The earth’s audit Question 1 The global environmental outlook report the UN produced could be seen as doom mongering too many people including me. This is due to the amount of facts produced of how us as a species is destroying the planet we live on due to our destructive methods of living. The report gives us many raw figures that certainly don’t cast a good light on the state of the world at this current time. One of the hardest facts to swallow is that 10 million plus children die every year;
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Book II 1. Describe the geography of Utopia - “ The island of Utopia is in the middle 200 miles broad‚ and holds almost at the same breadth over a great part of it; but it grows narrower toward both ends. Its figure is not unlike a crescent: between its horns‚ the sea comes in eleven miles broad‚ and spreads itself into a great bay‚ which is environed with land to the compass of about 500 miles‚ and is well secured from winds. In this bay there is no great current; the whole coast is‚ as it
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Geography Stefen Ewers December 4‚ 2014. QUESTION: “The secondary effects of lithospheric hazards are often more serious than the hazard event itself.” Discuss this statement. [20 marks] The lithosphere is that portion of the outermost part of the earth. It consists of the curst and the upper mantle. A hazard is considered as any threat that has the potential to cause loss of life or injury or damage to property. We can therefore assume that term a lithospheric hazard refers to those that are
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[40] Nike is hesitant to disclose information about the contract companies it works with. However‚ due to harsh criticism from some organizations like CorpWatch‚ Nike has disclosed information about its contract factories in its Corporate Governance Report. Human rights concerns Sweatshops Nike has been criticized for contracting with factories (known as Nike sweatshops) in countries such as China‚ Vietnam‚ Indonesia and Mexico. Vietnam Labor Watch‚ an activist group‚ has documented that factories
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Slavery in America started began when the first ship of slaves landed in Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ in 1619. Slavery was brought to America to aid the production of lucrative crops like tobacco‚ indigo‚ sugarcane‚ corn‚ and the list goes on. Slavery went on throughout the 17th and 18th century in the American colonies‚ leading the way to build an economic foundation for the new nation. By the mid-19th century‚ Americans started to expand out west‚ and fought for the abolitionment of slavery from the North
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century spent their days performing many strenuous tasks in and around their homes. Pregnant women were at really high risk for bearing children‚ colonial women would give birth to about five and eight offsprings. Many of the pregnancies would often end in miscarriages and about one in eight could expect to lose their lives in childbirth. In addition‚ colonial women were always consumed by household chores and always had work to tend to‚ an example of this is an 18th century woman‚ Mary Cooper. In her
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UPSC Mains - General Studies - Geography of India Physiography 1. What do you understand by Deccan Trap? Describe its characteristics. (1995/20) 2. Why do the Western Ghats receive more rainfall than the Eastern Ghats? (1995/3) 3. Mention the advantages which India enjoys being at the head of the Indian Ocean. (1996/15) 4. What are the geo-economic causes of underdevelopment of various regions in India? (1998/15) 5. How do the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Lakshadweep differ in the
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Assignment #2 Physical Geography Use your OWN words to answer these questions. DO NOT copy the answers out of the book or your notes directly. The assignment will be due by the date and time listed in blackboard. You may have to read ahead in the book to answer a couple of the questions. Write your answer in ESSAY form‚ not bullet points. An essay is never a one sentence answer. UPLOAD your document through blackboard! For every day the assignment is late it will be lowered by one letter
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Lesson One Homework 1. Discuss the problems that “geographic illiteracy” can present to a country such as the United States in the Twenty-First Century. Give examples of the need for geographic knowledge in diverse areas such as international politics‚ domestic politics‚ economics‚ and popular culture. Geographic Illiteracy by definition is not having geographic knowledge. For example‚ not being to point out where the United States is on the map or where the Pacific Ocean is located. Geographic
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CBSE Class 9 - Geography - CH1 - INDIA – SIZE AND LOCATION NCERT Chapter Solutions and Q & A asked in examinations. | India by INSAT (source: India Meteorological Department) | Q1. Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below. (i) The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through (a) Rajasthan (b) Orissa (c) Chhattisgarh (d) Tripura Answer: Orissa (ii) The easternmost longitude of India is (a) 97° 25’ E (b) 68° 7’ E (c) 77° 6’ E (d) 82° 32’ E Answer: (a)
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