Water cycle

Give a man a fish, he eats for the night, teach a man how to fish and he eats forever. Earth is home to 7.4 billion people -- of those 7.4 billion people more than 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day (UNDP). More than 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day; or in other words, extreme poverty (UNDP). Poverty is a worldwide hurdle that nobody has yet to knockdown. Poverty, Inc. is a film that shows the untold impacts of foreign aid; moreover, how America, NGO’s (non-governmental…

maintain her weight. Eat oatmeal or cereal for breakfast with milk and fruits, small rice with chicken for lunch and vegetable soup made with spinach and okra for dinner. She does not take alcohol, but drink two cups of coffee as needed and a lot of water. Also, she does not use illicit drugs or abuse any drugs. She engages in physical activity 20 -30 minutes of walk three times a week and no assistance with activities of daily living. Mrs E. stated no domestic violence in her home, her…

“Modern Times” or How to Support Capitalism This paper investigates the relationship between Marxist theories and Modern Times (1936) by Charles Chaplin, and argues that the main character challenges the Marxist notions of value and commodity and deliberately chooses not to fit into the industrialized world that is portrayed in the film. Modern times is set during the Great Depression Era, which begins in 1929 with the crash of the New York Stock Market and lasts for about ten years until 1939.…

Moral Comparability In Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer, he argues that we are morally obligated to donate as much money to charity as we can to help limit poverty in the world. Singer explains that there are many people in the world suffering from poverty, and living very poor-quality lives as a result of poverty. He argues that poverty is morally wrong because of the suffering it promotes. Singer believes it is the moral obligation of humans to donate as much as they can…

“The Final Hours of Troy” Virgil is a first century B.C.E. Roman epic poem writer. Virgil wrote the greatest epic poem and the most influential work of all classical literature, The Aeneid. The Aeneid makes up twelve books in total and it incorporates various legends of Aeneas who later becomes the founder of the Roman Empire. The story of “The Final Hours of Troy” is Book II of The Aeneid and it’s told by the Trojan Prince, Aeneas, to a Queen named Didio and her court. This long and tragic…

Teagan Hawes Author’s Craft Essay In life, humanity needs to see past the surface of others, or they will face the pain of guilt later on. Guilt. This is a word that can weigh down on your shoulders like a 50 pound dumbell. Having a guilty conscience can make one go insane and feel an immense amount of paranoia! This is evident in the short story, “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, where the narrator has an obsession with an old man’s eye--an eye that brought great agony among the…

Like an avalanche in the mountains change is inevitable and unstoppable. In the Iliad, by Homer, an epic/poem retelling the tale of the Trojan war, there was a bloody battle between Greece and Troy. One of the main characters is Achilles, an almost invincible Greek warrior. The author uses characterization to show Achilles experiences great change throughout the poem, from stubborn to devastated to avengement seeking, all because his good friend and comrade, Patroclus, was killed in battle.…

In 2011, Chad Newbrough Steacy wrote his thesis, Discourse in the Abandoned Small Town: Toward a Critical Geography of Decline. The title must be Steacy’s best expression of his interpretation of the state of affairs in the small town of Sunbury, PA. Steacy elaborates in the heart of his thesis, “An indication of the economic change that has affected Sunbury is the large amount of abandoned industrial space woven into the town’s landscape.” (Steacy, 2011). Clearly, Steacy is writing about a…

The possibility of education in solving the intergenerational poverty in Hong Kong What is the intergenerational poverty? It refers to the poverty induced by the socially or economically challenged background of a person’s parents. (Commission on poverty, 2007) In Hong Kong, there are 121,400 poor households with children under 18 years old. (Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report, 2014) It is impossible that education solves the intergenerational poverty in Hong Kong because there are great…

Pakistan remains one of the backward countries in the world. The nation’s progress is hampered by failing democracy, economic instability, menace of corruption, lawlessness and pervasive poverty and gender inequality. Inefficient justice system has contributed to causation of these menaces. Unless efficient justice system is produce no nation progress is possible in Pakistan. Pakistan remains one of the most lawless countries in the world. According to rule of Law index, published by World…