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In recent years climate change has become a bigger topic of discussion than it has ever been in the past. Anthropogenic activities are the main source of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Consequently, as CO2 levels continue to rise surface temperature will increase simultaneously as a result of the greenhouse effect. This can affect plant assemblages in vulnerable ecosystems such as the Arctic. The majority of the Arctic is within a tundra biome, which is characterized by long cold...
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The tundra biome is mostly cold, its climate is 10-20 degrees all year round except for during the short summer when the wildflowers bloom and the sun shines 24 hours a day. The treeless region is found on tops of mountains and in the arctic where there are low temperatures, it’s windy and there is very little rainfall. The tundra biome is made out to be desert-like and is said to be one of the harshest biomes. One of the...
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Merriam Webster defines tundra as a large area that has continuously frozen ground and no trees, and it defines biome as a large ecological land type (Tundra; Biome). According to these definitions, tundra biome is a large ecological piece of land that does not have any trees and is characterized by permanent frozen ground. Interesting, tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturia which means “treeless plain” (Pullen, 2004). Tundra biome can be separated into two different types, arctic tundra and...
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American author Mark Twain once stated, “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” While they may not appear to be so at first, morals are very questionable grounds, with different viewpoints. Two view of this are cultural relativism and universalism. In this essay, I will be pointing out the flaws of cultural relativism, and why it is philosophically more defensible to be objective towards certain moral values. Cultural relativism is defined as...
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