...Colin Gurry 12/6/12 Professor Regan Book Review The Coming China Wars The Coming China Wars I thought was an interesting read also at the same point there was points of the book that I wanted to throw it out the window. The book does highlight some difficult problems that are facing not just the US but the world as a whole. These being resources, energy shortages, degradation of the environment, widespread poverty and the looming risk of international conflict. These are all very real issues and Mr. Navarro blames much of the cause on China “The world’s factory floor”. I think that some of the book is good but a good majority of the book is very biased to what Navarro wants you to believe and buy into his philosophy. I liked that Navarro deals with Chinese productions, quality control, human rights and environmental protection. Navarro wants to limit US consumers in purchasing Chinese goods, because it is not good for the American economy and it supports bad work from the Chinese and their environmental habits, he backs up his claims with information and cases to back him. Can China continue its ability to grow, with the internal divisions that China has on a class basis. The Environmental problems are only going to get worst for China as they grow if they do not act sooner than later, it will end up being too late to reverse the damage that has been done. I like Navarro’s points made on these topics and his view I can agree with to an extent...
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...ANZAC legend and also Australia’s identity. However there were many other battles in world war 1 that determined ANZACs legend. One of these battles was the Light Horse Brigade charge of Beersheba in 1917. This battle helped open up supplies lines and was also a strong point for the Australians, it is also a determine ship of ANZAC strength as Beersheba was attacked by the British multiple times and the Light horse succeeded. Beersheba was also called the Forgotten battle because not many people know it. Causes of The Palestinian campaign. It started with an Ottoman attempt at raiding the Suez Canal in 1915, and ended with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, leading to the cession...
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...Three thousand five hundred refugees drowned trying to get to Europe. Refugees run into many problems; they are trying to get away from their country. Do you think there is a way we can help them? Before, refugees used to live in houses, go to school, and have jobs just like us. Refugees are people who have to move away from their home because of war or other issues in their countries. Refugees are all over the world, but right now many refugees are coming from Syria. Syria has been in a war since 2011, and many refugees are flooding into Europe. Therefore, Europe’s government cannot keep up with all the refugees coming into Europe. The government in Europe does not agree on how to solve this conflict. Countries started denying refugees to...
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...Provide background: * As you know water is an essential resource to sustain life and good health. A lack of water to meet daily needs is a reality today for one in three people around the world. * Globally, the situation is getting worse as cities and populations grow, and the needs for water increase in agriculture, industry and households. * Therefore, managing water reasonably is extremely important and deserves to be considered as the highest priority. 1.2 Introduce the topic and focus of the presentation: * In our presentation today, we are going to discuss such matter further. * The members of our group are me, Meshal, and Emily. * I am going to cover the importance of water, water scarcity. * Meshal is going to talk about water quality, water-saving. * Emily is going present water wars and evaluation. 1.3The main points: * The importance of water * Water scarcity * Water quality * Water-saving * Water wars 1.4 Tell the audience they can ask question at the end: * What is water pollution? * Do you know any events happening in the past as well as the present related to water wars? * Could you suggest some solutions to saving water? * Could you suggest some measures to protect water resource? * How to manage water in proper ways? II, BODY: 1. The importance of water: * Water plays a vital role not only to humanity, but also to ecosystem. Living in lack of water people as well as creatures around...
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...It was a warm day on March 28, 1862 in Glorieta Pass when my brother came running through the door. "The Unions are coming! And the Confederates!" I looked at him with a blank stare. They were supposed to be at Pigeon's Ranch, which, guaranteed, wasn't too far away but still. I had heard about the war between the Confederates and the Union, the Civil War, but why would they be coming here? To our part of the town? Just then, I heard gunshots coming from outside. I looked out our window and saw men in dark blue uniforms , and on the other side, there were some people in gray uniforms and some people with regular farming clothes on. On the side with the dark blue uniforms, I recognized two of the men- Colonel John R. Slough and Major John Chivington....
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...Number 14 SPRINGTIME The snowdrops are showing their heads through the soil And the crocus are coming up in the lawn Heralding the start of a new...
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...The water that we all have been drinking isn't as clean as we all think it is. The water actually has nitrates, which is in the fertilizers that farmers lavish on their crops and it's also a naturally occurring byproduct of nitrogen in soil. Drinking this water could not only be very unhealthy for you but could also be deadly. The article “Iowa's Nasty Water War’’ and “Dead Zones” published by National Geographic, explains the effects that Nitrates have one us and the world around us. Around the 1940’s a big disease spread called Blue Baby Syndrome. Blue Baby Syndrome is caused by nitrates getting in the water that babies drink. The syndrome deprives the babies of oxygen. In any healthy heart their is 4 separate chambers, the top two pumps blood into the bottom two. The bottom chambers or ventricles then pump the blood into the the lungs through the pulmonary artery, which gives our bodies oxygen. What Blue Baby Syndrome is doing is mixing the nitrates that are in the water that the babies are drinking and its making their blood become unoxygenated creating a blue color and making the babies a slight blue color. If the farmers were to stop putting so much chemicals in fertilizer on the crops then the fertilizer wouldn't leak into the ground and wreck the water. Also if we could clean the water we could save hundreds of 6 month year old babies from a terrible disease...
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...successfully. The whole thing that started it all of this will be coming in time, but first we start about one week ago i think, but it was so long because it was one crazy week for me and the whole school of new hope it was one week before the school year ended it was sad because the school of new hope had school through eighth grade it was sad because some kids were leaving while the other kids of 5th grade were staying. In the middle of the year a kid named carson and his family had a job in ohio so his dad and the rest of his family had to move to there. And every year this kid named elijah always had a pool party at their house as like a end of the year pool party and the day after that the school had spots...
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...permanent as the Queen had hoped. The colony disappeared during the Spanish war that was raging at the time. “The Lost Colony”, as it is called, went three years without supplies because of England being preoccupied with the war. It is still unknown when in that three year timespan they died off. The English did not give up at making a successful establishment in the New World. After several trials and errors, they finally had a thriving colony in the Americas. Many continued to die, but they did not die off. It was...
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...“The Effects of the Indus Water Treaty on Pakistan’s Economy” Introduction & Background The Indus Water Treaty is a treaty, which was signed in the presence of the World Bank officials, between Pakistan and India, over sharing the water of the Indus basin. The treaty was developed on the 19th of September, 1960 between the President of Pakistan at the time, Ayub Khan, and the Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, at Karachi. The water of the River Indus is alienated between an eastern and western river. The Eastern River belonging to India consisting of Ravi, Beas and Sutlu, while the western river flowing through the uncertain region of Jammu and Kashmir including Indus, Jehlum and Chenab. The treaty was to be known as a consequence of Pakistani fright, considering the foundation of the rivers belonging to the Indus basin were in India. The fright basically was that at times of war; India could bring droughts and famines in being at Pakistan. Nevertheless, India did not leave from the treaty all during the three Indo-Pakistani Wars which occurred later on. To be on the bright side, there have been no water wars between the two nations after the treaty in 1960 and if any disputes did rise in the meantime, they were settled through the involvement of legal events. The treaty is regarded as one of the most successful water sharing deals in the world today. Economic Effects Pakistan is a country which entirely depends upon water to maintain its economy. According...
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...Water is probably one of the most important things to man, but what would happen if we ran out? The current drought in California is affecting many people’s lives and it is slowly just becoming worse. Although, it may not only be affecting California. An excerpt from the Article “Water Controversies Boil Over” states: “In the coming year, 46 nations risk violent conflict over water and climate-related crises, and 56 other countries face political instability, according to a study by International Alert, a British advocacy group. The United Nations says water wars may be more likely in the future than wars over oil. Fights over water-some small, some as large as California—are occurring across the globe. …Solving these conflicts requires us to accept that water does not belong to anyone. It belongs to all.” (Weiser, 5) Weiser here is stating that California is place going through a lack of water....
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...lot. The women who served were exposed to a different culture, “sex, trauma and death”. The American nurses who served moved to a Vietnamese hospital, and they had to train the Vietnamese nurses. They tried to train them “in a better way” and tried to learn the Vietnamese language of the Vietnamese nurses. There were nurses who were making all kinds of money, not from the services they would normally give either. Some of the nurses ended up coming home pregnant, and some, came home rich with many being pregnant plus rich. Many nurses that would come back to United States were considered sluts just for being friendly and many were more then, just friendly. The nurses that finally took care of our soldiers would listen to the many stories told by our soldiers “about the girl back home,” they would put on makeup and put ribbons in their hair, just to get the soldiers minds away from the terror of war and themselves. As the years passed and the nurses became involved in the wars they were coming home from Vietnam psychologically traumatized because as one nurse stated, a mortar “hitting...
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...The Things They Carried Essay People never know how war will affect them until they are actually there. Anything can happen and it’s just a matter of time till something does. War changes a person and depending on what happened there's no way of knowing what will happen next. War changes people and how they cope, their ability to connect with others and their morality. During war people see things that most people wouldn’t which affects their ability to cope. After being with these people all the time it wouldn’t be the same as seeing a stranger dying. So when Rat Kiley watch as Curt Lemon was blown up he didn’t know how to cope with it. “Rat Kiley was crying. He tried to say something, but then cradled his rifle and went off by himself”(50 O’Brian). To try and cope with losing his friend Rat Kiley took out all his anger out on the baby water buffalo. While torturing the baby water buffalo named Rat Kiley that was him trying to cope with the fact that he just watched his friend die. Another inability to cope is giggling like Paul Berlin did when he was scared when he saw Billy Boy Watkins leg got blown off....
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...messenger arrives in the Italian town of Messina, with a letter that informs the kindly Leonato that he will welcome to Messina some soldier friends who are coming from a victorious battle. These friends are Don Pedro of Aragon, a nobleman, and Claudio, a warrior. Hero, Leonato’s daughter and Beatrice, her cousin, accompany him. Beatrice and another soldier of Don Pedro’s army, Signor Benedick, are in a “merry war” but they never saw each other. Beatrice cleverly mocks and insults Benedick. There are no stage directions so this leaves the stage director lot of freedom to achieve the adaptation. The opening of the film version isn’t the same as the book version; the film starts with a poem recited by Beatrice, but Shakespeare original version starts directly with the messenger that arrives. Firstly, in the film adaptation of much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare, at the beginning, Kenneth Branagh creates conviviality and a merry atmosphere that isn’t really described in the play thanks to: - The landscape and the climate, the bright light of the sun. They live in Messina, in Sicily, and Sicily is known for the hot climate. After the poem of Beatrice, at the beginning, we see a painting of Messina; it shows that Messina is picturesque, and that it is a little place of heaven where Don Pedro will be able to rest after the war. - The clothing and makeup of the characters, they are all in white or with bright color, they are all sun-tanned. They live in Messina in Sicily and the...
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...Veterans Memorial in Washington Dc, are two black granite walls which are together linked and have engraved text in chronological order with the names of the men and women who gave up their live for this war. You see that she expresses the amount of sadness and depression in a simple black marble wall that represents much more than that; the color black represents the amount of pain people passed through this years of war and the names written in chronological order make the viewer see all the people that died and see that the person was marked in making the United States a peaceful country. The ideal she wants to express in her work is to make a place for individuals within the landscape that can connect to her artwork. The landscape art Lin makes are sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects in every work of art she express the aspects of nature. In every piece of art is has done she reflects the great amount of interest she has with nature. Lin incorporates aspects of mature in her works because she feels that viewers have to think about the world we live in and the sympathetic existence that we have with nature. For example, the Civil Rights Memorial she made a sculpture of a “water table”. This water table is a flat rounded table and has the movement of water running through out the whole upper layer. What purpose/reason does the work have for the artist/society? The purpose and reason that Maya Lin wants her work to...
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