Ecotourism in South American Countries: Has the Agenda Changed?
In many South American countries, there is a program in effect called Ecotourism. When the idea was initially though of, many of the developing countries of South America, had very poor economies as well as many suffering people. To act as a means of improving the status of these poor countries, the idea of Ecotourism was developed. In essence, Ecotourism is a program that permits tourists to visit and explore countries in South America while contributing their foreign capital to local economies. For the tourist, this is a great opportunity to see places of the world that have not been destroyed or inhabited by many. Though the idea of Ecotourism was one with good intentions, the local people in the countries where Ecotourism has been in effect are not gaining much at all. For this reason, I do not think that Ecotourism should be a continuing program in these countries. If the native people (whose best interest was at heart initially) are not benefiting from Ecotourism, then why has it been allowed to exist? The answer is simple: greed and selfishness.
History of Ecotourism:
The idea that led to Ecotourism emerged in the late sixties when people like Oswaldo Muñoz, now president of the Ecuadorian Ecotourism Association, started guiding tourists around their countries to view natural wonders. Many companies began to set up lodging near parks and reserves and even began to develop tours of those areas. The vision of showing off exotic plants, animals and the overall natural beauty of countries like Ecuador also attracted them. Yet early on, this did little to help the local economies. It actually contributed to other problems: In Ecuador, half of the country's rain forest disappeared, and environmental groups and other organizations promoting ecotourism flocked to places where endangered species, including many indigenous populations, lived. But with the growing environmental awareness of the seventies and the realization that large resorts like Acapulco and Cancun were devastating to the environment, both governmental and non-governmental organizations began to look for ways to both protect the environment and stimulate local economies. Thus ecotourism was born.
Ecotourism Today:
Ecotourism began in hopes of developing local economies in South American countries while attracting tourists to the natural beauty and exotic wonders of the land. The Vermont-based Ecotourism Society defines it as "responsible travel to natural areas, which conserves the environment and sustains the well-being of local people.
This aspect is “The Double-edged Sword of Ecotourism.” In this chapter, Stanford expresses the positives and negatives of ecotourism. Ecotourism is a form of tourism which involves visiting fragile and undisturbed natural areas and in this case, the main reason is to see gorillas. Ecotourism has its good and bad. It is good because those poor communities that live close to the habitats of the apes can have a source of revenue. Those areas are really poor, and with ecotourism, they can earn about $9000 dollars a month. However, those areas may not exactly be the safest. Stanford cites a 1999 cross border attack by rebel groups in Rwanda in which 8 ecotourists were murdered and this attack deterred tourist from going there for many months. Another negative aspect of ecotourism is how it affects the apes. Although, many apes who do live in these areas of habituation and have tourists coming in and out, the apes develop really high stress levels. When humans move too quickly or make loud noises, the apes are stressed out and can flee. Not only that, but increased stress levels lowers their immune systems making them more susceptible to disease. Stanford ends this chapter saying that ecotourism is bound to happen if the countries are too poor to provide for their people and that “the apes will have to live with the results” (190). In
The unforgettable, Anne Frank, wrote long ago, “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands” (Goodreads). In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the novel revolves around three children named, Scout, Jem, and Dill. It follows them through their years of growing up and coming to understand the importance of lessons, Atticus, Scout and Jem’s father, advises them. Furthermore, Lee shows often the best lessons are learned outside the classroom.
In order to make a case that the Black Power Movement was a logical extension of the African American freedom struggle based on the longstanding African American strategies and goals for change, it is important to look at the longstanding strategies and goals, and compare them to the Black Power movement, using the examples of strategies taken by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama. Knowing this, it can be determine whether the Black Power movement built upon those strategies, or went against them. There are several noteworthy strategies used in this comparison. The names of these strategies are based off of the people who are synonymous with them. They comparisons are as follows: W.E.B DuBois’ Talented Tenth Plan, Booker T. Washington’s “Cast down your bucket” Plan, Thurgood Marshall’s Legal Campaign, and Dr. Martian Luther King Jr.’s Non-Violence Movement. In addition to determining whether or not the Black Power movement utilized these strategies, it is equally imperative to ask, assuming that the movement went against these strategies, if it was practical or logical, given the circumstances faced by SNCC and the LCFO, not to implement them.
This pattern is first present with his mother, Mrs. Cole, who abandons him when he is very young. She left to follow her dreams but in doing so she also ruined her relationship with her son. In result, John Grady grew up estranged from both her and a father that wished to have little to do with him. When she returned to sell the family ranch after John Grady’s grandfather died, she took away the last thing he truly wanted. He only wanted a place that was his home; a normal, constant dream. His mother sold the ranch without consideration for her son’s well-being, happiness, or opinion. Her decisions spurred his adventure with his best friend, Lacy Rawlins, into the countryside of Mexico. Once on the road, John Grady goes to see her act in a play in San Antonio. There he also sees her with a well-off man in a hotel, thus implying that she had taken a lover since divorcing his father. She has a tense relationship with her son that started his behavior in the direction it has now taken.
In Mein Kamph Hitler offered some insight into his thinking on exercise of power and in particular the important role of propaganda, his contempt of parliamentary democracy and the Weimar Republic. Hitler also wrote of the need for a national revival and the quest for living space. Hitler linked his hatred of communism with his hatred of Jews. In Hitler’s mind Russia was the centre of a Jewish conspiracy, a concept reinforced in Hitler’s thinking by the fact that many of the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution were Jewish.
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Knowledge is something that can change day to day, which can be learned through both the natural and human sciences. Knowledge changes in the natural sciences when an experiment is conducted and more data has been gathered. Knowledge changes in human sciences when patterns are recognized in society and further tests have been conducted. Does our knowledge of things in the natural and human sciences change every day? I think that our knowledge grows everyday but does not necessarily change every day. The areas of knowledge that will be discussed in this essay are natural and human sciences. In History we can see that at one point something that was considered knowledge then transformed into different knowledge, especially in the natural sciences. However, in the past, due to lack of technology, it might have been more of a lack of knowledge that then turned into knowledge on the topic.
Mein Kampf, which translates to My Struggle, was the autobiography of Hitler. It is the controversial telling of Hitler’s beliefs and thoughts, and is still banned in some countries more than 80 years later. (How Mein Kampf Changed the World, 2008). Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler divides people into categories based on their appearance and race. The highest of these categories is the ‘Germanic man’ who is a person with fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. Hitler referred to this race as the Aryan or the ‘Master Race’. These people were considered to be superior compared to the Jews and Slavic peoples who he deemed racially inferior. Hitler strongly emphasises throughout the book his beliefs on Jew’s conspiracy and the need he feels to persecute and dehumanise the Jews, many of these views becoming wide spread and even taught in schools. (How Mein Kampf Changed the World, 2008).
The circumstances under which the iconic Mein Kampf was written may have been unique; although comfortable it was a place where most best-selling authors would seldom choose. Between 1923
If knowledge didn’t evolve, then according to what was once ‘accepted knowledge,’ the Earth would still be flat. This evolution however, was only possible due to the inherently flawed means by which humans pursued this so-called knowledge. The statement we will be addressing throughout this essay – “That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow” – has a key word; “accepted.” When people accept something as knowledge based on unreliable principles, then it is bound to be discarded tomorrow. Because of the flawed ways of knowing, our knowledge is also flawed and therefore should always be challenged to ensure it is accurate and reflective of the objective world. Various disciplines – science and history– along with their associated knowledge claims will be examined closely throughout this essay to assess whether knowledge should in fact be discarded.
Throughout generations, questioning accepted theories or knowledge has led to alternative or even new assumptions in both science and history studies. Paradigm shifts will be the term utilized to refer to significant changes in knowledge. A paradigm shift is an “extensive and flexibly defined assemblage of shared ideas and assumptions” as well as an alteration from an initial thought leading to a different one. “It’s a revolution, a transformation, and a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.” (Kuhn). The paradigm shifts’ definition implies that knowledge is neither static nor definitive as it is constantly evolving within a flexible frame...
Knowledge is rarely considered permanent, because it is constantly changing and adapting as time passes and new discoveries are made. This title roughly translates into the question: to what extent is knowledge provisional? In other words, to what extent does knowledge exist for the present, possibly to be changed in the future? At first glance, one’s mind would immediately stray to the natural sciences, and how theories are constantly being challenged, disproven, and discarded. Because of this, one might be under the impression that knowledge is always provisional because there is always room for improvement; however, there are some cases in which this is not true. There are plenty of ideas and theories that have withstood the test of time, but on the other end of the spectrum there are many that have not. This essay will evaluate the extent to which knowledge is provisional in the areas of the human sciences and history.
From the time I was a child my father placed rigid ideas of what a man and a woman should be. He made me believe that a man, and a woman, should behave, dress, and act a certain way. He told me that a man was supposed to be strong, emotionally hardened, and wasn’t supposed to do feminine things. His ideas of what a man was, made him place certain rules and restrictions on me. He sometimes didn’t allow me to wear chap-stick if it was red or cherry flavored because he thought that it would look like I was wearing or putting on lipstick and it was “too girly.” I also was not allowed to wear flip flop sandals because those were also “for girls.” His strict rules made it to that I could only wear closed toed shoes or sandals, and had to endure severely chapped lips because I used to lick my lips very often. Not that I am older, all of his strict rules are a reminder for me to not be like that to my kids. I try to always be open minded with everything and if something makes my child happy and isn’t harming anyone, then I would allow them to do it. In a more positive way, my father taught me to be respectful to women and to be a gentleman. He would teach me open and hold the door for people, to put my hand in between the eleva...
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Knowledge has a preliminary definition which is that it is justified true belief. Due to its dynamic nature, knowledge is subject to review and revision over time. Although, we may believe we have objective facts from various perceptions over time, such facts become re-interpreted in light of improved evidence, findings or technology and instigates new knowledge. This raises the questions, To what extent is knowledge provisional? and In what ways does the rise of new evidence give us a good reason to discard our old knowledge? This new knowledge can be gained in any of the different areas of knowledge, by considering the two areas of knowledge; History and Natural Sciences, I will be able to tackle these knowledge issues since they both offer more objective, yet regularly updated knowledge, which is crucial in order to explore this statement. I believe that rather than discarding knowledge we build upon it and in doing so access better knowledge, as well as getting closer to the truth.