Collective Resilience: Decreasing Vulnerability Paralleling an exponential growth in global population, increasing worldwide energy production and consumption generates vulnerabilities in human and environmental health. ... On the contrary, developed countries over-consume, and create their own vulnerabilities by structuring communities in unsafe areas out of economic angst. ... This parallel's the large imbalance in economic availability between countries. ... While the prevalence of harmful weather patterns may be growing, the United States could have a stronger resilience by allocat...

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The choice of maintaining a first person perspective and preserving a conversational, in-formal essay structure was to emulate a mirroring casual-tone such as Woolf's in AROOO. This allows the reader to formulate their own opinion rather than presenting as Woolf calls "a nugget of pure truth"(p 1) A Land of One's Own aims to parallel Woolf's theme of gender inequality, however, reappropriating it to racial inequality. ... Through following both the textual structure and tone of conversation, A Land of One's Own aims to convey a racial contextualisation of some ...

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Here she gives an example of magic; perhaps there is a parallel to the Green Fly who has been introduced into the song narrative. ... Kingsolver uses a structure that tells the narrative from three perspectives: Codi, in first person, tells her story of isolation from all but her sister; while the distance of Homer's third person narrative exemplifies his distance from his children, and his family community; and although Hallie is never met directly in the narrative her first person letters continue to develop a picture through images of the only member of the family who is connected to...

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The major priorities of IFOR were to separate the former warring factions and to ensure that the cessation of hostilities was maintained and to establish a rudimentary security structure. ... In a paper by Marcus Cox of the Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations, he states that the articles have created a highly dispersed constitutional structure with weak central authority. Second, wartime conditions in Bosnia gave rise to local power structures with a vested interest in preserving the weak state. ...

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Continuing with three parallel built sentences, which have a rising action Bush leads to his ultimate goal: Bringing freedom to the world. ... The parallel structure of the sentence is to point to the similarity between Bush's and God's plans; there is only a shift to a macro-objective (America to God, world to humanity) which gives the impression of the USA being God's representative on earth. ...

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Others search for the domestic causes of war in the domestic structure of states. ... Secondly, the social structure of the two superpowers, the United States and the former Soviet bloc are relatively stable. ... Parallels have been drawn between our own age and the periods preceding other great wars, particularly World War I. ...

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For the first time the cloning of a whole human being seems really possible. It is absolutely necessary to consider the harm that can be done and move to curb abuses. Also, it is important to understand some of the theory underlying the desire to build a better human. The Ethical Downside of Cloning...

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Here in this comparison, I will try to draw parallel between causes and responses to the "depression " in 1929-39 and today's "crunch ". ... Since August of 2007 when crisis became apparent financial structures and institutions took several actions regarding to it. ...

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One of these countries was Russia where some people disagreed with their government structure, so a group of people enrolled in the communist party creating the Soviet Union. ... Eventually, in 1950, Korea had to divide up into two countries, by the 38th parallel. ...

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"Our force structure needs to be robust, flexible, and credible enough to meet the worst threats we can reasonably postulate." ... This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. ...

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• Grade Level: High School