Kassandra Chang 8/21/14 Period 1 APHG Summer Writing assignment The World is Flat By: Thomas L. Friedman 1. What is it about the flat world that both excites Friedman and fills him with dread? Friedman gets excited because the flattening of the world means that we as people who inhabit Earth are collecting all of our knowledge and putting it together into this worldwide network. By doing this we would start to emerge ourselves in an era of prosperity‚ innovation‚ and collaboration‚ by company’s
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Promoting democracy has been a key part of the United States foreign policy prescription for more than forty years. After the defeat of the fascist regimes during the second world war and the fall of the Soviet Union after the cold war‚ the United States government latched on to the idea of democratization because it became widely accepted that this is how our national security is best protected. This new ideology is very different when compared to what Secretary of State John Quincy Adams stated
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The World of An Optician 4.19.2012 English Comp. The field of Opticianry is filled with a wide range of people from all different sorts of backgrounds. Female or Male the occupation is an equal field with plenty of opportunities for growth. Dispensing opticians typically work with patients to help fit eyeglasses and contact lenses based on their needs and prescriptions provided by optometrists and ophthalmologists. They also work as stylists to find frames
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Top 10 Nelson Mandela Quotes of All-Time Nothing in this world is impossible and Mandela makes sure to remind us of that. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” A lot of people find it easy to be pessimistic and think of the negatives that can arise out of a situation. But in this quote‚ Mandela shows us that thinking positive is the only way to go. The more positive you think‚ the more positive the outcome will probably be. “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature
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Report was launched in Copenhagen today by UNDP Administrator Helen Clark with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt‚ whose new government has pledged to reduce Denmark’s CO2 emissions by a dramatic 40 percent over the next 10 years. As the world community prepares for the landmark UN Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro‚ the Report argues that sustainability must be approached as a matter of basic social justice‚ for current and future generations alike. “Sustainability
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effect of bounce height and drop height with a Titleist golf ball and Top Flight golf ball was observed from three different heights. The first golf ball used while conducting this experiment was the more expensive option‚ “Titleist”‚ which has a softer core and is therefore expected to have less bounce. The second golf ball used in this experiment was a ball with a different interior structure than the first. A less expensive brand‚ “Top Flite”‚ has a harder core‚ which is expected to have a higher bounce
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associate with. The top five religions of the world today are Christianity‚ Islam‚ Judaism‚ Buddhism‚ and Hindu. Over 33% of the world population consider themselves Christians‚ 21% Islam‚ Hindu is 14%‚ Buddhism 6% and Judaism 0.22% (Adherents.com‚ 2007). The word Islam means “peace and to be in submission to God”. Islam is a religion that I have always had interested in‚ but have never done thorough research on until now. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world‚ and the second largest
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Revolution 6. Where does the archaeological evidence gathered by Lois and Mary Leakey suggest the earliest humans developed? (1) Great Rift Valley (3) Amazon rain forest (2) Himalaya Mountains (4) Philippine archipelago 7. Ethnocentrism is best defined as (1) the belief that one’s culture is superior to all others (2) military preparation for a civil war (3) love and devotion to one’s country (4) a belief in one god 8. Which pair of belief systems share a belief
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GROWTH: A COMPELLING MOTIVE TO DEPENDENCY “Is Third World dependency on First World development‚ practices‚ and funding avoidable?” By Michael John A. San Roque ABS681M G01 Submitted to: Dr. Ma. Elena Chiong-Javier October 9‚ 2012 Countries of the world have been sharply divided along development. Countries that are economically buoyant‚ technologically advanced‚ and politically stable are termed ‘Developed Countries’ or ‘First World’. On the other hand‚ countries that are technically
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IWorld War I (WWI)‚ which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939‚ and the First World War or World War I thereafter‚ was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world’s great powers‚[5] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom‚ France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple
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