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from all other the world. This accommodation beautifully designed and made majorly by wood benefits guests to not being exposed to toxic wood treatment and finishes. Andy Horn, whilst designing, avoided all possible unhealthy materials such as insecticide treated timbers and fiberglass roof installations. Alongside the non-hazardous materials that were used, Andy Horn incorporated water saving features such as retrofitting water efficient shower heads and multi-flush toilets. …

1. The GI Bill of Rights was by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944. In fact, this bill was among the first to set the foundation for equal education for both males and females from all backgrounds. In spite talk of the glories of the free market, the government policies played a pivotal role in the postwar boom. The rapid expansion of the suburban middle class owed much to federal tax subsidies. Mortgage guarantees for home purchases, dam and highway construction, military…

Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania (Academic, Environmental Activist, Biologist, Journalist) on a 65-acre farm. Growing up Rachel spent her time enjoying her love for nature that she owed to her mother. Her mother taught her from a young age how to love the outdoors and to love birds, insects and the animals that inhabit the streams and ponds as well as her love for reading and writing. She would soon prove her love of writing when she would get her first…

If the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods can have such a negative impact on public health, should steps be taken to reduce these flows? What other options are there for lowering the spread of global diseases? The movements of people, food and manufactured goods have had such a negative impacts on public health and therefore, there are steps that can be taken to lower the spread of global diseases on each of the following. Movement of people. Increased movement of people…

The structure of an essay is very important. It helps a reader easily follow an author’s message. The structure of Rachel Carson’s essay was successful in informing its readers of the effect chemicals have on nature and how this would affect the future of the human race. “Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forest or gardens lie long in the soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death” (Carson 613). This statement explains to the reader the…

The concept of ergonomics is central to the discussion on the effect of health and safety on productivity [1]. The aim of ergonomics is to ensure the well-being of worker by attaining optimal working conditions by using the most suitable physical characteristics and psychological capability [2]. Occupational and environmental respiratory diseases have a long history with respiratory disorders among tobacco workers [3]. As early as the beginning of the 18th century, ‘Ramazzini’ wrote about…

The Good Benefits of Drinking Warm Lemon Water in our Body We, humans need vitamins to be healthy especially Vitamin C which strengthens our immune system. Our immune system fights or protects us from diseases and bacteria that try to enter our body. One example of the fruit which is rich in Vitamin C is lemon and was thought to have grown first in Assam (region found in Northeast India) and Northern Burma or China. Lemon is widely used as a cleaning agent, for culinary uses, industrial uses…

Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading public health nongovernmental organizations in Nigeria founded in 1985. As a nonprofit organization, it is committed to selfless service to humanity especially the poor and vulnerable throughout Nigeria. It works with private and public sector to adopt social marketing and communication to improve access to essential health information, services and products to motivate the adoption of healthy behaviors. The public health organization is…

1) Spandau Ballet: “True” The song had a dreamy melancholy quality to the sound. The lyric about the pill and the slow rhythm does make it seem as if the singer is on drugs, or at least relaxed from downing half a bottle of wine. To me, this is a mix of unrequited love and the difficulty of the writer to express it. When the saxophone starts playing in the instrumental break, that's when you really feel it. This song sounds like it’s about a person who fell in love with someone they had a fling…

Rachel Carson had many great reasons for writing the book Silent Spring. The main theme of the book was to prove the effects of the careless spraying and dusting of people, crops, fields, and forests with harmful chemicals in the mid 1900s. This book was published in 1962, so a lot of the “new” advancements and findings are outdated as of 2015, however this book marks the important history of what happened when humans interfered with nature by using chemicals, and how that affected the…