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When most people think of climate change, they think of polar bears and melting ice caps. Most people do not think of the families in North Dakota who lost their homes to floodwaters in 2009 or the twenty million people left homeless after the catastrophic 2010 monsoon in Pakistan. However, these disasters are the real consequences of climate change that we are facing. Climate change is the warming of our planet to dangerous temperatures as a result of the accumulation of greenhouse gases…

1. At OSSM, you will live, study, and work with students from throughout Oklahoma. How would you describe yourself and your background to these students? I was raised in a middle-class suburban neighborhood by my mom and dad. I have two older siblings who both went off to college before I even went to middle school. This caused me to be raised almost like an only child, but I am still very close to my siblings. I went to a public school until freshman year, and then I transferred to a private…

Marketing: 1. Internal analysis: • Brand value = AIDA 2. External analysis: • Porters Diamond – Denmark • PESTEL – Germany • Porters 5 forces 3. SWOT 4. Generic Logistic Strategy Internal analysis: Brand value = AIDA: Measure the strength of a brand action = buy or not buy -> It is the most important! A = awareness/attention: The company catch the people’s attention with its commercial system where it is described that they hire skilled technicians at your service. Kompan’s system is…

of fossil fuels comes with some adverse effects, prominent among which is the emission of CO2. Carbon dioxide significantly contributes to global warming and, consequently, causes climate change. This has called for international policies like the Kyoto protocol and Copenhagen summit that set limit on greenhouse gases (GHG) emission [1]. Renewable energy sources are carbon neutral and can present a favourable condition by reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Unfortunately, they are not yet…

A Deontological Approach to Issues Surrounding the Environment Quite often when discussing issues surrounding the environment, it is easy to look at the problems as a matter of cause and effect. X amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over Y number of years will lead to Z feet of sea level rise. Consider for a moment then, what happens if an individual foregoes the notion of effect and simply examines if humans have a duty to protect the environment, regardless of consequence? The…

In Japan’s Comfort Women, subtitled the Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation, the author Yuki Tanaka unearths a topic largely undiscussed throughout history. Published by Routledge in 2002, Tanaka goes into depth about the history of the exploitation of thousands of women used as comfort women, a euphemism for sexual slavery, for Japanese soldiers. The book is broken up into six chapters, including an epilogue, which focus on the different areas regarding…

History of Breath Practice The history of breathe practice is well known and documented and breath and breathing have been essential elements of Asian philosophies since ancient times. According to Tadashi Ogawa, a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Kyoto University, “Ethics is essentially a way of life through breathing”. (Hackenberg, Skof, p 201). According to the Soto Zen monk and teacher Shunryu Suzuki, “What we call ’I’ is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we…

What were the consequences of the long term use of male actor as women in Japanese Kabuki and English early morden theater(1600-1700s)? 1. Introduction In the history of the globe theater, there are few countries had prohibited women from acting on stage. In Greek drama, the play was all act by men. In the festival of Dionysus, women were even not allowed to be in the audience. The male actors in Greeks theater even live as women in their normal life. However, Women participated heavily in…

Matthew Wydra John McManus History 3441 March 4, 2023 Film Review of Unbroken “Unbroken” is a truly heart touching story of an Italian American athlete named Louis Zamperini and his struggles in the war and his mindset needed to survive the Japanese POW camps. The first scene of the movie throws you into a mission of making a bombing run. Zamperini is the crew’s bombardier and is trying his hardest to target the drop zone. I think the amount of stress the crew and especially Zamperini is under…

Topic: Liberalism has become the dominant approach to international political economy since the end of the Cold War. Discuss the evidence that proves this dominance and also discuss the positives and the negatives of the liberalist orientation of the global economy. The discussion below is going to elaborate on the dominance of the Liberal in the international political economy (IPE) by expanding on the liberal approach, IPE and its elements, Liberal IPE perspective, the Cold War, positives…