Tropical rainforests are currently a habitat that is currently experiencing serious losses. Some major reasons why the rainforest are having serious losses are because of agricultural expansion‚ urbanization‚ and the extraction of wood. Currently‚ the biggest cause is agricultural expansion which turned the forest into pastures and cropland to meet the growing needs for food. A study shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from forests
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Reconstruction to industrialization in the Western United States Instructor: Laverne Y. Peralta History 105 July 21‚ 2013 There were many events that took place from Reconstruction through the widespread industrialization in the Western United States. During the twelve years that Reconstruction lasted‚ freed slaves were trying to be integrated into normal life. The Freedmen’s Bureau bill‚ helped with recognizing free labor‚ schools for the newly freed persons were being highly oversee
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1 Why cities are the best cure for our planet’s growing painsBy Robert Kunzig Photograph by Chia Ming Chien At the time of Jack the Ripper‚ a hard time for London‚ there lived in that city a mild-mannered stenographer named Ebenezer Howard. He’s worth mentioning because he had a large and lingering impact on how we think about cities. Howard was bald‚ with a bushy‚ mouth-cloaking mustache‚ wire-rim spectacles‚ and the distracted air of a seeker. His job transcribing speeches did not fulfill him
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The Indian Monsoon The monsoon is a yearly cycle‚ where the direction of the wind changes‚ bringing storms and rainfall to the land‚ and when the wind changes again it brings drought to the land. This creates a wet and a dry season in some areas‚ such as the Indian region. However‚ this is not a set of wet and dry seasons‚ the monsoon varies from year to year and even from day to day. The word “monsoon” is believed to have originated from the Arabic word mausem‚ which itself means “season” (Fein
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In Lynn Dumenil’s account of the era commonly referred to as the "roaring twenties" in The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s there is an intentional emphasis placed on the effort to dispel the popular notion that the new‚ revolutionary transformations in culture and society that took place at this time in history were direct results of the First World War. In the stead of this less insightful means of analyzing the 1920’s in America by assuming that the post war era was a direct
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The migration of people to cities is one the biggest problems facing the world’s cities today. Discuss the main causes. What solutions could be used to tackle the situation? Nowadays‚ the issue of urbanization is more frequently discussed than ever before due to its increasing impacts on lives and on the environment. Most people will not argue the fact that living in a city is easier overall than living in the country. Despite that fact‚ many generations have lived in rural settings by choice over
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changed in massive‚ often unforeseen ways. With the largest and one of the most rapidly growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa‚ Nigeria has experienced the phenomenon of urbanization as thoroughly as any African nation‚ but its experience has also been unique--in scale‚ in pervasiveness‚ and in historical antecedents. Modern urbanization in most African countries has been dominated by the growth of a single primate city‚ the political and commercial center of the nation; its emergence was‚ more often
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increase in global demand for water for irrigation‚ household‚ and industrial use is predicted to be faster than the population growth. Increase in population affect both quality and quantity of water Population and urbanization Population growth and urbanization: Contributed
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industrialization‚ urbanization and a high immigration influx of nonnative Americans (Sayre 1048-1049). Furthermore‚ the Gilded Age proved to be significant in westward expansion as many individuals migrated to the West in order to fulfill their aspiration of obtaining land and to avoid any form of impediments instituted by other individuals living in those areas (Sayre 1048). In addition‚ New York City served to be an agora for the growth of industrialization and urbanization
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social changes occurred frequently and drastically‚ such as the process of hunting and gathering started to fade away due to the rise of agriculture throughout the world‚ which in turn caused the inequality between men and women to start. The urbanization of societies led to stronger and more complex governments and civilizations. And the rise of religious and philosophical beliefs in different societies caused the concept of social classes to become more prominent in everyday life. But society
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