...was offered a job on an island in the south pacific named Kava. He felt very secure with his decision to take the job since the health care afcility has a solid foundation. He blindly took the job not having any prior knowledge of the history of the island or what the job required of him. To his surprise, upon arrival, he noticed the island was a mess as far as the eye could see. It was not the paradise Nik expected it to be. The paradise country has gone threw many natural disasters making this a potential concern for him. Nik entered the trailer, which they called the office, expecting to greet the receptionist. Instead, a man named Alex greeted him, this would be Nix’s mentor and supervisor. In this quick introduction he went into explaining what had happened to the island and that it affects everyone every day all over the world. Alex also explained that the organization is considering establishing a greater presents here that could take different forms, based on what is good for the company and good for the people. Kava was a country with lots of serious potential risk associated with it such as: disease, terrorism, which meant possible risk of money laudering, threat of natural disasters, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes. Over fifty percent of the people in Kava were under fifteen years of age. The organization would have to face lack of available employees due to age requirements. Also, there was a broad ethnic mix of indigenous South Pacific tribes, Asian, African...
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...DIVINE WORD UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND INFORMATIC DUE: 6th March 2015 Globalization and its impact on Pacific Island Nations PNG STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MAJOR PAPER PREPARED AND COMPILED BY JOHN STARLING IRO BUSINESS ACCOUNTANCY 4 DIVINE WORD UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND INFORMATIC DUE: 6th March 2015 Globalization and its impact on Pacific Island Nations PNG STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MAJOR PAPER PREPARED AND COMPILED BY JOHN STARLING IRO BUSINESS ACCOUNTANCY 4 Table of Contents Introduction3 1.0 The features of globalization 1.1 Economy…………………………………………………………………………………………………...4 1.2 Trade………………………………………………………………………………………………………...5 1.3 Communication and Technology……………………………………………………………….7 1.4 Environmental…………………………………………………………………………………………..8 1.5 Culture………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 2.0 Impacts of globalization on pacific island nations…………………………………11 3.0 The serious problem facing the world today…………………………………………13 3.1 Global warming……………………………………………………………………………………….13 3.2 Poverty, Disease, conflict and natural disaster………………………………………..14 4.0 How it affects the Government and people of Solomon Island……………..16 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………………..18 Introduction Definition Globalisation is define as; “A process in which the economic, political & cultural separation between nations is breaking down & an international order is emerging” It is further define as the occurring in the economic, political &...
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...Rapa Nui, or Easter Island is a tiny speck of land secluded in the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean. "Ancient voyaging from the central islands of eastern Polynesia would have normally gone against the prevailing trade winds, with the island forming only a small target, although westerly winds associated with periodic ENSO may have carried Polynesian colonists to the island (Anderson, Caveides and Walden, Finney)". Volcanoes constitute the three rims of Rapa Nui. In addition to the cones of three dominant volcanoes (Rano Kao, Poike, and Maunga Terevaka), Easter Island's landscape is also dotted with nearly 70 subsidiary cones. The most ancient stones are 500,000 year old alkali basalt/hawaiite lava flows constructing the Poike composite volcano at the island's eastern edge. Poike, which was formerly an island that eventually became joined to Terevaka by basalt flows emitted from Terevaka, has been seriously crumbled by the sea on each and every edge. The southwest flank of Rapa Nui was created by the Kao volcano. The Rano Kao lake inside the volcano's crater is one of Easter Island's only three pure chunks of crisp water. The water from the exceedingly submerged crater, which is approximately 3,000 feet in width, is carried to Easter Island's capital, Hanga Roa. The crater is roughly a mile in diameter and features a unique microclimate protected from winds. The lake has an abundance of climbing plants. The interior declivity was the spot of the most recent wild toromoro...
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...harvesting operations on the South Pacific Island of Kava. The island is an ideal situation in desperate need of both the products offered by Aqua Harvest, Inc. and the employment opportunities the expansion will bring. There are numerous challenges such a remote and exposed Island presents to a start up operation and each threat must be addressed to accomplish the directive of the company. Aqua Harvest is financially able to achieve its goals in Kava, but the natural forces are of such an unpredictable nature that the physical establishment of the companies operations on the Island of Kava may be the most difficult. The Island of Kava Kava rests in the South Pacific stronghold of islands near Fiji, Samoa, and Bora Bora. Kava rests ideally in the Hawaii to Australia shipping routes with major ports on and near the island. Kava appears to be a well placed starting point for continued growth throughout the surrounding islands being serviced by both United States and Australian corporate offices. History Until 1970, Kava was a British Colony as it had been for nearly a century. Banking on its economical base of petroleum production, tourism banana and spice exportation, Kava requested and was granted the opportunity to become self sufficient and self governed. Profile The island is populated with a diverse mix of indigenous South Pacific Tribes, Asian, African, French, and Spanish. North Americans have also discovered the Island and populations are increasing...
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...“Trash islands” within international waters are mass accumulations of marine debris or litter. These accumulations occur as a result of oceanic pathways called convergence zones. As debris enters the ocean, the different temperatures of the waters create currents, acting like a “highway”. Eventually, the debris becomes bounded and is trapped by ocean gyres, circular ocean currents. The most famous “trash island” is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located in the Pacific Ocean. The size and mass of the island is indeterminable, for the size of North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is too large to be accurately measured. It is estimated that around 80% of the debris that makes up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from land-based pollution, most...
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...Collapse- book is about a history topic about how societies choose to fail or survive. The main characters are historical people and unknown kings of Mayan cities or Easter Island villages. Jared Diamond tells the story of the Viking explorer Erik the Red, who discovered Greeland and Vinland (Terranova, in Canada). Another character is captain Olafsson, a norse sailor who wrote the last news about Greenland in 1410. Another main character is Christopher Columbus, who arrived at Hispaniola in 1492, but now this island is two countries, the Dominican Republic and the Haiti. Diamond studied the politics of two presidents. the dominican Rafael Trujillo, who protected the enviroment and the dictator François, Papa Doc, Duvalier, who decided on politics of deforestatation of his country, Haiti. The author considered the bad politics of another main character, king George II, who was interested in sending merinosheeps from Spain to Australia, an idea which was succesful from 1820 to 1950 but then the farmers understood their lands lost fertility. Another main character is Tokuwaga Jeayasu, a shogun of Japan in 1600, who prohibited Christianity in 1600 and protected his country againt deforestation. The book takes us to a lot of places around the globe: Mayan cities, Rwanda, Viking colonies of Vinland or Greenland, Haiti and Dominican Republic, Easter Island and Polynesian colonies in Pacific, and the Chaco villages in New Mexico (United States). The time period was from 800 AC, when...
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...Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is the most remote island in Polynesia and one of the most isolated places on Earth. Rapa Nui lies in the Pacific Ocean and is located off the coast of Chile. It is only 11 by 17 miles and very far from all other Polynesian island. Rapa Nui was first settled around the 8th to 9th century. It’s called Easter Island because a Dutch explorer found the island in Easter 1772. The Rapa Nui are the native inhabitants of that island. Once a rich and fertile land with various wildlife and abundant resources, the island was later deforested by the inhabitants due an imbalance between nature and Rapa Nui culture. As such there is a significant connection between Rapa Nui art with environmental changes and deviation within their...
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...Bikini Atoll, consists of 23 islands and belongs to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, located just north of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The Marshall Islands are composed of 29 atolls, Bikini and Eniwetok being the two main ones, and five large, isolated islands. Weather in the Marshall Islands is very tropical: hot, humid, with average of 80°F. Rainy season lasts from June to December and dry season from January to May. It also tends to get windier during the dry season. The general landscape is sandy as most of the islands sit on average only 7 feet above sea level – the highest point being an unnamed hill on Likiep which peaks at only 32 ft. (10m). For almost 40 years the islands were under US administration as the eastern most part of the United Nation's Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Bikini Atoll, with a total land area of 3.4 square miles, remained largely unexplored due to its location in the dry, northern area of the Marshall Islands. After WWII ended, the U.S. Navy chose Bikini Island as a location to perform nuclear testing. In July 1946, Operation Crossroads was launched by the U.S. Military, which allowed for the U.S. to begin testing nuclear bombs in this area. Prior to testing, the U.S. Government asked Bikinians (natives of Bikini Island) to move from Bikini Atoll to Rongerik Atoll – 125 miles east of their home...
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...aftershocks (over 14,000) | Rare | Facts Country Profile- NEW ZEALAND | LocationThe group of islands is located in Oceania, southeast of Australia, in the South Pacific Ocean. The 2 main islands are North Island and South Island. | Map | PopulationNZ: 4,438,393(Christchurch: 366,100) | HDI 0.913 (9th) | GDP (US $)$166 billion | GDP per capita (US $)$36,400 | Government Parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm | Political Stability | What happened? | Magnitude / LocationSeptember 4th earthquake occurred along an east-west fault (not Alpine Fault), associated with the motion of the two tectonic plates. Fault that caused the earthquake was under the Canterbury Plains- flatlands between the Southern Alps and the Pacific Ocean. The quake was centred around 45km west of Christchurch. February 2nd epicentre was 10km away from Christchurch with a shallow focus of 5km. This earthquake caused much more damage and had a greater impact on the area. | Time / Speed of onset / DurationFriday, September 03, 2010 at 16:35 PMSaturday, September 04, 2010 at 04:35 AM at epicentre, lasting 40 seconds.February 02, 2011 at 12:51 PM, an aftershock of the September earthquake struck in the middle of a busy weekday, with correspondingly more lethal consequences. | Tectonic situation (words)New Zealand is located on a major plate boundary. The Alpine Fault is where the Pacific Plate meets the Australian Plate. | Tectonic situation (map) | Preparation /...
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...In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—have proliferated. And settler colonial theory is now dogma. At my last two conference presentations, a fellow panelist was astonished that I didn’t deploy it. My research on native New England whaling history made me more globally comparative, but it also forced a reckoning that many places experienced colonialism without an influx of foreign settlers. As scholars parse settler colonialism into its multiple manifestations, colonialism itself remains undifferentiated. One of settler colonialism’s leading theorists, Lorenzo Veracini, juxtaposes the two completely. “Colonialism and settler colonialism are not merely different, they are in some ways antithetical formations,” he wrote in the 2011 founding issue of the journal Settler Colonial Studies. For Veracini, “colonialism” apparently refers to the late 19th-century European scrambles for Africa and Asia—in popular imagery, plantation colonies where members of a white ruling class dressed in white linen lounge on the edge of a cricket field, sipping cocktails served up by dark-skinned natives. Indeed, most of the literature on colonialism explores the history of the plantation colonies of that era. Instead of casting colonialism and settler colonialism as antithetical categories, however...
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...of the United States and northwest Mexico. These iguanas are marked with dark spots, lives in burrows, and feeds on the flowers (Iguana). The most well-known desert iguana is the chuckwalla and it is the largest in the United States. The chuckwalla is able to inflate itself to make it difficult for predators to attack when in small places (Iguana) Marine iguanas only include the one marine lizard that is found in the Galapagos, which is the Amblrhynchus cristatus. This iguana is able to forage in the sea, making it unique to the Iguanidae family. The marine iguana lives on rocky shores where they lay to warm up after being in the water, but can be seen on beaches as well (Iguana) Taxonomy Researchers have long been interested in the Pacific iguanas due to their...
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...The effects to the environment and humankind caused by war Cause and Effect Essay Professor Kelly Gehlhoff Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for English 112 English Composition Two Pueblo, Colorado May 2012 Abstract War causes devastating and often irreversible effects to both humans and the earth. Throughout history, armies have burned the enemy’s crops, rivers have been damed, and water supplies have been poisoned, all in the name of war. The consequences these wars have on humankind include death, injury, dislocation, and malnutrition, which falls hand and hand with the destruction of the environment. Warfare is a terrible thing, bombs destroy life, tanks and other military vehicles damage ecosystems beyond repair, battleships pollute the oceans, and chemical and nuclear weapons have the potential to end life on this planet. The effects to the environment and humankind caused by war In the recent past there have been tragic results of war on the environment and humans, from World War I to the present day Gulf Wars. The ultimate fear is that war will have taken such a toll on the Earth, its inhabitants, and its natural resources that there will not be a world left for humankind to live in. Armed forces destroy their own ecosystems, as well those of the enemy, to win wars. Forests may be stripped of all timber to eliminate hiding places and oil wells, fresh water, crops, land and the animals are ruined to...
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...critical responses among scientists. In his novel, Diamond explains that civilization is exclusively the consequence of climatic and environmental imperatives, contending that the polities allowing for expansion and technological advances in human society are attributed to geography, food production, the domestication...
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...Christo and Jeanne-Claude Origins • Christo (born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев, June 13, 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, 1935 – November 18, 2009) were a married couple who created massive and environmental works of art. • They married over objections from Jeanne Claude’s family(they became their supporters later), forming one of the most durable and creative partnerships in the history of art. • Christo studied art at the Sofia Academy from 1953 to 1956, and went to Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) until 1957, when he left for the West by bribing a railway official and stowing away with several other individuals on-board a train transporting medicine and medical supplies to Austria. • She was described as "extroverted" and with natural organizational abilities. Her hair was dyed red and she smoked cigarettes, and tried to quit many times until her weight would balloon. She did not enjoy cooking.[5] She took responsibility for overseeing work crews and for raising funds.[2] She said she became an artist out of love for Christo (if he'd been a dentist, she said she'd have become a dentist • Their works were credited to just "Christo" until 1994 when the outdoor works and large indoor installations were retroactively credited to "Christo and Jeanne-Claude • They flew in separate planes: in case one crashed, the other could continue their work. Concerns/About Work • A trademark of the work is...
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...person. I understand that the penalty for plagiarism includes any or all of the following: failure in the project with no opportunity to revise, failure in the course with opportunity to retake the course in a later semester, expulsion/termination from the university. Name: Hyemin Hazel Yeo ID: S11080203 Signed: Date: 20/3/2015 Contents Declaration 1 1.1 Background of S.I 3 2.1 literature Review 4 3.1 Research methodology 7 3.2 Primary Source 7 3.3 Secondary Source 7 3.4 Limitation: 7 4.1 Case Study: Solomon Island Water Authority (SIWA) 8 I. Background 8 II. Pre-Reform 8 III. Changes over the year 10 5.1 Solomon Islands Electrical Authority (SIEA) 12 I. Background 12 II. Pre-reform 13 III. Post-reform 14 6.1 Recommendation 16 Bibliography 18 Appendix 1: 19 1.1 Background of S.I Solomon Island (S.I) consists of ten large different province islands and many small ones. It is the second largest insular country of the South Pacific with relatively downturn economy and poor government management system especially during 1998~2003 tension. Although there were quiet few natural resource such as marine life, forest, gold etc. with very unfortunate facilities of development structure and poor management it was very difficult to utilize the resource into long term profit (Barnabas Anga, 2009). Also the country was vulnerable to natural...
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