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    For example, the rice market in 2007 shows the effects of governments that determine trade outcomes through export restrictions, discretionary government-to-government purchases and other trade policies (Heady 2010: 139). The analysis showed that these types of ‘‘trade shocks” severely restricted the rice supplies for the entire planet at a time when the commodity was desperately needed during initial beginning of the 2008 economic crisis (Heady 2010:140). Noah Zerbe (2010) argument focuses…

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    There are two principles: The first is the idea of “no account of proximity or distance.” The second is the idea of “this principle makes no distinction between cases.” Sometimes, one person can deal with everything about cases of disaster, but other times one person can just help in one situation with a few people. Singer states that his idea in the second principle is the need to defend those in need more. For example among the Bengali refugees, many people are in a terrible situation, but…

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    Buildings are complex systems that have to fulfil many functions. They have to provide a healthy and comfortable indoor environment, must be energy efficient and ultimately must be sustainable (Boemi, Irulegi and Santamouris, 2016). However, over the years, the need to improve the energy efficiency of the building sector was given first priority. The main reason for this is the following. It is well known that the contribution of the building sector to the total energy consumption is significant…

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    The Technology needs of Society Owing to the Population Growth It took 11.5 years for humanity to grow the global population up to one billion people, and surprisingly, the global population doubled that only in another 130 years and is currently over 7.4 billion (Worldometers). After the industrial revolution, as technologies, medical science, and the economy of the world improve and develop, the mortality rate decreases and the life expectancy and the buoyancy in the population increase…

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    to address issues such as food insecurity and malnutrition, but has been dominated by a motive of promoting efficiency and profit. The rise of the green revolution brought about perpetuating capitalism , through industrialized everything around the farm in order to strip power away from consumers, and to allow corporations to control . Unlike the green revolution, the rise of biotech industry is consumer , and is not only able to mass produce, but it’s able to fully capture the natural process…

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    world with an increase in technology could undermine the morals within humanity and end up controlling humanity as an end result. Lansing’s research analysis is based on past, adapting systems, such as the Balinese water temples before and after the Green Revolution. Shiva contends the ramifications of biopiracy, the piracy on biological products to be financed by businesses, and how those ramifications of this biopiracy can impact an…

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    Australia has six major different political parties: the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party, The Nationals, the Australian Greens, the Australian Democrats, and One Nation. Formed in 1890, the Australian Labor Party’s commitment is to promote fairness at work, provide access to quality education no matter what a person’s circumstances, and a firm belief that we should all have…

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    Introduction Green revolution is the dispersal of modern agricultural technologies which contributed significantly to the increase of crops production in developing countries in the mid of the 20th century from the 1960s to 1980s, to meet the challenge of the possibilities of starvation due to the increase in the human population and the and the unavailability of food (Wu & Butz, 2004). From then to now cereal production has increased by 200% with a mere 30% increase in land under cultivation…

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    June 4, 2010, is a day that I will remember forever; it’s a day that taught me to never take life, family, or friends for granted because you never know when something unexpected, bad or good, will happen and impact your life forever. The day started just like every day has for the past month. We started practicing basketball early that morning, with the same routine as always: stretching, running, layups, and splitting up into two teams and playing against each other. Our coach, Coach Joey, was…

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    Perhaps.” This idea comes from Francois Rabelais. Miles describes him in this quote: “He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps” (Green 5). When Rabelais sought a “Great Perhaps,” he was referring to the mystery of what might await him after death. Miles reinterprets this quote to be about living rather than dying. He memorizes people’s last words because it helps him…

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