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Coral reefs and tourism in Colin Woodward's Ocean's End

Colin Woodward's book Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas describes the seas around Belize including those of Caye Caulker. Many of these are tourist areas, but with a low development footprint. As Woodward points out, most people walk and there are no cars anywhere on Caye Caulker.

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Sociology of law and corporate responsibility at Dow Water & Process Solutions

The main task during the internship was articles about Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS). The aim was to illustrate the processes going in water treatment plants and to explain the importance of wastewater reuse.

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Visualizing global cyber attacks with the Norse map

I looked at the live cyber attacks on map.norsecorp.com at 9:20 AM on 30 Jan 2016. As the attacks happened, the majority of them originated in China (more than 400 attacks were sent in just a matter of minutes) and the majority of the targets were in the U.S.

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The evolution of water power, steam power, and iron in infrastructure development

Although hydropower is thousands of years old, recent developments in technology have allowed for far more sophisticated water turbines and waterpower systems.

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Minimizing personal energy consumption through renewable energy strategies

In order to reduce the negative environmental impacts of an ever growing human population and increasing demands for energy as technological advances continue, individual countries, states, cities and even households have the opportunity to shift their energy sources to those that are renewable.

~5 min read

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Dow Water & Process Solutions and the sociology of legal policy

Main task during the internship was articles about Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS). The aim was to illustrate the processes going in water treatment plants and to explain the importance of wastewater reuse.

~24 min read

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Why anthropology matters for understanding human diversity

This letter is meant to help you make an informed decision on whether anthropology should be your minor or major. The letter addresses anthropology as related to human life. My hope is that you will gain from reading this letter and that you will, therefore, easily, decide.

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Cavanaugh's vision of religious pluralism and political space in America

From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space, William T. Cavanaugh: Cavanaugh alerts the reader immediately, based on Martin Marty's book (Politics, Religion, and the Common Good) that there are conflicts in this world when it comes to religious beliefs and political values.

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The United Nations' bias in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

When the United Nations was first formed, it was done with noble ideas and motives. Indeed, many of the actions and deeds executed or supported by the United Nations over the years have mostly been positive and productive. However, there has been a consistent and startling degradation.

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Ethical approaches to healthcare rationing and access

Nursing, and healthcare in general, often gets negative publicity when the idea of rationing healthcare is presented. However, healthcare is a finite resource that must be distributed by some means and a different levels.

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