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    resurgence of environmental justice activism in the past few years. Due to the increased activism, the state has taken many steps to lead the country in fighting climate change and reducing the ever-increasing amount of environmental pollution on the environment by implementing various climate change policies. One of the state’s most recent efforts to promote environmental justice was through the signing of Senate Bill 1000 - Planning for Healthy Communities Act. This bill requires that cities and counties

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    from the effects of technology on the environment are literal and figurative, monetary and destructive. The first article being explored is “Technology and the Environment” by Vernon W. Ruttan. Ruttan looks at the relationship between technology and environmental through the eyes of economics. He compares the usage of technology and its effects on the environment with the economical terms supply and demand, technology being the “rising demand” and the environment being the “inelastic supply.” He argues

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    Keeping our environment clean is very important, so that we don’t get any health issues. We see people throwing trash everywhere. On the streets, on grass, in water-which is what we drink, and do we know how bad that is for us. Littering causes pollution, pollution causes rain, a lot of rain causes the sea level to rise, which forms hurricanes. Then when a hurricane forms, it destroys our whole community. I’m sure we all can deposit trash into the right place, which is a garbage dump, so let’s please

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    chose was Advancing Personal Learning. Personal Learning is the tailoring of curriculum and learning environments by learners or for learners in order to meet their different learning needs and aspirations. Before I go into the details of why I chose this topic, it is important to know what Personal Learning Environments, a current form of Personal Learning, actually are. A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning(Wikipedia). These

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    Controlling One’s Environment: What Role Does This Play in Learning Belser Walker   According to the constructivism theory of learning, people learn by recognizing meaning in their present knowledge framework. According to believers of this theory, learning is done by the process of assimilation and accommodation. Accommodation refers to the process by which failure leads to further learning; where a new experience that is contrary to one's expectations causes one to change their mental

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    the story of Sethe, an African American woman living before the Civil War as a slave and after as a free woman. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between the past and present, but consistently provides the reader with insight into how the environment has historically been used against African Americans. This paper will examine how the different ecologies at Sweet Home in Kentucky and at 124 Bluestone Road in Ohio address environmental justice issues and make Beloved an ecocritical text. These

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    desire due to the environment (Pope Francis, p. 44). In today’s society, people who proclaim their love for the environment are depicted as “tree huggers” or hippies. With technology being the focus of everyone’s lives these days, it makes sense that people with those concerns would be given a negative connotation. However, this does not mean that it is right or okay. Pope Francis claims that the “technocratic paradigm” is the fault for our negative relationship with the environment. The technocratic

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    Business environment “A business firm does not operate in a vacuum but in a given environment, and has to interact and transact its business within this environment” (Fernando, 2011, p33). The two types of business environment are external (macro and micro environment) and internal. External Environment The external environment can be briefly explained as an environment that consists of conditions, entities, occasions, and elements surrounding an organization that impact its activities and decisions

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    Environments Shape Organizations Your Name Your College Environments Shape Organizations There is an old real-estate joke about the three most important factors in the business of realty, the punch line being “Location Location Location”. Though made in jest this idea is not far from the truth since the area in which any business type organization is established will typically play a big part in its overall success. On a much bigger scale the success of any business is also greatly dependant on

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    Technology and Environment             Technology has become so helpful to our lives in so many ways. Technology is convenient and efficient. It aids us to live life more conveniently by allowing us to do more in less effort. It, then, becomes rather difficult to undermine the importance in which technology plays within our lives. Many people have benefited from the invention of technology and would most often find it complicated to do without. Year after year, technologies become reinvented through

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