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    1.INTRODUCTION Climate change has become one of the leading factors that has damaged rural communities in the developing world. Rural areas in the developing world are mostly affected by climate change due to lack of education and funds to implement measures that can curb climate change. Climate change has damaged rural communities by affecting the livelihood of the rural people, health, agriculture, the economy just to mention a few. Natural disasters, sea level rises and global warming are…

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    since we have domesticated plants the most important goal has been making more food on a single plant. More ears of corn per stalk, more apples per apple tree; and we’ve gotten very good at it too. In 1966 the United States produced 105,862 Metric Tonnes (MT) of Corn; in comparison to 2016, 50 years later we produced 383,378 MT of corn. That’s more than 3 ½ times as much yield, owed in part to the substantial advances in the field of genetic modification.5 Unfortunately these numbers do nothing…

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    Introduction: This paper introduces the existing state of carbon accounting in profit organisations in UK and Russia, and critically analyse the differences of carbon accounting policies applied in two countries. To better identify the issue, BG Group (in UK) and Gazprom (in Russia) are chosen as examples to compare the differences of measurement and disclosure on carbon emissions and greenhouse gas related activities. In the end, the motivations to improve the quality of disclosure are analysed…

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    Mao Zedong is revered by many as the ‘founding father of modern China’, with his legacy being not only physically but metaphorically embalmed. However, many, particularly in the West, question this reverence in so far as he halted economic and political progress in China via tumultuous campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward. In order to consider if Mao's importance in Chinese history has been exaggerated, his significance needs to be assessed. Looking at Mao's the impact of his policies at the…

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    Explore the impact of the agricultural revolution on human society Looking back at the achievements of humans, one that some say has caused the largest impact is the Agricultural Revolution. During the late 18th and 19th centuries as a result of the Industrial Revolution, and its advances came the Agricultural Revolution. Due to the developments in technology, the agricultural system in Britain was completely overhauled. The system had to become more efficient to meet the demands of the growing…

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    Title: Chinese economic development and structure problem Method: Introduction China 's economy Efficiency Analysis Problem of Chinese economic Structure China 's economy high speed growth can be remained in the future ? Conclusion Bibliography Some Key wards: China 's economy development China‘s Structure problem Efficiency Population Introduction After China economic revolution, everybody know Chinese economic have increased rapid . For example, after economic revolution ,…

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    Cathay Pi Case Study

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    For thousands of years, flying was just a fantasy. Human beings always yearn to fly in the sky but all they can ever do were to dream. Then in a single century, what was deemed as a fantasy became reality. On 17 December 1903, Wright brothers became the first humans to concur to sky. And soon after, the first commercial flight took-off with “Benoist XIV”, a two seater with a relatively small flight deck plane piloted by Tony Jannus, veteran test pilot and barnstormer from St. Petersburg to Tampa…

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    Allied Strategic Bombing

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    and tanks. Examples such as the dam busters’ raid, where dams very close to the Ruhr were blown up meant that German production was brought to a standstill. A total of 100 factories had been damaged and coal production had dropped a massive 400,000 tonnes meaning that Germany’s economy was affected. The bombing also meant that Germany had to focus production more on anti-aircraft artillery and fighters rather than bombers (2351 bombers compared to 24,981 fighters)…

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    After the end of World War I, Germany revolutionised into a democratic republic which was encouraged by war weariness and the demand for political reform. However, the new ‘Weimar Republic’ was not the ideal nation it was planned to be. Democratic leadership encountered many economic and political issues, which arose from the Treaty of Versailles, the French occupation of the Ruhr, and the Great Depression – and simply the frailty of democracy itself. The German people longed for a return to…

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    only used as world international threats. The Cold War was an example of a near world catastrophe. “During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union both maintained enormous stockpiles of chemical weapons, amounting to tens of thousands of tonnes. The amount of chemical weapons held by these two countries was enough to destroy much of the human and animal life on Earth” (“History of CW Use”). Unfortunately, two rich world powers were utilizing chemical weapon resources at an…

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