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    Chinese was relatively low and it was mainly the government’s responsibility to handle environmental problems. However, the efforts of the government were far from enough. Jing said that she wanted to let more people be aware of these problems and only the public could make a big…

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    Era Of Environmentalism

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    support a free-market environmentalism system. This platform argues for private property right, basically doing whatever one wants with the resources in nature. Thorner, a Tea Party activist, believes that the schemes set upon by higher authorities have only made things worse. She critiques the authors of books like Nature Unbound, which criticizes federal government policies and rethinks environmental regulations. Her article defames the EPA and calls their recent behavior radical because they…

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    I plan to write about animal production because the issue of food and it’s ability to be sustainably produced is a current issue that I am interested in. This issue relates to sustainability because if food, live stock, is continually produced at the same rate resources like land, water, and air will be scarce and the damage that animal production will cause will be irreversible. I have applied the Twelve Tests of an Arguable Issue and have been able to answer yes to each question. I would…

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    the "Noble Experiment" the United States announced that the sale and manufacturing of beverages that contained intoxicating liquor were illegal from 1920 to 1933. This action was known to many as the temperance movement, which had tons of supporters across the nation. The temperance movement of the 1920s failed because the demand for alcohol was not eliminated among many Americans, and the law was hard to enforce due to numerous illegal acts produced by it. The elimination of alcohol provides…

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    is not an assimilated one, but one that a man must be born into. The Rasta man possess something “within himself” that consist of his “nature” and “art” , which of course, he has to be born with. Rastas were discriminated against by policemen not only for the possession of marijuana but also for the violence that was associated with their culture. Many of the earlier Rasta men held revolts when they were not given passage to Africa. Some cases even Rastamen greeting…

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    African-American not only faced injustices in everyday society but also in the military. During the commencement of World War I, a large portion of the African-American community saw the war as a chance to demonstrate their patriotism and to take their place as equal citizen in the United States (Williams OL). Over a million African-Americans responded to the draft calls they received and an estimate of 370,000 were inducted into the army to fight during World War I, the war that would make the…

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    Grassroots Issues

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    There are many interesting grassroots solutions that are available for us to talk about. I found these two issues to I would like to talk about first that I thought were interesting and informal issues like these are Important. Talking about these topics in the news would shed light on how other people live in different countries. Even though it is now the 21st century times now are still suffering because of the early 15th century when the Europeans came to these southern countries during that…

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    Individual awareness concerning the current condition of the environment has risen to the attention of psychologists in recent years, their curiosity concerning what personality traits entice a person’s awareness, concern, and intentions to act on environmental needs. An individual’s self-awareness, or self-construal, towards the environmental decay brought on heavily due to destructive human behaviors, could stem from how the individual views themselves and their actions in relation to others…

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    unstable home environment lead Dix to seek refuge with her wealthy grandmother in Boston, Massachusetts where her blossoming interest in learning and education was strongly encouraged. Two years after moving in with her grandmother, at the young age of only 14, Dix began her career as a teacher. By 1821 she opened her first of several schools for young children in Boston where she continued to champion the belief that women should be afforded the same opportunities in pursuing an education as…

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    In this time period of the Apartheid there was one group called the ANC or African National Congress; this was the group that opposed this law. Our main character Eleanor was a part of this ANC group who opposed the movement. Her actions of being in the ANC as a white female was costly as one day a government official (Grobler) started searching for her. That day Eleanor was found by Grobler was just the beginning of a long journey. What happens is she gets taken in…

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