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Book Review of “The Politics of Air Pollution” By George Gonzalez

The Politics of Air Pollution by George Gonzalez
Introduction
Background
George Gonzalez is a renowned assistant professor based in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami. He has been an avid advocate of the inner political workings of the environmental policy in the United States. The book entitled the politics of air pollution delves into the establishment of policies that govern emission standards with a specialization on California as a key study. The book generally describes California as one the leading states in the promotion of automobile emission standards.
As such, the book focuses on highlighting ...

WWII – Book Review

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. She has written a book with two historical plots intertwined. One is the personal experience of the airman Louis Zamperini and the other is a historical view of World War II (WWII). Zamperini was a famous track star for the U.S. He participated in the Olympic track events in Berlin, Germany where he ran the 5000 meter race. Zamperini has published his autobiography titled The Devil at my Heels but Hillenbrand’s ...

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Phillip K. Dick) – Air Raid (John Varley).
‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’ is a futuristic short story written by Phillip K. Dick, centered on the concept of memory manipulation. It takes on the undiscovered fields of new age science. The concepts involved in the short story are so complex and underdeveloped even in this age and time. But still the author immaculately and ostentatiously nails his narrative. In the same sense, ‘Air Raid’ written by John Varley, seems to be the perfect match for the pairing. Both these short stories ...

Book Review of

“The Hot Zone” written by Richard Preston is a non-fiction English book published by Anchor in 1995. It contains 420 pages and based on Richard Preston article “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” It is a thriller that deals with the source and occurrences relating to viral hemorrhagic fever especially Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. The filo viruses, Ebola Virus called EBOV, Sudan Virus called SUDV, Marburg Virus called MARV and Ravn Virus called RAVV are the agents of level four of Biosafety. They are enormously hazardous to humans due to being very contagious and with an extraordinary casualty rate. There is ...

The Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor took place in December 1941; this is after a long period of clouds of war gathering over the pacific part of the world. This was a surprise attack by Japan on the naval base of the United States which was based at the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The casualties of the attack were massive since 2,400 Americans lost their lives while 21 ships were either damaged or sunk and approximately 188 United States aircraft were destroyed (Davenport 2009, 27). The Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor angered and outraged the United States government ...

Into thin Air is a personal account of the author’s expedition on the tallest mountain in the world. “I stood atop Mount Everest, gasping for air at the topmost limit of earth’s atmosphere.
Standing on the top of the world, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, put my shoulder against the wind, and stared at the vast view of earth below. I understood on some dim level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been dreaming about this moment for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, ...

Question 1:

Kennedy and his team have created a data-driven approach. They aren’t just guessing or using their best judgment about what makes sense. Explain how Kennedy and his team use and rely on data in designing the violence and drug intervention programs and – once the programs are functioning – to evaluate whether they are working.
Kennedy’s team are very much data driven in their approach as they tend to focus on the rude statistics which indicate that criminals have a lot of avenues to choose when it comes to rooting out the causes and effects of crime in the various ...

First Thessalonians is Paul’s first letter to the church at Thessalonica which he himself founded. This letter was written while Paul was ministering to the church at Corinth in the accompaniment of Timothy and Silas (1 Thessalonians 1:1). It is not clear about exactly how long Paul spent with the Thessalonians before leaving, but scholarly parlances place this period at around three weeks or three months, subject to different scholars (BTM). Being that Paul had received a number of offerings from the church at Philippi serves as enough evidence for having spent three months at Thessalonica (Philippians 4:16). ...

Introduction

Silent Spring provides a documentary of the destructive effects of indiscriminate application of pesticides in the environment. Rachel Carson noted that the use of pesticides to control the increased insect population in the United States after WWII have a damaging effect to the environment. She was concerned about the destructive effect of pesticides in the environment and the human health, that she was spurned to conduct her own research. She teamed up with other scientists to gather concrete evidences that provided evidence on the detrimental impact of DDT and other pesticides. The evidences were used to substantiate and support ...

The Hot Zone, 3rd ed. (Electronic Version)

I.
1. Centers for Disease Control
a) Page 159, 1st paragraph
b) It is referred to in the book when it indicated that the main role ofthe Army is to fight military threats while the Centers for Disease Controlshould have the responsibility and authority to fight diseases.
c) Centers for Disease Control means government agencies that protect public health through the control and prevention of diseases and the investigation and prevention of emerging diseases.
2. Amplification
a) Page 12, 2nd paragraph
b) It is referred to in the book when explaining the concept of virusmultiplication.
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The character of Socrates in Aristophanes’s Cloud resembles the character he put across in Plato’s Apology. In both cases, Socrates is a master sophist, the ideal philosopher. He is well versed in sophistry, science, rhetoric, and atheism. He appears removed from reality, is ready to defend his stand however outrageous it sounds and refuses to give in to coercions by his critics, students and authorities. Socrates maintains the character of a model philosopher and intellect who combines simplicity with an air of importance to converse convincingly with his challengers regardless of the nature of the topic at hand.
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The September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attack in the United States of America has brought this common and urgent query if the country is safe to all the citizens who live in for a better living. Asking this question is wrong; America is still a safe place to everyone. It is safer since the government has a massive increased in homeland security and the expenditures are high. The best and correct query is that, if the expenditures in the security have its worth. Howard Kunreuther, analyst, raised the central question after the 9/11 terrorist attack that how much do the government is ...

A basic challenge in climbing peaks like Everest is that air past 800o meters becomes exceptionally obscure. There are just 14 mountains globally with maximum heights of more than 8000 meters and though top climbers strive to conquer all of them this also implies that the faculties of their brains is impeded severely, and cannot spend longer time periods in zones over 8,000 meters devoid of risking their lives, even without storm. Rob Hall was to rule on turnaround times to ensure that his worn out clients could make it back to camp before it became dark, as ...

Many veterans have written war memoirs in recent times in which they narrate their own personal combat adventures in a very straightforward manner. Although many of these soldiers-turned-authors shy away from emphasizing on the mental toll of war, we all know that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past ten years have taken a tremendous toll on the soldiers and their families. Thus, what sets Brian Castner’s amazing memoir, “The Long Walk: A Story Of War And The Life That Follows,” apart is the fact that he does not flinch when taking a look at postwar life. Brian Castner, ...

Book Review: John Quincy Wolf, Life in the Leatherwoods

Life in the Leatherwoods by John Quincy Wolf (originally published in 1974) is a very rare memoir about the lives, society and culture of the ‘plain folk’ of the Upper South during the late-19th Century, specifically the white small farmers of the Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas. There are very few primary sources about this subject, such as diaries, letters or newspapers, especially from rural areas in this period, compared to the middle and upper classes, persons prominent in political and economic life or large slaveholders like Mary Chestnut. Those few records that may once have existed have largely been ...

The chapter basically covers crucial issues in the transportation field, precisely the plans that have been tabled for the transport sector and how financing will be executed. Focus is put on regional financial planning, local transportation planning, the current transportation funding challenges, and transportation and land use (Fulton, 2001). All this intertwine to develop an integrated system meant to achieve a common goal. Transport is an integral component in the contemporary world. The globe has transformed to present itself as a global village, meaning that all regions worldwide are unified. This unity has been duly facilitated by transport, which has enabled ...

Introduction

The Chinese government adopted free market economy in early 1990 and since then the country has experienced enormous economic growth. The rate of urbanization has also been increasing and this has brought new forms of crimes which the government must devise new ways of handling. The increased crime rate across the country is attributable to increasing economic inequality, disruption of traditional social control mechanism, massive rural urban migration, and introduction of western values, change in demographic features and decreased social interaction. In Caribbean countries the authorities have been unable to tame the increased criminality fueled by increased drug and ...

All the stories in Wisdom Walk teach about Buddhism. The stories are about the path to tranquility. This Path to Tranquility is introduced by the narrator’s daily experiences of having to wake up early in the morning to exercise in preparation for meditation. Despite the difficulties of meditation, the leader of the sessions encourages the trainees to forget about any other feelings and thoughts which can disrupt their thoughts. Meditation helps Buddhist get a bearing in life by revealing basic human truths to followers including human characteristics about suffering, ways which wrong point of view can lead to suffering, ...

Categories of employees’ complaints

(What are the specific things the employees are unhappy about? If you were to group their specific complaints together, how might you summarize the kinds of complaints the employees have? You are welcome to create the categories, describe the categories and then list the examples from the video.)

The most specific things the employees are unhappy about are low wages, poor working conditions, lack of interaction and communication with management, lack of investment in employees, lack of pleasant and enjoyable work environment, lack of feedback from managers concerning ideas and suggestions, etc. These complaints may be summarized in several ...

Book Review: Catch-22

This book, written by Joseph Heller and published in 1961, is perhaps best known for its title alone, which has become a familiar expression in the English language, meaning any “no-win” situation, originally derived from a specific set of circumstances occurring in the novel. Heller set his novel in 1943 in World War II, much of the action located on a small island called Pianosa, near to Elba on the Italian Tuscan coast in the Mediterranean Sea. (The island is real, but much smaller than this work of fiction purported it to be). The main character is Captain John Yossarian, a B-25 bombardier ...

Book Review: Environmental Science

Abstract

Davies and Mazurek (the authors of ‘Pollution Control in the United States’) have evaluated the activities that we have done that contribute to pollution in the past that affect as now and also in the future. The evaluation of past and the speculation of what will happen in the future will help us in coming up with measures to curb and reduce all or some of the activities that contribute to polluting our world. This book covers how the past environmental laws and regulations have worked or failed to work as, well as the analysis of the strengths ...

Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins

Navarro, Joe, and Karlins, Marvin. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s
Guide to Speed Reading People. New York: HarperCollins, 2008, 250 pages.

Joe Navarro was a counterintelligence special agent with the FBI for 25 years. Now, he consults with the FBI, the U.S. State Department and other intelligence institutions. He also appears regularly as an expert on such programs as the CBS Early Show. He also wrote Phil Hellmuth Presents Read ‘Em and Reap, and he is a popular lecturer for Fortune 500 companies as well. His co-writer, Marvin Karlins, has a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton, and ...