Planet Article Reviews Samples For Students

Summary Article 1: People, Planet, Profit: Introducing the B Team

For those unsatisfied with the way that business is being done, a new way, an implied better way known as Plan B, launched by the B team’s 14 inaugural members is commencing. Because of the work of the co-founds of the team, Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz, as well as other leaders, the author is determined to change values to “prioritize people and planet alongside profit.”

Plan A represents and old guard that pursues short term profit while everything else that is important is not prioritized. The B team members have an impressive roster gathering ...

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This article named “The Origin of Old-Earth Geology and its Ramifications for Life in the 21st Century” is written by Dr. Terry Mortenson, who is a historian of geology. The article revolves around a belief that the planet earth is not as old as is portrayed by most of the historians and geologists. The geologists who opposed the mainstream view of planet earth being a very old body were all practicing Christians, and their group was named as scriptural geologists. As this debate rose in the 19th century, one can clearly draw a relation to this debate with the tug of ...

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In the article, the writer makes the case that women have better instincts for the ecological sustenance of the earth. Her case is based on the fact that women are more fundamentally materially grouped in the ecology of the planet than men. She regards these instincts to human existence on the planet. She says that human-caused environmental problems of the planet are extensively due to an exploitive, paternalistic, male dominated culture (Warren & Erkal, 1997). Mary approaches the argument from a Marxist, materialistic view combining it with ecofeminism and non-anthropocentricity. She argues that, there is no necessary conflict between a Marxist approach ...

Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields

As Brian Finney points out in Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields although he is not classified as a crime writer Martin Amis’s stories are filled with crime and focus upon death and murder. . Finney’s critique of Amis’s stories revolves around the continuing themes of women, death, murder and victimization along with their relationship with the enigmatic narrator.
In his analysis Finney looks into the author and the zeitgeist of his era as well. He notes that Amis himself describes his work as “"playful literature" (Neustatter 71) and describes himself ...

Article Analysis: World Poverty

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In 2015, the United Nations is working with the World Bank’s ambitious plan to end extreme global poverty by the year 2030. This means that for the first time, every person in the world would afford common items and food to make their life easier. Many experts would debate on the main cause of poverty as it could be the changing trends in a certain country’s economy. Other factors would also include the lack of education, overpopulation, the presence of epidemic diseases like AIDS and malaria and even environmental problems like drought. Extreme weather can cause ...

Climate change is one of the debatable issues in the world today. It is worth noting that climate change is a big threat to humanity and sustainability. Climate change refers to a lasting and significant change in the distribution of weather patterns in a period of time. The causes of climate change are many, and there is need to mitigate them in various ways. Both the developing and developed countries are part of the causes and effect of climate change; hence, every country is part of the issues concerning climate change. The problem of climate change begins when the greenhouse gases are ...

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Joel Achenbach describes the world as crowded with a mutinous crew that has no leader. He says that it is full of 7 billion people, global economy, World Wide Web, climatic changes, exotic organisms and all sorts of resources shortages and ecological challenges. On addressing the environmental issues, he says that human should take a more interventionist and managerial role as nature no longer runs the earth but humans do (Achenbach, J. 2010). He mentions people like John Muir, Rachel Carson and Teddy Roosevelt talked on how to protect the environment. He says that human activities contribute to the environmental degradation. ...

There was once a time when countries went to war for one of two reasons: to grow through conquest, or to defend one’s territory from incursion. If a country was having internal troubles, its neighbors would only provide military intervention if it wanted to take advantage of those troubles and add that country to their own holdings. All of that changed, though, after the Second World War. Because colonies were now too expensive (and too unruly), the major superpowers at the time (the United States and the U.S.S.R.) sought to maintain spheres of influence, and they would intervene militarily, as ...