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Viruses and Diseases have plagued humanity for all of their existence. They caused the fall of empires and fall of almost half an entire population. The Black Death alone “wiped out about 30 million people between 1347 and 1351. That amounted to 30% to 50% of the population on the continent killed in a period of just five years.” In modern times the Ebola Virus and Dengue Fever have cause scare and panic in 1st world countries and killed thousands in many 3rd world countries. The Bubonic…

The moon, a large chunk of rock twirling around the Earth and the Sun. Humans have explored, researched, and mapped the moon. From its craters to its makeup, everything that humans could find out about the moon, with the technology they have, has been discovered. The moon, an object over 230,000 miles away, has been completely charted while the oceans on Earth are only about five percent charted. Although the ocean has not been mapped out completely we do have a good idea of what animals live in…

Throughout history, numerous societies have dealt with many struggles and conflicts. Global pandemics and climate change are just two of these struggles that society still deals with today. History, particularly the historic backgrounds of ancient, medieval, and modern times, can educate people on solutions to these problems. First, Jared Diamond explains how climate change influences lifestyles of the ancient Maori and medieval Greenland Norse. Second, Richard A. Muller addresses the dangers of…

Summary Many individuals have been led to remember and confess to serious crimes that in fact, never occurred. This can come about when the individual is confronted with special interview tactics that are often used by police interrogators. The way that police interrogators interview potential suspects may have an impact on these false confessions. Many police interrogators use certain tactics in an attempt to lead individuals to remember crimes that did not occur, then causing false…

Why Carbon Finance? Carbon finance is a general term referring to resources provided to obtain greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Recognizing the impacts and threats of global climate change, governments and other entities have met annually at the Conference of the Parties (COP) of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 1995. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997, in which 36 industrialized countries (called the Annex B countries) committed collectively to…

breakthroughs, all of these faults in society still exist. Sexism still struts the walkway of unequal pay. Classism still pushes its ugly head in tax cuts. Impenetrable wealthy are just as invisible with Brock Turner who had “twenty minutes of action.” Iceland leads the fights for equal economics and has just made pay gaps illegal, while President Trump administration just halted a rule that forced companies to report to the government pay through breakdowns of gender and race. Fitzgerald’s…

In 1944, India started a nuclear program for the purpose of creating nuclear power. But in the 1954 they switched the direction of program into making nuclear weapons. The Indian government reach out to the United States’ government and Canada’s government to help get the supplies and components for a nuclear research reactor. The United States and Canada agreed to the Indian under the idea that they was going to use the reactor for peaceful purposes only. The project was moving steadily forward…

As the Vikings continued to expand, they endured more religious transformation from paganism to Christianity. In Denmark, the conversation occurred under King Gorm. This King despised Christianity and sought to destroy this religion. When King Henry traveled into Denmark, King Gorm granted Henry power over him, but still refused to convert to Christianity. His later generations however, fail to maintain such resistance beginning with Bluetooth. Bluetooth allowed public profession of Christ…

The Barbary pirates or corsairs, also known as the Ottoman corsairs, were pirates and privateers from North Africa who operated mainly from the ports of Algiers, Tunis, Sale and Tripoli. Of these states, Algiers was their strongest port of operation. The pirates frequented the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean. The Barbary pirates derive their name from the Berber tribe who inhabited these states, thereafter known as the Barbary states. It is also speculated that the West described these…

Racism is witnessed anytime, anywhere. It is commonly found in public areas like schools and workplaces. Racism is a way for people to express their own derogatory opinions about a person because of their physical characteristics and ethnicity. Majority of racism originates from stereotypes, or from something a person hears often. There are different forms of racism. One form of racism is microaggression. It is not often heard, but it means subtle racism. Workplaces, specifically, are not places…