The world as a whole currently faces several dramatic problems. Examples of these world problems include terrorism‚ desertification‚ overpopulation‚ deforestation‚ pollution‚ and world hunger. Of all these world problems the two that should currently be focused on are deforestation and pollution. Millions of acres of forests are chopped down by large lumber companies for the means of economic success. The world’s air and water is constantly polluted by dangerous machinery emissions and factorial
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Dickens and his structure Of Hard Times "On every page Hard Times manifests its identity as a polemical work‚ a critique of Mid-Victorian industrial society dominated by materialism‚ acquisitiveness‚ and ruthlessly competitive capitalist economics" (Lodge 86). The quotation above illustrates the basis for Hard Times. Charles Dickens presents in his novel a specific structure to expose the evils and abuses of the Victorian Era. Dickens’ use of plot and characterization relate directly
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How is it that English has become such a dominant world language? It is estimated that in the world today about two billion people have some working knowledge of English‚ and the language is spreading rapidly. It is safe to say that English has become the global language. Colonization under the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spread the English language around the world. English became the main language in many of these countries‚ for example Canada (where French was
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A world without computer This is a world without computers. I have once believed that the world would not change much because I’m not interested in computers at all‚ but it turned out to be quite the opposite. When I got up early in the morning‚ I found the sun still shining in the sky‚ the streets were still congested with cars. “ Oh‚ I have said that‚ nothing will happen!” I murmured to myself. On my way to my school‚ everything was going in order.“Ha!It‚s peculiar that there
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How technology has changed the way we live Nowadays‚ people live in a completely different life compared with years ago since the arrival of the technology. We have seen technology growing from a baby until today it plays as an essential part of our life. It has changed the way we live ‚ include the way we work‚ learn ‚ socialize and play. To begin with‚ technology has played an important role in our work. In olden days ‚ people had to commute to work‚ but recently‚ there is a job called
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FEATURE: GLOBALIZATION OUR GLOBAL VILL AGE: Prospects for Globalization and National Borders Q I N G G U O J I A ‚ ASSOCIATE DEAN & PROFESSOR OF THE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES‚ PEKING UNIVERSIT Y A S T H E W O R L D B E G I N S A N E W C E N T U R Y‚ some aspects of international politics are experiencing rapid changes amidst other more rigid aspects which refuse change. Two concepts may best capture the nature and scope of this simultaneous static yet fluid state: namely‚ globalization and
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’Save Us From’ seems all too familiar to those who have spent a night driving through an unknown area on the long stretch of interstate. Constantly glancing down at the gas gauge‚ we’ll guess how much farther it is till the next gas station; the next oasis of life amongst the dark‚ impersonal night. This poem by Roo Borson highlights our efforts to seek comfort and beauty in the unnatural. "Save us from night‚ from bleak open highways without end‚ and the fluorescent oases of gas stations‚ from the
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How Calculus Has Helped Change The World Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz introduced Calculus to the world. It is the math of motion and change‚ and as such‚ its invention required the creation of a new mathematical system‚ hence it is broadly used in all fields of engineering‚ sports‚ biology‚ economics‚ medicine etc. Also its just generally useful in life excluding academics. Calculus provides the language of economics and the means by which economists solve problems. Calculus is especially
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accuses the modern age of having lost its connection to nature and to everything meaningful: “Getting and spending‚ we lay waste our powers: / Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts away‚ a sordid boon!” He says that even when the sea “bares her bosom to the moon” and the winds howl‚ humanity is still out of tune‚ and looks on uncaringly at the spectacle of the storm. The speaker wishes that he were a pagan raised according to a different vision of the world‚ so that‚ “standing
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