Documentary Review The documentary "How William Shatner Changed the World" is about the global effect that the original series of Star Trek had on technology throughout the world. The documentary talks about the technology that currently existed when Star Trek originally came out in 1966 and its comparison to the ’futuristic’ technology that was onboard the Star Trek ship the ’Enterprise’. This ’futuristic’ technology onboard the enterprise sparked a revolution in the world’s technology and inspired
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End poverty by 2015. This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. World leaders have agreed to achieve the MDGs by 2015. It’s up to us to make sure leaders follow through on these commitments. The
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CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE How Changes in the Value of the Chinese Currency Affect U.S. Imports Index: June 2005 = 100 120 115 Value of Renminbi Relative to Dollar 110 105 100 Prices of U.S. Imports from China 95 0 Dec. 2004 Mar. 2005 June 2005 Sept. 2005 Dec. 2005 Mar. 2006 June 2006 Sept. 2006 Dec. 2006 Mar. 2007 June 2007 Sept. 2007 Dec. 2007 Mar. 2008 JULY 2008 Pub. No. 3148 A CBO PA PE R How Changes in the Value of the
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most dangerous threat of all is climate change. Climate change is the change in global or regional climate patterns. Recently‚ climate change has contributed to the heightened carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere‚ posing serious threats to the preservation of the whole entire planet. Climate change poses a threat to the mojave desert because of heightened carbon dioxide levels‚ dried out water supplies and the increase of invasive species. Climate change causes the carbon dioxide levels in the
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Change and Progress in a Time of Peace Change has always been an inevitable part of life. Sometimes‚ change is for the better‚ and sometimes‚ change is for the worse. However‚ the “long nineteenth century” introduced changes that were undeniably for the better and would affect the lives of everyone living in that era and those that came after it. Specifically‚ health‚ methods of communication‚ and feminist ideas experienced great change during the years between the end of the French Revolution and
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stop and think about the people who have helped shape our world and what we are able to do. If we were to take a moment to understand and realize that if we didn’t have the figures and heros that we did and still do‚ or if certain events were to not occur the world be a different place. Martin Luther King Jr had tried to bring people together with many things‚ and one of those things was the foundations of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference.King must have been very driven to make sure that
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1492 CE‚the world was revolutionized by the newly established Trans-Atlantic trade. In the time frame of 1450 CE-1750 CE‚ regions such as Spain had many changes to their economy in how they obtained resources and it drastically changed Native American’s population‚ but many European nations experienced little change in cultural life such as the continuance of slavery and religion because Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas. Before any European nation had heard of the New World‚ they were
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superior to those that depended on the character and personality of the protagonist. The plot would have to be interconnected with a story or play as a whole with a beginning‚ middle‚ and an end. It could be simple or complex‚
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HOW DRUGS AFFECT FAMILIES If someone feels really bad‚ they might try to make it better by abusing drugs. Unfortunately‚ that doesn’t usually work for very long. Instead they may become addicted to drugs‚ and then feel even worse than before. Drug abuse not only affects the abusers and their life‚ but also the lives of family members.Fathers‚ mothers‚ single parents‚ couples straight or gay‚ regardless of ethnicity or social group‚ rich or poor….drug abuse can destroy relationships. When a person
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What are some (mention at least five) of the significant workforce composition changes that have been taking place since the second World War? The first significant workforce composition is immigration‚ in the 1990s wave of immigrant workers was by far the largest in the past three decades‚ and contributed a larger share of the growth in the nation’s labor force than at any other time since the end of World War II. Immigrants also accounted for all the growth among workers fewer than 35‚ which
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