The environment is something you are very familiar with. It’s everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth—the air we breathe‚ the water that covers most of the earth’s surface‚ the plants and animals around us‚ and much more. In recent years‚ scientists have been carefully examining the ways that people affect the environment. They have found that we are causing air pollution‚ deforestation‚ acid rain‚ and other problems that are dangerous both to the
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CU678 WORK IN A BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 1.1 The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique‚ and recognising our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ age‚ physical abilities‚ etc. 1.2 There is a need to be sensitive to the needs of others in all aspects of life including office life. I‚ myself‚ am formally registered disabled by being hard of hearing aid. My line managers have
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I have always lived in the midst of the country‚ surrounded by flora and fauna with which i was taught to live in symbiosis. Shared between a dense forest and the Atlantic sea‚ two fantastic ecosystems hiding a wonderful biodiversity‚ I developped‚ like the other inhabitants‚ a philosophy of life apparently different from real urban people. Actually‚ during a trip with my class‚ I had the opportunity to discover Paris for the first time. I was really shocked by the impassivity‚ the indifference
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Effects of the Industrial Revolution Working conditions What were the working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution? Well‚ for starters‚ the working class—who made up 80% of society—had little or no bargaining power with their new employers. Since population was increasing in Great Britain at the same time that landowners were enclosing common village lands‚ people from the countryside flocked to the towns and the new factories to get work. This resulted in a very high unemployment
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Sustainability Issues with Plastic Bags A plastic bag is used for 5minutes on average but requires more than a thousand years for it to decompose (Sharma‚2008). After decomposition‚ the tiny particles continue to contaminate our water sources and threaten wildlife (West‚ n.d.). Yet‚ the global usage of plastic bags hits an unprecedented annual rate of 1 trillion (Facts‚n.d.)‚ with Singapore contributing 3 billion in 2011(Tay‚2012). Hence‚ it is vital that we pay more attention to our environment by reducing this
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Plastic bags have become an ever-growing issue with the increasing predicament of pollution into today’s society. Single use plastic bags are made from petroleum products and therefore affect fossil fuel supplies. The sourcing and manufacturing process of this product plays a part in environmental pollution‚ and is therefore a contributing threat to the environment (Clapp & Swanston‚ 2009). This critical economic overview of a plastic bag tax shall examine and analyse both the positive and the negative
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Rock Professor Johansen ENG 105 27 March 2015 Climate Change: Plastic Pollution Of the 32 million tons of plastic produced annually‚ only 9% of plastics are recycled globally. The question then becomes‚ where does all this plastic end up? The answer is our oceans. The United Nations has noted that there is an estimated 50‚000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of the ocean (United Nations). Charles Moore first discovered plastic pollution in the ocean in 1997. Unlike the commonly believed fully
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Today‚ as working environment has been changing a lot‚ more people are taking different jobs in a period of time to finance their life. This essay shall discuss numerous reasons for these differences and suggest what a person needs for his career in the future. The first cause is the development of technology. For example‚ the Internet established creates a more convenient working environment for employees. It helps them to complete the assignment in flexible places‚ instead of staying at the
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Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Ambox current red.svg This article is outdated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (July 2013) Single-use plastic shopping bags are usually distributed (for free) to customers by stores when purchasing goods. It is a popular method that is practiced in many countries for being a strong‚ cheap‚ and hygienic way of transporting items. Lightweight bags are commonly made from
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replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate; which leads to more pollution and exploitation of the environment. When goods are produced and thrown out there are consequences to the environment we must face in the future including‚ pollution from factories creating the goods‚ destroying of natural resources to create the goods and garbage in the landfills that are killing the environment from the throwing away of goods. Society has fallen into this trap of consuming goods at an alarming rate
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