Wisconsin Standard: B.12.9 Select significant changes caused by technology‚ industrialization‚ urbanization‚ and population growth‚ and analyze the effects of these changes in the United States and the world. Day One: Linking Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution[1] Draw a simple table on the white/black board (below). NEEDS WANTS Students can split into small groups and duplicate the table on a sheet of paper. Handout out the following list of
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places where endangered and other animals are allowed to live. When visiting a national park you need to ensure that you do not disturb plants‚ animals‚ special sites‚ or the enjoyment of other visitors. In national parks rubbish and littering are a main issue‚ as rubbish can easily cause major damage to the environment. Rules are placed among the park instructing people to leave plants‚ animals‚ rocks‚ shells and soil as they find them because disturbing these things can put the lives of animals
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beauty. Gray takes us on the journey with him‚ “We turn off down a gravel road”‚ this allow us‚ the audience to experience his thoughts and feelings towards the amount of rubbish dumped and the fact that a lot of it can be recycled. He uses the metaphor “Rolling in its sand dune shapes” to emphasise the large amount of rubbish surrounding him. He comments on the workers as “shadowy figures who seem engaged in identifying the dead”‚ this suggests that they are hiding in the shadows‚ not wanting to
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Mega Cities Mega cities are large cities‚ with a population of at least 8 million people. The amount of Mega cities are rising‚ due to the fact that for the first time in human history more people live in Urban Areas then rural areas. By 2015 there will be 33 Mega cities and 27 of them are in the developing world. Some examples of Mega cities are : Mexico city‚ Mumbai (India)‚ Bangkok‚ Cairo and manilla. There are many challenges from living in a mega city that is in a developing world. Some of
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xfnbfghnfgty‚ examined two linked data sets collected 19 years apart on 12‚000 people who had attended elite colleges and universities in the 1970s--one drawn in 1976 when they were freshmen‚ the other in 1995. On average‚ those who had initially expressed stronger financial aspirations reported lower life satisfaction two decades later than those expressing lower monetary desires. But as the income of the higher-aspiration participants rose‚ so did their reported life satisfaction‚ the team found
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We Are Going (Quote Burger Paragraph) The influence of one racial group could wipe out an entire community. In “We Are Going” by Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ the poet describes how the native people‚ or the Aborigines‚ were forced out of their native lands by white settlers. In the poem‚ the Aborigines feel that they have become the strangers in their old homeland‚ whereas the actual strangers are the white settlers‚ as can be indicated in the line “We are as strangers now‚ but the white tribe are the
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asked you to give some thought to a TMA02 question asked of students on a previous round of this course. We discussed the relevant ideas from the ’material lives’ strand and came up with a structure for a plan‚ outlined below. Rising affluence has been associated with a reduction in the production of waste emissions within the UK. However‚ the waste emissions associated with the total consumption of the UK have risen. Explain how both these statements can be true. In the light of your explanation
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YEAR 11 OUTDOOR EDUCATION MT STERLLING ASSSIGNMENT BY BRADLEY SHALLARD H08 YEAR 11 OUTDOOR EDUCATION MT STERLLING ASSSIGNMENT BY BRADLEY SHALLARD H08 PART A: Mt Sterling is iconic mountain just a couple hours away from Melbourne and its sits right next to the famous Mt Buller. It is one of the only untouched Alpine areas in the country and its natural beauty is draw dropping to say the least. It has an amazing history and what it has to offer is impeccable. Its amazing scenery and views
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Corporate Social responsibility Introduction A few years ago firms only goal was to gain economic profit from their businesses. In recent times it has been discussions if economic profit are the only reason for businesses to exist (Klonoski 1991) In modern society the belief that businesses have responsibilities against the society they operate in have grown bigger‚ but there are still people and organisations who believe that gaining economic profit from their business are the only thing they
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to portray people‚ places and ideas in his poem to reflect on his personal values and moral. Discuss using o ne poem. Dialogue was explicitly employed in Enter so much without knocking written by Bruce Dawe to portray his personal values on consumerism in society. Through the employment of dialogue; people‚ places and ideas were portrayed to reflect on Dawe’s negative perception on the impact materialism has played in society through the epitome of a boy’s life from birth to death. The poem
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