What do you think the world will look like in 20 years? Or in 50 years? Will the world your children and grandchildren inherit resemble anything you've known? Will the future of humanity be one of hope and opportunity, or scarcity and destruction? Take a moment to read this project:
World population is currently growing by 80 to 90 million people each year, and will exceed six billion in early 1999. This rate of growth is projected to continue for roughly the next 30 years, leading to a global population in 2030 of aro
Sports are one of the most popular leisure time activities. Sports help to keep fit both physical and mentally. They can help to take some weight, and makes use of skills and strength. During sports events one can meet a lot of new people and see how it feels to be a winner or a looser. Mostly all of the sports and games are further differentiated into two groups according to where they can be practised. Indoor sports and outdoor sports. Indoor games include for example gymnastics, table tennis, boxing, wrestling, bowling, fencing, act.
In these days sponsorship represents one of the necessary aspects of professional sporting events existation. Some companies which promote sport activities and use it for their own advertisement do work in sport business field, but some of them have nothing to do with sport and healthy lifestyle. Those are usually tobacco companies like Marlboro, West or Davidoff. The fact that tobacco companies entered the space for sponsoring sport activities has it’s own advantages and disadvantages too. The main advantage of these companies sponsoring spo
The young Phil Knight always wanted to be number one, but as a student at the University of Oregan joinging the track and field team, he only ran good enough to come second. But it is his aggressive will to win that permates the whole company. After a brief spell as an accountant, Phil Knight started selling running shoes from the boot of his car. NIKE, the brand was born in 1971 and was soon known as „the saturday Knight Live“ of the sport business. It was Knight’s college track coach, Bill Bowerman, who designed the famous waffle - shap
Two books that have changed the way I see this world are One and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach. They contain such a spirit that it makes you to want to change your life. One describes the journey of two main characters traveling through their own life and in time. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is about two pilots, who fly around the U.S. in the early 1960’s, and sell plane rides. One of them, Donald ‘the reluctant messiah,’ becomes the teacher to h
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In 1492, Columbus made one great discoverie: He was the first who recorded observation of a cigar being smoked. One of the explorer’s officers, Roderigo de Xeres, saw a tribe of Indians in San Salvador smoking large cone-shapes rolls of tobacco. Spain, where tobacco was first cultivated for its medicinal properties, was the first country to manufacture cigars. Portuguese and Spanish sailors expanded the habit of smoking and transported the plant to the far corners of the earth. In the 1850s, Cuba became the world leader and premier man
The cooperation of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge in film research in the late 19th century realized that films as they are known today were a practical possibility. In 1891 was designed and patented fully developed camera, called the Kinetograph by W.K.L. Dickson who was working under the direction of Thomas Alva Edison. Dickson also designed the viewing apparatus called the Kinetoscope. Kinetoscope was contained within a large box, and only permitted the images to be viewed by one person at a time looking into it through a peephol
Food si fairly freguent topic of conversation because people must eat three times a day. Though the chefs in restaurants are usually men, meals are generally prepared by women. Women with some modern ewceptions - like to cook and bake and exchange recipes and buy cookery books. The majority of men do not like to cook but to eat. But everything is changing. There is a more scientific approach to cooking, eating and drinking now than there was in old times. Women's magazines discuss the principles of nutrition, various diets and low calory f
TEEN PREGNANCY AND ITS ISSUES Teen pregnancy is an issue. It is an issue that we must face no matter how bitter it might be. More and more teens are becoming sexually active ever year and the country is directly receiving the damage from it. More and more teens are having babies that they are not ready for. Most of them are not responsible or financially solid people to support another human being while living on their own. The majority can not even live on their own alone. It is a sad but true fact that is around us. “The first emotio
Indian medicine -the medicine system is known as Ayruveda and means knowledge or science based on 2 books: Charaka Samhita-mainly a medicine text Seshruta Samhita-concentrate on surgery -the whole medicine was a mix of religion and secular medicine -surgeons used over 121 different steel instruments -most inducted was the plastic surgery(punishment for adultery was a truncated nose) Egyptian medicine -treatments:herbs,plants,surgery an
Written by R. L. Stevenson Retold by Rosemary Border Illustrated by Jonathon Heap Published by Oxford university Press, 1991
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is a well-known Scottish author, who wrote novels, short stories, travel books, poetry and plays. His famous novel, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, has been filmed for many times.
Mr Utterson and Richard Enfield walked in a narrow side-street in a busy part of London. There stood a strange house. Once Enfield saw a man injuring a small girl. The ma
My favourite book is The Carpet People written by Terry Pratchett, english author of science fiction stories. This book was his first work. Afterwards he has written a series of books called The Marvellous Flatland. Till now it consits of 15 books, which have their own stories. The Carpet People is about people who live in the carpet. They are very small that you couldn’t see them. They have their own towns and cities, and they fight against bad creatures. The book begins with words: “At the beginning there was nothing, just a
Sports play an important part in the life of people all over the world. Sport is a physical activity that results in good physical skills of a man, his mental relaxation and bodily fitness. Sport gives people enjoyment, happiness, friendship, health, popularity, money... We can classify sports in a following way: Winter – summer, outdoor - indoor, team -individual, professional – amateur. There are various sports competitions and championships on various levels - local, city, regional, national, international competitions, and Europe
Generally speaking, there is not a vast difference between the countries, discussed in the book One Language, Different Cultures. Evidently though, they have different history, customs and traditions; however, they dispose over a corporate language, which has become during the last decade, the most desirable language to be learned by foreigners. Yet, there is still a huge difference, which in a certain sense casts a shadow on the humanity and morality of the nation, where that particular issue is being used. I am speaking about the death penalt
Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet “What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?” is an extract from his greatest work Astrophel and Stella. The sonnet is however, not about clear love, as one might expect. Although the poem is based on the motive of love, the love that the speaker feels towards his beloved is rather fearful and bitter than passionate. The poem heavily relies on the conceit. It is mainly presented in the first quatrain, where the author outlines his uncertainty about himself, questioning his own identity “what, have I thus betrayed m
Relationships between Beowulf, Hygelac and Hrothgar in “Beowulf”
The heroic poem “Beowulf” is the oldest preserved story in English literature. Although its exact date of composing is not completely clear, the poem was supposedly written in the tenth century, although according to some scholars, it might have been composed even in the eighth century by an anonymous writer (21). The poem itself is written in English and it has also an English origin, however, it does not deal with native Englishmen, but with their Germanic
The story of Iraq vs. US war… (truth is out there) By Tino Slideshow: Iraq and Saddam Hussein Cheney: Diplomacy on Iraq Nears End
"Tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world," said Bush, commander-in-chief of 250,000 troops ringing Iraq and ready to act with or without U.N. approval. He spoke Sunday after an Atlantic island summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Though the leaders pledged to seek compromise with U.N. foe
• The 7-YEARS WAR (1756- 1763) -the conflict in North America between France & Great Britain » 1763-Treaty of Paris- FR was defeated - GB gained Canada, Florida and river Mississippi
• after the war GB decided to leave its 10,000-men strong army on the American continent-> in order to keep the army GB increased the taxes on American colonies: - the SUGAR ACT(1764) - the STAMP ACT(1765)- it required stamps to be placed on all official documents, including ne
British people are really fond of sports. Whether is it an individual or a team sport, they always like to take part in it, and they perform it with real enthusiasm and sport loving spirit. Their passion for sports started already few centuries ago; the public schools started to organise competitive games, which had their established rules. In those times, winning a game was not the only thing what you tried to achieve. Since there must be also a loser in a game, there was put more emphasis on being able to take a defeat. However, times