Our world today is struggling with major economic crisis, natural disasters, violence in our schools, government corruptness, and the war on drugs. If our country, let alone our world, is to survive and make even the slightest of peace, in the future we have major changes that must take place.
In modern times it became very fashionable to treat the city as a form of human coexistence in a definitely negative way due to a variety of reasons: both the industrial plants and streets overfilled with cars produce most pollution on the Earth, people have to live in overcrowded conditions, drink water full of chemical substances, eat food of uncertain origins and so on. However, can the city really be considered to be responsible for our troubles?
The discovery of antibiotics could be readily placed among the inventions that truly changed the face of the world and the way of humans’ existence. However, nowadays they are often considered to be something not so good, the last resort or even something that shouldn’t be used at all. However, are there any foundations to this theory?
Ecologists often say that every time any species disappears, it disappears for good, without any possibility for it to come back. It is said that every time this happens the diversity of organic life decreases and suffers and, because we cause it, we should do everything to protect the species that can potentially disappear.
In short, ambition is a strong desire to achieve success, which can be represented in various forms: power, wealth, fame, just any particular goal a person strives to attain. People tend to disapprove of some manifestations of this desire, saying that it is often inordinate, that it makes a person think that he needs something he in fact simply wants, that it leads to unhappiness and grief for both the person in question and those around him. It seems that the majority prefers everyone to be humble and content with what one has. Read more »
The usage of genetically modified organisms in various industries, generally in food production, is a popular reason for outrage. People consider this meddling with genetic code to be disgusting or dangerous or something else. In other words, they focus on the safety and morality of exploiting GMO for food production. But do people understand the concept of GMO correctly?
Mother Teresa is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest people of the 20th century – there is hardly anyone who hasn’t at least heard her name. Coming into life as a member of a very average Albanian family, she ended as the leader of a vast charity organization that, in the course of the 20th century, managed to alleviate inconceivable amounts of pain and suffering first in India and then all over the world. Some people say that she is the only true Nobel Peace Prize laureate, for all the others cannot even come close to be compared with her. Speaking of these terms, she is one of the peace heroes of the century and, possibly, of the history in general.
From the very beginning of the music industry its principles were unchanged. Yes, the storage mediums changed: from vinyl to audio-cassettes, from audio-cassettes to compact-discs. But the general principle remained the same: musicians signed a contract with a record label, which released their music and paid them royalties. People, if they wanted to listen to it, have to buy it. Of course, audio-cassettes and compact-discs gave an opportunity to illegally copy it, but it was rather inconvenient and didn’t actually influence anything to a great extent.
