While the world shrinks owing to modem means of communication and transport‚ the land available for our habitation also shrinks‚ posing a problem which‚ if not attended to now‚ can threaten food production. Agricultural land is disappearing fast and soil is being eroded or exhausted. Deserts are marching and forests are disappearing. The world‚ particularly the Third World‚ is being threatened with food shortage and over-population and the ills associated with these. Many areas are in danger of
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physically/emotionally because of religious conflicts. The history of the major conflicts and wars will probably suggest several explanations‚ and religion is the root of all major wars around the world. Recent Libya crisis and 9.11 crises are also based on religious conflicts. Our group decided to examine 2 regions- Kashmir (Pakistan vs India)‚ and Palestine (Israel vs Palestine)‚ where ongoing conflicts are causing serious international terrorism and massacre‚ and create many victims around the world. By analysing
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1What do I do now? I remember it as if it was yesterday; my first college application‚ something that I had been waiting for my whole life. I worked so hard in school and pushed myself in order to be able to get accepted into a University. Throughout my whole body I felt goose bumps‚ I do not know why I was feeling this way. Maybe it was because I was scared that I would not get accepted in any University‚ and that would mean everything I had been working for would go down the drain. I knew I had
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the name Josh Evans through the Internet and developed what she thought to be a strong friendship. One day the boy sent her an insulting message‚ resulting in Meier experiencing depression. Megan Meier hung herself because she felt she wasn’t good enough for anybody. It turns out‚ a girl named Lori Drew created a fictitious account over the Internet to interact and insult Meier. All of this could’ve been prevented if there was a little more safety on the Internet. The need for Internet police has
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To what extent do religions and traditions intervene in our society as conflicts? Religion plays a very important part in any individual’s life. May the person be rich or poor his religion is one of the basic things that shapes that individual’s life‚ restricts him from doing certain activities‚ gives him festivals to celebrate and gives him a particular guideline of his culture as well as traditions to follow. By what is stated in the previous sentence religions seem almost inoffensive. However
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What should you do and not do when giving a speech? When I was younger my dream was to become a dancer‚ as the years passed by I was falling more and more in love with the idea of being able to tell a story with just some music and my body. When I was 14 I remember dancing for all the presidents of South America‚ I felt so proud of myself because what president would have time for a little girl with that nonsense. It was so easy to move around‚ along with the music‚ to put on facial expressions
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A tradition is a practice‚ custom‚ or story that is memorized and passed down from generation to generation‚ originally without the need for a writing system. Traditions are often presumed to be ancient‚ unalterable‚ and deeply important‚ though they may sometimes be much less "natural" than is presumed. Some traditions were deliberately invented for one reason or another‚ often to highlight or enhance the importance of a certain institution. Traditions may also be changed to suit the needs of the
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What is a Country to Do? In recent times‚ the throne of Scotland has been filled with very small men. These so-called sovereigns have abused their God given power to their own pitiful ends instead of using it the way it was meant to. They spend our taxes foolishly so that they can live in splendor‚ chase their enemies to the grave‚ and insure that the common man cannot rise against them. They live in fear of falling from power to the point where any who question them are imprisoned‚ killed
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philosophers that come up during this period‚ and all of them made a contribution to the way we think today. Many of the ideals that came from this time are still a major part of our thought process‚ this is why this time is so influential on the Western World. Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) is one of the first men to offer a theory that ultimately begins the time we know as the Scientific Revolution. He is mostly known for proposing the idea that the sun was the center of the universe and everything
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1. A face-to-face interview was conducted with two parents for the purpose of this paper. My first interviewee is a working mother of a 7-year old boy. For this paper‚ I will be giving the mother and son hypothetical names of Mrs. K and Alex respectively. Mrs. K described a common occurring situation in which Alex will pester her for the use of her iPad to play games when they were travelling in the family car which Mrs. K usually obliges. Recently‚ however‚ Alex has started to ask for the iPad at
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