The Association of South East Asian Nation Integration 2015 will take place in a matter of days...and the Philippines is among those ASEAN countries that will be included in the ASEAN Economic Community. AEC 2015 is fundamentally about open trade within ASEAN, meaning there will be one big market for goods and services or a free flow of goods, services, capital and labor among the participating countries. This will be beneficial for the people since products and services will become competitive
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Malthus KEY POINTS * Thomas Malthus warned that population growth would exceed resource growth, leading to catastrophic checks on overpopulation. This would occur because population grew exponentially while food supply grew arithmetically. * Without population control, the population would be reduced by catastrophes such as famine or war according to Malthusian theory. * As a solution, Malthus urged moral restraint: people must practice abstinence, sterilization, and have criminal punishments
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Episodes delves into the life of Blaze Ginsberg, a young man on the autism spectrum. Blaze organizes his memories into "episodes" which are written like journal entries. He discusses his high school experience, especially his freshman year, in great detail. He also writes about the development of his social skills and the circles of friends he creates. His first friendships were with two girls. They made up a trio and as that trio was successful, it serves as a formula for every other friendship
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A Close Up Into John Green’s Looking For Alaska “I may die young,” she said. “But at least I’ll die young” (Green 50). I didn’t have to think twice when I was thinking about which book was my top favorite to read this semester. Looking for Alaska by: John Green was by far my favorite book of all time! Looking for Alaska is about a guy named Miles, otherwise known as Pudge, is fascinated by famous last words, and he’s tired of being at home all the time. So he leaves for boarding school to seek
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Crossing the Date Line: Adventures of a Traveling Geologist by John P. Sollo Travel along with John Sollo as he takes us to whole new worlds from the 1980s to the early 2000s. John is sometimes joined by his adventurous wife, Samantha, and other times traveling alone, often without knowing a word of the native language. He takes readers into the dense, danger-filled jungles of Venezuela and Indonesia to the dry lands of Algeria. John recounts tales of less-than-perfect living situations, stomaching
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Chelonia mydas, more familiarly known as green sea turtles, are a notably endangered species of turtles that are native to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. They are one of the most sizable species of sea turtles, weighing approximately 150 to 400 pounds and measuring up to 47 inches in length. They are also the only primarily herbivorous species of sea turtle, consisting of seagrasses and algae in their diet, with the exception of juvenile green sea turtles eating jellyfish, crabs, and sponges
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Caretta caretta are commonly known as “loggerhead” sea turtles because of their sizeable heads with a horny beak that is considerably thicker than in other sea turtles. This species is also classified in the family Cheloniidae. They are the largest hard-shelled turtle in the world and average around 35 inches long, weighing about 298 pounds when fully grown (1). Their outside color typically ranges from a yellow to brown color and there are no external differences between males and females. The most
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The Green Mile is a fantasy film made in 1999, starring Tom Hanks (Paul Edgecomb) and Michael Clarke Duncan (John Coffey). Edgecomb is a guard working in a prison that is filled with convicted murderers and rapists that are sent to 'The Green Mile' to wait for the day of their execution. The prison is turned upside down when Coffey comes there. He is a huge man that everyone fears, although he would never hurt a fly. He was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit: murder and rape of two young
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Is Argentina a good bet for HSBC, or should they shut down operations and invest more aggressively in fast growing china? The year 2001 was disastrous for HSBC. It lost over $1.1 billion due to Argentina's economic problems compared to their profit in previous year of $324. It was forced to rethink loans and to decide if the political and economic instability in Argentina was worth the risk of continuing operations there. The company managed to beat the financial crisis of 2007-2009 only by raising
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Miracle of green tea Tea, especially green tea, has a host of beneficial health properties. THE practice of drinking tea is believed to have originated in China some 4,000 years ago although there is archaeological evidence to suggest people consumed tea leaves steeped in boiling water as far back as 500,000 years ago. The young shoots of a tea shrub. The polyphenols in tea are potent antioxidants. People in Asian countries more commonly consume green or oolong tea, while black tea is more
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