Essays on Hardin

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Obesity is a major problem both in the US and worldwide. Using the biopsychosocial model, describe how the relationships between each of the concepts in the model contribute to making it more difficult for someone who is obese to lose weight. In your response, you must discuss all six possible directions in the model. [6%] The biological concept. The approach states that there are pathogens, including the germs and the toxins that takes an active part in precipitating illness and thus prevents an individual from losing weight. The psychological or behavioral concept. The component reviews the potential psychological causes ...

Before the Internet, if you must research or need information, you should hit the books and stay at a library for hours. During these times, putting up the hours at the office was interpreted as making more work. However, times have changed. People are now aware that the hours spent doing a task, nor your ability to go to a central office is not an indication of the efficiency of one's work. Together with this awareness and the change in the ways people meet certain demands, people have been more interested with telecommuting. Furthermore, this paper will discuss telecommuting ...

Man, noted to be the most intellectual living being walking the planet. Top of the food chain and creator of renowned inventions. Today, not many humans live in the raw like our homo sapiens ancestors did but instead live in innovations that have been peaking for centuries. The building of exquisite shelters such as castles, paving of roads and today’s soaring skyscrapers housing hundreds of bodies in an artificially illuminated cube. As civilization becomes more and more prominent throughout the world, the growth of the population is also becoming prominent and maybe even a little over-bearing. It’s ...

Over the years, the government has had the duty to fund the police as well as law enforcement agencies in the whole country. Since the 1990s, however, many corporations and citizens have opted to hire private law enforcement officers for supplemental protection (James, 2003). Law and order is a vital function for any society. Therefore, it was very unfortunate when a small town in the south of Montana, called Hardin, was lacking a police station and had insufficient federal police officers. With no other promising choice, the citizens of Hardin opted for private policing. The private police force has ...

At least 9 million people die because of hunger and malnutrition, sadly 5 million are children. In a world of plenty, a huge number go hungry. The biggest percentage of the people who go hungry live in the developing countries. Three-quarters of all the hungry people in the developing countries live in rural areas, mostly in the villages of Africa and Asia. Despite this worrying trend, food wastage in the developed countries is very high. For instance, in the United Kingdom, close 40% of food is never eaten, in U.S., 40-50% of all food ready to harvest is never ...

[School/University] [City or State where it is located] It is a fact that the world’s resources are depleting every second. It is also a fact that people are insatiable of exploiting the resources. The population grow bigger and bigger every year and the resources left can hardly suffice for the needs of the population. The problem on climate change cannot be brushed off today as the impacts are felt through rising temperatures, extreme weather conditions, and natural calamities. Worse, the climate crisis is affecting the most vulnerable countries who are usually the least culprits of climate change. The ...

Externalities take place when consumers/manufacturers activities have an unintentional or indirect impact on other consumers/manufacturers without affecting prices. According to Sankar, externalities may cause positive and negative effects (6). In other words, if the consumer or a group grants certain benefits to other economic agents, the externality is positive; if any activity is disadvantageous to other groups or individuals, then the externality is negative (7). According to Stiglitz (216), “Externalities arise whenever an individual or firm undertakes an action that has an effect on other individual or firm”. The externalities phenomenon tends to have a spillover effect in the ...

Question No. 1

Tragedy of the commons, as envisioned by Hardin, is the infinite freedom of the people to use or make use of the finite free resources of the world. The unchecked and wanton use by the people of these free resources results in a tragedy, according to Hardin, because eventually such use will overwhelm the resources themselves. A simple, but graphic example used by the author to illustrate this point is a pasture that is open to all for use. If one or several persons use this pasture to graze their animals this would not pose harm to the pasture, ...

Darin music style in 1960s was folk rock when he wrote a song for Hardin – “A Simple Song of Freedom” which definitely became a hit song for him. The social consciousness brought by this song is freedom and liberation (Richie 78). It was a song that was sung to resist wars at that time. Darin calls even the blacks to come and converge to avert wars and pave ways for peaceful coexistence (Rosenthal, and Flacks 89). “Hey there, mister black man can you hear me?” he sang. It is a song intended to every citizen in America who needed ...

Abstract

This study looks at the glass ceiling by examining three specific research questions. The questions look at the definition of the glass ceiling, its effects as well as how it can be broken. This part of the research contains a comprehensive literature review of some of the sources to be used. The literature review only includes sources from current peer-reviewed journal articles. The literature review reveals the fact that the glass ceiling is still in place in the current workplace and has various effects. The effects stem from factors such as unequal pay for the same job and lack ...

Reaction paper The Tragedy of the Commons

The article about the Tragedy of the Commons examines and argues how the problems of overpopulation can be solved. Hardin (1968) has put the universal assumption published in scientific and professional journals that problems can be resolved with the technical solution under the question. He points out various issues of the population growth and density, such as food gathering and lack of restrictions, waste, pollution, propaganda and putting pleasure prior the necessity and sustainability. Main arguments in the paper presented are that growing population problems cannot be resolved technologically without giving up the privileges we enjoy today. The maximization ...

Nowadays the problem of poverty and limited resources becomes more and more urgent. The famous Hardin’s essay, “Lifeboat ethics” covers different aspects of this issue and gives strong but often disputable arguments against helping the poor in the worldwide, international sense. The fact that Earth’s resources are limited is undisputable, and Hardin’s metaphor comparing nations of people to lifeboats floating in the limited space of resources seems very neat. In this situation different ethical and moral problems come into play. The main ethical issue in current situation is helping the poor with the limited helping capacity and ...

Seven Questions Answered

1. Garret Hardin uses the metaphor lifeboat to show the diversity that exists in the world today. He uses it to differentiate between the rich and the poor whereby the rich nations are the lifeboats and the poor nations swim around them. Lifeboat ethics differ from spaceship ethics in that lifeboat uses the notion that some nations are superior to others while in a spaceship everyone has equal shares to the resources. 2. Hardin argues that all the floaters are brothers and one cannot discriminate and choose who to help. They also have similar needs, which make it more ...

Common property in economics refers to a resource system, natural or man made, that possesses characteristics that make it very costly, though not impossible, to exclude potential users from deriving benefits from the resource system even when such usage results in annihilation of the beneficial properties of the resource.

The commons problem arises as a result of each independent and rational person making an individual decision to maximize the benefits accrued from a common property. The overall effect of each individual action is the destruction of the common property; each individual action meant to safeguard personal interest results in an adverse effect ...