Special population Interview Irene Antunez What is your view on your culture including both strength and weakness? One of the gay culture is the willingness to be able to speak out and be brave enough to confront people that try to degrade us for being gay. We believe in what we fight for‚ and some of us have died for the dream of being able to be as equal as everybody else. Our weakness is not being able to reach out to everybody. Unfortunately‚ we cannot have the support of every person that
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Prof. BERESFORD TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS OF POLUTION (Tape script‚ slightly abridged) Pollution is today‚ probably‚ the greatest problem that faces mankind. There is a saying in English that it is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. And human beings are‚ collectively speaking‚ fouling their nest at the increasing rate. It is an alarming picture. We are polluting the air‚ which we need to breathe‚ the earth from which we derive all our food‚ and the waters from which wе‚ of course‚ derive the
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The Philippines is home to more than 90 million people as of 2013. Overpopulation and industrialization could perhaps be the major contributors to environmental problems being experienced in the country. With overpopulation and industrialization‚ our natural resources have a higher demand than supply. Our country is rich in natural resources. We have abundant gold‚ copper‚ sulphur‚ and nickel reserves. We are also surrounded by waters due to our archipelagic state which makes us one of the top fish
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Currently‚ frog populations around the world are declining. Due to the nature of their life cycles and physiology‚ frogs are very sensitive to environmental changes. Frogs are born in the water as tadpoles. Frogs move onto land for their adult lives. This makes them vulnerable to changes in aquatic habitat availability. This also makes them vulnerable to changes in terrestrial habitat availability. Their aquatic habitats are drying out‚ in areas that are becoming more prone to drought. Frogs are
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The Press can perform its true role as a guardian of the public interest‚ as a Watchdog and a source of all kinds of information‚ only in a democracy. The newspapers in India‚ for the most part‚ enjoy freedom of expression i.e. not State-controlled. Of course‚ all journalists and newspapers must behave within the law and must not infringe the regulations regarding libel‚ defamation; otherwise they would make themselves liable to penal code. While observing the limitations of the law‚ the newspapers
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Modern society is built by the young for the young. It is a dynamic creation that does not give much consideration to the old‚ sick‚ handicapped or incapable. They are merely tolerated as so much liability or nuisance. So these hardly wanted people face many problems in their everyday living. The old‚ who were once young‚ helped to make the present society. Now they pay the price of their former neglect of the old. They themselves are neglected and unappreciated in turn. An old person does
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Effects of over population in Mexico City There are parts of the world that have an alarming overpopulation rate‚ one of these locations is Mexico city which is located in the Federal District‚ Capital of the Country of Mexico. Mexico City’s enormous population continues to rapidly increase every day. With approximately 20 million residents; up from 9 million only 20 years ago‚ Mexico City is considered the most populous urban center on earth. There are many people in the country of
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It supports the food webs that sustain life; it provides us with a vast collection of natural resources‚ and it plays a vital role in the purification of the water we drink. We also depend on it to dispose of some of our wastes. The increasing population within the world has had an impact on the lithosphere and consequently as led to the deterioration of this essential component of the biophysical environment. Land degradation has become one of the primary issues of concern arising from the
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awareness which are both as a result of population growth. The result is increased degradation of the environment‚ with significant loss of soil fertility‚ soil erosion‚ serious deforestation‚ water depletion‚ pollution and loss of biodiversity. The fragile state of Malawi’s environment poses critical challenges to both human development and economic growth (state of environment and outlook report‚ 2010). According to the 2008 census‚ Malawi’s population has tripled since 1966‚ reaching 13‚077‚160
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Increasing importance has been placed upon population and population growth over the course of the past few centuries. Scientists are frenetically searching for the solution to this issue‚ and their outcomes are bleak. They are telling the world that if population growth does not slow‚ the earth will swell to a capacity too large to sustain itself and the conclusion will be apocalyptic. Explanations are numerous‚ however viable solutions are difficult to find. Adherents to the Malthusian theory
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