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    Sustainable Development

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    Define all the concepts and acronyms EIA (environmental Impact Assessment) SEA (strategic environmental assessment) IEM (Integrated environmental management) PPP (Policy‚ plan‚ programme) EMP (Environmental Management Plan) SD (Sustainable Development) CBA (Cost benefit Analysis) PI (Population Index) SIA (Social Impact Assessment) MCE (Multi Criteria Evaluation) 1 INTRODUCTION Sustainable development has been defined in various terms in South Africa‚ and the most used one is the definition

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    Do videogames contribute to gun violence? In modern society‚ many people like to play video games. Some people even become addicted to it. They don’t go to work‚ and they just play video games all day. I think video games are good for killing time and entertainment‚ but we shouldn’t play too much. Playing video games does not help people for anything. Many people also think that playing violent video games would make people become violent. According to a survey‚ a whopping 75% of polled parents

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    need to dosomething that we do not enjoy.Many people think that we should be true to ourselves‚ so that we should choose what weenjoy most‚ regardless of what other people think. For example‚ if we do not want tostudy anymore‚ just give up and try to do what we really want to such as being an artist or a dance. It is meaningless for us to continue studying if we have no talents and no interest in it.Somebody consider health as an excuse for not doing anything that they do not enjoy. For a person who

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    What Do Marketers Do?” “The Role of a Marketer is to understand consumer behaviour and recognise market opportunities so that the organisation can adapt and stay competitive” (Sharp 2013). Marketers make up part of the management team in an organisation and each individual marketing job is unique to each company and its structure. Marketing is a constantly changing environment and is “putting the right product in the right place‚ at the right price‚ at the right time” (Marketing Skills Training

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    What is Religion and what does it do? Whether religion is the basis for the noblest events in human history‚ or a negative force responsible for the worst atrocities in history it plays a significant role in human existence‚ it also provides order and structure goals for humanity. According to Oxford Dictionary religion could be defined as “a belief in superhuman controlling power in a personal God or gods entitled to obedience and worship”. Through scriptural quotations‚ human experience

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    To what extent do changes in technology and society result in changes to the definition of resources?     (30) According to the Rostow model of economic development all countries go through five different stages: traditional society‚ preconditions for take-off‚ take-off‚ drive to maturity and age of high mass consumption. As these countries go through the stages of the model‚ their demand for certain resources changes. For example‚ a traditional economy’s resources would be much more fundamental

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    society as a whole shares the same ‘American dream’ (i.e. to become rich and successful)‚ but not everyone can achieve these things lawfully‚ so a strain exists between the goals and ambitions of people and their ability to achieve them. The problem with Merton’s strain theory is that there are many people in society who have not achieved the so called ‘American dream’ but haven’t turned to crime‚ so it can be argued that crime is committed collectively and maybe because of a lack of socialisation

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    Ecology and sustainable growth have been confirmed to be the main solutions currently. Innovations for sustainable growth include: creation of hybrid cars‚ recycling and minor discharge of carbon dioxide in factories among others (Christ 23). Environmental awareness was also introduced to the world of fashion‚ unfortunately‚ it wasn’t very successful; lately there has been a change of situation and that is what we are going to attempt to understand. For almost twenty years now‚ people have been

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    Why Do People Conform

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    reasons why people conform to social norms and discuss the factors affecting conformity. Have you ever wondered why groups of teenagers dress and wear their hair so similarly? Or why people order the same dish as their partner at a restaurant? Or why people queue in an orderly fashion at the supermarket? These are all examples of social conformity and when you look closer at our social world‚ they are all around us. The aim of Solomon Asch’s conformity experiment was to investigate the extent to which

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    Sustainable Fashion: A Growing Need For Eco-Friendly Clothing Abstract Every consumer is probably aware that the products they purchase have some kind of effect on the environment. However‚ the average person does not know that the textile and clothing manufacturing industry has one of the greatest. Sustainable fashion is part of a growing design philosophy which some brands and designers are taking into consideration. The goal of this trend is to create

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