DISADVANATGES: 1. Dams are extremely expensive to build and must be built to a very high standard. 2. The high cost of dam construction means that they must operate for many decades to become profitable. 3. The flooding of large areas of land means that the natural environment is destroyed. 4. People living in villages and towns that are in the valley to be flooded‚ must move out. This means that they lose their farms and businesses. In some countries‚ people are forcibly removed so that
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Marisa O’Steen March‚ 25 2012 Justice – 355 Professor Surrendrahath In today’s economy keeping people in prison is becoming an ugly‚ expensive mess. There are now so many alternatives to incarceration that we need to explore and start using. Johnny Cash wrote a song called “Folsom Prison Blues” describing the angst of inmates‚ permanently immortalizing them in the publics minds. However‚ now that prisons across the country are running out of resources and space
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poverty" --which has largely reversed the achievements of post-war decolonization-- was initiated in the Third World coinciding with the debt crisis of the early 1980s and the imposition of the IMF’s deadly economic reforms. The New World Order feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the natural environment. It generates social apartheid‚ encourages racism and ethnic strife‚ undermines the rights of women and often precipitates countries into destructive confrontations between nationalities. Since
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English 101-A51 Essay 15 February 2011 More Human than Human Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds over the past twenty years. What was once considered science fiction is now yesterday’s headlines. In just a hundred and fifty years we have gone from the first combustion-powered motor vehicle to space exploration and now we are managing our lives from handheld mobile devices. So let’s face it‚ technology evolves at a faster rate than humans. In fact it moves at such a rapid pace that
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future the scientific advancements that they have are truly not that advanced compared to what we have in our world. Cloning is the proses of making an identical copy of something and in this instance we are talking about humans. In the book Brave New World the cloning proses takes place in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center. In the book they don’t call it cloning but instead they call it the Bokanovsky’s process. The novel’s definition of the Bokanovsky’s Process is when they take
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twice about cloning the Neanderthal"‚ The Straits’ Times 23 February 2013 I find this article interesting and intriguing as it questions human cloning and the complications that come with it. The Neanderthals died out 28 000 years ago. They were spread out around Ice Age Europe‚ western Asia‚ southern Siberia and the Middle East. It is presumed that they had their own language. While human cloning is banned in most parts of the world‚ many are nevertheless thinking of cloning the Neanderthals
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man who called himself unbeatable has laid his weapons in defeat to a machine! He‚ who was the most powerful‚ is now a slave to some lifeless machinated box. As the situation deems to be pathetic‚ it’s interesting how irony has played its wits on humans. Laziness- The Pied Wiper Sitting for several hours in front of a PC suggest laziness. Being lazy reduces one to everything short of self respect. It wipes away the gentleman in you and people begin to
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CONCLUSION Notice that where the solution of an ODE contains arbitrary constants‚ the solution to a PDE contains arbitrary functions. In the same spirit‚ while an ODE of order m has m linearly independent solutions‚ a PDE has infinitely many (there are arbitrary functions in the solution). These are consequences of the fact that a function of two variables contains immensely more (a whole dimension worth) of information than a function of only one variable. The method of characteristics is a
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The amount of active worldwide Facebook users as of June 2012 is 955 million‚ accounting for approximately a seventh of the total population on Earth. With such a mass population of the world checked into Facebook‚ it sparks question as to what kind of effect this has. There is no doubt that Facebook itself is a fantastically engineered social media‚ connecting just about one billion of people in the world with the simple action of logging into a website. But with the rapid growth of this social
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When the Internet was first introduced to the public‚ it marked an extraordinary change in every aspect of our lives. Today‚ with the explosive increase of sites on the Internet‚ technology has taken another dramatic rise. In the midst of this technological explosion‚ we might stop and ask some key questions. Is the Internet good or bad for education? Are students learning more or less? And what‚ exactly‚ are they learning? Although‚ using the Internet to research instead of encyclopaedias has become
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