Palmer Drought Index

Food security, defined as the ability to provide sufficient food for the global population relying on a healthy and sustainable nutrition (Godfray et al., 2010), is likely to become one arduous challenge to the following decades. The predictions of The United Nations, in which the world’s population by 2075 will achieve about 9.5 billion people (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2013), suggest that modern and efficient measures must be taken to follow the prospective food requirements.…

Quality of Life) It has been assumed that quality of life is associated with wealth. However, today quality of life is considered to be one of the most significant aspects of prosperity. It is conceptualised in different ways. The Human Development Index includes indicators of health and education, alongside…

Media in modern society has created an obsession surrounding body image, and body weight. The prevalent rise of obesity of over the past decade has created an ever-widening gap between society’s unrealistic beauty standards, and the body image of the average individual. This paradox can lead to depression, low self-esteem, and negative self-perceptions in obese individuals. Research based on the theories of attraction suggests that obesity can negatively impact an individual’s ability to…

What’s difference between being alone and feeling lonely? Some say loneliness is the unhappiness that is often felt when they do not have friends or no one to turn to; some say loneliness is an emotion, but being alone can be a choice. Being to many places usually out of everyone’s travel plan, Pico Iyer finds that we often feel lonely when we are in a crowd, but not part of the it. In his work, “Lonely Places,” Pico Iyer depicts a unique outlook of several “lonely places” where are…

There are so many Americans that will drop off their old, broken electronics to be recycled, thinking they are being responsible, without knowing the truth. Developing countries are being shipped mountains of our e-waste to “bridge the digital divide” when in reality we just do not want to deal with these products that cost more to fix than they are worth. I will first explain what it is we are doing to these countries, how it affects them, and why it is being allowed in the first place. Then I…

The body mass index was calculated for the group of children and out of the 115 boys and 90 girls the overweight/obese percentage was 24% (Hadfield and Preece, 2008). The findings of this study was that 81% of the children were at normal weight upon entering into the…

With over 2/3 of the American population classified as obese, and one in ten adults over 20 classified as extremely obese (BMI of 40+), obesity is not limited to one specific group (Filer, 2015). Rather, the effects of obesity can be seen through-out all ages, all ethnicities, and all economic classes. Obesity on its own is debilitating, but it is the host of other diseases that it entails that causes additional health problems. The need to eat is necessary to survive, however America’s constant…

developmental challenge is to utilize its renewable energy resources, and to provide sanitary, affordable energy services that will support socio-economic activities and encourage sustainable development. According to the paper, the Human Development Index (HDI) puts Sub-Saharan Africa at the bottom of the list of 186 countries surveyed. It was also mentioned that halving the poverty rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is extremely hard to reach by 2015. That being said, they argue that being exposed to…

“Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to a source, but to find intellectual capital - the world 's best talents and greatest ideas”. (John Welch) Globalization is driven by numerous factors, a few are trading and barriers, people movement, communications, and technology. As trade increases so does contacts. The higher the contacts individuals have the fewer barriers there are in between people and businesses. Over the years trade has been…

Dhurandhar, Bredlau, Heymsfield, Ravussin, & Bouchard, 2014). People who are obese and overweight are more likely to have high-risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and more (Bhattacharya, 2013). Adopting a policy for body mass index (BMI) reporting program, labeling of all foods and beverages to promote consumer awareness of calories, as well as taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages will provide means of reducing the prevalence of obesity and overweight. Background of the issue…