| Guiding Questions | Your Responses | Define the situation or problem | 1. Take the issue you have chosen and explain how it affects your community. 2. What do members of your family and community say about the issue? | The problem is overpopulation of animals. There are too many animals in shelters because people are buying pets instead of adopting them from shelters.This affects my community because these shelters have to take in many strays or pets from people who are giving them up for
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Discuss what different theories suggest about the disappearance of the Mayans. The Mayan civilization began during 2000 B.C. and by 200 A.D. they had reached their peak of development‚ with more people per square kilometer than modern day New York. They were located throughout northern Central America‚ and present day southern Mexico. They continued to develop with forms of mathematics and astrometry‚ with observatories being built to follow the stars and planets. But during the 8th and 9th century
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In 2008‚ the world experienced one of the greatest numbers of deaths from natural disasters. Some of the contributing factors included extreme weather brought about by climate change‚ as well as urbanization in vulnerable areas. The urbanisation phenomenon is a feature that is being shared by all cultures across all continents on the globe‚ it not so much a result of higher birth rates in urban areas as it is of the continuous migration of people across regions as they are lured into urban areas
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relatives and catch a glimpse of a staggering large and different culture? I did not know what to expect traveling to my parent’s home country but I knew it would be an experience that would be hard to forget. What really stood out in my mind were the overpopulation and the poverty levels. As we boarded the plane the Lufthansa flight I was struck with the hard to miss smell of an airplane which‚ surprisingly‚ as a kid I thoroughly enjoyed. The first leg of the trip was to Frankfurt‚ Germany‚ and then we
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In California air pollution and overpopulation is a major problem facing our environment. In this case‚ our overpopulation adds to our air pollution‚ so it is a vicious cycle that only WE can break. This dilemma is harmful to every single living creature in our state. In this essay‚ I will attempt to identify the cause and effect of both air pollution and overpopulation in the western region. Also‚ we will look into some current issues we face with state government and how they plan to protect California’s
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roughly 6-8 million animals that manage to find their way to an animal shelters or rescues (The Humane Society of the United States [HSUS]‚ October 26‚ 2009) in hopes of finding a home where they can become a part of a family. Domestic animal overpopulation is an epidemic that must be brought under control because animal shelters are so overpopulated that the majority have to be euthanized to make
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Problematic Aspects of Emigration to Emigrants and the Host Country Emigrants move from their home nations to begin a new life in another‚ yet once they reach their host countries‚ they face challenges that they never anticipated. More often than not‚ many of these emigrants have endured hardships of all forms in their home nations‚ but most of them are treated to a surprise when they realize that what awaits them in their new home nation is far much worse than what they are running from (Dalla
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CORRUPTION Evolutionary theory: One of the social problems that Philippines has been facing today is corruption. It’s been a major problem of the country since years ago. Corruption is as old as human history. But when was the concept of corruption started? In my opinion‚ corruption has started when people have organized themselves into groups‚ and that groups were headed by leaders and those leaders became powerful and began to abuse the authority they have. We‚ people chose leaders that became
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Without being unnecessarily pessimistic but only realistic‚ I generally consider that the future of mankind looks rather dark and unpromising due to the irretrievable damages that technological advances‚ overpopulation and environmental problems have already caused and will probably continue to cause to human race in the future. Even though I agree some improvements in these areas have been made‚ to me they are not enough to stop the downward spiral of negative impact on mankind. First‚ advanced
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Is Overpopulation the Cause of Poverty? There are many people who argue that the biggest problem in South Asia is overpopulation. This assertion has been repeated so often over the years that it has almost become common wisdom. Its adherents include a lot of well-educated individuals and one often hears the argument from government officials as an explanation for the inability to reduce poverty. There are a number of problems with this simple proposition. First of all‚ population is not a very
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