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    Contrary to what Oreskes and Conway believe, I personally do not believe that climate change will be the reason for the end of Western civilization. While I do believe it is a major issue that shouldn’t be ignored like it has been in the past. I do believe it is not too late to prevent it from causing the end of the world. We will always have to live with the consequences of our actions, although we must not lose hope for any given reason. I will argue against them and provide examples of ways already

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    Discourse is a 'shared way of apprehending the world ' (Dryzek, 1997). It is understood as ‘the ensemble of ideas, concepts and categories through which meaning is given to social and physical realities, and which is produced and reproduced through an identifiable set of practices’ (Hajer, 2006: 67). Discourse favors certain description of reality and empowers certain policy tools while marginalizing others (Litfin, 1994). Discourses frame the policy debates, limit what are considered ‘reasonable’

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    At first glance, Richard Wilbur’s “A Barred Owl” appears to be short and straightforward: a child, awakened by the hoot of an owl, calls for her parents, who soothe her with a lie about the owl’s supposed harmlessness. The child, blissfully unaware of the owl’s true nature, falls back to sleep, leaving the parents to reflect upon the owl, who they know to be a predatory creature. However, after a closer look at the puns and symbols Wilbur uses, “A Barred Owl” becomes more than just a simple poem

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    In this paper, I will be analyzing two types of media: Scientific articles versus socially and politically motivated, biased articles. This paper’s intended audience are my fellow ENC1101 students. This paper will challenge students to do further research then what they see after one search before forming an opinion on a subject. The audience of my paper will be aware of the subject, as the topic has been in the news in ad nauseam over social media, news outlets, newspapers, and personal conversation

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    (Martini 2000). Figure 1. Image to show an Angiogram of Healthy Heart (ref) Figure 2 shows that these two arteries branch from the aorta and supply all the heart muscle with blood. Coronary circulation is important and when this is faulty, this results in most heart problems. Coronary heart disease usually begins with Atheroslerosis; furring of arteries and this leads to angina, heart attacks or heart failure. Figure 2. Diagram to show

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    Psychological Responses to Global Climate Change “Climate change is not ‘a problem’ waiting for ‘a solution.’ It is an environmental, cultural, and political phenomenon which is reshaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity’s place on Earth” (Hulme, 2009, xx). Global climate change is one of the most important social and political issues facing humanity today. During last year’s State of the Union Address President Obama asserted, "No challenge — no challenge — poses a

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    Environmentalism in the UK: A Look into the Environmental Strategies Incorporated at Marks and Spencer Rachel E. Tackett Southeastern University Abstract The following paper explores environmentally friendly strategies utilized in the UK based multi-million-dollar corporation, Marks and Spencer. Marks and Spencer is a food and retail corporation, with headquarters in London, England. The following paper will analyze the effectiveness of utilizing environmentally friendly strategies in

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    Climate is part of our everyday lives. What we experience is the global climate system. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, climate change is, "a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity alters the composition of the atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods." (Allen, Seaman & Delascio, 2009) Australia’s climate has warmed a lot more since 1910 by the average of

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    Quality Assurance Meeting At present, the convening of this group is to assess a particular never event that occurred in Huntsville Hospital last month. The National Quality Forum literally defines a never event as a preventable adverse event occurring in a health care setting that should never happen; like, wrong site surgery, patient falls, and medication errors as examples (Gitlow et al., 2013). Discussion, explanations and resolutions are the intended outcome of today’s meeting. Never Event

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    Climate Change Have you ever wonder that what is our true enemy of the earth? Would what people had done will be alright? If we look at the world crisis now a day, people might know that everywhere around the world the number one problem probably be climate change. In the past, one thousand the world we live never change so much. But what happened is in 5 years we have seen something that is quite difficult to be seen such as earthquake, flood, and hurricane. There is the anger of nature that is

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