SOCIAL

Shania Twain
Background information Birth name Eilleen Regina Edwards

Also known as

Eilleen Twain (1967-1992)

Born

August 28, 1965 (age 45) Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Genres

Country, country pop, pop

Occupations

Singer-songwriter

Years active

1993present

Labels

Mercury Nashville

Website

www.shaniatwain.com

Shania Twain, born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s with her album The Woman in Me (1995), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album Come On Over, which became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and is the 9th best-selling album in the U.S.[1] A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning 27 BMI Songwriter awards.
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Twain is one of the first country artists to achieve major crossover success in pop music. She is the only female musician to have

three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is also the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Cline Dion, with three of her studio albums being certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Twain has sold over 76 million albums worldwide,[1] including 49 million in the U.S. She is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, with approximately 34 million in sales through April 2008.[2] She was also ranked the 72nd Artist of the 200010 decade by Billboard.[3] Most recently, Twain will have her own series, Why Not? with Shania Twain, that is set to premiere on the OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network on May 9, 2011.

Discography Main article: Shania Twain discography Albums

1993: Shania Twain 1995: The Woman in Me 1997: Come On Over 2002: Up!

Compilations

2001: The Complete Limelight Sessions 2004: Greatest Hits

MATH
Abstract Reasoning
The ability to analyze information and solve problems on a complex, thought-based level. Abstract reasoning tasks involve skills such as: Forming theories about the nature of objects, ideas, processes, and problem solving; Understanding subjects on a complex level through analysis and evaluation; Ability to apply knowledge in problem-solving using theory, metaphor, or complex analogy; and Understanding relationships between verbal andnon-verbal ideas. Abstract problems are often visual and typically do not involve social ideas. Abstract reasoning is usually assessed as part of intelligence testing. Abstract reasoning ability is important because it enables students to apply what they learn in complex ways. Many students with learning disabilities have weaknesses in abstract reasoning and can benefit from direct instruction in problemsolving skills. They may also benefit from language therapy to help them learn to use language to understand and solve problems. In intelligence quotient (IQ) testing, abstract concepts are considered by some as less biased than language based concepts. However, children who have been exposed to toys that build abstract reasoning skills, such as blocks, tinker toys, geometric toys, or other building and problem solving toys may improve their abstract reasoning abilities. Examples: Using statistics to predict the outcome of an election is an example of abstract reasoning applied to a real world problem.

SCIENCE
Pollution
There are 6 (six) types of pollution that are going to be discussed in this site, namely air, water, noise, land, radioactive, and thermal. Please proceed to the following links to learn anyone of them. Air pollution is indication of disturbances to the composition of compounds in the atmosphere, as it may be summarized as shown:

excess emission of gases/vapors into atmosphere saturation of chemical compounds/particulates rate of dissipation < (smaller than) rate of absorption through various cycles (i.e. carbon and nitrogen cycle)

emergence of new chemical reactions of reactive and non-biodegradable compounds.

Global warming, acid rain, smog, ozone depletion are some effects of air pollution. In relation to this, we may observe the cycle which involves in our daily lives: carbon and nitrogen cycle.These 2 cycles are the most important of all, regulating the composition of carbon and nitrogen of Earth. Imagine the reverse is to happen.... Sources and Methods We can classify major sources that lead to air pollution to the following categories:

motor vehicle exhaust heat and power generation facilities industrial processes auto manufacturing fertilizers plants building demolition solid waste disposal solvent evaporation volcanic eruption fuel production roadway construction electrical components manufacturing extraction of metals forest fires agriculture

Water pollution is contamination of water by foreign matter that deteriorates the quality of the water. Water pollution covers pollutions in liquid forms like ocean pollution and river pollution. As the term applies, liquid pollution occurs in the oceans, lakes, streams, rivers, underground water and bays, in short liquid-containing areas. It involves the release of toxic substances, pathogenic germs, substances that require much oxygen to decompose, easy-soluble substances, radioactivity, etc. that become deposited upon the bottom and their accumulations will interfere with the condition of aquatic ecosystems. For example, the eutrophication: lack of oxygen in a water body caused by excessive algae growths because of enrichment of pollutants. Water Cycle and Pollution

Water cycle is, simply saying, the circulation of water in earth. In fact, the water in the earth's biosphere is used and reused again and again. This is called water cycle or continuous movement of water between the earth and the atmosphere. It involves the following mechanisms:

Evaporation: changing of water from liquid to gas Transpiration: Release of water vapor from plant leaves Condensation: changing of vapor to liquid (cooled down) Precipitation: Water that returns to the earth (water droplets in clouds become large enough and there comes the rain).

What's the relation of water cycle and pollution? According to the water cycle, naturally, water around us will be absorbed to the land (soil) and rivers will stream from the upstream to the downstream and released to the sea. In normal situation organic pollutants are biodegraded by microbes and converted to a form that brings benefits to the aquatic life. And for the inorganic pollutants, in the same situation, don't bring to much hazards because they are widely dispersed and have almost no effect to the environment which they are released to. In a small scale, both inorganic and organic pollutants safely decompose throughout the stream, their concentration decrease in the sea, and they don't harm the sea ecosystem and its distribution. But in an excessive scale, communities in beach and estuary will be affected by the pollutants, and can heavily harm them.

Sources and Methods We can classify major sources that lead to water pollution to the following categories:

petroleum products synthetic agricultural chemicals heavy metals hazardous wastes excess organic matter sediment infectious organisms air pollution thermal pollution soil pollution

Revered to as soil pollution, land pollution involves the following mechanism:

Deposition of solid waste Accumulation of non-biodegradable materials Toxification of chemicals into poisons Alteration of soil chemical composition (imbalance of chemical equilibrium to soil medium)

By as much, land pollution of this has amass globally, everyday threatening the very foundation and mechanical support of every matter on earth. Statistically, it has been shown that:

loss of 6 million hectares of land per year loss of 24 billion tons of topsoil per year loss of minimum 15 million acres prime agricultural land to overuse and mismanagement desertification of land results in the lost of 16 million per square miles of world's land surface

The causes for such devastation are generally due to 2 (two) forms of malpractices:

Unhealthy soil management methods; o improper tillage of soil in which excessive tillage result in the deterioration of soil structure o non-maintenance of a proper supply of organic matter in the soil from the imbalance composition of the reserves of organic matter especially nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur unplenished supply after cultivation of vegetation, living the soil prone to soil infertility, unable to stabilize the soil physicality which ultimately let to desertification o irregular maintenance of a proper nutrient supply of trace elements gives rise to theuse of excessive synthetic fertilizers, which are non biodegradable and accumulate in the soil system which eventually destroys useful organisms such as bacteria, fungi and other organisms o improper maintenance of the correct soil acidity which ultimately disrupt theadaptation of various crops and native vegetation of different soils as the solubility of minerals present will be affected. In a more acidic soil, minerals tend to be more soluble and washed away during rainfall while alkaline soil, minerals are more insoluble which form complex minerals unable to be absorbed into the flora system physiological usage. Improper irrigation practices; o poorly drained soil result in salt deposits leading to high soil salinity that inhibit plant growth and may lead to crop failure o unirrigated land giving rise to stagnation of agriculture waste products whichaccumulates and increases land toxicity and also decreasing o irregular irrigation leads to decreasing moisturization of land for soil medium andreplenishments of solvents for minerals

Sources and Methods

We can classify major sources that lead to land pollution to the following categories:

agriculture mining and quarrying sewage sludge dredged spoils household demolitions and constructions industrial

This particular pollution is ever increasing with due to the rise in the utilization of heavy duty machineries of industrial facilities and vehicles, synonymous to the increase in the standard of living in most countries. We make sounds practically every seconds of our day, but to the extend it has reached an unfavorable high intensity which had cause many disturbances and irritation to others emotionally that has adverse effects on our daily activities. Noise levels can be measured by decibel method: Decibel - one tenth of a bel where one bel represents a difference in level between two intensities I1, I0 where one is ten times greater than the other. Thus, the intensity level is the comparison of one intensity to another and may be expressed: Intensity level = 10 log10 (I1/I0) (dB) For instance, the difference between intensities of 10-8watts/m2 and 10-4 watts/m2, an actual difference of 10,000 units, can be expressed as a difference of 4 bels or 40 decibels. These are the few examples of threshold decibels of noises made: Threshold of hearing Rustling leaves Quiet whisper (3 feet) Quiet home Quiet street Normal conversation Inside car Loud singing (3 feet) Automobile (25 feet) Other noise measurement systems are: 0 dB 20 dB 30 dB 40 dB 50 dB 60 dB 70 dB 75 dB 80 dB Motorcycle (30 feet Food blender (3 feet) Subway (inside) Diesel truck (30 feet) Power mower (3 feet) Pneumatic riveter (3 feet) Chainsaw (3 feet) Amplified Rock and Roll (6 feet) Jet plane (100 feet) 88 dB 90 dB 94 dB 100 dB 107 dB 115 dB 117 dB 120 dB 130 dB

community noise equivalent level composite noise rating equivalent energy level noise and number index noise exposure forecast noise criterion noise level noise pollution level noise rating perceived noise level traffic noise index sound level sound level meter sound pressure level

world soundscape project Sources and Methods

We can classify major sources that lead to noise pollution to the following categories:

road traffic noise air traffic rail traffic neighborhood and domestic noise incompatible land use industrial noises