In the Country of Last Things

resources to the best of our ability and coming up with ways to stop the wastefulness that takes place all over the world. It is also coming up with ways to improve the things that are being depleted daily, such as; fossil fuels, water, recycling, and the atmosphere. Sustainability is planning to manage our resources so they will last a long period of time. Sound science is science plus technology discovering new and improved ways of extracting energy from fuels for our use.  How have the…

has widen geographic, economic and cultural borders. As the result of globalization countries, nations, societies, cultures, businesses, and people become more connectedness and interdependent. In pre-modern times, the volume of globalization was weak and goods and information flow between countries was enabling by caravans and colonizers. Over time globalization has been on the rise and most industrialized countries show a high degree of globalization today and impacts of globalization can be…

freedom. First of all, he uses dreams to show the many challenges he faced throughout his life and journey through Sierra Leone. Secondly, Ishmael uses his cassettes to symbolize past memories throughout his childhood and the good times they brought. Last of all, Ishmael uses the moon/sky as a symbol of hope, wholeness, positivity, and freedom. Firstly, Ishmael Beah uses dreams as a symbol to underscore the central theme of oppression and/or freedom. After he experiences the first acts of…

really have to change? The second question is: can we change? And his last question was, will we change? With these three questions, Gore explains the issue of climate change and global warming throughout his ted talk. First Gore starts by asking his first question, do we really have to change? His answer to this question was…

John F Kennedy wanted everyone to be treated equally. In the last paragraph Kennedy believed that we should have freedom and we should have the right to do whatever we wanted, but he also believed that having freedom came with a price and we had to do sacrifices for our freedom and for our country. Something that kennedy wanted was freedom for everyone. He wanted the freedom of speech RIGHT!! Personally my family and I want freedom of speech. Figuratively…

other kinds of people who are totally different from me. But now I know, there are so many kinds of people living on the same planate. They have different skin colors, and speaks different languages, too. On the other hand, I am currently living in a country which has the highest diversity rank. On the other day, I obtained a project that allows me to interview my classmate to see the differences and similarities between us. So, I interviewed my classmate, whose name is Bonnie Reed. During the…

shining a light everywhere I go for everyone to see. They go on their happy way while I do the same thing over and over, day after day. But it is what I am meant to do, travel around the world and see countless places and people with endless possibilities. I have so much space around me to move and a perfect view of the world that keeps growing every second. Around and around, seeing the same things that end up changing. First my day starts above the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest…

homes in Uganda over several decades and coerced into joining the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) the leader of the guerilla war group moved into remote regions in the DRC and parts of Sudan . In 2004, groups in 22 countries used children in “armed hostilities,” and the governments of 17 countries used children or backed militia groups using children in armed conflict. In 2013, the UN launched an effort to end child soldiers by 2016. Back in 2004 there was an estimated 17,000 child soldiers in…

America is freedom,opportunities, and justice. The America I believe in is a country where you work for what you have,you have rights,and is strong. A quote that I believe in is ‘America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves’. Abraham Lincoln. I believe in this quote because it states that we can't be destroyed from the outside. One of the first things I stated was freedom ,in the Bill of Rights it states the…

time, but once the deception is at its peak the population is easily controlled and will do anything the leader says. They become like slaves. Looking into a country like this is extremely shocking as our system is so much different, but if you grew up there you would notice no problem and would usually accept it. Older people in those countries never talk about how it was before because the government will take them and put them in labor…