Global Fresh Water Shortage Fresh water shortage is a global issue. There are more than one hundred countries face different levels of fresh water shortage‚ and thirty years later there will be 28 to 33 hundred billion people have shortages of water. People lived in fresh water shortage countries cannot even have water to keep them alive. Because of the fresh water shortage‚ people lived near the southern Sahara desert abandoned farmland‚ and 200‚000 people died from that. Africa‚ Asia‚ North American
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Cognitive skills ~ Ability to think ~ Knowledge acquisition Know how Knowledge acquisition Know what Know why Metacognitive skills COGNITIVE COMPETENCE Cognitive competence © Copyrights 2013 APSS. All Rights Reserved “Jump start” knowledge base Knowledge integration & growth from rudimental levels to more refined levels of wisdom 7 Information – gathering • Experiencing‚ • Recognizing & recalling • Comprehending messages & recorded information
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Food wastage During lunch time‚ it is not uncommon to see that on the plates of the people sitting around you‚ there are leftover dishes which can literally be re-decorated into a whole new set lunch. In fact‚ food wastes account for 40% of the solid wastes in Hong Kong and a staggering amount of 3200 tons of food is disposed every day from households‚ commercial areas and food premises‚ referring to the figures of Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department. The three landfills in Hong Kong are
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Wastage of Money in Politics “It’s exciting; I don’t know whether I’m going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I’m ready for the job. And‚ if not‚ that’s just the way it goes.” The above line is said by President George Bush in context to the elections in United States of America‚ but it is relevantly true in India. A month later India is going to organize its largest election mela and the entire world is going to witness it. It will be the world’s costliest election ever happened‚ even greater
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Energy Wastage in Hong Kong Focus: household energy consumption Solar panels http://www.renewablepowernews.com/archives/1647 Did you know that people this year are consuming nearly twice as much energy as they were 30 years ago? If we continue to use energy at such high rates‚ reserves of non-renewable energy may run out really soon. In order to prevent this people must make small changes by using less energy in their daily lives. Even the smallest action can have an impact on the rest of
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makers struggle‚ Hamiltonbased Dofasco‚ in business since 1912‚ has turned around its losses from a decade ago through a revised strategy. The company also owns or has partial ownership in facilities in the United States and Mexico. Until the late 1980s‚ the company competed on price by producing as much steel as possible at the lowest possible prices. However by the early 1990s increased competition resulted in Dofasco not being able to compete profitably. As a result‚ by 1992 it found itself
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‘Raising children in tomorrow’s world will be more challenging than ever before.’ Discuss. The ancient proverb “it takes a village to raise a child” illustrates the arduousness of raising children. One’s children are probably the biggest‚ most uncertain and risky investment in his or her life. Judging by the popularity of self-help books on how to bring up children ‘correctly’‚ it is evident that many parents are having trouble in child-raising‚ and are desperately seeking help in it. However
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School Starts Too Early Schools across the U.S. have an average start time of 8:03 A.M. “Among an estimated 39‚700 U.S. public middle‚ high‚ and combined schools (with an estimated total enrollment of 26.3 million students)‚ the average start time was 8:03 a.m. Forty-two states reported that 75%–100% of their public schools had early start times.” (Wheaton). U.S. high and middle schools start too early because students aren’t getting the amount of sleep they need. Schools start too early
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Near Earth Objects: Too Close for Comfort Mankind is fifty years into the space age and we have made many strides in increasing technology and insuring the safety of the human race. Satellites and probes have provided valuable information in many fields such as exploration of other planets‚ GPS systems‚ and global communication. Recently NASA has explored the topic of near-earth objects and they are currently trying to track down potential life threatening asteroids. Scientist’s inability to
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Food Shortage. Lester Brown addresses this issue on chapter nine of his book Plan B. He tries to explain what can be done to sufficiently feed a world with a population of 8 billion persons. He gives an example of China’s way of increasing its food production and how in just about a decade‚ china was able to have enough food to feed hundreds of millions of people who were starving. China became self-sufficient in food production and in 2005 was able to manage its hungry population and she not
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