With reference to various examples‚ discuss how ‘natural’ disasters are socially constructed. While natural disasters such as floods‚ drought and hurricanes are commonly thought to occur due to environmental forces such as weather‚ climate and tectonic movements; a deeper investigation into the ‘disaster’ displays other contributing forces. Human factors have a large‚ if not equal‚ contribution to the occurrance and outcome of such disasters (Pelling‚ 2001). As Pelling (2001) argues‚ there is
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change and the destruction of a once healthy atmosphere. Some companies have claimed to find a “clean” source of energy called natural gas‚ found deep within the Earth’s crust. Commercials created by these companies state that natural gas is easy retrieve‚ cheap and clean burning. However‚ these commercials fail to explain that one of the processes of retrieving natural gas‚ or hydraulic fracturing‚ is extremely harmful to the environment. Hydraulic fracturing‚ or “fracking”‚ is the process of
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Natural law would view abortion as wrong because it interferes with the fetus ’s "quest" toward its divine destiny of completed potentiality as a human being. "Thomas Aquinas‚ On the Truth of the Catholic Faith‚ book II‚ ch. 89‚ reflected the influence of Aristotle ’s views on human development: "The vegetative soul‚ which comes first‚ when the embryo lives the life of a plant‚ is corrupted‚ and is succeeded by a more perfect soul‚ which is both nutritive and sensitive‚ and then the embryo lives
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“Law is invariably constructed as a response to conflict or‚ specifically‚ to a given social problem; it is a mechanism that attempts to control certain kinds of activities or behaviours” (Boyd‚ 2007‚ p.45). Every citizen in our society is affected by the law in one shape or the other. As such‚ this paper will examine that as students and analysts of law’s evolution we should accept both natural law and positivism. Consequently‚ this essay will gauge the strengths and weaknesses of this claim. Indeed
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Natural selection and speciation are two examples of how biodiversity can be expanded within an ecosystem. Natural selection is the process by which characteristics are inherited to enhance survival and increase the chances of reproduction in future generations than those that do not‚ altering the genes of a population over time. These characteristics will help future individuals within the population to become more efficient and better suited to their environment. Speciation is the process by which
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Evolution is the changing of gene frequency in a population over time. Natural selection is where animals with advantageous characteristics produce more offspring‚ therefore passing down favoured genes. In the more developed parts of the world‚ medical care and access to food means natural selection is lesser‚ as selective forces that were there before e.g some diseases and predators‚ are no longer there. Therefore‚ some humans that have characteristics that would have previously meant they produce
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sustainable management of natural resources in Nigeria. This it does with the aim to determine the extent to which the exploration of natural resources is managed in our country from 1960 till date. Also‚ given recommendations in which the resources can be managed. CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction Nigeria is one of those countries in Africa that is fairly rich with natural resources. For example Crude Oil‚ Coal‚ Iron‚ forest‚ farming‚ Fishing and so on. It is believed that natural resources development
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Background Bangladesh is one of the world’s poorest and most densely populated countries. Not only is it highly vulnerable to natural disasters such as cyclones‚ flooding and drought‚ it is also associated with civil unrest‚ political instability and widespread corruption all of which can be viewed as a deterrent to the country’s attractiveness as an E&P destination. Natural gas is the only significant source of commercial energy‚ and accounts for almost 75% of commercial energy consumption. The
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Natural selection was a fundamental idea formed by Darwin that living things evolve gradually from generation to generation. Darwin argues that all living species come to historical process through a historical process involving random changes. Through natural selection living things have acquired to behave in ways that provide the promotion of survival and reproduction. What happens in natural selection is that the organisms with favorable traits that help them survive live long enough
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Here we have some highlights of how the natural selection works and some of the evolutionary forces that drive evolution: The natural selection operates in base of the difference between de reproductive successes of the individuals. The genes of the most successful individuals (the ones that reproduces more) appears more in the next generation. If an individual cannot survive it will not be able to reproduce. Because of that natural selection is NOT RANDOM and can act really quickly. (Charlat et
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