Essays Tagged: "Natural environment"

Factual Proposition: Consuming marijuana is detrimental to one's health.

ece, Costa Rica and Jamaica. These tests reported on the effects of marijuana on its users in there natural environment. The reports covered marijuana's effect on the brain, immune and reproductive sy ...

(6 pages) 246 1 4.1 Nov/1995

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Finding a Middle Road, an argument between two different types of view points

These two moral demands do conflict. In fact, economic growth is the prime source of threats to the natural environment.We have a rough sense of what a good quality of life for humans consists of. Als ...

(4 pages) 100 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Overpopulation

l last us 20 years. Discoveries of new reserves are always happening though. So what happens to the natural environment? We build over our forest and other habitats. We need to breathe clean air and n ...

(3 pages) 149 0 3.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

"Dynamics of community assembly, disassembly, and reassembly in a neotropical floodplain river"

in the main channel and fish depended on environmental changes and its ecosystem. For example, the natural environment diversity of water level and fish stimulus changed from month to month. In Janua ...

(1 pages) 36 1 2.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

This essay is about humans and the effect they have made on the natural enviroment

Since humans populated the earth, they have caused a devastating effect on the natural environment. In the past, the earth's air has been polluted, many forests have been destroye ... tion must be taken to insure a future of a clean atmospheric environment.Forests are very important natural resources. They supply us with oxygen, food, timber, medicine and homes for animals. Unfortu ... human population has caused the extinction of many animals. Although the extinction of animals is a natural part of evolution, the number of species that have become extinct has increased dramatically ...

(1 pages) 166 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

An argumentative essay on why we should conserve our environment and what good it could bring us

tically changed if they weren't conserved.The word "conserve" means preservation, especially of the natural environment. In plants and animals case, it means,To keep in existence, to retain and to kee ... all, beautiful or ugly, all species play a role in the complex web of life. All of us depend on the natural resources of our planet. Each time a species is lost, the complexity, natural balance, and b ...

(6 pages) 421 3 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.

the events and characters in Lord of the Flies. He shows us that when people are removed from their natural environment, they become, essentially, more malevolent than good. By stranding a group of Br ... e of their hunting game and Golding seems to imply that for the majority of human kind, this is the natural state. Ralph and Piggy are ostracized because they cannot condone the events that led to Sim ...

(3 pages) 32 0 1.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

A Salty High: A descriptive essay about the stoke that surfboarding brings to an individual.

kids, or a successful football game; it's a way of life, a lifestyle. Being encompassed by the most natural environment, can be so unwinding. Successfully maneuvering a wave takes concentration, super ... ccessfully maneuvering a wave takes concentration, superior balance, and no fear to a new rank. The natural high of surfing is as good a feeling as making an 'A' on an exam [if not better].The white w ...

(1 pages) 51 1 4.6 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

About Corporate Citizenship .

unt its impact on all stakeholders, including employees, customers, communities, suppliers, and the natural environment.What about the argument that a company's primary obligation is to its shareholde ...

(3 pages) 109 2 3.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Experiment method,its advantages and disadvantages

riment that is as its name suggests conducted in laboratory and the field experiment conducted in a natural environment. The advocates of positivism support the use of experiment due to its many advan ... . This is crucial to ensure that all scientific results are reliable.The use of experiment reflects natural science methodology that advocates accuracy reliability and precision. Clearly by the use of ...

(5 pages) 28947 0 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Pollution

Air pollution worldwide is a growing threat to human health and the natural environment. It may be described as contamination of the atmosphere by gaseous, liquid, soli ... ants and animals, attack materials, and reduce visibility. Although some pollutants are released by natural sources like volcanoes, coniferous forests, and hot springs, the effect of this pollution is ... apors from building materials, paints, furniture, etc. cause pollution inside buildings. Radon is a natural radioactive gas released from the earth, and it can be found concentrated in basements in so ...

(6 pages) 203 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Describe The Roles of Water in Living Organisms

on.Without the ability to control our temperature, we as humans would not be able to survive in our natural environment. If our internal body temperature was to rise or fall even a few degrees centigr ...

(4 pages) 33 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Compare how "Brave New World" and "Blade Runner" explore the tension between humanity and the natural world.

The notion of a 'natural world' is one that suggests an environment that has been formed by nature; growing spontaneo ... s an environment that has been formed by nature; growing spontaneously, uncultivated and undergoing natural rhythms that emerge periodically. It is this natural world that incorporates flora and fauna ... a and fauna. However, the dominant species in this setting is not the human race; rather, it is the natural environment that embraces humans as a part of its habitat. This theme is unequivocal in Aldo ...

(5 pages) 82 1 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Although technology brings alot of comfort and progress to mankind, it carries with it serious enviromental problems.

Since humans populated the earth, they have caused a devastating effect on the natural environment. In the past, the earth's air has been polluted, many forests have been destroye ...

(3 pages) 58 1 1.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Air Pollution's Effects on Human Health & Mortality

duction:Environmental pollution is a term that refers to all the ways that human activity harms the natural environment. It is one of the most serious problems facing humanity and other life forms tod ... the contamination of the air by such substances as fuel exhaust and smoke. It can also be produced naturally when forest fires and volcanic eruptions shoot gases and particulates into the air and rai ...

(5 pages) 153 1 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Caustic Air

Caustic AirAir pollution worldwide is a growing threat to human health and the natural environment. It may be described as contamination of the atmosphere by gaseous, liquid, soli ... ants and animals, attack materials, and reduce visibility. Although some pollutants are released by natural sources like volcanoes, coniferous forests, and hot springs, the effect of this pollution is ... apors from building materials, paints; furniture, etc. cause pollution inside buildings. Radon is a natural radioactive gas released from the earth, and it can be found concentrated in basements in so ...

(6 pages) 54 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

What does the notion of legitimacy and social contract have to do with corporate disclosure policies?

voluntarily report information relating to their social actions, particularly those concerning the natural environment (Gray et al.1995). More specifically, corporations have been changing their disc ... 6 p.26), "the society provides companies with their legal standing and the authority to own and use natural resources and to hire employees. The organisations have no natural right to these benefits, ...

(11 pages) 172 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Look carefully at Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael's 'Wheatfields'. Please give an account of the composition of this painting.

uisdael's pictorial space encourages the spectator to feel small. The mass of the rustic, realistic natural environment is encumbering, with the small figures of people and animals. The angle of the s ... nd of his picture to his depiction of the sky.Ruisdael's use of tone and colour is wide-ranging and natural, the bright blues and whites of the sky contrast and complement the yellow and orange hues o ...

(1 pages) 153 2 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Blade Runner (Scott) + Brave New World (Huxley) - Analysis When humanity loses touch with nature speech to environmental forum.

al forum of the "Walk on the Wild Side" group of environmentalists. Our goal here is to protect the natural environment and the integrity of human nature from the destructive potential of science and ... to create worlds where unrestrained science has degraded human nature and destroyed or devalued the natural world. Both warn us of the dehumanising power of science in a society dominated by a powerfu ...

(4 pages) 58 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Central Park, An Escape

cultural activities, festivals and concerts that are held every year.Central Park has 840 acres of natural environment. Jennifer J. Wollan calls it in her article "The Simple Pleasures of Central Par ...

(2 pages) 40 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing