a) Describe one most serious impact of globalization on the community The biggest impact of globalization is that it has enabled corporations to grow to such a level that allows them to stand above the demands of national and local governments. Major corporations have shown they are able to overrule foreign policy decisions. This has caused them to make decisions that hurt the local economies such as Ladakh. These corporations should not be trusted in major decision making of global
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from thousands years ago until today‚ but it all began with selective breeding. In the early years of human‚ when we used agriculture in order to feed himself‚ human understood that using seeds of better tastes and of bigger sizes will make next harvest of a new generation‚ better. Even though‚ human did not know that it was genetic modification‚ he was making steps further in genetic engineering boom. Since the dawn of agriculture‚ humankind sought to grow biggest pumpkin‚ the most tasteful apple
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The United States has grow on its population and diversity‚ due to this growth‚ there is always a high command to increase food productivity to satisfy the needs of the global population. There are many companies that supply seeds and sells them to farmers around the world. But there is a company in particular that has taken over “26% of the global seed market”‚ which is Monsanto. Monsanto Corporation is an important seed provider. It is widely known for producing GMO seeds. Many people are against
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Powerful environment movement . STICKING TO A CAUSE Chipko Movement‚ 1973 The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources “In the wake of reckless deforestation‚ a unique movement has bubbled‚”observed India Today in March 1982. The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources.“ Chipko movement in the Garhwal Himalayas‚ shoved aside urban armchair
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Pongal Festival Pongal is a four-days-long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu‚ a southern state of India. For as long as people have been planting and gathering food‚ there has been some form of harvest festival. Pongal‚ one of the most important popular Hindu festivals of the year. This four-day festival of thanksgiving to nature takes its name from the Tamil word meaning "to boil" and is held in the month of Thai (January-February) during the season when rice and other cereals‚ sugar-cane
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Brief description of indigenous people There is no universal definition of indigenous people‚ but generally indigenous people are those that have historically belonged to a particular region or country‚ before its colonization or transformation into a nation state. They often have distinct cultural‚ linguistic‚ traditional‚ and other characteristics to those of the dominant culture of that region or state. There are approximately 370 million indigenous people among 70 countries‚ worldwide. It is
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jp/english/data/handbook/pdf/c07cont.pdf MSNBC Pimentel‚ D. (2002). Skeptic. In Easton‚ T. (Ed.). Taking sides: Clashing views on global issues. 6th edition (pp. 90-93). New York: McGraw-Hill. Shiva‚ V. (1997). Monocultures of the mind: perspectives on biodiversity and biotechnology. New York‚ NY: Zed Books. Shiva‚ V. (1997). Monocultures of the mind: perspectives on biodiversity and biotechnology. Malaysia: Third World Network. Starr‚ S
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variety of colors and music that was played throughout the experience. The Hindu people allowed guests to enter their temple‚ without shoes‚ and dance and worship along with them to their music. The day that Holi is celebrated is known as the Dhuli Vandana in Sanskrit‚ it is celebrated by people throwing colored powder and colored water at each other. As part of their worship experience they have bonfires that are lit on the eve of the festival‚ also known as Holika Dahan or burning of Holika. The Hindu
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transition of the Sun into Makar. It marks the beginning of the gradual increase of the duration of the day. Pogal is first day of Uttarayana‚ coinciding with the beginning of the Tamil month of Thai | January 14 | Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festival of South India‚ mainly Tamil Nadu. Pongal falls in the mid-January every year and marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan - sun’s journey northwards. Pongal festival lasts for four days. Celebrations include drawing of Kolam‚ swinging
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Green Revolution DBQ Essay AP World History December 2‚ 2013 Interaction between humans and the environment has always had a great importance in the development of humankind; according to Marx‚ what differentiates humans from other animals is the fact that humans can transform their surroundings to suit their needs‚ through labor. The Green Revolution is not the exception to that. In times of need the human being manipulated its environment to be suitable for its development
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