Palmer Drought Index

“You’re so tiny!” “I wish I could fit into clothes that small!” “Do you even eat? I’m sure you 're the only person to photosynthesize!” Though weight jokes have never been popular or acceptable on the heavier end of comedy, the surge body-positive attitudes in our society have managed to still leave out two percent of Americans that are the underweight population. ‘Skinny’ has been a compliment and social trend for years now. With media broadcasting diets, models, fit celebrities, and the market…

Is there a better quality of life in Johannesburg or Cape Town? Aim: My aim is to determine which city, Johannesburg or Cape Town, has the best quality of life using income in both cities, life expectancies in South Africa as a whole, literacy levels, crime and leisure’s in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. Review of literature What is the quality of life? Quality of Life is the well being of individuals and societies. It has a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international…

Amartya Sen’s capability approach is a theoretical framework for the evaluation of individual welfare. It provides a theoretical basis for inequality, poverty and policy analysis. In the recent decades the capability approach has gained much popularity as emphasis is laid on human development that goes beyond the previously important notions of sheer economic development. The earlier aspects of capability approach can be traced in the works of Aristotle, Karl Marx and Adam Smith; however, it is…

In this essay I will compare and contrast modernization theory, import substitution, and neoliberal economic theory and their approach for helping developing states grow economically. Modernization theory, created in the 1950’s, argues that countries simply need to follow the path that the already wealthy states followed, and they too will become rich. In other words, less developed countries should embrace Western ideas that individualism is important to a functioning society…

Since the 13th century to present day, the world has been suffering from pollution. Scientist have known about the Earth’s pollution issues for centuries, especially when coal was introduced. Air pollution is one of the worst forms of pollution. Scientists recognize air pollution as a threat to human health and ecosystems, especially in countries such as China. China is a country falling under the consequences of air pollution. Air pollution in China has become very out of control. There are…

All the nations of the world have different resources or skill sets to offer to the world. It is a macrocosm of how people interact and work with one another, offering what they can and asking for what they need to create something for the betterment of themselves, their office, or their company. It is a macrocosm in a sense that the different nations try to work as one unit to make life better in general. Like everything else in this world, not all nations are perfect. There are going to be…

According to Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential document on enabling sustained economic and social responsibility for the next five billion people it stated the mission was “to bring together the company’s and business strategy and citizenship goals in a coordinated effort to help address the diverse social and economic issues faced by those who currently receive little or no benefit from technology.” Microsoft program is to globalize newer technology to countries without it in order to catch these…

This paper will explore the resource curse thesis, an idea which theorises a nations abundance in resources will generate poor overall economic development in less developed countries. The resource curse explains this idea by proposing minerals and fuels in great abundance equal restriction in growth in the form of state intervention and significant cases of rent seeking and corruption. The general consensus on these cases is a negative one in terms of overall development and the long-term…

“Waste: damaged, defective, or superfluous material produced by a manufacturing process…” (Merriam-Webster, Waste). Using this above definition, it is possible to break into the sub-branch known as electronic waste or E-waste. Due to the current large consumerism culture, many first world countries find themselves producing an unstable amount of E-waste from the constant “upgrading” or destruction of older electronics. Further in this paper, examples of how this waste is dealt with shall be…

children to eat more fruits and vegetables. On the first day of implementation, teachers will use the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) index chart to record information like the children’s date of birth, gender, and date of measurement, height and weight. They will also use the CDC’s BMI calculator to calculate the body mass index (BMI) of each student. Based on the score of child they will identify those who are either overweight or are at the risk if being…