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...

Human Dimension Establishing an environmental ethic is of utmost concern to the human species to better comprehend our place in the world and our potentials for the future. In doing so, we must extend our thinking of rights and responsibilities. I believe we must incorporate not only a temporal comp...

The world's population has grown more in the last 50 years than it had done in the previous 4 million years[1]. This quantum leap in the human population has put severe strains on the finite resources and the fragile environment of our planet. What is more, the present rate of the galloping...

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...

Technology vs. EnvironmentIn today's world, humans are in a very relaxed cycle: they eat, they watch television, they sleep. What most people do not realize are the health risks they are taking every day when they do their daily tasks. Humans are becoming more and more reliant on machines to do simp...

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...

Ever since man came bustling out of the last Ice Age, 11 thousand years ago, armed with sharpened sticks, he has had a nasty habit of destroying the nature, without mentioning the fact of its population growth at non-sustainable rates. The world we know today will perhaps not support life if humans ...

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...

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,...

The Global Environment is under threat. Do you support the Environmentalists or are they exaggerating the Dangers?In today's world the global environment is faced with many problems. Solving these problems is very important because the global environment is the world. Some people, environmentalists ...

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...

BELOVED The idea of the self in Toni Morrison's book Beloved combines three central themes. The way an individual speaks has a direct correlation to the environment they are in. An identity cannot be defined without there being other people to anchor it. And, the self is not only limited to...

"What constitutes a human is not simply given. It is also created by us." (Kennan Malik) The memory affects our personality because our memory, the mental capability of recalling past experiences (www.dictionary.com), forms from our environment, which causes our traits and behavior to deve...

Human interference with our environment is excessive, and the situation is rapidly worsening due to our population growth. Policies must therefore be changed. These policies affect basic economic, technological, and ideological structures. The way to these policy changes is in the "Deep Eco...

Is man really born with a evil persona or a persona that is worthy as an angel or is man born naked for a reason because he has nothing to bring to this world but himself? A person is not innately any characteristic, he was brought to the world from love and must choose to love or not. Mother Theres...

Is man really born with a evil persona or a persona that is worthy as an angel or is man born naked for a reason because he has nothing to bring to this world but himself? A person is not innately any characteristic, he was brought to the world from love and must choose to love or not. Mothe...

When it comes to trying to define our own "character," usually we attempt to define it based upon our own experiences and thoughts. But just as we all carry with us different experiences and ways of thinking, we all can derive slightly or sometimes even vastly different understandings of what char...

The conservation of our environment has been a long standing debate between two extremes. On the one hand, some may argue for biodiversity, claiming that it has value for science amongst other things, on the other hand, there are those who may argue that putting a limit on the utilization of resour...

Being that our goal is to relate the environment to the people in the book of our choice, I figured that there's no better example than a man who walked through our undeveloped state in 1867. The person I'm referring to is John Muir, and his book is titled A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf...

Do humans have the natural inclination to fight? Do we as humans are born with the desire to hate, destroy, and kill? Or are we born with the ability to love create and nurture? There are two theories that help us understand our behaviour to certain situations, the first that I will be discussing i...

Human Impact on the Earth It is a well-known fact that humans have been living and modifying the earth since the beginning of time. However, as we continue to inhabit this planet, we consciously and subconsciously destroy our precious environment with the intent of making life easier and also ...

Typically, in the past and even in the present day, people have either have an anthropocentric view, humankind as the center of existence, or ecocentric, concerned with all living organisms and their environment. Sessions wrote (2001, p.158) , In 1972, the environmental textbook writer G. Tyler Mi...

Nature-NurtureMany things affect people and how they behave based on genetics and what type of environment they are raised in. Part of a person or animal's behavior stems from behaviors which are innate or what they are exposed to in life. Socrates is a dog who has a unique mutation where he also ...

Developing the Under DevelopedThe desolate and scorched soil of a vast empire that once ruled lay wasted in the dim morning sun. This is symbolic of a newly developed nation that grew at a pace that the environment could not stand. Human life in future generations depends on the judgement of the civ...