world are affected by natural disasters. These may be caused by climate change such as drought‚ flood‚ and cyclone‚ the environment such as pollution‚ deforestation‚ desertification‚ pest infestation or combinations of these‚ or the destroy of ozone layer will contribute to the green house effect. People’s homes are wiped out and livelihoods are destroyed. Poverty‚ population pressures and environmental degradation mean that increasing numbers of people are vulnerable to natural disasters. In Australia
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Thomas postulates in his essay that our anxieties about the pain of dying are possibly unfounded‚ thereby assuaging our fears in the hope that we will view death as a “natural” part of life. In his essay‚ “On Natural Death‚” he uses inductive reasoning and appeals to both reason and emotion to persuade his readers to no longer fear the pain of death. Thomas provides the example of the death of an elm tree to build the reader’s idea of the subject of death. He begins his essay with the death of an object
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A bushfire is a firre burning out of control inthe open. Bushfires can burn using grass‚scrub or forest (or a combination of these) forfuel. Unless quickly controlled‚ bushfirescan become large‚ spreading to affect forests‚wildlife‚ crops‚ houses and other buildings‚and human life. In Australia‚ some bushfireshave become major disasters. Fires are not a recent occurrence in Australia. Since the last Ice Age‚ bushfires have influencedthe development of the Australian land. Fires arean essential
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Life changed forever for the mainly Hakka community of Bukit Merah after Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) began operations there in July 1982 to extract yttrium‚ a rare earth‚ from monazite. Within a few years‚ the villagers began noticing physical defects in their newborns‚ and at least eight leukaemia cases were confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases‚ turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia
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In “The Hostile Media Phenomenon” by Vallone‚ Ross‚ and Lepper there is a section dedicated to the perception of bias. They wrote about a study conducted about Pro-Israelis and Pro-Arabs and whether or not they perceived news segments as biased‚ and sure enough each side was blaming
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social psychological phenomenon illustrate even a person at the scene of the dangerous‚ he/she still not give a hand to the victim when there are other people present. The
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Computer Virus “A true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance.” Computer virus has now become widespread. It’s almost everywhere in every computer. It is one of the major problems of the computer users. Viruses are like the disease of the computer. Letting the virus in it can cause harm or even destroy all files stored in the computer. Virus infection costs millions even billions of money if virus penetrates into major servers like government database system
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A strong earthquake struck Friday off the coast of northeastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami last year. A city in the region reported that a small tsunami had hit‚ but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 and struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Miyagi prefecture at 5:18 p.m. (0318 Eastern). The epicenter was 6.2 miles beneath the seabed. After the
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American History Expository Speech Compare early American government to today’s government. Our government first declared their independence on July 7th 1776 by signing the Declaration of Independence. Since 1776‚ our government has had the same basic foundation‚ which makes the United States the 4th on the list for oldest government. Our government was founded on the Democratic ideal of “All men are created equal.” In 1791 James Madison our fourth president‚ wrote and published the outline
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“In times of conflict‚ self-preservation may lead us to compromise many of our values.” The fight for survival is a conflict that all species encounter. It is instinctive for all animals to put up their best defence and protect themselves when a threat is encountered. In higher order thinking animals such as us humans‚ confronting a challenging conflict requires elaborate cognitive thought processes. Depending on the individual’s own conscience‚ some people may succumb to compromising their values
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