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Topic: SAVE THE TREES: SAVE ENVIRONMENT Who in this world does not know the significance of trees. Trees are no less than GOD to us in any of the ways. A small seed becomes a big Tree‚ gives shed in summers‚ the leaves of the tree fall down to provide us more sunlight and the atmosphere becomes more warm in the winters. They provide shelter to the Birds‚ Animals and Human Beings too. Flowers on trees are a joy to be seen. Their fruits satisfy our hunger. Many trees have medicinal values also. Trees
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Environment: we all refer to it through different definitions. Some call their vicinity and the air just around them their environment‚ while others call the atmosphere of their country the environment. In fact‚ our environment is everything that is around us: the living and non-living things together. With a lot of unnatural factors happening around us in terms of human intervention with the environment‚ our natural environment is depleting day by day. The natural resources such as water‚ land
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The Holding Environment By David Wasdell A critical analysis of D.W. Winnicott’s papers in ‘The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment’‚ with particular attention to Winnicott’s thesis that anxiety originates in the breakdown of the post-natal holding environment. Produced By: Meridian Programme‚ Meridian House‚ 115 Poplar High Street‚ London E14 0AE‚ Hosted By: Unit for Research into Changing Institutions (URCHIN)‚ charity reg. no. 284542 Web-site: www.meridian
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Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability‚ disorder‚ harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat‚ or light. Pollutants‚ the elements of pollution‚ can be foreign substances or energies‚ or naturally occurring; when naturally occurring‚ they are considered contaminants when they exceed natural levels. Pollution is often classed
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The Aetas and the Environment The Aeta is a group of indigenous people who live in scattered‚ isolated mountainous parts of Luzon. The Aeta predecessors are nomadic and build only temporary shelters. However‚ the well-situated and more modernized Aeta have moved to villages and areas of cleared mountains. One of the areas that the Aeta has inhabited for thousands of years is the area of Mt. Pinatubo. When Mt. Pinatubo erupted‚ the Aetas lost their home. They were forced to live in evacuation
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Ecologies and Environments Artize L. Johnson Professor: Denise Stiglich SCI 110 Introduction to Physical Science 4 March 2012 1. Describe your local and surrounding ecologies and environments. Before we can describe the local and surrounding ecologies and environments‚ we have to know the meaning of ecology and environment. The relation among organisms and the environment that they are in is called ecology. During an organism’s lifetime
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Macro environments relates to the larger forces that have an impact on society as a whole and not just on one or a few organizations. A single organization cannot usually have a significant impact on these forces and therefore can only adapt its marketing mix to account for the opportunities and threats that arise. The company’s macro-environment consists of six major forces that impact on organizations. The six major forces are demographic trends‚ economic trends‚ natural trends‚ technological
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Walkable Environment Walkable environments are nowadays a big issue in Urban Planning. Walkable environments are neighborhoods where people can walk through from a particular activity place to another. This kind of neighborhood should have safely‚ comfort‚ distance and good facilitate as criteria. Safety criteria are met when pathways and vehicle road are separate and designed with plant barriers. Enough lighting is also required to create a safe pathway. Comfortable requires a pathways design
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HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT The nature versus nurture controversy— that is‚ how much of our behavior is due to inherited factors and how much to environmental factors Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring (from its parent or ancestors). Biology affects behavior also through mechanisms of heredity regulated by genetic principles. Researchers in the field called behavioral genetics study‚ through both family and twin studies‚ the way in which genetic factors affect behavioral traits. In family
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