Knowledge is very powerful. We decide whether we want to know something or not. I disagree with the statement that the lack of knowledge can’t hurt you. The true knowledge often hurts; however it doesn’t mean that lack of it can’t hurt. Why can lack of knowledge be harmful and hurt us? Let’s start from a simple fact like not studying for a test or a quiz may or will result in a bad grade. Not knowing the material that we are studying can and will hurt us. General knowledge in a society is very important
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Environment - how can you help protect it? Our planet is in trouble! Almost every day we seem to hear of yet another problem affecting the environment - and what a list of problems! - pollution‚ acid rain‚ climate change‚ the destruction of rainforests and other wild habitats‚ the decline and extinction of thousands of species of animals and plants....and so on. Nowadays‚ most of us know that these threats exist and that humans have caused them. Many of us are very worried about the future of our
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Annexure – ‘G’ Syllabus Social Science (087) Class IX SA-II (2012-13) Time : 3 Hours UNIT 1. India and the Contemporary World – I 2. India – Land and the People 3. Democratic Politics I 4. Understanding Economic Development – I 5. Disaster Management – (Through Project & Assignments). TOTAL Marks : 90 TERM 2 23 23 22 22 90 The Question Paper will include value based question(s) To the extent of 3-5 marks. The Problem Solving Assessment will be conducted for all students of class IX in
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Locally Grown Food COM/150 May 30‚ 2010 The consumer food movement has made terms like; fresh‚ natural‚ and organic everyday words. Now this same movement has brought a new word to the American lexicon; “Locavore.” In 2007‚ it was picked as the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. By definition it means someone who prefers locally grown foods to foods commercially produced. The natural and organic food movements‚ always conscientious of food quality and environmental
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President Richard Nixon was a man of many accomplishments who tarnished his reputation with a slip up. President Nixon was a conservative as he cared for the environment and the proof was with him passing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Endangered Species Act. EPA was founded to protect the environment from man made hazards such as oil spills and pollutions. The ESA was founded to protect certain animals and species that were low in numbers and had a possibility of being wiped out completely
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How much less water did you use the second day?: Well On the first day I i used my water regularly and used 925 litres‚ which is a surprisingly high amount in the small amount of time I recorded the water use. In a year or 365 days that would be approximately 337625 litres in a year which is a crazy amount and probably more than some countries use in a year. So on the second day I knew I had to step it up and figure out some realistic ways I could do every day whether it was to shower shorter or
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The Environment and Us My fellow congressmen and congresswomen welcome and thank you for joining me today for this special session of Congress. I am here to address to you today‚ on a major crisis that is happening to us and our world. It is simple; the worldwide dilemma of human arrogance to nature. In the 1700’s humans sought the four corners of the world and conquered it. And so with these new land and foods‚ we have simply multiplied. Then‚ we sought to make our lives simple‚ so ideas were
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501 Chapter 1: Case (One day in the life) This case shows a glimpse of what it is like to be a project manager. It also underscores that being a project manager is more social than technical and that project managers spend the majority of their time interacting with various people who impact a project. 1. How effectively do you think Rachel spent her day? There are several places where her effectiveness can be improved and there are several things that she did appropriately. Rachel
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What do you think is unethical? The countrywide approved everyone to get their loans‚ no matter they have jobs or not‚ no matter they have income or not‚ no matter they have assets or not. The criteria they use may be unethical. They don’t care whether the documents are valid‚ whether they can verify the income‚ whether the appraisal is any good. They just care about getting the loan closed‚ in order to do another loan. The underwriters/ contractors looked through the loan as quick as they can.
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Proverb: “Things are not always what they seem.” 1. What did you do well? Elaborate on why you think you did well on these aspects of your speech. What I believe I did well on was link the proverb with the speech and told a story that relates to it. The story was about how I tried skydiving for my first time‚ and was nervous for it. But after doing it I ended up liking it. Also I believe I did well when it came to looking at my note cards. Only looking backs at it a couple of times and always tried
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