Barak Obama made an interesting choice recently: To take the oath of office on Abraham Lincoln’s bible. This was not an unthoughtful gesture, but rather than a window into how President Obama wants to be viewed. He obviously desires to be seen as a uniter, someone who transcends black and white, rich and poor, liberal [...]
Our Study Center and FORUM is organized by Portuguese speaking countries. It worth to visit the sites – even being in Portuguese you can always use the Google translator that will translate the whole site in seconds.
There are Universities Rectors and Professors from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Timor and more lusophone countries.
The forum and the [...]
1. ORGANIZED CRIME: An approach
Characterizing the basically the organized crime is easy because, among the specialists of the matter, there are unanimity.
However is different with the definition of the concept, because the diversity of varieties and opinions.
It becomes difficult to establish a final concept on organized crime when, on one side, because it is a [...]
More and more research about the negative effect light pollution has on humans and wildlife is coming to light (pun intended). As the population of the planet increases, so does the amount of homes, businesses, parking lots, schools, airports and roadways. All these structures use electricity and need to be lighted.
Humans demand these lights. They [...]
Global Warming Prevention
Global warming is something that we all have to take part in learning how to prevent, not only in the USA but throughout the entire world. We all play a part in contributing to global warming and the only way to help prevent the devastating affects is to work together. Each of the [...]
Geothermal power presents a lot of energetic potential to the world nowadays. It represents a fairly unexploited energetic sector which could in fact generate incredulous amounts of energy if properly explored. Geothermal power is produced from the Earth itself and thus, comes with the advantage of being natural. Power accumulates on the surface crust and [...]
Consultants on alternative energies have predicted that shifting from an economy reigned by petroleum fuels to an economy based on alternative fuels will not be that easy. Even so, the amounts of novel technologies that are constantly changing have had a definite impact so far on how we perceive economy to be. For instance, take [...]
Ireland is pursuing energy independence by trying to develop to a larger extent the usage of alternative energy; one must take into consideration the fact that Ireland benefits from a robust economy, allowing it to research and develop resource encompassing alternative energies. During modern days, almost ninety percent of the energy needs are accomplished by [...]
Researchers see atom power as a future solution to the problem of developing high efficiently and relatively low cost alternative energy to suit the growing energetic demands of the population on earth. With the scarce resources that we have, the atom power is infinite and it is generated from one single, tiny atom.
Power plants based [...]
In today’s world there are two primary issues that should be on everyone’s consciousness. That is surviving man-made or natural disasters. Article after article continue to hammer the point that most Americans are still not prepared to respond to and survive a disaster. FEMA as well as Homeland Security has made many efforts to promote [...]
