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    Did you know that more than 1 million bottles of water end up in California’s landfills each year‚ taking 1‚000 years to biodegrade and leaking toxic additives such as phthalates into the groundwater.Studies have shown that 25% of bottled water is tap water sometimes purified sometimes not‚and that 86% of the water bottles aren’t recycled and getting rid of them at school is where we can start and some of the 86% of the water bottles that aren’t recycled are in school. "Only about 14 percent of

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    History of third sex In all probability the pre-historical human societies had close to 5 or 6 gender identities‚ keeping with the nature of humans. Indeed some of the surviving ancient tribes (e.g. the Native Americans or the Bugis of Sulawesi‚ etc.)). When there were not enough gender identities‚ unlike present day west‚ these cultures accommodated all the possible shades of gender within the ones available. The feminine male‚ the masculine female and the hermaphrodite --- all were considered

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    despite all glorious statistics and rankings‚ today is a part of the league of third world nations. Do cite a very clear definition of global economies; first world countries are the developed capitalist countries where we place US‚ Russia. Second world countries are the socialist economies‚ China being the best example of the same. Third world countries are the developing and the least developed nations of the world. India is a part of this list with African‚ Asian‚ Latin American nations falling

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    In the novel‚ Cry‚ the Beloved Country fear is a continuing problem within people‚ especially in South Africa. Whether or not it is people fearing simple little things such as bugs‚ or people fearing much bigger things such as each other. In the book a big thing that goes into the fear is segregation‚ white people fear African Americans and African Americans fear white people. This leads to problems such as murder‚ and a well-known reverend to lose his faith in God. One of the first characters introduced

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    resource. According to the World Bank and World Health Organization‚ 2 billion people lack access to clean water and 1 billion people do not have enough to even meet their daily needs. Every day an increasing amount of pollution seeps into rivers and lakes making them toxic to humans‚ and underground aquifers – our most significant sources of water – are being depleted at an alarming rate. If current trends continue more and more useable water will be lost while the world population continues to grow

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    issues and be able to handle the mixing of cultures because the globalizing of the world today. The main reason multiculturalism can be an issue is because when people with different values live close together in a society and depend on each other‚ there is bound to be some sort of friction between people. Issues that could arise may be government‚ economics‚ religion‚ being treated equally‚ racism‚ social problems and so on. People must live among each other‚ in school‚ work and society. There are

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    Growing up in a third world country has impacted me as an individual. Living through the pain of having nothing has fueled me to appreciate every opportunity and to take advantage of it. None more important than the opportunity to learn. My early years in school were struggles filled with fear‚ inconsistency‚ and no growth. There were months where my teacher showed up for two days only. There was no such thing as a substitute teacher‚ breakfast‚ lunch‚ computers‚ and all the other resources that

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    The Most Important Problems in Today’s World There are many problems facing the world in today such as a nuclear weapon‚ a conflict of Middle East area‚ starvation in Africa and so on. Of course‚ above problems are also serious but I think that the most serious problem facing the world is an environmental problem and to be specific‚ I’d say a global warming. Albert Gore states “Global warming will be the greatest environmental challenge in the 21st century.” So what is The global warming

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    I think that the first thing that needs to be done to help combat world hunger is education. People in developed countries need to realize that hunger is a problem. As they always say‚ acceptance is the first step. However‚ this obviously won’t be fixing any problems. But I think first is to devise a way to limit our waste. We currently have so much food that is just thrown away. It’s inevitablethat not all food will be saved: some will be thrown away‚ but if we could utilize more of this food into

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    relevant to what Huxley wants the reader to understand from the way of life the people in the World State have. Diagnosed with cancer at the age of 35‚ Kaufman would certainly wish that she was able to control the prognosis of her health‚ but she cannot. Due to this‚ Kaufman evaluates the idea of controlling something for the benefit of one as dangerous. If something is meant to happen‚ then let it happen. The World State tried to create stability by programming everyone into thinking the same based on

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