The fertile soils and the abundant waters of the Great Lakes region make it ideal for agriculture. Development and intensification of the region’s farmland has altered how water interacts with the landscape. Artificial drainage for agriculture has changed the way water flows over the land, washing sediments into rivers and lakes. Nutrients applied to fertilize crops but that go unutilized drain into tributaries that feed the Great Lakes, causing undesirable impacts such as algal blooms. Changes to the landscape like increased sediment and nutrient runoff into Great Lakes waterways threaten local plant, fish and wildlife habitats.

Aly! italy! entirely and universally fascist! the italy of the blackshirt revolution, rise to your feet; let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in east africa. let it be a comfort to those who are about to fight. let it be an encouragement to our friends and a warning to our enemies. it is the cry of italy which goes beyond the mountains and the seas out into the great world. it is the cry of justice and of victory. this excerpt could best be used to support a document-based essay on mussolini’s fall from power. mussolini’s role as a charismatic dictator. italy’s high unemployment rates. italy’s alliance with nazi germany.