We all remember learning about the revolutionary war. But do we all remember learning about the mini ice age going on during the time of the war? And what about the warming period? I don’t think anyone can remember that. But it’s true. There was another period of when the earth could only take so much solar radiation and in result had global warming. In effect to global warming, the earth had a mini ice age, in which it was indeed freezing during the summer as well as winter.
NASA has recently stated that over the last 100 years the climate change for hot weather has went up to .80 Degrees Celsius. NASA has also looked into the time frame of 2005-2011 at the amount of carbon dioxide concentration in the air. It has gone from 378 to 392.
This carbon dioxide creates a thicker ozone layer in which traps the solar radiation that enters Earths hemisphere, and stays inside! With so much radiation, what do you feel the Earth will do? Go from a warming period to a cooling period. Great reasons for the Carbon Dioxide would have to come from burned fossil fuels.
People continuously burn these fuels in order to have the energy we need to support our modern life styles. But it also only causes trouble for the earth’s layer of protection. Not only does carbon dioxide thicken the layer, but also other chemicals in the air deteriorates the layer in which is the result of the hole we have it in now.
Many people find Global Climate Change not a very large problem because if the earth warms and our fresh water ice caps melt, then eventually earth will cool everything back up and the fresh water will be there and our ozone layer will be fine. Blah, Blah, Blah.
No. They’re wrong. It won’t be fine. This earth is our life and our being of which we survive. Energy might not be the simplest to try and fix but it’s a large step to a better future. People only see the face of this problem and the fact that Philadelphia may one day feel like Florida. Yet in reality, Philadelphia will one day feel like Alaska and smell like the pollution from Los Angeles, California.
Support our living with energy conservation and better ways of production. Like saving up so your kids can use solar power or wind and water. Such things are expensive but with hard work and great minds, it can be achieved.
At the turn of the millennium, the United Nations issued an ambitious set of goals entitled the “Millennium Development Goals”, which were to insure rights for hundreds of people around the world. These goals include things like give every child a suitable education; reduce child mortality rates, and many other great things that would, theoretically, better the lives of many people. However, what’s the expense to the US, and other super-nations, left to pull the weight of these poor nations?
For one, this should not be taken as a justification of selfishness and excuse to become frugal and hesitant with giving, especially in major times of need, such as natural disasters. That isn’t the goal here, and that thinking will leave one nowhere. However, the belief is that one shouldn’t blame themselves for situations and predicaments that are not one’s fault, nor should we take the reigns of other nation’s problems.
Foreign aid is an issue that is no “foreigner” to America. In 2008, figures estimate that nearly 25 billion dollars was reserved for foreign aid. Though a percentage of these went to issues of natural disasters and universal democratic uprisings, however most of these went to those precedents set by that list theoretical dreams known as the “Millennium Development Goals”. These goals, in the expert opinion of many, cannot be reached within the allotted goal set, which is 2015. In short, from 2000 to the present, the US has spent an approximate of 100’s of billions of dollars, for goals that the majority believes will not be reached. This proves a major waste of many taxpayers’ money and many politicians ‘ time.
Also, who’s to say that America has any part to play in any of this? As a nation, we have no blood on our hands, no position to blame, and therefore no legitimate reason, beyond the kindness of our hearts, to continue our continued support. However, we do, and we should, as once again, that is not the issue. However, in a time where money is tight and people are struggling to make ends meet, this “kind giving” needs to meet its limit.
Overall, India is in much more stable condition than Egypt. Its strong trade
ties with the west and its neighboring countries have allowed its economy to
flourish in recent years. However, it has some significant weak spots. India is
much more susceptible to global warming and climate change than Egypt because
of its unique geography and dependency on agriculture. Both countries have made
efforts to improve the relationships with its neighboring countries; however,
both India and Egypt have had an array of boarder disputes and diplomatic
tension.
The
5-point framework was sometimes difficult to assess. For example, considering Egypt
is a developing country, it has been making great strides in green technology
to combat global warming; however, if they don't reach their goal of 20%
renewable energy by 2015, it could have disastrous effects for the stability of
the country, greatly affecting tourism and the agricultural sectors. It was
difficult to assess this aspect of their collapsibility rating because there
are so many pros and cons.
I'm
really proud about the layout of my project; however, in some parts of the
project, it was difficult to find information and I think that that is
reflected in the final product. I enjoyed this project, despite questionable time management throughout the entire process. One addition I would make to this project would be to add more categories to compare each country to. I think someone could get good understanding as is, but it would only be improved by adding certain categories. For example, if an issue a country has doesn't fall under the pre-existing categories, it could appear more stable than it actually is.
The two countries I chose were Fiji and Zambia. Fiji is in Oceania, a very beautiful area were a lot of people tend to go on vacation at. Clear waters and very little environmental issues, Fiji overall is a place most people would dream of. Than Zambia, in Sub Saharan Africa suffers from dry season over occurring burn fires and many environmental issues. Zambia has issues with its neighbors and there are some issues going on inside of Zambia it self.
Although I didn’t want the most exciting project in the world, after I was done I thought that I could have put all this info into imovie and made a simple movie but other than that im pretty happy with my project.
Japan is a huge potential country and I think that it is
interesting and embracing to study the collapsing probabilities of such
country. One of my regions was East Asia; at first I thought about choosing
China but the media is now all over Japan and I thought that it would be much
easier to find information about Japan. The other reason of why I decided to
analyze the collapsing possibilities of Japan is because, I was really
interesting in learning and comprehending the reaction of society (not only in
Japan but the entire world). In this kind of situations is when you really see
how the world can come together or separate.
Panama is a small country in North America. I’m concern about the way that
their system works when it comes to preserving their forest. It was difficult
to find information about Panama, because of all the other events that are
occurring now.
I think that my five point framework was fine. Sometimes I had way too much information about something and some other things were just too difficult to find. I think that if I had a little bit more time I could have done a better job in terms of research. If I could change one thing about my product it would be the design of the website. I think that it would have had help a lot more if I had some pictures for each category.
Op Ed
In today’s world the standard for
protection is completely laid upon the police. Police are supposed to serve and
protect so that people don’t take any matters into their own hands. As a
result, civilians are not expected to engage in any violent behavior. A person will be arrested and
prosecuted for harming another person even though they may not have been the
aggressor. However, the law states that anyone can use non-lethal non-deadly
force to defend him self or her self when another person tries to unlawfully
harm him or her, deadly force if needed. This should mean that any person who
is in danger should have the right to kill if needed. However there is a strong
double standard.
There was a case in England when a
martial artist killed two men and seriously wounded a third. The three men
broke into the victim’s house and threatened his family with knives. The victim
defended him self and the two women killing two men and putting one in the
hospital. The law says this act
should have defended this man’s rights, but because he was a martial artist he
“should have” used non-deadly force to defend his family as the police say- Even
though the attackers threatened to rape and kill the two women if he did not
tell them where the money was.
The act of this prosecution is very
wrong. How can you hold someone responsible for defending people he cares fore?
The 28-year-old Asian was arrested for deadly force even though very hurt. It
is very understandable that he would be taken in for his actions as should all
people if they kill, it is for the purpose of investigation. However, once the
police found out what really happened he should have been set free by law, but
since he was a martial artist a few charges were brought up against him. This is
because he simply knew what he was doing more than someone who has not
practiced a form of self-defense. The press didn’t help the situation by saying
“The butchery worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film”.
In a similar story, a woman in
Maryland shot and killed her husband in an act of self-defense. Even though the man was shot and killed
the women was arrested but never charged. The police said it appears to be an
act of self-defense. Witnesses say that the man was always in a bad mood. From
the report it sounds like the women was right to defend her self, if she felt
like her life was in danger. She was released from custody a few hours later.
She went home and continued to live her life.
I fail to see a major difference
in the situation the two were in. One man protected two women and him self. One
woman defended her self because she felt like her life was in danger. The man
was charged with using excessive and unneeded force. Even though the threat to
his life was clear and other victims said that they were about to be killed, the
martial artist was still arrested and charged. The women, on the other hand had,
no witnesses in the room with her. Therefore no one could fully verify her
story. The police only had her voice and the people who knew the man’s opinion
to go on. This double standard needs to stop it is highly unfair to all martial
artiest. Just because someone is more skilled than another, does not mean they
should be treated any different.
Boy: You’re a punk
Girl: uuummm, why can’t you leave me alone?
Boy : Why are you so ugly?
Girl: (Starts to cry)
Boy: See your nothing but A Punk!!
Girl: (Gets up and….)
Yes , this might seem as a simple teasing method that most kids go through. But just because it is simple doesn’t mean that it can become something that is serious. Some parents may think it’s phase that their kids will grow out of it when they are older. Just because they are young, does it mean that it is okay for it to continue happening?
According to
research carried out by the National Education Association, it was projected
that around 160,000 children skip schooling every day due to anxiety about
violence or bullying.
You
may believe that bullying is more common in schools that are public. Well that’s
not true. According to the Bullying and Civility, in Public and Private Schools
forum, Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics indicates a more positive
result for private schools than for public schools.
Lately,
in the news there has been a video recording of a pre-teen punching the older
teenager in the face. Casey Heynes is the victims’ name and is known for being
a hero for his self -defense. Richard is the young bully. Both where suspended
for both of there actions. A lot of the Americans who have heard this story
does not believe that Casey should have been suspended for sticking up for his
self.
Bullying
is a violent movement that if it’s not handle properly the child could grow up
wanting to bully other adults when older. It can become more of a illness then
a evil way. Check out this fact:
"Say, you visited a school with a population of 800. It is also yet
another bullying fact that one out of 7 is either a bully or a target. Say, we
opt for the initial one. You will find 114 sets of 7 out of 800. Which means,
it may very easily be believed that out of 800 people in school, 16 of these
can easily turn out to obtain a criminal history by age 30." 16 might seem
as a low number, but if we think about every school in our nation and added it
up it could be a thousand to a billion.
Adults
need to realize that children need them growing up. Having a kid is not easy it
takes a lot of time and patience to take care of a baby. When they grow up they
need guidance and love to make the right decisions. If you can’t then handle the hard work due to being a parent
then maybe you should get knocked up as a mother or caught up as father.
According
to the Bullying Statistics 2009,
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among
young people, resulting in about 4400 deaths per year, according to the CDC.
For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts.
Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7
percent have attempted it.
So I ask you
again do we stop it where it first starts or do like it go through a “Phase”?
Everyday in the United States animals are being beat, set on fire, and killed because of something someone needs such as food, shelter or someone to take their anger off. Most animals do not live to see the day of light before someone is taking them away from their mothers, habitats, etc. When you think about animal abuse where do you see it happening? The basement of some unknown man, children, people who abuse their families. Animal abuse comes in different forms from everywhere, any zoo that took the animal out of its habitat to put it in a cage and watch it, the circus, practically if there is a animal in a show or anything such as these things, and their not being used for what they should be used for it is animal abuse.
Most people do not understand that animal abuse is like someone abusing a child. Animals are living beings just like you and I, and they have feelings too, and they also can do things that would help us if we were ever in any type of horrid situation.
People who abuse animals are not taken through the consequences of people who abuse other people. In Belmont County there is this man named Jeffery Nally who tortured a lot of animals. When he was sentenced he had only gotten trialed for signs of a serial killer., not only is this event more then signs of a serial killer he should’ve been given 30-life in jail. He killed all of those animals like it was nothing, then he saved their skin, teeth, and bones for souvenirs. Nally was booked into the Northern Regional Jail on 29 counts of animal cruelty, one count of domestic battery and one count of kidnapping. Bail in his case has been set at $450,000, with a bail like that most people say he won’t be bailed out, but what if he breaks out, he shouldn’t have bail; murders don’t have bail nether should he.
Some people who look at animal abuse are also just blinded by the good things. Circuses, everyone loves a circus. All the animals are happy a joyful and love their jobs right, WRONG. Most circuses put their animals through tortured to get them to do that famous stand up trick you guys like. What about jumping through that flaming hoop you love that. In an investigation of a Ringling’s Circus you saw things that most people would say, oh that was an act or something like that to save their points that circuses are filled with good people, but most are not. Circuses train animals as if they are not living, they take things like whips, belts, sticks and repeat hit them with it. When you think of this what would you label it as, simple horseplay, some animals need more force to learn then others. This is not labeled as a simple case of animal abuse.
Animal Abuse is labeled by two things, what is and what isn’t animal abuse. Any torture or harmful acts towards animals is, and always will be animal abuse. When people treat their animals like it’s their child that is not animal abuse.
The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant is a prime example of the irresponsibility's of people when it comes to building the Plants. Wikileaks, a website that's controversial for it's amount of leaked Govt. documents has information stating that these Nuclear power plants were incapable of taking hits from an Earthquake. This was disregarded during the placement of the Nuclear plants. Because of this, Japan has been facing a server pandemic of Nuclear contamination from their drinking water to dairy products, the results of this disregarded concern are still growing in effect.
Belarus, a country that shares a border with Russia has recently invested their time into creating a Nuclear plant. Belarus is going to use Russian contractors for the creation of their Nuclear Plant. This plant is going to cost 9 billion dollars, which Belarus has gotten on loan from Russia. Belarus will most likely also have nuclear fuel supplied from Russia, and have their nuclear waste will have to be sent to Russia. This makes Belarus dependent on Russia for power, instead of becoming more independent. Their thrive to gain Nuclear Power has put them into a situtation where they’re relying on Russia for an essential, energy.
Nuclear Power Plants have the potential for causing massive amounts of destruction. The Chernobyl disaster was a Nuclear Power plant failure that happened in Russia back in the mid 80’s. At this plant, they were testing to see if the turbines in the plant were capable of producing energy. An unexpected incident happened where the plants power went down to less than 1% power. Afterwards, a surge of power came on, and the reactor’s emergency shutdown failed to work. The death tool from this incident is somewhere around 985,000, many suffering from cancer and various defects that were caused after the meltdown. Sudden changes like what happened with Chernobyl’s power, can drastically disrupt a Nuclear Power Plant. The city where Chernobyl Power Plant existed is abandoned now, with no one living there. Currently, it’s a tourist attraction to see the now abandoned city.
Even though Chernobyl happened over twenty years ago, anything is possible. In France, they have fifty-eight operating nuclear power plants, and they get OVER SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT of their countries power from Nuclear power. If a Nuclear Plant were to face operating issues, or even a meltdown, the results would be critical for the country. There are many health issues with contact to nuclear radiation, from cancer to birth defects, such as excessive bone growth, organ failure, and the growth of ligaments.
There are many other options for power, other than Nuclear. For instance, there’s Solar energy, which has become more affordable in recent years. Wind Power, which works incredibly well in windy areas. Hydrop-ower, which is powered by damns. Nuclear Power isn’t the only source of energy, and it surely isn’t the safest. We, as people need to use safe sources of energy to not only protect ourselves, but our environment.
Many studies
say that when testing violent video games on kids, they test whether the games made
kids more violent. Almost all of the studies concluded that the kids who played
violent video games became more aggressive after playing them. Many people who
play violent video games become more aggressive, but they don’t make you act on
these emotions.
The reality
is that millions of people play violent video games, and there are not millions
of school shootings or violent crimes every year, so it cannot be affecting
people so much that they want to act on their emotions. Recently, video games
have become more popular. As an
article on PBS says, “According
to federal crime statistics, the rate of juvenile violent crime in the United
States is at a 30-year low." This combined with the fact that many of the
other studies only said that the people playing violent video games only became
more aggressive supports the idea that it makes people more aggressive, but
they don’t act.
Violent video games do make people more aggressive, but they don’t act
on these emotions. If the violent video games were having such an impact so
that they made the kids to things like the columbine shootings, then there
would be a lot more juvenile violent crimes. The study was only for the United
States, but these statistics could be different for other parts of the world. A
lot of these studies are not 100% accurate because they don’t account for
everything in the game players life. This is almost impossible to do, so the
data will never be completely correct for these kinds of studies.
The shootings at Columbine or any other school shootings are not
majorly caused by the kids playing video games. Many people try to blame video games
because they are something that many people can easily put the blame on, even
though according to PBS 83% of video games that kids shouldn’t be playing are
bought by their parents. Less of the blame should be put on video games, and
more on other factors like illegal substances, or mental problems.
Overall many people find that violent video games are something easy
to blame problems on. In fact the video games do make the players more
aggressive, but not as violent. Although violent video games do hold some blame
in violence today, there are many other factors such as drugs, alcohol, or
mental problems that contribute to this violence more than violent video games.
Does the U.S. actually help when it says
its helping? Or do they do what ever they can to help? Let me explain. In the
recent news the revolution in Libya has received some help from the United
States and the United Nations.
Lately, they bombed government factories and government hangers hoping
to stop Qadaffi’s reign of terror.
They hoped to give the rebels an edge on the government forces since
they are barley making any headway. Many think this is going way to far to try
to help the people of Libya. Many
more think this is exactly what is needed to stop him. Is the U.S. helping the people Libya?
Or are they helping their suffering?
The U.S. in particular has been in question of whether or not its
actually helping when it says its “helping”. Foreign Aid’s objective is to benefit countries by
volunteering goods and services.
According to globalissues.org,
in 1970 “the world’s richest countries agreed to give 0.7% of their gross
national income as official international development aid, annually”. Many
of the countries in this agreement do not meet with this criterion. As of 2009 the U.S. has been giving
0.2% of their gross income. Although, this does not meet the requirements the
U.S is ahead 15 million dollars on other countries.
In
January 2010 a devastating 7M earthquake hit Haiti. Of course being the kind
country that we are we sent 10,000 troops in the next few days following the
earthquake. Our Military leaders
were too interested in securing the island to send groups like the Red Cross
overseas first. According to
Slate, a news website, “Aid flights from Mexico
Russia and France were refused to land” on the 18th of January. It took convincing from the U.N. to let
airdropped aid reach Haitian soil.
Lt. General of the U.S. southern command told Associated Press “It is
calm at this time”. If it was calm
couldn’t the forces be more directed toward giving aid to people?
Three weeks ago a 9M earthquake hit Japan
followed by a ruinous wall of water that crippled the entire coastline up to 6
miles inward. Since Japan is an
important ally to the U.S., a relief effort was made to help the people of
Japan bounce back from this two part natural disaster. 20,000
troops were sent to Japan. Some of
the 20,000 Marines cleared the Sendai airport, the biggest regional city hit by
these calamities. Now airplanes
with supplies can land and deliver aid. "But I still have reservations
about having U.S. troops in Japan. ... I'm happy today, and I appreciate their
help, but it doesn't fundamentally change the way I feel", says Yoko
Hiraoka from STL today. Even
though the U.S is making a good effort to get supplies there, their presence
holds tensions of conflict.
With
all this evidence before us can we make a definitive judgment? The U.S. feels
obligated to help other countries even if the ties with them are bad. The U.S. makes mistakes by over
estimating the problems, like what happened in Haiti, and tries to not show
them. All in all, this help is great for countries that need support in times
of need. It shows decency to help
Japan even though the ties are bad.
Just sometimes the U.S. goes about this wrongly but never the less it is
help and it is needed. Even though
it doesn’t seem beneficial it actually is helping a lot, more than we know or think.
Look
at the facts, In South America on average a child has fourteen years of formal
education, but in Africa on average a child has four years of formal education.
Ten years. Kids go to school for ten years less in Africa then they do in South
America. Think, how much less would you know if you took away ten years of your
education? In Africa they spend on average $48 US dollars annually per child
where globally there is on average $629 US dollars spent per child for
education annually. India spends 3.3% of its GDP on
education while on average developed countries spent 5.8%.
Since
America spends the most on education, you would think they have the best
students because of the amount of possible opportunities, right? In reality,
the national drop out rate is 31%, 31 students out of every 100 drop out and
never even get a high school diploma. That averages out to about 7,000 students
that drop out of school each year in the United States. Our country spends so
much money on education that other countries don’t have and our kids are just
deciding not to attend?
In
China before 1949, the literacy rate was 20% of its people, but today they have
a rate of 99% of their youth can read and write. In about 60 years China has
increased their literacy rate by almost 70% and yet America can’t even seem to
keep more then 75% of their kids in school until the end of senior year.
In
Afghanistan less then one third of the people are literate, but just this past
month President Hamid Karzai, tried working things out with the Taliban. He and
his men are having talks with them about creating peace for the schools in the
war torn country. One of the people quoted in the recent articles said,
"We are not afraid of guns and bombs, but don't burn the schools of your sons. Don't burn
the schools of your daughters." Afghanistan is
in a war state and yet the death of their selves is not the first thing on
their mind, their ability to be educated is.
