Position on the Syrian Refugee Crisis The United Nations (UN), created in 1945 from the aftermath of World War II, currently has 193 Member States. The UN focuses on peace and human rights, doing its best to clean up the broken pieces of war stricken countries. The most current global human rights issue is the Syrian Refugee Crisis; in March of 2011 anti-government demonstrators began a peaceful protest, which quickly escalated to a civil war, continuing today. According to a recent article,…
fulfilling National Geographic journalist Dan Buettner’s task of living to be over one hundred which he investigates in his speech “How to Live to be 100+”. In his speech, Buettner delves into what exactly extends life by looking into so called Blue Zones or “ areas where people are living to age one hundred at rates up to ten times greater than we are, areas where the life expectancy is an extra dozen years, the rate of middle age mortality is a fraction of what it is in this country”(Buettner…
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a non-fiction novel about the origin of Ebola and its effects on people and the outbreak of Ebola in a monkey house. Preston also goes into details about the symptoms of Ebola and the different strains of Ebola,which are Ebola Zaire, Ebola Reston, and Ebola Sudan. Preston really informs about the dangers of Ebola and what it can do to the human body and what must be done to prevent the virus from spreading around the world and causing an…
in favor of this system, but it became a life changing factor in our world today. Since the railroads were being constructed, which allowed a fast and resourceful way to travel great distances, the operation "required the standardization of time in zones." To begin with, citizens were not fond of the topic "time" due to many reasonings. One being that the citizens didn 't have a consent on the subject and it angered most of them. Before the Standard Time Act, people used a well-known clock…
these famous wolves. But recently, the wolf population in Denali National Park has been surrounded by controversy. Denali National Park along with members of the public have been fighting the Alaska Board of Game to establish a hunting free buffer zone along park boundaries in effort to maintain the wolf population that has recently began to fall.…
encourage outsourcing and have teams, both here in the US and outside the US. Both teams will need to work together in order to come up with a common goal. Our main goal would be efficiency and timely deliveries, as teams working in two different time zones we will need to balance out our tasks accordingly and make sure all items are delivered on time. This can be achieved by effective communication by use of communication tools like IM (instant messenger), WebEx, conference calls and also video…
In the Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", the neighbors on Maple Street were out performing their everyday duties when suddenly an unknown flew across the sky above. Based on rumors, the object was supposed to be some type of foreign media from out of space. After the strange object 's appearance, weird things started happening on Maple Street: several homes were without electricity, car engines would no longer start, and several other unusual activities were observed.…
Who doesn’t like to count stars at night? Especially a child, when he/she looks at the sky for the first time, his/her heart gets filled with many questions. Every time they learn something new, they come up with even more and more questions. Can you recall how many times you experienced something like this when you were a child? All the questions you wondered if they were true. I can recall my experiences from the past, looking at the night sky, I always wondered if there’s someone living…
The Rise of Big Business The Industrial Revolution is when the American society switched from having an agricultural society to having big business. The transformations that took place in American businesses following the Civil War involved more than a change in just industrial techniques or productivity they also expanded in size and scale. There were three major businesses during the Industrial Revolution; the railroad, oil, and steel industries. With the rise of these three major…
explores the dark consequences that result from human use of technology. In an article written for the New York Times, Brooker explains how his series “was inspired indirectly, by The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling’s hugely entertaining TV series of the late 50s and early 60s.” Many critics consider The Twilight Zone to be the most significant Sci-Fi television program of its time (Booker 8). It laid the groundwork for…