sergeants and two frightened young girls on their way. Henry and his drivers then decide to leave the column and take secondary roads, which they assume will be faster. When one of their vehicles bogs down in the mud, Henry orders the two engineers to
Paul discerns from his sallow skin that Kemmerich will not live long. The men give some cigarettes to an orderly in return for his agreement to give Kemmerich a dose of morphine to ease his pain. Müller, reasoning that a one-legged man has no need for matching shoes, wants Kemmerich's boots for himself, but Paul discourages him from pressing the matter further. They will have to keep watch until Kemmerich dies and then take the boots before the orderlies steal them. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces. Summary Paul recalls his life before the war. As a young student, he used to write poetry. Now, he feels empty and cynical, thinking that his short time as a soldier has taught him more hard lessons about life than a decade at school could. He has no interest in, or time for, poetry, and his parents now seem to him a hazy and unreliable memory. He feels that "only facts are real and important to us."
because it was forbidden in Britain to marry a divorced person. Edward chose love over duty and gave the throne to his brother Albert. Edward and his loved one lived in exile for years, but now they are buried together in a royal family tomb near Windsor. World War I 1914 - 1918 Spark / sp:k / süütama Archduke / :tdju:k / ertshertsog Trench / trent / kaevik Proclamation / prkl'men / väljakuulutamine Bombardment / bm'b:dmnt / pommitus Inaugurate / 'n:gjret / pühitsema, pidulikult tähistama Annex / 'æneks / liitma, liidetuks jääma World War I broke out because of an assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The war was thought to end quickly, but it lasted for four years during which over ten million people were killed. During that time Irish Volunteers captured Dublin´s strategic points and declared the birth of the Irish Republic. Britain was unable to resist to the movement
suffered hardship through loss of trade as a result of the Allied blockade of the Continent. The principal postwar problems of the country were economic, and these were aggravated by the depression of the 1930s. (3) 12 2.12 World War II and After At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Netherlands again declared its neutrality, but in 1940 the country was overrun by the Germans, following an aerial bombardment that destroyed the greater part of Rotterdam. Much destruction was also wrought in other parts of the country, not only by the Germans, but also by the Dutch, who opened many dikes as desperate defense measures, and later by the Allies in aerial assaults on German-held positions. The Germans occupied the country until they were ousted during 1944 and 1945. (3) The years following World War II were marked by intensive efforts to rebuild the country and to restore its trade and industry
civilians or civilian objects without distinction. carpet bombing of the city (completely bombing the city area with aerial bombing) is a war crime because it is an indiscriminate attack; this is because the development of IHL (in II WW it could be done). Each military target should be considered as a separate one. These attacks are also considered indiscriminate: an attack by bombardment by any methods or means which treats as a single military objective a number of clearly separated and distinct military objectives located in a city, town, village or other area containing a similar concentration of civilians or civilian objects; and an attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to
send them. The French discussed the possibilities. Would Luden-dorff lunge out directly for Paris from the tip of one of his salients despite the danger to their flanks? Or would he first flatten out the large dent between those bulges and then drive forward from a consolidated position? If the latter, where in the huge pocket would he strike? No one knew. Ludendorff, meanwhile, was having troubles of his own. German military doctrine called for a sudden, intense artillery bombardment to paralyze the defenders before the infantry attacked. This saturation technique required concentrating thousands of field pieces and tons of munitions at the battle-front. At a conference early in June, Ludendorff learned that this concentration was running behind the schedule he had set for his next assault. His successes had strained his lines of transport, and he had been moving his guns and shells only under cover of night to preserve the invaluable advantage of surprise.
exposing themselves to new ideas from a variety of sources. Unsuc- cessful people, in contrast, are those who continue to recirculate the same tired old ideas with little imagination or creativity. ■ LOOK FOR IDEAS EVERYWHERE When you attend a seminar or a lecture given by an expert who is sharing some of the most current ideas in his or her field, you will often receive a bombardment of new insights that you can use to improve parts of your life. Many people’s lives have been completely changed as the result of attending a single lecture given by a single intelligent person who gave them a single insight that was the key to their future. Imagine what would happen if you attended courses, seminars, and lectures on a regular basis.You would be continually bombard-
THE POST-MODERN MIRROR Young people may have responded to Pulp Fiction because it reflects the post-modern artistic sensibility they grew up with. Post-modernism is the result o f a world blown apart, fragmented into millions of pieces by a century o f war, social disruption, and rapid technological change. T h e doors of perception have been shattered by machines and the frantic pace of electronification. Young people now come to aware ness in a high-intensity bombardment o f random images and brief story segments torn from all the previous styles of art and literature. T h e bits may have an internal consistency and obey some rules of the old story world, but they assault the con sciousness of the young in no apparent order. Young people perceive the world as reflections in a shattered mirror, whether they channel-surf to cut up the stories themselves or have the stories chopped u p for them by M T V - s t y l e editing
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