Scarcity

Six Principles of Persuasion Student Name Withheld University of the People Six Principles of Persuasion The six principles of persuasion help present arguments to bring about change. These six principles are: reciprocity, scarcity, authority, commitment and consistency, consensus, and liking. These principles help your message successfully persuade by using social norms and expectations to your advantage (McLean, 2010). Sometimes you are able to persuade using only a few of the principles…

revealed when they have been placed in a stressful or disruptive environment. In the study of Economics, resources are allocated wisely so that everyone could be better off and such disruptive or inhumane behavior could be minimized. Generally speaking, scarcity, greed, and selfishness are inevitable matters. Humans have been engineered with survival mechanisms that requires them to be selfish to some degree. Hence, even though what the villagers did was considered selfish, they did what they…

this worth it (time and money)?”. Yes, enrolling in a post-secondary institution is most certainly worth it. The value of post-secondary education can be explained by three economic principles – scarcity, the fallacy of single causation, and opportunity cost. A central focus in economics is scarcity, scarcity is the problem of having limited resources and unlimited wants – this concept can be applied to post-secondary education…

4.7% of households said they did not experience food scarcity. Strategies to survive food shortages were borrowing money to buy food (26.2%), eating boiled cassava roots without sauce (7.8%), food rationing (32.6%), scavenge on nearby farms (7.8%), harvesting wild foods (14.2%), donations from parents and friends (1.4%) and scavenge around the community (4.3%). Chi-Square Tests showed a significant association between months of food scarcity and survival strategies adopted (Pearson Chi-Square =…

A common saying goes, “Knowledge is power”, but this idea is not always true before starting a research endeavor. In fact, research demands as much of an unbiased view as possible. Sometimes, it is required for researchers to try and rid themselves of all known information. Another scenario is that the information is not known such as the case of the aliens who recently contacted Earth. Little is known about them, but that can be used as an advantage. The time is filled with uncertainty as the…

Water is necessary for all complex life on Earth, from plants which use its molecules to synthesize energy from sun rays, to animal cells which use water molecules to repair more complex organic structures like DNA. In addition to drinking it, humans use water for sanitation, hygienics and agricultural irrigation. The multifarious and humanitarian uses for water make it especially alarming that water privatization has sharply increased in the past decades while groundwater levels have sharply…

quality of life. For good living standards, water is the key quality, this can result in poverty life. If children have no access to water they would not be able to attend a school which they will then be unsuccessful according to the Effects of Water Scarcity. Jane realised that the world will become huge dessert in the near future to come. The limited water is no water that will be available will not be enough for the whole world. The climate change will also be a reason for the limited…

prosperity. This value shift has then had a major impact on the political scope of such nations and its influences are still seen today. How valid is Inglehart’s assumption? This question can be answered by analyzing two scenarios; one where there is scarcity present, and the other where there is abundance. Such scenarios can be contrasted by comparing developing with developed countries. Developing countries…

In this paper, Thomas Hobbes ' view of society from his book The Leviathan will be discussed as well as challenged. His philosophy is that our human state of nature is ultimately a state of war. His premises, reasoning, and conclusion of this view will be explored in order to better understand his claim. In The Leviathan, Hobbes argues that our state of nature is a state of war. The goal of this book was to prevent Civil War and to show people that any sovereign is better than none at all. What…

is effecting everything there. It's effecting the food, people, and even the electricity. With all this water consumption, Northern China is struggling to keep up with the demand for water. But what is causing this? What is driving China's water scarcity? The concerning…