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It might sound a little silly, but archaeologists can find out a lot about people by looking through their trash. More is told about people's culture and lifestyles by studying there refuse then by asking them directly. Think about what you consider an average week then take a step back and compare the story you would tell and what your trash would tell. The revelation of how different the story's are would astonish you. A person's trash will tell several things about their life and culture including the way they care for their home, what they eat and how much, and how environmentally conscience they are. This is a study of one household's trash collected over one week. The first thing I have learned from going through the trash is the household lives a clean and sanitary home. Evidence for this finding is the Lysol disinfecting wipes and other house hold cleaning supplies such as kaboom and cleaning gloves. Another thing I have noticed is that the household has pets due to the potty training pads and empty fish bags. Due to the quantity of potty pads and empty fish bags indicate to me that they clean up a lot after a young pet that is currently being potty trained and they either have a lot of fish or have an animal that eats a lot of fish. I also noticed that in the trash there was no baby food, child waste, and or child food which indicates to me that the household has no
Impact of Population
POPULATION PROBLEMS THE IMPACT OF EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF HUMAN POPULATION IN RESOURCES AND & ENVIRONMENT "Humans are 10,000 times more common than we should be, according to the rules of the animal kingdom, and we have agriculture to thank for that. Without farming, the world population would probably have reached half a million by now." Steve Jones H.O.D. Biology, University College London Kush Vatsaraj XI D ESS SL 2 3/31/2009 THE IMPACT OF EXPONENTIAL POPULATION GROWTH ON RESOURCES & THE ENVIRONMENT Throughout the years, as man discovered newer and better ways to live and improve his life, the world population grew at a higher rate. At first the population was not too great, so as to put much pressure on the environment and was sustainable. But in recent years due to advancement in fields of agriculture, healthcare, transport and communication, etc., the population has started increasing at an exponential rather than a geometric rate, more so after the industrial revolution. Earlier the human population growth was sigmoid but became exponential after the industrial revolution made living conditions better, causing a drop in the crude death rate and increase in the average life expectancy and crude birth rate. As the second graph shows when the population grows exponentially it rapidly increases in a very short span of time. This not only causes
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Environmental Systems and Societies Internal Assessment Biomass Productivity Aim- The aim of this experiment is to determine the productivity of a piece of grass within a five week period. Hypothesis - I think the productivity of the grass will show a gradual increase over the weeks that we measure it, because the grass it photosynthesizing all the time thus increasing in mass. Photosynthesis is a process by which green plants use the light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into the simple sugar glucose. Variables Controlled * Area of sample * Time between each measurement Independent * Different sections within the bounded area. Dependent * Biomass of the grass * Size of sample Method- To determine the productivity of an area of grass in our school we measure the biomass of a controlled size of grass every week. To do this first we measured and bounded aarea of grass within the school premises. Our initial aim was to find the biomass of a area but we realized during the first week that this area is far too large to measure the biomass accurately, it also didn't fit into the oven we wanted to dry the sample in. So we decided for the next four samples to measure the biomass of a sample and multiply our result by 25. And since we couldn't fit the first sample into an oven and had to dry it in the sun, we did all the other samples in this way to
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TEST ESSAY 2
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Topic: are reasoning and emotion equally necessary in making moral decisions. Mentor group: Mr P Cairns Handed in date: 11th February 2008 Word count: 1378 Whether reason or emotion is equally necessary in justifying moral decisions is a highly controversial topic. I am going to analyse and evaluate two important approaches from Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham. I will partially focus on these two important figures, as one presents good will as the only thing that is capable of producing morally justified decisions, if that will conforms to practical reasoning. The other one states that a moral decision is a decision that increases the "Greatest Pleasure for the Greatest Number of People" thereby focusing on the importance of an emotional state of happiness for making morally justified decisions. In order to come to a conclusion of whether Kant's or Bentham's idea of reason and emotion in moral decisions are justified, I will focus on the building blocks on which their theories are built. The origin of their theories is nature itself, I will analyse certain characteristics of nature, indicating whether Kant's theory supports the significance of reasoning or Bentham's theory supporting the importance of emotions is completely in accordance with nature itself or whether certain limitations can be found. Immanuel Kant states that the only moral good, that in itself is
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My Korean culture is definitely a paradigm that opens my mind to many perspectives, including ones that highly contrast traditional American values or beliefs.
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Anthropology: Study Notes (Trobrianders)
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Who are the Zoroastrians and what is Zoroastrianism? Considered the oldest monotheistic religion in the world, Zoroastrianism is believed to be influential to the ideas of Judaism, and therefore Christianity. To explain and define what Zoroastrianism is, first, I need to tell the story of who is responsible for this ancient religion's existence, mankind's role in the doctrine of Zoroastrianism, and how it relates to more popular and dominant religions of today. Iran is the setting and the origin of the Zoroastrian faith. Ancestors of the Zoroastrians of Iran (pre-Islamic) were members of the Indo-European family known as the Aryans. These people called themselves Zoroastrians because they believed in the teachings of the first Aryan prophet, Zarathushtra. Zarathushtra's religion was the prominent one in Iran until the conquest by the Arabs, around 1300 years ago, who converted Iran to Islam. In response to the Arab invasion, a band of Zarathushtrians sailed to India in order to preserve the Zoroastrian faith. Upon their settlement in India they became known as the Parsees. Zarathushtra was the first prophet to teach a monotheistic religion. He was born in Iran about 8000 years BC. He revealed through his sublime hymns, the Gathas, that there was only one God, Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Wisdom, Wise, Good, and Just. Ahura Mazda, taught by Zarathushtra, was a friend to