The Movie Blue Gold-World Water Wars is based on the book written by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke. In this report‚ I will try to put some the good points about and the most examples of misinformation. Maude Barlow is National Chair of the Council of Canadians and Tony Clarke is Executive Director of the Polaris Institute‚ another Canadian organization. Both Clarke and Barlow are featured prominently in the film‚ which is directed by Sam Bozzo. What I Liked • Visually impressive • Discussion
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Issue: The short documentary‚ Blue Gold‚ presented an issue of our planet’s water supply. Our planet is made out of about 70% of water. However‚ less than 1% of that water is actually drinkable. The issue is that water is becoming scares and due to lack of rain‚ the precious water begins to dry out. As the water source rapidly declines‚ the corporations saw that as a chance to make profit. Therefore‚ we are forced to buy overpriced water. Summary: Blue Gold did a great job representing the
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Blue Gold This is a documentary about the ever increasing water crisis in our world today; what is causing it‚ the consequences‚ and how to stop it. Ecologists everywhere began to take notice of the “desertification” of our planet and the dire consequences ahead if it is not stopped. The urgency of this issue is one that cannot be brushed off because it is not us destroying solely the planet we live on‚ but destroying our chances of survival on it. Desertification of the earth is caused
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In the video Blue Gold‚ the water cycle isn’t no longer working because of pollution‚ over pumping and using it‚ and rich people or company privatizing water usage to people. Human beings now caused all this going. Its not some physical stuff that makes the water cycle stop working. It its all the economic‚ people want to control the power of a source that can make them money‚ people want to overuse water to make things better‚ and people don’t care how the people who don’t have water to drink. It
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My Blue Bucket of Gold Essay Revision Does being alone need to feel lonely? The song My blue Bucket of gold describes the desperation of the speaker to love and be loved back. The need to love comes from the feeling of loneliness. The title “My blue bucket of gold” represents his joy and love hidden behind a wall of sadness and self hatred. Although the speaker has a melancholic heart or “blue bucket” he has affection and worthiness whitin for his heart is made “of gold”. A golden heart shows
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Critical Literature Review: Water Wars INTRODUCTION: The term War as violent as it is in its connotation‚ should be understood as an actual‚ intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities‚ war is a violent way for determining who gets to say what goes on in a given territory (Orend). With this said‚ conflicts over water have been the source of dispute since humans began cultivating food; hence the word “rivalry” comes from the Latin word rivali‚ “one using the same
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Water is a human right‚ not a commodity. It is the essence of life‚ sustaining every living being on the planet. Without it we would have no plants‚ no animals‚ no people. However‚ while water consumption doubles every twenty years our water sources are being depleted‚ polluted and exploited by multinational corporations. Water privatization has been promoted by corporations and international lending institutions as the solution to the global water crises but the only one’s who benefit from water
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Final Project Blue Mountain Spring Water‚ Inc. Three Year Marketing Plan III. Blue Mountain Spring Water I. Opportunities ( external factors) A. The opportunity to ultilize the latest technology for distribution and marketing. B. Expand outside of regional markets to other select markets but avoid mass marketing C. Blue Mountain has no debt therefore it can expand its R&D (research and development) to increase public knowledge about health benefits of purified water versus tap.
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris Christina Penh Mrs. DiTanna AP English Alternative Assessment Answer: Discuss the three female protagonists and the men in their lives. How are their lives determined by the circumstances of their birth and subsequently by the men they “chose.” Michael Dorris divides the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water into three sections narrated by three different Native American women: Rayona‚ Christine‚ and Ida. First introduced is teen-aged Rayona‚ whose
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The Struggle of Cultural Assimilation: An Analysis of Cultural Clash in “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” In “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy‚ the narrator expresses her longing for Vietnam‚ her home country‚ and how she feels that she and other Vietnamese people represent “fragmented shards” in the American culture- isolated members of a foreign culture. She portrays her emotions almost as if she is pursuing an actual person by using the pronoun “you” in the first stanza to
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