Built environment

Efficiency is one of the most important things that can be in our lives, making life easier and more productive. An efficient schedule helps millions of people in this world with their daily life, being able to be efficient outstandingly makes life ten times better. By now they are wondering why this thing called efficiency is as effect it is but its ability to help her or she avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing the desired result. In a…

Some of my personal strengths that will benefit me in the workplace are problem solving, communication skills, helping others, patience, writing skills, and organization skills. Problem solving has always came natural to me and if something goes wrong in anything that I do I want to know how I can fix it or change it to work. Something that I have realized that everything is going to go perfectly every time and people need to be able to adjust to different situations and problems. While working…

Dinnet in Aberdeenshire, it features two man made islands called crannogs shown in figure 1. The crannogs known as Castle and Prison Island respectively were built in the 9th century using layers of tree trunks, stones and other materials and had been inhabited till around the early 14th century. To understand more about the past societies that built and used this site I am going to look at methods used in landscape archaeology, environmental archaeology and geoarchaeology such as pollen and…

handbook, I am convinced that our attitudes and behaviors are totally responsible for murdering our planet and environment. Therefore, we should be proactive in protecting our niche, so that we can have a much healthier environment to live and to improve our overall health and wellbeing. However, my Good Stuff Challenge list for Atlanta that I feel would be beneficial to the environment if something is done to address it would be: Appliances, cars, cleaning products, electricity, furniture,…

In Control or Victims of our Environment in terms of Health Behavior – Do we Actually have Free Will? The age-old debate of whether free will exists or not is a thorny subject, particularly in the health field, since the days of Freud. Does an individual have complete autonomy over their health choices or do environmental and situational factors collectively act as a grand puppeteer in manipulating our choices? The arguments for both sides are met with personal baggage because to declare one…

Landscaping is a cultural product representing the value of its creator. As the title suggests this essay discusses how humans interact within the environment. By going through the historical content, one will understand how landscaping has been transformed throughout the years which dates back to pre-history and continues until the 21st century. This will show how the natural elements of the land have changed while technology is taking over. The following essay includes discussions presented by…

sustainability, however, in the contexts of the environment and development, I would define it as: being efficient in quality production, but minimizing negative consequences of our actions. The overall goal of sustainable development is to reach a point where communities of plants, animals, micro-organisms, and their non-living surroundings to have the ability to sustain themselves. This goal is incredibly important to capitalize on because the environment and the ecosystems that thrive around…

character is built throughout their entire life, carrying with us different experiences and ways of thinking. Malcolm Gladwell, in “The Power of Context,” emphasizes the theory that the roles of the environment can impact the decisions and behaviors of human beings. And this is shown in, Steven Johnson’s, “The Myth of the Ant Queens” and Karen Ho’s, “Biographies of Hegemony.” It is said that, that a decision to commit a crime is more likely to emerge in disordered and vandalized environment,…

This aims to create a physical/emotional environment that is warm, nurturing and inviting for all children. This can be created through use of colour and things that children will relate to such as the home corner set up like a house. There is also a need to be welcoming as a teacher, by use of tone…

Overconsumption is critically damaging the Earth with toxic chemicals from pollution of companies’ factories. Factories being built for production efforts to fulfill the market. The factories create waste, but they do not use any efficient way to dispose of the waste. The companies decide on cutting cost of developing to ways to safely dispose of the waste. The factories use cheap easy ways to dispose of waste through dumping waste in the rivers and streams. The effects of not taking control of…