What are the Causes and Effects of Deforestation? Deforestation involves the cutting down‚ burning‚ and damaging of forests. Deforestation can be defined as the change of forest with depletion of tree crown cover more than 90%. However‚ depletion of forest tree crown cover less than 90% is considered forest degradation. Causes of Deforestation: The main causes of deforestation are summarized below: (i) Population explosion (ii) Agriculture: shifting cultivation‚ overgrazing‚ cash crop
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When an individual is place under stress it’s harder for them to remember or recall the previous event that occurred. For example‚ if someone hears a gun sound their first typical reaction is to look for where the gun sound is‚ then to look for shelter. And alarming situation such as an assault‚ murder‚ rape‚ or robbery will make it much challenging for witness to identify the perpetrator. To those who follow crimes and court‚ the stories are familiar and formidable. Lewis Fogle spent more than
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After the Russian Revolution of 1917‚ communism emerged onto the world stage as a new organized governmental system. Communism’s main principles were to promote civil equality and unification within society. Communism‚ was a polar opposite system of Europe’s most popular government style‚ capitalism. Capitalism‚ a government method focused on industry‚ and production decreased the quality of life for many Europeans. Particularly between 1920 and 1940‚ some employers abused the rights of their workers
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I would say immediately that both domestic and international terrorists are threats within the borders of the United States. The media coverage of recent events seems to imply that domestic terrorism is the more pressing concern. The data from a recent study shows that terrorist attacks have been more commonly perpetrated by domestic groups than by international extremists since 2001. However‚ this study left out 9/11‚ and also overlooked the many foiled terror plots in the US since then. Accordingly
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Copper is one of the few metals that have been mined for more than 100 decades globally. According to M.G.C Wilson (1989) copper has been mined since the early 3000 BC in Cyprus. In the ancient times copper was used for making tools‚ weapons‚ ornaments and many household utensils. Copper is the third most widely used metal after aluminium (Al) and iron (Fe) because of its high durability (Doebrich et.al‚2009). In the Southern African region copper has been extracted by the early inhabitants long
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With athletics being dangerous from the time you couldn’t catch a ball‚ to the time when it hurts just to stand‚ there are risks with any sport. So whenever college athletes step on the court‚ field‚ or wherever they compete‚ they are putting their bodies at risk‚ as well as future paychecks. In the history of NCAA there have been many professional careers either derailed or stopped forever because of injuries. In the 2006 college football season one of the best players‚ Michael Bush was playing
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The prison world is predominately male dominated. As the years go by‚ female incarceration levels have been rapidly increasing. The prisons in early days didn’t have to worry about dealing with two different types of inmates as there were not that many females incarcerated. While male and female inmates do have some similarities‚ they also have some distinct differences. The way they conduct themselves in prison are different; as are they way they interact with other inmates. Males typically are
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discrimination themselves. Though gender discrimination refers to beliefs and attitudes in relation to the gender of a person‚ such beliefs and attitudes are of a social nature and do not‚ normally‚ carry any legal consequences. Gender discrimination‚ on the other hand‚ may have legal consequences. Though what constitutes gender discrimination varies between countries‚ the essence is that it is an adverse action taken by one person against another person that would not have occurred had the person been
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The History and Consequences of Domestication of the Horse. Domestication concerns adaptation‚ which is usually a captive environment and which is achieved by some combination of genetic changes occurring over generations‚ as well as by environmentally induced changes in development that recur during each generation (Price‚ 1984). The domestication of the horse has profoundly affected the course of civilization. Horses provided meat‚ milk‚ and enhanced transportation and warfare (Vila et al.
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2.1 Definition of Terms. 2.1.1. Symptoms and Consequences of Stress: The physiological changes that take place within the body in response to stress are responsible for most stress symptoms. The battle against the stressor is referred to as the fight-or-flight response. Recent studies suggest that females tend-and befriend in response to a stressor. They protect and nurture (tend) and turn to social networks for support (befriend). Also‚ the brain senses stress as damage to well-being and therefore
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