I am personally convinced that gold is the most valuable commodity in the world‚ but my conviction flows from gold’s physical properties as opposed to its status as a reserve currency. On the one hand‚ logic dictates that gold is an anachronism in terms of its role as a reserve currency - because the amount of gold per capita has been decreasing over the years as the world’s population has expanded faster than new gold has been mined. There is simply not enough gold - either in existence or‚ probably
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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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Tri-State Water Wars | The Issues of the Tri-State Water Wars | Almost for twenty tears‚ Georgia‚ Alabama and Florida have been fighting over the amount of water in Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint and the Alabama Coosa Tallapoosa (ACT) river basin that passes through their borders. Georgia wants plenty of water for metro Atlanta so they can keep growing. The downstream users Alabama and Florida wants enough water flowing for their own economic goods. But none of these state wants to stop fighting
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WORLD WAR 1 A. MAJOR ALLIANCES FORMED DURING WW1 * Started by Germany * Triple Alliance/Central Powers: Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Italy / Turkey & Bulgaria * Triple Entente (treaty of friendship‚ not yet an alliance): Britain‚ France and Russia * Allies: Britain‚ France‚ Russia‚ Italy‚ Serbia‚ USA B. MILITARISM * Attitude of powerful class of military leaders on their countries’ policies * Glorification of war and urged the build up of weapons and
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enough to help with the world’s water crisis. There is over 40‚000 pieces of plastic per square mile of the ocean‚ 5‚000 kids die every day from unclean water‚ which adds up to 2 millions children every year‚ and finally water privatization is such a huge problem all over the world and we need to stop that‚ water is not a product‚ it’s a human right. Of course there are hundreds of other reasons such as even in Canada‚ not everyone has access to a nearby source of safe water or that birds and other animals
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World Water Day History The United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water by adopting a resolution. World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22. ‘World Water day’ proposed in 1992 in Agenda 21 of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio-de-Janeiro‚ Brazil. Each year more than 1 billion of our fellow human beings have little choice but to resort to using potentially harmful sources of water. This perpetuates a
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Many often encounter substantial barriers in communication due to a lack of perspective. Without different perspectives stories are one-sided and usually somewhat misconstrued. For example‚ Rayona’s interpretations of events differed from her mother’s view quite often‚ such as Christine’s drinking problem. Throughout the book‚ you are exposed to several events that without Ida’s‚ Christine’s‚ and Rayona’s perceptions‚ you would not be able to fully grasp the story‚ or
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War (Attracting the reader)Do you think there is a” just war” in the history of world? Do you think it is the only way to solve problem by war? (Providing background) Different people have different opinion. Herbert hover‚ who is the 31st President of the United States have ever said:” Whether you have to fight for justice or not‚ war is a crime! “In his opinion‚ whether the war is just or unjust‚ it is cruel‚ and the death is inevitable. Marxist thought‚ making clear the nature of war is the necessary
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- B “A World Without Water” Water is one of the essentialities of life on earth‚ without water life will not exist. Water is everywhere‚ we can find it from the foods we eat and beverages we drink. It has also many uses in our daily lives like cleaning ourselves‚ washing the clothes‚ watering the plants and others. Water can also refresh us during hot days of summer‚ like swimming. When we go to supermarkets we see different products which contain water. All living organisms need water‚ without
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IWorld War I (WWI)‚ which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939‚ and the First World War or World War I thereafter‚ was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world’s great powers‚[5] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom‚ France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple
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