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example. “The next war among countries will not be for oil or territorial borders, but only for the problem of water “. Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. “Indeed water is already a catalyst for regional conflict” Quote from the influential head of environmental research institute Worldwatch, Lester Brown. 1,5 billion of inhabitants do not have access to drinking water… In 1995, Ismail Serageldin, vice president of the World Bank, made a prediction

of 19th century American realism • William Dean Howells (critic)豪威尔斯 • Henry James 詹姆斯 • Mark Twain 马克• 吐温 Background • The Civil War marked a deterioration of American moral values. • Increasing industrialization and mechanization produced extremes of wealth and poverty. • The romantic view of man in the New World began to lose its hold on the imagination of the people. • By the 1870s New England Renaissance had waned. The age of Romanticism and Transcendentalism

greatly influence their perception when dealing with the various adversities in their lives. The effects of war are a recurring theme amongst both books and it demonstrates its powerful impact on the characters’ viewpoint. Ishmael Beah became a child soldier of his nation’s government army in Sierra Leone at the age of twelve. His childhood was torn apart by the ongoing civil war between the rebels (RUF) and the Sierra Leone government. Beah’s struggle for survival demolished his innocence

objective of this paper is to decompose the argument in favour of Imperialism made by John Ruskin[1], professor of fine art at Oxford, on 8 February 1870 during a lecture. In the second part it will show the reverberation of British dominancy in the world in our present days and how prominent politicians cope with it and defend it. First of all, Ruskin explains that the notion of Art of any country, which would in the contemporary current language mean either artistic creation, or general culture

environment crisis has assumed a global proportions. That is why many ecological problems can generally be solved only at the world community level. As nations we all share a single ecological space. Acid rains, for example, have no boundaries. Nuclear radiation does not respect administrative or national regions. All the nations must assume a position as responsible members of the world community level, cooperating in matters of environmental protection. It’s important that we all work together to share

are their leading families named Sublette and Le Sueur and Deslauriers, but — something very few people realize — French life survived intact in hundreds of small isolated communities until well into the twentieth century. When I was a boy, during the First World War, I took a canoe trip down the Kankakee River from near Chicago to the Mississippi. We passed through many villages where hardly an inhabitant spoke a word of English and where the only communication was the wandering tree-lined river

Superbroke, superfrugal, superpower ? 1 / Why will the role of the US as the world's superpower be reduced in the coming decade ? The U.S. role has increased significantly since the end of the Second World War. The success of the Cold War and the emergence of a unipolar world around this country has strengthened the power of the U.S on the planet. But today, things have changed and the U.S. role is decreasing. The U.S. are becoming a country less and less powerful and there are several reasons

reputation as an upright, godly family. views the world within the walls of his home as representing all that is good, pure, innocent, and godly. But starting at a young age he feels a constant inner conflict between this world, which he refers to as the “world of light” and the outside world, or “forbidden realm” which represents sin, lonliness, deceit, and insecurity. And although his mother, father, and two sisters remain within the “world of light”, he constantly feels drawn to the outside

Lakes region of Africa faces a situation of infectious crisis, a political and social crisis which has changed the face of the whole region by its war and crimes. From a chronological point of view, everything started by the coming to power of Yoweri Museveni in Uganda in 1986 and continued with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 as result of the civil war which started in 1990 by Rwandan exiles from Uganda. The horror of Rwanda was exported to DR Congo since 1996 and resulted in millions of killings

about efforts to bring modern medicine to remote Mexican villages, and the latter about a Mexican revolutionary leader. In the meantime he wrote The Moon Is Down (1942), a play-novel about the German invasion of a neutral European country. After World War II, Steinbeck wrote increasingly about social outcasts. Cannery Row (1945) relates the story of a central character, Doc, and a group of vagabonds on the Monterey coast. The Pearl (1947) is a popular fable about a Mexican fisherman's finding and