Measures taken to reduce pollution. National efforts. Developing proper waste disposal methods 1. 2009= Singapore has 4 incineration plants to burn solid waste. 2. Incineration plants can produce electricity and reduce volume of waste= emit air pollutants and costly to build. 3. Singapore green plan 2012= aims to reduce amount of solid waste generated How? 1. Reducing waste going through incineration plants and landfills. 2. Promoting waste recycling and minimisation. Measures taken to
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In Puerto Rico‚ 3.4 million Americans are without electricity after Hurricane Maria‚ like a 50-mile wide tornado‚ virtually obliterated the island’s infrastructure. Essentials like food and water are nearly impossible to distribute‚ especially to the parts of the island that were hit the hardest. Local officials worry they may not reach everyone in time. Yet Donald Trump remained silent all weekend on the worst U.S. humanitarian crisis since Hurricane Katrina crushed New Orleans. Instead‚ the president
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The Cold War‚ a hostile rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Though the two nations fought indirectly‚ the tensions between these two former allies invited all the world’s countries to watch the events of this war closely because its outcomes could have changed the world and sent it towards a destructive future. Both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in
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Shirley Lozano Prof. Fonts ENC 1101-1 16 March 2011 Fast Food and Obesity Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. What causes obesity is when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. For many people this boils down to eating too much and exercising too little. On the other hand‚ there are many factors that play a role in obesity such as age‚ gender‚ genetics‚ physical activity
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TOP 10 INCREDIBLE STORIES OF SURVIVAL While managing a decent job‚ to feed our families‚ and ourselves is the kind of survival‚ we face‚ there are tonnes of people who have managed to survive in drastic conditions where all hope seems lost. Here is an account of such incidents braved by many survivors. 1. LANSA flight 508 On 24th December 1971‚ the ill-fated LANSA flight 508 hit the ground after being caught in a thunderstorm while travelling from Lima to Iquitos with a stopover in Pucallpa. Even
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Different cultures treat the prospects of dissolution of marriage differently. In Roman Catholicism marriage is treated to be sacrosanct and not to be allowed to be terminated easily. In the Muslim religion it is not considered to be so rigid; if the union is not a happy one‚ it is better to terminate. But termination is often unilateral‚ the option being vested with the husband who can pronounce irrevocably the dissolution of the marriage by mere repetition of a particular word three times. No doubt
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There’s more damage than what happens on the skin or mind of the victim. And it never just harms them. There are 20.000 phone calls to domestic abuse hotlines per day in the US alone. Little signs are what can end up helping someone. The victim doesn’t have to be the one to make the move for the abuse to stop. It can be a friend or family. If you see abuse‚ not happening to you‚ you should help. A lot of the times‚ the victims are too fearful to reach out for help. The chance that a weapon is involved
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Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust is the most notorious but most definitely not the only. Others such as the Syrian Genocide are great examples of our past being recreated‚ people were killed‚ others lost and a large portion forced to move from the comfort of their homes to live in refugee camps or to try to find their way out of the country. In the text it states “Syria has cost the lives of more
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eating offers an easy way out. Why bother studying hard and doing all those term papers by yourself if you can use somebody else’s work? Would you agree that expediency is a major reason for cheating? Expediency might be one reason for cheating‚ but I’m not sure its the main reason. In fact‚ strangely‚ young people will sometimes go to greater lengths to cheat than to study for a test. Occasionally‚ this is due to boredom. Studies indicate that there is a high correlation between certain pedagogical
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Jagdeep Sahota Professor Bollinger English W131 19 March 2013 Paper 3 Obsession with McCadless According to author Jon Krakauer in his book Into the Wild‚ he details the last moments of Chris McCadless’ life: “In April 22‚ a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness.” (Krakauer I). Chris gave up all his savings to charity‚ burned his money‚ abandoned his truck and changed his name to Alex Supertramp‚ who was found four months later in a broken
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