158 Results for environment

Destruction of the Environment Imagine a world in which people would not see trees and a blue sky when they go outside. Imagine stepping out of a house and not being able to walk a few feet without getting winded because of the amount of polution in the air. This might become a reality if our s...
I feel that the responsibility for keeping the environment clean does not rest with the corporations who pollute it, but with the government who does not stop them. If there are no laws and regulations that are enforced by the government for the corporations to follow then they are in no way...
What controlled environment did you spend time in? How long?When I graduated from High School I entered into the Merchant Marine Academy at Fort Schuyler in New York. From then until I was in my mid thirties I was involved with ocean liners, tankers and ships. For periods of one year at a time I w...
The environment plays a large role in the way campaigns are run. Businesses are greatly affected by what politicians decide to do about the environment. Environmentalist groups are large and powerful groups. Campaigns must juggle issues between these two groups. Many Americans think it a stretch...
Being in a man-made environment evokes many different feelings as opposed to being in a natural one. It was much easier to find a place predominantly influenced by the hand of man than to find one that had not been altered by humans. I chose the courtyard at Albany University as my man-made environm...
Lorainne Elliot begins his article by saying that an exact definition of "global environmental governance" cannot be grasped but he depicts it as "a useful shorthand to describe changes in contemporary international political practice; as a metaphor for 'world collective life&ap...
What controlled environment did you spend time in? How long?When I graduated from High School I entered into the Merchant Marine Academy at Fort Schuyler in New York. From then until I was in my mid thirties I was involved with ocean liners, tankers and ships. For periods of one year at a time I w...
Man is a product of his environment. This has held true since the beginning of man's existence. In the short story "The Broken Globe" by Henry Kreisel, it especially holds true. Man's beliefs can be attributed to the environment around them. The protagonist in this story, Nick Solchuk, g...
As we enter an age where change is forever accelerating, adjustment has become apart of our daily life. Change is constantly happening, and if we as an individual cannot keep up with the pace of change, we are left in the dust. As a marketing firm, how well we adapt to change could very well deter...
Montesquieu His real name is Charles De Secondat and was born near Bordeaux. He held a philosophy emphasizing that, "law in general is conformed by human reason,"(Bk I: Ch 1). Laws are derived from the relations of people to their environment. "The relations regarding Montesquieu&a...
The debate over the importance of nature verses the importance of nurture, has been going on since the beginning of modern science. Both sides of the argument have undeniably good points proving that one is superior to the other. But after reviewing the facts you can see that both nature and nurtur...
What gives a human being personality lies within the environment. Factors in the environment control how the personality is patterned, and provides the foundation to how a person should operate and behave. Studies of twins try to prove the contrary, that in fact genetics are the controlling factor i...
Geographically close but rather different The United States and Mexico are located geographically besides each other. They are interrelated in many aspects, such as economy, traditions, and ways of life, but they differ in some minimal aspects. People in each of the countries have a different way ...
Is The World Going to Die If We Don't Change Our Ways? There are many humans in the world today that believe that all animals have rights and that the human population is slowly destroying the environment around us. Still there are the others that don't care about the environment and ta...
The emergence of the Industrial Revolution in the history of humankind has brought about significant changes that greatly altered the way human society lived. Through the Industrial Revolution, technologies that were never conceived to influence the way people accomplish their activities,...
Microeconomics In Shankar Gupta's article, "Environmental Regulations not Cheap," he argues that further action taken by environmentalist causes, burden business activity, family incomes, developing countries, and also that there is no feasible way to enforce global laws to protect the e...
A special interest group is an organized subgroup of a society. Special interest group belongs to the public sector. Some special interest groups are very powerful politically. These organizations devote large amounts of money, and time to make sure that government representatives hear th...
Our genes makes us unique and they influence our personality. People born with certain traits can deal with stress and emotions better than people that lack that trait. For example a person born with the trait of calmness can deal with stressful situations better than a person born with the tra...
EPA
Prior to the 1920's, very few people were aware of the term or concept "biosphere", and prior to the 1960's minimal people knew the term "environment". Beginning around the 1930's, literature concerning this topic began to appear. Up until this time Americans thou...
It is John Wolseley\'s method of work to arrive at a given site and to camp there for weeks or even months at a time. It is a strategy he uses to develop a closer relationship between the artist and nature. He keeps a journal and in it records his feelings and the observations he has made on the env...
The Occupational Safety and Health act of 1994(OSHA) is appropriate and an adequate basis for the improvement of the working environment for all employees in Malaysia. OSHA ensures safety, health and welfare of person at work. The main objectives of this project is to conduct an enquiry among the wo...
In Earth in the Balance, Vice President Al Gore said "the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." In the past 150 years, earth's resources have been abused and people do not know how to deal with the effects of not treating the earth right. I...
Conserving energy is important, since the world will not be able to depend on nonrenewable resources in the future. Nonrenewable resources are resources that cannot be replaced such as natural gas, coal, and oil. Conserving energy will lessen the need for nonrenewable resources, which will be benef...
Changes in the Land Changes in the Land by William Cronon examines the ecological transformation that occurred in early New England during the shift from Indian to European dominance. In this persuasive interpretation of the varying circumstances in New England's plant and animal population Cr...
Environmental issues are more and more becoming part of the American society. We have gone from a people who have no need to conserve items such as power, water, and oil, to people who are infatuated with the idea of cleaning up the environment. Once litter ruled the road sides, and now we have pr...