Calvin cycle

Like an avalanche in the mountains change is inevitable and unstoppable. In the Iliad, by Homer, an epic/poem retelling the tale of the Trojan war, there was a bloody battle between Greece and Troy. One of the main characters is Achilles, an almost invincible Greek warrior. The author uses characterization to show Achilles experiences great change throughout the poem, from stubborn to devastated to avengement seeking, all because his good friend and comrade, Patroclus, was killed in battle.…

In 2011, Chad Newbrough Steacy wrote his thesis, Discourse in the Abandoned Small Town: Toward a Critical Geography of Decline. The title must be Steacy’s best expression of his interpretation of the state of affairs in the small town of Sunbury, PA. Steacy elaborates in the heart of his thesis, “An indication of the economic change that has affected Sunbury is the large amount of abandoned industrial space woven into the town’s landscape.” (Steacy, 2011). Clearly, Steacy is writing about a…

The possibility of education in solving the intergenerational poverty in Hong Kong What is the intergenerational poverty? It refers to the poverty induced by the socially or economically challenged background of a person’s parents. (Commission on poverty, 2007) In Hong Kong, there are 121,400 poor households with children under 18 years old. (Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report, 2014) It is impossible that education solves the intergenerational poverty in Hong Kong because there are great…

Pakistan remains one of the backward countries in the world. The nation’s progress is hampered by failing democracy, economic instability, menace of corruption, lawlessness and pervasive poverty and gender inequality. Inefficient justice system has contributed to causation of these menaces. Unless efficient justice system is produce no nation progress is possible in Pakistan. Pakistan remains one of the most lawless countries in the world. According to rule of Law index, published by World…

John Steinbeck was an American author in the 1900’s.Steinbeck lived during the Great Depression. The Great Depression happened in the 1930’s. This event occurred because the stock markets crashed due to inflammation. Inflammation is when money is massed produced and it loses its value. Banks went corrupt and poverty spread. Everyone had lost sight of their dreams, no matter what their dream was. The American Dream was that every United States citizen should be able to achieve success through…

THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS Characteristics of Informal Settlements The main characteristics of the informal settlements are informal land tenure, lack of access to basic amenities, social and physical infrastructures and finances in housing (Vienna, 2004 cited by Amao, 2012). Aside from that, it is also characterized by lack of secure tenure, the shelter opposes the city policies, illegal settlement, lack of access to public services, poor quality housing structures, illegal subdivisions of…

The great recession that is known as the “Great Depression’ started in 1929 and continued until about 1933 in United States. This severe economic phenomenon that was originated in United States not only affected the USA economy but also shook the economy of almost all the countries of the world. This great depression led to severe decline in the real output, acute unemployment rate and consequently all the economic sectors and variables were negatively affected. As a result, the living standard…

The Fall of Wall Street Part One Source Analysis 1. This picture is taken in Wall Street in late 1920s to early 1930s. It is shown when the description explains how the photo was taken during the fall of stock values, which happened on October 29, 1929 (Rosenberg, The Stock Market Crash of 1929). b. The situation occurring in this photo is that there are many traders withdrawing stocks and selling their shares since the value of the stocks and their shares were falling. They knew that their…

Society today has shown us that more and more families are slowly going into poverty and losing their homes because of financial problems. Jeff Madrick The Cost of Child Poverty and Alana Semuels The Resurrection of America’s Slums both agree on the fact that the human population is incapable of supporting ourselves. Both articles main points are similar to the two discussing poverty within our world and how it affects humanity and the American society. In The Cost of Child Poverty, Jeff Madrick…

Planet of Slums written by the American writer, historian, activist Mike Davis a book of heart touching sad reality of the current and perhaps the future world about the large number of people living in the slums of the cities. The book is a dystopian view of the future world which explores the short and long term effects of the slums and the poor people living in them. It also draws an emotional picture of the living condition of those slum dwellers who were forced by the social, political, and…