5. The thesis of the essay is, “Life is better in the big city, and it all comes down to one general reason: more choice”.…
After reading this essay, I came to the conclusion that we should pay more care to how we use water because it’s a precious resource, one that may seem plentiful to many of us, but it’s rare enough in some areas of the world. Let us not take water for granted, let us preserve it before it’s too…
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Read Source 1, the online newspaper article called Britain’s big problem with water by Geoffrey Lean. 1 What do you learn from Geoffrey Lean’s article about…
Using named examples, assess the role of different players and decision-makers in trying to secure a sustainable ‘water future’. [15]…
Jaslow, R. (2011, October 13). Women on birth control date bedroom “duds,” study suggest. Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-504763_162-20120123.html…
Some areas in California are getting hit harder than others, such as Central Valley (Shafer and Raff 6). Gladys Colunga of Tulare County told the interviewer, “My husband came home one day from work, he took a perfectly good shower, and then I went to use the restroom. And when I flushed the toilet, nothing but dirt came out” (Shafer and Raff 7). This is just one family suffering. Her husband’s hours have been cut this summer due to the drought. Their homemade well has dried up. They have six children. These once average residents of California are now suffering due to the drought and the limited water restricted to them. To fetch water, they must haul it from neighbors and friends in barrels. The way we, Americans, live in this century is being taken away from families like this one. Mrs. Colunga also stated, “…we have children and we need water. I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water. We have the right to have that basic thing. It’s water” (Shafer and Raff 7). Mrs. Colunga is right, their basic human needs deserve to be met. They would not be suffering as bad if the water was split between farmers and people like…
The article 'Why are we behaving like Water Wally's all over again' is an article written by Shane Green for The Age newspaper. It was published on the 26th of January 2013 and its main contention is to warn us about what will happen if we continue to waste water on a daily basis. It was written to notify us that apart from waiting for it to rain, we are doing almost nothing to save ourselves from getting back into a drought. We have a desalination plant but the Brumby government refuses to switch it on. This article was written to persuade us to share the authors views on this subject, and by using particular language techniques, he has managed to do so. Techniques such as rhetorical questions, inclusive language and evidence were all used to persuade us.…
BYLINE: Kevin Watkins SECTION: COMMENT; Pg. 32 LENGTH: 923 words The rich world must act to prevent dirty water and poor sanitation now killing more than a million children a year Halving the proportion of the world without access to clean water would cost a month's bottled water in Europe and the US Nobody reading this started the day with a two-mile hike to collect the family's daily water supply from a stream. None of us will suffer the indignity of using a plastic bag for a toilet. And our children don't die for want of a glass of clean water. Perhaps that's why we have such a narrow view of what constitutes a "water crisis". Dwindling reservoirs and a few ministerial exhortations to flush the toilet less often, and we've got a national emergency on our hands. Hold the front page, there could be a hosepipe ban in the home counties. In the next 24 hours diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation will claim the lives of 4,000 children. The annual death toll from this relentless catastrophe is larger than the population of Birmingham. Dirty water poses a greater threat to human life than war or terrorism. Yet it barely registers on the radar of public debate in rich countries. At any one time, close to half the population of the developing world is suffering from water-related diseases. These rob people of their health, destroy their livelihoods, and undermine education potential. The statistics behind the crisis make for grim reading. In the midst of an increasingly prosperous global economy, 2.6 billion people still have no access to even the most rudimentary latrine. Over one billion have no source of drinking water.…
Hurst, Y. G., McDermott, M. J., & Thomas, D. L. (2005). The attitudes of girls toward the police: differences by race. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 28(4), 578-593. Retrieved from http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1363-951X.htm…
Most notably, Alexis Madrigal, a writer for The Atlantic, brings up some surprising statistics about the city of Los Angeles’s urban consumers. Madrigal states that in an average year, they accumulate for the consumption of over 195,500,000,000 gallons of water. An astronomical amount of water to being used, considering that the city consumes the resource at one of the highest per-capita rate in the State, meaning that each person drinks more water than many of their counterparts throughout the state even with a larger population. The image is clear, the San Joaquin Valley’s water supply depletion must be faced head on, because its’ supply is also heavily relied upon by the agricultural industry as well. In “Lessons learned from the California drought”, Benedykt Dziegielewki writes…
Virginia Secretary of Public Safety works with the Governor and advises him on the challenges associated with public safety. The Department of Public Safety distributes the state law enforcement assistance, which is known as the 599 funds. These funds goes police department in 176 counties, town, and cities. The police department may be eligible, if the departments meet certain requirements. The law enforcement of the police departments must have the minimum training that require by the State of Virginia and in compliance with applicable crime reporting. The Virginia Department of State Police determines these requirements.…
Today the author analyzes the presence of asthma in school-aged children. Asthma is a chronic condition; the mortality rate is on the rise . The author’s daughter has chronic asthma; thus environmental factors advance her symptoms. However, when the air quality is cleaner, her daughter’s asthma symptoms go into remission. Many adults are unaware of the risks from the first and second-hand smoke. For example, in the author’s previous home, second-hand smoking triggered her daughter’s asthma attacks. As a result, the author lost countless homework hours and dollars because her daughter required breathing treatments and shots at the Emergency Department (ED). Not to mention many days after discharge the author's daughter suffered from continual exposure to second-hand smoke; it was a vicious cycle. Later, the author moved because the indoor smoking caused her daughter’s health to decline. For this cause, the…
The wording of the title can easily tell someone if the article they are about to read is a pop science article or a scientific article.…
1. In the case of Coca-Cola’s Water Neutrality Initiative, Coca-Cola is facing the public issue of using too much water that depriving local villagers’ supply of water for drinking and irrigation. In addition, India charges the company for its products containing dangerous unacceptable pesticide residues level. Because all aspects of the production are dependent on this resource. From the company’s perspective, water is the key component of profitability. Other stakeholders were also concerned this issue, such as residents of the surrounding area and organizations. For example, the World Wildlife Foundation and other environmental groups had a different point of view; profitability was not a concern. These stakeholders were concerned with long term effects of demand on the water supply and contamination of water runoff.…