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In the short story "The Lamp at Noon", the author, Sinclair Ross situates the story at a farm that has no crops growing due to years of droughts and sand storms. The storms are so intense that a lamp must be lit even at noon. The characters Ellen and Paul, in the story, both struggle to survive this storm and drought year after years during this great depression and are torn apart by harsh elements of nature and their own inability to cope with the changing conditions. The author uses the setting to develop how the characters act, in a way which creates a sense of loneliness for the reader. He shows this through Ellen's feelings of loneliness, isolation and insanity and the reasons for her becoming insane during the story. Throughout this story, Ellen struggles to break free from the poor, barren and hopeless prairie landscape she and her family inhabit. Ellen has little contact with other people. Living in a two bedroom home and once a month to town with not a penny to spend was not the type of environment Ellen wanted to live in (Ross, 36). Feelings of loneliness and isolation surround Ellen, trapping her in an inevitable, hopeless future. To the young farmer's wife, Ellen, the notion of being 'caged' in a dusty world of isolation was not only stressful, but also very aggravating. Constant and pointless cleaning, trying to give the best for their helpless baby, and the
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A comprehensive study of a 3rd world country PHYSICAL: Relief: Ethiopia consists mainly of Desert and Mountains. Many valleys and plateau¹s also can be found in the country. Due to these landform types the percentage of farm land is approximately 5.7% of the total amount of land in Ethiopia. The amount of arable land is 10% of the 5.7% total. Ethiopia has an area of 1 221 900 sq. km. Ethiopia does not receive any problems such as volcanism, tidal waves, etc., but it does receive great winds and monsoons. It is located in Eastern Africa neighboured by Sudan (NW), Kenya(S), and Somalia(SE). Elevations can be seen on figure 1, and the physical features of Ethiopia on figure 2. Climate: The Climate in Ethiopia is of three different climatic zones. These being the cool or dega zone, consisting of the central parts of the western and eastern sections of the high plateaus and the area around Harar, with terrains roughly above 7 900 ft. in elevation. The second zone is the temperate, or weina dega zone, comprising portions of the high plateau between 4 900 and 7 900 ft.. The final area being the hot or kolla zone, encompassing an area with an altitude less than 5 000 ft. The cool zones temperatures and precipitation can be seen on figure 3. The temperate zones temperatures range from 15.6C to 29.4C. The temperature in the hot zone of the lowlands can reach
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Qi Ming Zeng English 310 Final Daft Corporate Social Responsible The term corporate socially responsibility (CRS) is a pervasive term in the business world; what exactly does it mean? CSR is an idea that corporations should consider the interest of the society and the environment, by taking responsibilities for the impacts they made in them. The practice of CSR has been a controversy debate within the corporate business world. I personally believe that corporations should only focus on their business and profit because the practice of CSR is such a problematic subject for corporations to deal with; corporations tend to create a lot of problems when they practice CSR. Corporate hypocrisy is one of the problems which associated with CSR. BP, an oil company which claims to be an environmentally conscious oil company that promised to be "Beyond Petroleum" (Bakan, 2004). Unfortunately when it comes down to business and profit, BP is just an ordinary oil company, and CSR is just empty promises they made to deceive their consumers. Norma Kassi, a member of the Gwich'sin Nation, is an Arctic indigenous people whose villages were built thousands of years ago went to BP's annual general meeting at London, trying to stop the drilling on the Arctic slope's costal plain. She believes that the drilling would destroy the Porcupine Caribous and the Gwich'in Nation's cultures (Bakan,
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Is there an EU Russia strategic partnership? The EU-Russia relationship is a difficult but incredibly important one. Russia is too big to integrate and too close to ignore (Marsh and Mackenstein 2005: 202). There is whether the forced interaction between Russia and the EU is a strategic partnership or just a variety of co-operation for mutual benefit. Shortly before the twelfth Russian-European Union summit in early November 2003, in an interview with the Italian press, Russian president Vladimir Putin stated, "For us, Europe is a major trade and economic partner and our natural, most important partner, including in the political sphere. Russia is not located on the American continent, after all, but in Europe." Russia, he continued, is "interested in developing relations with our partners in the U.S. and the American continent as a whole and in Asia, but, of course, above all with Europe" (Lynch. 2004: 100). This is all well and good, but as this essay will show, although there are areas where the EU and Russia are linked, through energy supply for example, there also areas where the two camps differ massively. An example of this is their opposing views on humanitarian intervention which makes joint military operations on this issue impossible due to the Russians position of non-intervention. There are ultimately areas where the EU and Russia have what can only be