The Refuge

Seasons of Life and Land, author Jimmy Carter argues that our arctic and its wildlife refuge are in danger and needs to be preserved. He clearly states the current situation and persuades the readers against such actions as to installing oil rigs for it may disrupt the caribou and their way of life as well as many other species of animals. Carter had the privilege to first hand experience the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and he, himself was saddened at the thought of what might happen if man…

1939, the US turned away what 's believed to have been over nine hundred refuge seeking Jews aboard the MS. Saint Louis. This event was the first governmental incident of anti-Jewish sentiment . These refuge seekers, had come from…

war. In this case, Rick’s Cafe Americain is the metaphor where all different ethnic groups have come to escape the war. It was their refuge in Casablanca for it’s safety, and America was a refuge for those seeking safety from the war. Rick’s Cafe Americain is America, the people who are affected by the war are trying to escape by going to Casablanca to seek refuge so that they can…

the 114th Surah of The Qu’ran, the Prophet is being addressed as a head and leader of a people and is commanded, “Say, ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of people, the Controller of people, the God of people’”. The three preeminent characteristics and attributes of God described here are: Kingship/Lordship, Ownership, and Holiness, which are all concerned with man taking refuge from evil within God. We described God as being omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibevolent. Both the Qu’ran and the Bible…

Concepts of social justice are more frequently applied to natural systems in political ecology (Robbins 2012). Perspectives on wetlands in particular have been instrumental in shaping Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge and debates over wetland policy illustrate the difficulties when attempting to quantify or monetize ecosystems (Robertson and Wainwright 2013). The political debate about how we value systems that provide ecosystem services to humans and animals,…

out to civilian companies for different uses. Later the area was turned over to the U.S. Army, Shell Oil Company, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to start cleanup of the base. Rocky Mountain Arsenal was later transformed into a National Wildlife Refuge. The reading assignment all basically support the clean-up of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. This project was a superfund project by the Federal government. The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was concerned a top five…

Costa Rica That is not matter where we are at which City, which Country, or which Continent we always have a place to call back-home. I was born in Costa Rica, Central America; consequently, limiting North with Nicaragua and South with Panama. Costa Rica have many of cultural influences like Indianians, European, afrocaribean, and Asian. The official language is Spanish, but local Indigenous spoken Maléku, Cabécar, Bribri, Guaymi, and Buglere; in addition, immigration to Costa Ricabrought…

Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a rather large country in central Africa, had over 16,370 refuges come inside Americas borders. Syria followed in a close second with 12,587, which exceeded the goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees (Connor, 2016). In third was Burma or otherwise known as Myanmar, a country stationed between Bangladesh and Thailand, had over 12,347 people seeking refuge (Connor, 2016). Many other countries made up that 85 thousand people such as Iraq and Somalia…

professional degree in social work the following year. In 1939 Laura was to become the first female overseas representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee or JDC. Laura went to Cuba to help assist about five thousand Jews taking refuge there, hoping to get in to the US. She worked tiredly with US consular officials in Cuba on behalf of the Jews taking refugee there.…

storytelling. Storytelling is very significant due to the fact that it not only is education for some, but it also carries on the legacies of book that are being obliterated, and it creates a refuge for the audience. Dai Sijie calls…