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    Global Warming Assignment

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    BM6 Global Warming Although you might not think global warming is a big deal but what if I was to prove you wrong? Scientist studied for hundreds of years about global warming,but some people criticize millions of scientist for global warming but it is caused from nature therefore its a natural occurrence. Global warming should be viewed as a natural occurrence. Issue#1:History temperatures decline: the planet in 2014 was the warmest in 135 years of record keeping US climatologists…

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    Peter Singer is on of the world’s most influential philosophers. Peter Singer’s book, One World, is about the ethics of the world and globalization. Throughout the book, Singer brings up different examples of what is going on in the world, and what we are doing wrong. For instance, there was more funding for 9/11 victims over funding for poor families across the world. There are four dilemmas Singer talks about in his book, and the ethical solutions to these dilemmas. The four dilemmas are the…

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    was and still is relevant. I have also heard many stories from family members that participated in those activities years ago. Having that information in hand, along with the author's books is what would help me to understand and tackle any current global or national issue that may take place. And by reading the authors writing about the Witch Trial era, it gives me a better insight on how I would hypothetically handle a situation. The Salem Witch Trials in the year of 1692 spread just as fast…

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    Ever since President John F. Kennedy issued the Peace Corps Program on March 1, 1961, the hearts and minds of Americans and the underdeveloped world have been positively impacted. A millenial of Americans are accentuated to the philanthropic program each year, which intensifies how significant this program has been for the entire planet. Since most Americans pursued to enumerate mentally, socially, and nationwide, serving abroad with the Peace Corps assisted their identity crisis. The sole…

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    Healing One Village

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    Healing One Village at a Time is an article written by Rosenberg Tina in the New York Times on the 22nd of July 2012. This article talks about neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression and post-traumatic stress that affect elderly people in the low-income and low- middle-income countries. According to Rosenberg, one may think the disease is the middle-class family, but rather is of people from troubled places; low-income families, those that experience violence through wars, high rate of…

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    1:6.2. National Scenario Tiwari in his book- “Tourism and Socio-Economic Development” greatly emphasised the importance of domestic tourist in economic development of the state. No doubt, tourism is fast becoming global with an eye on quality. For instance the number of domestic tourists visiting Orissa in the year 1980 was 19,293 but increased sharply to 13,24,025 in2000, fuelling economic growth and development (Tiwari,2004). Today in India Tourism is the largest service industry with a…

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    World Vision Poverty

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    considered poor, it is tempting to believe that he was right (Edelman). Global poverty did not occur randomly. Military conquest, slavery, colonization, the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor are all reasons that poverty began. Unfair debt, trade, and tax policies were imposed on the nations of the global South by the rich nations of the North. Because of these, poverty has persisted to the present day. The organization World Vision is helping to fight this injustice by responding to…

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    fear for their safety (Jackson, et al.). If this is the case in America, where there is regulation, one can only imagine the problems that these e-waste recycling plants are causing overseas. Conditions are especially bad in places like villages in Guiyu, a small village on the outskirts of China. The villagers salvage the wiring out of the imported televisions, and burn the plastic off of the copper wires to salvage and sell the copper. The water and air have both been…

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    Texcoco and Tlacopan creating the Aztec Empire. The Aztec Empire would be divided into small states and would trade within on another. Work cited Bentley, Jerry H., Herbert F. Ziegler, and Heather Streets-Salter. Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2016.…

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    to school is too far. Many parents worry for their children’s safety on route to school and therefore girls are even more discouraged to go to school, since the risk of becoming victims of assault is high. In order to remedy this growing problem, Village Bicycle Project was created, worldwide with specific interest in Africa. Through VBP, children now have access to distant schools and have a safe system to go back and forth from school to home. A safety measure was created by VBP in which a…

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