Essay Samples and Examples

From environmental position, the strategy is a norm of optimum behavior in the environment, whether it is the individual or the groups of the individuals. The present environmental situation demands the change of the strategy that should find its reflection first of all in the environmental education. The environmental education should promote the development of such forms of the social activity which would reduce ecological risk to a minimum. It should play the main role in the change of cultural wealth, structures of the consumption, the attitude of the person to the nature, life, behavior of the person in the ecosystem. Continue reading →

Environmentalism is an important issue that should be shared and solved by all the humanity. The question is how people go about implementing solutions. Environmental issues must be discussed and solved at the national and at the international levels. Continue reading →

The growing pollution through greenhouse gasses and the loss of natural beauty, rare ecosystems and basic resources have led to the development of two very important designer and construction concepts – green building and sustainable design. The way we build our houses and chose the materials for them can have a great influence on our future and the future of our planet. The role of green houses in modern building is crucial and the process of constructing them must obtain a strong governmental and financial support. Continue reading →

The Sun is the largest luminary that brings life to our planet. It is the power source for plants, the source of the warmth, and the cause of flows of atmosphere and of water. Other words, it makes life possible and none of us would exist without it. The sun energy has been harnessed by humans using primitive techniques since ancient times. And nowadays with the development of renewable energy, the solar technologies are very prospective and promising as they provide people with clean energy without any harm to the environment. Continue reading →

Modern methodologists put a lot of effort defining the best methodological model for students and for the future perspective. There are a lot of learning approaches and it’s not easy to choose the best one. In the papers I will concentrate on behaviorist and constructivist models of learning, their definitions, differences and similarities. Continue reading →

Ability to predict is one the essential strategies that a lot of teachers try to foster in their children while teaching them how to read, because it helps the children to concentrate on what they are going to read, and thus better understand the main points of the text they are be reading. There are two main functions of prediction. It makes the class to think and initiates a loud discussion: “The class discusses things that are used to make predictions – what you know already, what you have seen happen before, etc.” [1]. Based on their knowledge children can make certain predictions. And also prediction gives children a good reason to read the text till the end, because now they have the purpose to do that – to find out whether their prediction was correct or not. Continue reading →

Every person is a unique one and has own personality, individual ideas, mind, views on life, emotions, skills, etc. We can think, invent, realize and use our mind for implementing our ideas into reality. Sure, we can much more, but not all our abilities are given to us at birth, and we are responsible for their formation throughout our whole life. Even if you are an expert in any field, it doesn’t meet that you can’t continue improving yourself, as your potential is unmeasured and a process of its development is infinite. Continue reading →

In the modern world of education traditional study at the universities and colleges is gradually complemented or even replaced by new technologies of distance learning. It is characterized as a process of delivering teaching to students who are not physically present in classrooms. This type of education has gained its growing popularity with the developing of Internet, as students can simply communicate with their teachers and exchange materials over the net, even living in the different parts of the world.
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To operate efficiently the US economy requires about 5 billion dollars daily investments, generally from abroad. The country has a trade balance deficit of about 600 billion dollars and the budgetary deficit of more than 450 billion dollars. Under these circumstances, the government should start implementing the “weak dollar” policy in order to make the exports cheaper, the imports – more expensive and finally cover the difference between the exports and imports value. But there is one serious reason why such policy is unacceptable – decreasing the dollar’s value means reducing investor’s profits. Continue reading →

Introduction

For many years people coming from Africa to the USA used to be slaves suffering from racism. Nowadays everything is different, and descendants of African people brought to be slaves in the USA are living now in this country, and are treated almost equally. The reason for saying “almost equally” is because it is impossible to erase the historical facts, and everybody still remembers what was going on in the past. However, a lot of things have changed. Nowadays African Americans unite in so-called “Black” or “Afro-American” communities, members of which have origins in Africa and were brought to be slaves. However, a great number of Black people freely chose to come and live in the USA. Associating in communities according to the religious or political beliefs, according to hobbies or maybe just because of the same color of skin they live now in the USA comprising a considerable part of the population in a whole. Continue reading →