Future of Our Education An average tablet filled with thousands of e-books weighs a billionth of a billionth of a gram more than if it were empty of data‚ rather than a single book that’s manually read‚ cannot be updated‚ and contains only a specific published topic. Manufacturing a single tablet requires extraction of 33 pounds of mineral‚ 79 gallons of water‚ and 100 kilowatt hours of fossil fuels resulting in 66 pounds of carbon dioxide while a single tree cut only produces an average
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Introduction Homelessness is not new to our nation‚ and it has greatly increased over the past ten years. (Hombs‚ 1-4) For growing numbers of people‚ work provides little‚ if any‚ protection against homelessness. Low national un-employment levels do not mean that all working people are well-off. (Blau‚ 21-24) What is homelessness? According to the definition stated by Stewart B. McKinney‚ for purposes of the 1987 McKinney Homeless Assistance Act‚ "a homeless person (homelessness)is one who
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Past Events that have shaped the Present Kristy Schlak Axia College of the University of Phoenix Past Events that have shaped the Present Remembering our past is important; events that happened yesterday can shape next week or next year. The interesting thing about history is that it is not always recognized as important until much later. When Britain and France tried to appease Hitler with part of Czechoslovakia in 1938‚ the significance of giving into Hitler’s demands was not fully realized
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2. There are multiple symbols used by the author throughout the play Our Town. For example‚ the time capsule mentioned by the Stage Manager in Act One symbolizes the belief that specific things from the past should be remembered. The Stage Manager says‚ "So I’m going to have a copy of this play put in the cornerstone and the people a thousand years from now’ll know a few simple facts about us..." This symbolizes not only the want for people to appreciate the lives of the townspeople‚ but also
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Our Nation of Homelessness Amanda Turley SOC 331 Social Justice & Ethics Instructor: Emily Archer April 28‚2014 Homelessness is something that is happening to many people all around the world. Now when it comes to the United States‚ homelessness is not a phenomenon‚ and contrary to popular belief‚ the problem did not arise in the past few decades with the closer of mental hospitals‚ the influx of Vietnam veterans‚ or even the deep cuts into federal housing assistance. Homelessness
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Policing - Past and Present Policing - Past and Present It has been said that to understand the world of today‚ one must understand the world of yesterday‚ police and police agencies are no different. The history of policing ranges all the way from citizens attempting to protect their community to today’s world of technology based policing. A recent development in policing stems from the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001 which resulted in the created of the Department of Homeland Security
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civilized world but it also brought a nightmare called "pollution." In the past decade we’ve become more environmentally conscious of our planet‚ but for almost a century we’ve been a "throw-away" society with an out-of-sight‚ out-of-mind mentality. Industrial smoke has polluted our air‚ whole communities have been built over nuclear waste landfills‚ fish and wildlife have died in our once pristine streams and rivers and our rain forests are being leveled to make room for strip malls and bigger cities
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Anghelatos Words 2863 Can we ever leave the past behind? Firstly I shall briefly discuss Erik Erikson’s life stage theory. Secondly this essay shall look at Object relation theory and discuss the work of Melanie Klein. Following on I shall discuss the power of the past and the effect it has on the presence. I shall conclude by deciding whether we can leave the past behind us or not. Erik Erikson described development that occurs throughout the entire human
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Monsters in our Society Today’s society we have a lot of “monsters” such as robbers‚ rapists‚ and killers. That poses as the kind of monsters that put us in harms way. Main reasons as to why we have these monsters are greed. Each generation changes though there can be more or less monsters in every generation. But there are always some crazy‚ wild‚ psychotic people. Killers are the biggest threats to humans. Because it could be the most original and boring person ever who turns out to be
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it into‚ “The youth is the hope of the community.” Unfortunately‚ we tend to forget that the phrase mentioned was stated years back. We can’t stay along with what’s made from the past. We should focus about what’s going on in the present; it was a considerable thing that it occurred to us to be a stepping stone for our improvement. The youth must be known to be the REASON –not just hope or “pag-asa” we usually quote for- of the future. We are the actual reason why some issues have gone this far
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