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In the 21st century, climate change has emerged as one of the main threats to the environmental wellbeing of earth as a planet and the ecosystems. The National Academy of Sciences, in its 2009 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change stated that “Climate change is one of the defining issues of the 21st century. Therefore, humans are under a challenge to formulate guidelines, practices and behavioural standards that ensure that economic opportunities and improve quality of life are available to the human population in the long run and also climate and eco-systems are sustainably maintained. Notably, climate change and in ...

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Statistics reveal that there are over one million asylum seekers around the world every year. Asylums seeker have different definitions, but the most basic idea is that they are people seeking to leave their countries because their lives are at risk because of their race, color, religion, political persecution, war, or natural disasters (Bozorgmehr and Razum, 2015; Esses, V. et al, 2008). Many factors determine whether the refugees will be accepted in their intended country or not. Demographic variables, as well as the attitudes of the natives and the attitudes of the asylum seekers, determine the kind of attitude ...

When we speak of the Irish Renaissance, we can also be referring to a Celtic Renaissance. We call it the Irish Renaissance because it was championed principally by Irish writers, one of which, at least, used the Celtic tradition to invigorate the Renaissance. Ireland at the turn of the 20th century was mired in passions. Rebellion was always on the horizon, economic collapse was always imminent, the catastrophe of the Potato Famine was still a racial memory, and the rule of the English was still unbearable. From this potentially destructive social structure came some of the finest writing of ...