But the hatcheries around Africa are too important to close down. So if the yield of the hatchery continues to decrease every year sooner or later the hatchery will have a change in management. Not only is the fish hatcheries are being affected by poaching the sale of ivory in Africa has also been affected. . “In Kenya, uncarved ivory was worth $2.50 a pound in 1969, $34 a pound in 1978, and
Pollutants find their way into our air and water while wildlife species diminish and become extinct. As Sir Richard Branson says, “Why [do I] worry about lemurs, sharks, tigers, elephants, and parks when we have so many other issues in the world? [Because] how we treat our world is a reflection of our humanity, our intelligence, our conscience and ultimately, our very survival.” So who is to blame for all this damage? According to Paul Hawken in The Death of Birth, “The biosphere is in decline; industry is the major culprit, because of the way it extracts resources and uses them to make products that sooner or later end up in a landfill. There is only one institution on earth large enough, powerful enough, pervasive enough, and wealthy enough really to change that system and it’s the same institution that’s doing the damage.” The industry that Hawken is referring to is business, and Richard Branson agrees that “business as usual” is failing this planet.
Throughout time conspiracy theories have captivated the human mind. There is a certain type of sparked curiosity when we hear a conspiracy theory, and for every historic life changing event, one isn’t too far behind. According to Webster’s dictionary a conspiracy theory is defined as a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators. Whether you believe these theories or not, they exist and in no other time were they more prevalent than in the 1960s. But what was it about the 1960s that made for some of the biggest conspiracy theories of our time that to this day we still talk about and what was it about that era that made these theories so popular?
The largest tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon, is being rapidly destroyed. The reasons are many, and little is being done to prevent this. The use of chemical defoliants and the attempt of building a road through the Amazon has done horrific damage to the rainforest. Logging is a part of the reckless destruction of the beautiful rainforest. Cattle ranching contributes greatly to the demise of the amazonian rainforest.
THE WORLDWIDE WEB AND INTERNET BUBBLE Jenifer R Ecom210 August 1, 2012 Entrepreneurs of the late 1990’s had an unrealistic expectation concerning the success of the internet, much of which was influenced by companies such as Amazon, eBay and many others during this period. The entrepreneurs of this period included individual dreamers to that of major corporations, Internet entrepreneurs who was enamored with dreams of becoming “dot-com millionaires or billionaires (Smith, 2012), but such expectations led to the “Dot-Com Bubble” or what is known as the Internet Bubble”. In Robert J Shiller’s book, Irrational Exuberance, the study of many factors which influenced the boom, skyrocketing after 1995 is discussed and I will like to discussed in this paper three of these factors (Internet Culture; Effect of the News Media and A New Era of Economic thinking); the influence of the World Wide Web (www) on the bubble and companies that both gain and lost as a result of the internet’s bubble burst. The Internet’s Journey The introduction of the World Wide Web gained a lot of attention in its innovative change which expanded technology and enhanced an already existing internet. E-Commerce Entrepreneurs both old and new took advantage of this new dotcom frenzy and as the companies went public, a number of investors made risky decisions based solely on the hype of the dotcom.
Google, a revolutionary search engine that has altered the way the world surfs the internet and accesses it's many other pleasantries has been thee "go-to" search engine for nearly a decade. It's popularity has even gained itself an entry into the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb. So why is it that Nicholas Carr, a successful writer and blogger, finds it necessary to publish an article entitled: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". The article is a direct attack at not only Google itself, but the internet and technology as a whole. Carr argues, in reference to Stanley Kubrick's: 2001: A Space Odyssey, "as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence."
Africa’s Current Barriers There are many reasons why Africa is considered an impoverished continent, but there are three that stand out against the others. Africa is not fully developed because of past history, disease, and agricultural issues. Africa lacks many things such as organization, power, and rule which also contribute to these three main issues. One reason that Africa is poor and wrecked is because of colonialism. Some of the first civilizations started in Africa, and forever after other civilizations wanted to conquer Africa as a means of showing their global superiority.
The undiscovered self is a book which opens one’s, an individual’s eye to the unreal belief of knowing one’s self-knowledge. With all the masses and states which have been created, we as people made ourselves meaningless. We build massive corporations and institutions to fulfill the needs and desires of the so called states and masses. The human being has reached a time of discoveries, and a collection of statistics. This creates the lack in character, and growth in human ignorance, and has promoted intellectual laziness.
Poaching: A Heavy Burden on Africa Africa is home to the planet’s most iconic and charismatic wildlife, ranging from the enormous gray elephants to the majestic golden lions and the elusive spotted leopards. People around the world know these creatures and have affection for them, but what many ignore is the huge threat that is looming for these animal species. This threat, commonly called poaching, “is the illegal harvesting of animals through capturing, catching, hunting, or killing” (“Poaching”). Over the last decades and especially from 2000 onwards, acts of poaching have skyrocketed, leaving the populations of African wildlife in a critical situation. Much debate has arisen on whether this poaching issue should be tackled through prohibition,
Social Complexity: the Cause of Class Division H. G. Wells’s theory on a receding evolution and his displeasure with the social factors of his own time contribute to the cynical tone of his novel, The Time Machine. During the late eighteen hundreds Europe had undergone an Industrial Revolution. During this period, society split into two social classes: the Proletariat (lower class) and the Bourgeoisie (the upper class). The Bourgeoisie were the dominant figures of society whereas the Proletariat would endure long brutal hours in the treacherous and detrimental factories that were sometimes underground. “Man no longer treated men as men, but as a commodity which could be bought and sold on the open market.”(Kreis).