Humanitarian crisis

How often do you get thirty? Does a glass of water seem to do the job? The research question I am investigating is What is the preferred type of drinking water, NYC bottled water of tap water? This research question is important because we need to know whether the best tasting water is the one most people drink. This research shows the repeatability of a procedure in a different setting because this research has been done before but not with the water types I’m using and my location. In this…

Multiple Choice: NORAD stands for North American Aerospace Defence Command. The Suez Canal Crisis was when the Egyptian government took control of the Suez Canal. This canal was used by Britain for oil transport, so Western governments were afraid that this would be a blow to Britain’s economy. The Soviet Union gave nuclear bombs to the Cuba because the Soviet Union was planning an attack on the U.S and wanted to increase the threat from the Caribbean. Canada joined the G6, thus creating the G7…

On Earth, there is an abundance of water but realistically only 1% of that water is available for human use. Our water recycles itself continuously through the water cycle, however the more we use water from the 1%, the higher the chance that the water will become polluted and unusable for humans. Moreover, when our use of water outruns the rate at which it can be restored naturally, we increase the risk of water scarcity. As more water becomes contaminated and as more human activities impact…

The Banqiao Dam Failure, 1975 The Banqiao Dam was built on the Ru River as a means to prevent future flooding of the Huai River Basin in the Zhumadian Prefecture of Henan Province in central China, which had been severely flooded in 1950. Construction of the dam was started in 1951 and was completed the following year. The slightly smaller Shimantan Dam on the Hong River, and many other smaller dams situated within this river system, were built for the same project. By 1954, both the Banqiao…

• 50% of Indians don’t have proper shelter. • 70% don’t have access to decent toilets (which inspires a multitude of bacteria to host their own disease party). • 35% of households don’t have a nearby water source. • 85% of villages don’t have a secondary school (how can this be the same government claiming 9% annual growth?). • Over 40% of these same villages don’t have proper roads connecting them. (2) After having a quick review of the Indian case, I will talk about the story of a poor…

In the era of early civilizations, a nation’s safety and success was largely dependent on their location and nearby geographical features. Susceptibility to invasions by other empires and the welfare of agriculture were just some issues that posed a threat to those with unfortunate geographical locations. Some were lucky, with easy access to trade and the protection of natural barriers. Geography also played a large role in cultural diffusion and how different regions interacted with each other.…

Furthermore, the walk is not just hard but it is dangerous, the women or girls who step out unaccompanied and burden with a large amount of water may be get hurt, sometimes they even are attacked by strange people. According to the Statistics of water crisis, girls who are under the age of 15 are twofold as likely as boys to be the family member have the responsibility for fetching water (The water project, 2014). Thus if using water filters can diminish the state of collecting safe drinking…

Immigration is driven by various factors such as the increased population in the world (Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny). Such increase is further complemented by the introduction and growth of the modern technology that enables people to move from one place to another regardless of the distance between at a given time. Energy consumption, on the other hand, has been affected by the increasing demand for energy supply in daily activities such as transportation, cooking, entertainment, learning…

Crisis Management for Schools in Today Society “Deaths from gun violence and natural disasters provide education institutions with vivid reminders that the safety of students and staff is paramount.” (1) With the deadly violence that has been taking place across the country, officials along with school management teams are contemplating the security systems that are currently being enforced and acted upon. Both the officials and school management teams are teaming up because they want to…

Lumumba, is director Raoul Peck’s fast paced biographical thriller about the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first prime minster, the film’s namesake Patrice Lumumba. The film is accurate in its portrayal of the time but suffers from its lack of true exposition — those unfamiliar with Congolese history may have a hard time following the narrative. Peck does not over glorify Lumumba and paints a fairly human portrait of the man sometimes revered as the martyred saint of Congolese independence.…