Student Ketan
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In today’s era, considering that modern medicine has become increasingly expensive and hard to retain for longer duration’s, people have started looking towards alternative medicines and treatments. While I believe it’s a positive development its not without its risks.
Firstly, its increasingly getting clear that modern branded medicine is getting expensive on daily basis alongside its increasing price it also has few side effects if consumed for longer periods. Considering these factors, attention towards alternative treatments and medicinal therapies like yoga is a natural move. Following through on such treatments can often lead to a better, healthier lives while getting rid of addiction to modern medicine. We can also observe that few big companies are looking to selling more medicine often at the expense of the patient which becomes more so reason for the same trend.
Although such treatments are getting more advanced there also are quite a few risks involved, example in case the alternate medicinal treatments not being taken from doctor’s advice and taken without any diagnostics. Also, we need to verify the sources of such treatments as being valid and not taken without any prescription. Considering these factors, we can also gain an understanding that alternative medicine needs more research in order to become more viable.
In conclusion, I gather a positive trend being developed for moving towards alternative medicine and treatments considering all the downsides and the profit-making culture of big pharma companies and the connected ecosystem. Although it’s a positive move, we as consumers of alternative medicine need to be more informative and knowledgeable about such treatments and should not consider them without proper consultation.
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The following tables provide informative understanding of international students coming for studies in Canada and the United States from various major countries in years 2002 and 2003.
In hindsight, we can gather an understanding that number of students coming for studies in Canada and the United States increased year on year while the increase in number of students in more prominent in Canada.
In 2002, Canada accommodated 5400 students from China, 5000 from the United States and 2100 from India with total foreign students invited being around 59,870. While the USA had received 110,000 students from China, 200,000 from India and 31,000 from Canada with total foreign students standing at 581,600 in 2002.
In 2003, Canada received 45% more students from China at 7850, 9% more from the USA at 5450 and 35% more from India at 2835, the overall numbers saw an increase of 17% to 70,004. Meanwhile in the United States students from China grew at around 6% to 116,600, students from Canada at 7% to 33,170 although students from India shrunk by 9% to 182,000 with the overall numbers for the year increasing by 2% to 592,230.
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Since the advent of information technology, it has changed all aspects of our lives. Although there are disadvantages of such technology have become clear, I believed the advantages are non-trivial by a significant margin.
There are numerous advantages of information technology, one of them being outsourcing of repetitive work to information technologies making the whole pipeline of productivity a lot more efficient and therefore reducing human intervention. Computer technology has also bought a revolution to the way we communicate making it almost instantaneous helping save time and increase value. Since its inception it has created millions and millions of jobs and help build some of the largest companies from ground up in tern changing the fabric of our society.
In any kind of technology emergence, there are disadvantages also and information technology is no different. One of the most prominent once being increase in sedentary lifestyle which can results into serious health implications like obesity, spinal injuries and mental health issues which are not easily diagnosed. With increase in adoption of such technology there is increasing fear of job loss where people believe that their jobs might get replaced by a computer which does the same work more efficiently. Apart from this some fear disinformation, overwhelming information and its effects on society increasing significantly.
In conclusion, it’s clear that there are dis-proportionally more benefits of information technology as compared to its drawbacks and if we work to solve the issues facing such technology, disadvantages can be reduced to a negligible extent.
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The following bar chart dives into the details of few major influencers and their following on social media platform Instagram in year’s 2018 and 2021.
In summary, Cristiano Ronaldo has seen the sharpest increase in following by the year 2021 as compared to other influencers which have also seen a sharp increase in following since 2018.
In 2018, Selena Gomez had the greatest number of followers being at 125 million approx. whereas Kylie Jenner and The Rock had their following count hovering around just below 100 million in comparison to the follower count of Ariana Grande and Cristiano Ronaldo which was recorded slightly above 100 million users.
Furthermore in 2021, Every influencer has seen a multiple fold increase in follower count with Cristiano Ronaldo’s following increasing most by 3X to more than 300 million followers. Other influencers like Ariana Grande, Kylie Jenner and The Rock have also seen similar drastic increase in following to 250 million followers more or less although Selena Gomez has seen least dramatic increase at about 2X increase to 250 million followers from 125 million in 2018.
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The idea of primary schoolchildren learning how to grow vegetables and keep animals as part of their curriculum has been suggested on multiple instances. While its easy to argue about the benefits there can also be drawbacks.
One of the large number of benefits from teaching schoolchildren to grow vegetables and keep animals is that it can help them gather greater understanding of main sources of food and help them develop understanding and skills related to sustainable farming. By keeping animals around they can learn to take care of them and grow an enhanced understanding of nature preservation and fellow species. Furthermore they can gather more sense of independence and possibly help them make healthier choices in future and incorporate these learning’s into their lives.
Despite the benefits, one of the main disadvantages is that school’s might find it difficult to implement these steps in their curriculum may it be because of lack of resources or space in their facilities to grow vegetables or keep animals. Furthermore it could be a hard to find teachers are specifically skilled in these areas. There can be issues related to cleanliness of the facilities and children. Another disadvantage can be lack of interest by students or health issues like allergies. considering these issues it might not be suitable for all children.
In conclusion, I believe there are disproportionately large amount of benefits in favour of teaching schoolchildren to grow vegetables and keep animals in comparison to disadvantages. Specially helping them grow an better understanding and open up to nature at a young age in today’s era where children tend to do more indoor activities.
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The following line graph illustrates few major causes of air pollution and their trajectory in the UK from 1990 to 2005.
In hindsight, air pollution caused by industry has been decreasing considerably till the end of 2005 in comparison to other sources like households and transport which remain more or less the same over the years.
In 1990, pollution caused by industry was approximately 5.5 Million Tons(MT), which is particularly high in comparison to others pollutants. However, after a few short years we can see a major decline in the pollutants caused by industry which reached all-time low of 3 MT in 1996, declining steadily to 2 MT till the year 2005.
Coming towards sources like households and transport both causing around 1 MT of pollution in 1990 see a similar trajectory through the timeline with households also seeing upward trend in 1999 although an insignificant one. Towards the end of year 2005 we experience that pollution from remains the same at 1 MT but surprisingly pollution from households decreases to 0.2 MT approx. The air pollution from all sources combined was last recorded in 2005 being at 3.2 MT approx from the initial of 7 MT.
