...Content Content………………………………………………………………………………..1 1.0 Introduction………………………………………………………………………2 2.0 Background………………………………………………………………………2 3.0 Presentation of options……………………………………………………………3 3.1Desalination……………………………………………………………………3 3.2Water reuse…………………………………………….………………………3 4.0 Requirements………………………………………………………………………3 4.1 Cost……………………………………………………………...……………3 4.2 Environment…………………………………………….……………………4 4.3 Sustainability…………………………………………………………………5 5.0Comparison of options…………………………………….………….……………6 5.1 Cost……………………………………………………………………………6 5.1.1 Desalination……………………………………….……….……………6 5.1.2 Water reuse…………………………………………..…………………6 5.2 Environment………………………………………………………...…………7 5.2.1Desalination………………………………………………………………7 5.2.2 Water reuse…………………………………………...…………………8 5.3 Sustainability……………………………………………………..……………9 5.3.1 Desalination……………………………………………...………………9 5.3.2 Water reuse…………………………………………...…………………9 6.0 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………9 7.0 Recommendation…………………………………………………………………10 8.0 Bibliography……………………………………………………...………………11 1.0 Introduction Water is one of our most critical resources. However, as climate change warms the atmosphere and alters the hydrological cycle, around the world it is under threat (EPA, 2013). In addition, the high population and excessive development lead to the water consumption has a significant increase (Zhang, et al. 2010). As a result, a variety of countries are facing water shortage...
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...CHAPTER FOUR Student’s Name Institution of affiliation Summary Renewable energy is that which uses natural phenomena such as wind, tide, sunlight, plant growth ( biomass), geothermal heat among others. In fact, it is said, “Renewable energy is derived from natural processes that are replenished constantly. In its various forms, it derives directly from sun, or from heat generated deep within the earth. Included in the definition is electricity and heat generated from solar, wind, ocean, hydropower, biomass, geothermal resources, and biofuels and hydrogen derived from renewable resources.” (Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development, Afgan & Carvalho, 2004). This chapter attempts to look at the various sources of renewable energy and how they can be applied in the shipping industry. The renewable energy resources are available across the globe. Unlike traditional sources of energy such as fossil fuel which is located in specific and limited areas, renewable energy sources can be found in most parts of the world. It is believed that with the rapid development of renewable energy coupled with the efficiencies, economies of various countries will sprout and the energy sector will pride itself with having achieved sustainability and stable supply of energy (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.), & United States. 2010). History of Renewable Energy Research has it that biomass is the oldest form of renewable energy whose use dates...
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...Name BSHS 345 Date Instructor MHF Module: Understanding Differences Understanding Differences Worksheet Research a culture from a country that is different than your own. Complete the table below for the culture you chose. Include 50 to 150 words for each response. Culture: Afganistan |Topic |Cultural View of the Topic | |Raising children |Many children are introduced to violence, abuse, exploriation, and negect in Afghanistan. For more than 30 years of| | |war, many of them have been killed (Swanson & Swanson, 2011). Hundreds of children are used as suicide bombers, and| | |are put in harms way daily. According to Swanson & Swanson (2011), “Conflict and political violence force millions | | |of children and their families to flee their homes and as a result displaced families spend years in situations of | | |uncertainty and insecurity” (para. 3). | |Role of genders |Discrimination is common among girls and women. Throughout early childhood, about 70 percent of school-age girls, | | |do not attend school, while 94 percent of girls are not even registered births (Swanson & Swanson, 2011). The men | | |are the...
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...Afgan, et al 2005. Multi- Criteria Assessment of New and Renewable Energy 27 (739-755). Bell, et al 2010. Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions. Villiers Publication. London (114). Blackwood, et al 2011. The Nonprofit Sector in Brief: Public Charities, Giving, and Volunteering. Washington D.C Urban Institute (53-65). Bowman, et al 2011. Financial Capacity and Sustainability of Ordinary Nonprofits. Management and Leadership 3rd Ed. Oxford University Press (37-51). Brandlow,K. 2007.The Role of Government in Community Development in Aotearoa New Zealand. Victoria University o Wellington (13-42). Bray, Llona 2010. Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies that Work 2ndEd. Macmillan Press Limited (71-90). Bridger, et at 2004. Building the Sustainable Community. University of Texas Press, USA (462-92). Cavallaro, F. 2005. Integrated Multi-Criteria System to Assess Sustainable Energy Option.Oxford University Press (140-154). Chile, L. 2006. Good Development Practice: An Instrument for Building Community SocietyNew York. Orbis Books (400-412). Costanza, R. et al 2007. An Introduction to Ecological Economics. St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton, Florida (4-93). Dorothy, A. Johnson 2005. Center for Philanthropy and Leadership 4th Ed. Villiers Publication. London (77-98). Hackler, et al 2007. The Strategic Use of Information Technology by Nonprofit...
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...1. Introduction As a Corporate Citizen business organizations have to prove their accountability to the society associated with the profit maximization motive to preserve the prolonged existence of the corporate image. This social concern has given the birth of corporate social responsibility (CSR). While the concept of CSR is widely accepted, there is no single, universally accepted definition of CSR. Generally, it refers to business decision-making linked to ethical values, compliance with legal instruments, and respect for people, communities and the environment. CSR has been defined as “the integration of business operations and values whereby the interests of all stakeholders, including customer, employees, investors and the environment are reflected in the organization’ polices and actions” (Smith,2002). An international survey of corporate sustainability reporting conducted by KPMG in 2002 found that 45%of the world’s largest 250 companies now produce environmental and social reports, up from 35% in 2000. This survey shows how much disclosure of CSR is expanded. The companies have to satisfy the divergent number of stakeholders, the credible relationship is created through CSR reporting. It improves communication with the community and other stakeholders (Anand, 2002) and results in competitive advantage (King, 2002). CSR through ensuring better and safe working environment, elimination ofcorruption, focusing of human rights and environmental sustainability are now recognized...
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...New Left • The Movement • Hippies • Beliefs: anti-war, rights for everyone, university reforms • Often young radicals • Was not the majority of Americans • Loosely organized Student for a Democratic Society • was one of the most active anti-war groups. • They were also against racial discrimination and strict college rules. • Rich mans war but a poor mans fight Free Speech Movement • Berkeley students disputed over rights of students • students challenged campus police and striked in large mass • nearly decade of campus turmoil • moved along to Columbia and other colleges Weathermen • 1969 • small groups of militants that cultivated popular imgae of student radicalism= cahos + disorder • responsible for arson, bombing= destroy campus buildings + lives • tried to drive out training programs + bar military recruiters from college campuses Antiwar rallies • in protest of Vietnam war, many individuals gathered to advocate against the political minds and US presence in Vietnam • 1960s (late '60s) • organized some of the largest political demonstrations in American history Anti-draft movement • Protests against the military draft. • 1960s and 70s • only voluntary participation. Many left the country Counterculture • culture with values and beliefs different then the mainstream • 1970s Woodstock • A music festival held in New York in 1969 • the beatles, jimmy hendrix Termination • Reducing size of bureaucracy by cutting programs/agencies - reduce budget ...
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...language since its independence in 1971. However, before the independence, the region now known as Bangladesh had been existed as a multilingual country for centuries throughout its social and political development. In the early period of history, there were various aboriginal speech communities including mainly the speakers of Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages distributed throughout the different regions of this country. The multilingual situation that had existed for millenniums changed in the later period with the settlement of the immigrant people into two phases. In the first phase, the Aryan speech communities immigrated into this region until the beginning of 1st Millennium. In the second phase, the Muslim people including Afgan, Arabic, Persian and Turkish speech communities...
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...victims so far seemed to be Jews, and no way was the U.S. going to come to the defense of Jews at that time. Especially if it was going to cost us money. The other thing was our sense simply of the physical distance. It wasn’t hard in those years leading into the war for Americans to say, this doesn’t concern us.” Dreaming up America Russell Banks 2008 Edition pg 90 paragraph 1 American troops went to Afganstan, with the intital intention of locating known terrorist Osama –Bin- Laden for his involvement with 911 attacks in the U.S. But because the Taliban requested that Bin laden leave the country, and they declined to extradite him to us without evidence that he was involved in the 911 attacks. American troops were dispatached to Afgan to right the wrong that was done to America. We would not have gone to Afganstan if American lives had not been taken without a second thought of our precious life really is. American Air Forces had to interviene regarding the Libya Co.l Muammar Al –Quaddafi. The United States and its allies did not want to send in air strikes and wepontry upon Libya. However, when you have no regard for your people’s lives, the American people can’t sit idle and allow innocient people continue to lose their lives. Something needed and had to be done, so America did what we always do best. Step in and try to right the wrong. In...
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...books. He would use a higher vocabulary than Hassan knew, and tease him when he did not know the words. Additionally, in order to distance himself after feeling guilty, he hid a watch and money under Hassan’s pillow to imply that he stole them. As loyal as Hassan was, he said he did steal when he did not and ended up leaving. This would end up being one of the biggest regrets in Amir’s life. In a way to help redeem all these wrongdoings, he agrees to adopt Sohrab, which is Hassan’s kid when he is stuck in an Afghanistan orphanage. He takes him home, and gives him a good life. These seven words encourage Amir to take another human being into his home, which is a really big deal. Amir could relate to Nick Danziger who adopted three disabled Afgan kids. Like Amir, it was not part of his plan to adopt; it just happened. It took a lot of work to adopt these kids. To demonstrate the struggle of adopting, Sohrab nearly killed himself when he heard he may have to go back to orphanage to help complete the adoption. Passports and legal documents are another issue. While Amir had problems getting Sohrab’s parents death certificate, Nick had problems with passports. He had to cheat his way through getting passport photos with the help of taking over the care of them. Nick and Amir both struggled at times with their kids. Amir struggled with connecting to Sohrab and getting him to go to school while Nick struggled with argumentative teenagers, running away, and being clingy. After losing their...
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...In many societies, differences in religion and history can cause a social rift and create a structure of classes. This separation between people can affect the circumstances they are subject to and essentially how they live their life. However an individual’s outlook on life and the positive and negative thoughts he or she acquires are dependant solely on his or her decisions and outside forces. In the novel, The Kite Runner, the author Khaled Hosseini tells the story of an Afgan boy who struggles with the emotional consequences of a childhood decision that set him on a search for redemption. The author shows that classism determines the quality of one’s lifestyle but not the emotional state of mind one possesses. This is established through the social setting in the novel which enforces classist ideals that rigidly cast individuals into certain roles and determine the way they are treated. Next, the character of Amir’s childhood friend and servant, Hassan, undergoes a grim change as a result of a traumatic incident rather then a consequence of his social standing and material worth. Finally, Amir consistently battles with an internal conflict and guilt after betraying Hassan despite living a privileged and financially-comfortable life. The religious segregation of the Afghan people creates a classist social setting which shapes the lifestyle and expectations of those within it. One of the most evident cases of division based on social class in the novel is the difference...
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...Govt-2301-WS3 What makes us so different? Understanding Political Ideology through Partisanship People today think that it doesn’t matter how you vote, the outcome will always be the same because the Democratic and GOP parties are run by corporations. Some think that in order to break away from the special interests and influences, there should be a strong third party and that party with a different platform is the Libertarian Party. Historically the main two parties were not much different. In the beginning both parties believed that “men (not big government) was to rule them” (The Fundamental Differences Between Republican and Democrats). There was a mutual desire for individual freedom. Currently it seems that their fundamental beliefs have changed. The Democratic Party wants to increase government involvement in the lives of the American public, whereas the Republicans would like to see decreased national government and have each state govern themselves (The Fundamental Differences Between Republican and Democrats). The Libertarians seem to want to get back to what the founding fathers envisioned. Each party has very strong convictions on the topics that confront America today. The hottest topic facing the nation is Same Sex Marriage. Since the beginning the Democrats have defended Civil Rights and supported the expansion of opportunities for all. They fight to end all forms of discrimination, but this is an uphill battle. “We support marriage equality...
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...victims so far seemed to be Jews, and no way was the U.S. going to come to the defense of Jews at that time. Especially if it was going to cost us money. The other thing was our sense simply of the physical distance. It wasn’t hard in those years leading into the war for Americans to say, this doesn’t concern us.” Dreaming up America Russell Banks 2008 Edition pg 90 paragraph 1 American troops went to Afganstan, with the intital intention of locating known terrorist Osama –Bin- Laden for his involvement with 911 attacks in the U.S. But because the Taliban requested that Bin laden leave the country, and they declined to extradite him to us without evidence that he was involved in the 911 attacks. American troops were dispatached to Afgan to right the wrong that was done to America. We would not have gone to Afganstan if American lives had not been taken without a second thought of our precious life really is. American Air Forces had to interviene regarding the Libya Co.l Muammar Al –Quaddafi. The United States and its allies did not want to send in air strikes and wepontry upon Libya. However, when you have no regard for your people’s lives, the American people can’t sit idle and allow...
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...Assignment on CSR Practices in Private Banks Submitted to Mr. S. S. M. Sadrul Huda Assistant Professor Business Administration Submitted by Name ID Md. Amir Khan 2012-1-10-206 Farjana Afrin 2012-1-10-203 Shuvro Protim Chondro 2010-3-10-087 MD Towfique Alahy 2012-2-30-049 Mahmuda Akter 2013-1-10-268 Table of Content Abstract This paper examines peoples understanding, services, expectations and assessment of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of private banks, especially Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd, Prime Bank, Unite Commercial Bank, Premier Bank, BRAC Bank are the largest private banks in Bangladesh. This study has been conducted among the stakeholders and beneficiaries of these private Bank Limited. An interview has been conducted using structured questionnaires to critically examine the subjective perceptions of the meaning, reasons and various aspects of CSR tasks of in Bangladesh. It has been found out that common people either do not have clear understanding about CSR activities or are not really concerned about the social responsibilities of the corporate organizations. The expected outcome of CSR activities, as has been stated in the memorandum and commitments of the corporate houses, has yet to be achieved. This study suggests that a more comprehensive and humane involvement of the common people in the CSR activities is required, which would not only fulfill the intended goals and objectives of the private banks but also ensure...
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...Be it resolved that wealthy countries should increase their foreign aid. Foreign aid is economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, economic stabilization, or for mutual defence (Dictionary.Reference). According to Ranking The Rich “foreign aid is pragmatic and principled...in a globalizing world, rich countries cannot insulate themselves from insecurity” (Ranking The Rich, 2004). Our world contains “global cities” meaning; nations tend to be more closely related to each other than they are within their own borders. Therefore what happens globally also has an impact locally because everyone belongs to the global community and if there is an occurrence wealthy countries need to contribute because it has an impact on their own people as well. (Streger, 2010, p.83). Foreign aid should be implemented by wealthy countries to help relieve the oppressed developing countries from downturns because of agriculture changes caused by global warming which in turn causes cultivation to decrease and as a result, less trade among nations for the products. This paper will also go into the analysis of democracy as being beneficial for individuals and society as a whole. Individuals are universally correlated to each other on this planet through the air they breathe, the climate, the food and the water that they drink. (Streger, 2010, 108). According to this statement individuals are boundless, and green house...
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...Modern banks play an important part in promoting economic development of a country. Banks provide necessary funds for executing various programs underway in the process of economic development. They collect savings of large masses of people scattered through out the country, which in the absence of banks would have remained idle and unproductive. These scattered amounts are collected, pooled together and made available to commerce and industry for meeting the requirements. Economy of Bangladesh is in the group of world’s most undeveloped economies. One of the reasons may be its undeveloped banking system. Government as well as different international organizations have also identified that undeveloped banking system causes some obstacles to the process of economic development. So they have highly recommended for reforming financial sector. Since 1990, Bangladesh government has taken a lot of financial sector reform measures for making financial sector as well as banking sector more sound and transparent, and formulation and implementations of these reform activities have also been participated by different international organization like World Bank, IMF, ADB etc. Bank marketing is one of the booming parts in world economy. Without Bank marketing it is awfully sturdy for every bank to survive. In the modern World, bank marketing is a new criterion to us. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY: Broad Objective The study will explore the applicability of marketing mix strategies for IFIC Bank Ltd...
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