Word: frameworks
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...disagree. One way of placing environmentalism within a moral framework is to think in terms of environmental justice. This rapidly emerging field considers who are the winners and the losers of environmental change and whether that status is deserved. An illustrative example is again the topic of climate change, which is caused primarily by the increase in the content of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. An important effect of global warming is the rise of global sea levels, which is a prospect that severely threatens many small island nations and peninsulas. Bangladesh is a country whose...
...born. Someone dies. Our lives are filled with these moments of change, when we are suddenly forced to live our lives from a new perspective. We find ourselves in a new world. "Songs for a New World" is a musical revue, a song cycle about these moments. With a framework that ranges from a historic Spanish sailing ship in 1492 to the mythical north pole to the very real inner city of today, this fresh new pop-influenced score will excite audiences in the show's New England premiere. Adams House Pool Theatre. 13 Bow St. $7, $5 students...
...Protection Project aims to create an International Legal framework that protects victims of trafficking. Lederer said project coordinators are currently in the process of surveying the laws connected to the trafficking of 222 countries, and over 160 countries have responded...
...come to take in its students lives, in subjects ranging from social life to advising to quality of teaching. No, it is not the College's responsibility to provide students with social opportunities, as Dean Harry R. Lewis 68 has pointed out, but in maintaining a paternalistic, stifling framework within which students must choose their social activities, the administration only augments dissatisfaction among its students and ultimately creates an undesirable community of malcontent individuals. Someday the College may come to understand this, but it certainly shows no signs of enlightenment anytime soon...
...simple plot provides a sturdy framework for Spanidou's meticulous examination of her characters. Each is drawn with complexity, such that each of their actions creates further dept. None are either wholly likable or wholly unlikable, and as Fear switches from viewpoint to viewpoint and situation to situation characters become more and then less appealing. Much of the time, for example, the reader is likely to sympathize with Anna. Yet when Spanidou's narrative takes on Val's, the mother's or the father's perspective, it is more difficult to sympathize with Anna...