Monday, December 30, 2019

US Historical Newspapers Online by State

Search indexed newspapers or browse the actual digitized pages of hundreds of digitized historical newspapers online. This listing of historical newspapers online by state includes many, but not all, of the available U.S. historical newspapers online. Most historical newspapers listed here are free, but those that require a subscription are marked accordingly. Alabama Birmingham Iron Age, 1874-1887 - Free, from the Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections Alaska Tundra Times, 1962-1997 - The voice of Alaskan Natives, online for free access from the Tuzzy Library at Ilisagvik College. Arizona Casa Grande Newspaper Project, 1912-2007 - Search more than 267,735 historical newspaper pages online for free thanks to the Casa Grande Public Library. Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Times (Fayetteville), 1937-1977 - Part of Ancestry.coms historical newspaper collection, along with selected years of several other Arkansas newspapers. Subscription required.Arkansas Gazette, 1819-1899 - Just one of several historical Arkansas newspapers available online through GenealogyBank.com. Subscription required. California Amador Ledger, 1900-1911 - Online as part of the free California Digital Newspaper CollectionAlta California, 1849-1910 - a daily San Francisco newspaper, online as part of the free California Digital Newspaper CollectionEl Clamor Publico, 1855-1859 - the first Spanish-language newspaper in California after the American occupation. Online for free fro the USC Libraries Digital Archive.Los Angeles Herald, 1900-1910 - Online as part of the free California Digital Newspaper CollectionSan Francisco Call, 1900-1910 - San Franciscos morning newspaper until 1913, online as part of the free California Digital Newspaper Collection Colorado Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection - 140 historical newspapers online, published in Colorado from 1859-1923, including the Daily Rocky Mountain News from Denver. Free Connecticut The Hartford Courant, 1764-1984 - Online archives from the Hartford Courant offers free index searching, but requires a per article fee to access actual newspaper documents. Florida Boca Raton Newspapers Collection, 1938-1970 - Free collection of several hometown newspapers from the Boca Raton Historical Society.Chronicling America, 1836–1922 - This free historical newspapers collection from the Library of Congress offers access to several dozen different Florida newspapers, including the Gainesville Daily Sun, Pensacola Daily News and the Florida Agriculturist.Florida Digital Newspaper Library 500 500, mid-1800s through present - Hundreds of Florida newspapers have been digitized and made available online for free viewing through this massive project.St. Petersburg Times/St. Petersburg Evening Independent, 1901-present - Google News Archive hosts free digitized copies of these two long-time St. Petersburg newspapers. Enter St. Petersburg or the paper name in the source box. Georgia The Cherokee Phoenix, 1828-1833 - American Indian newspaper, online for free viewing as part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers collection.The Colored Tribune, 1876 - Savannah-based, African-American newspaper. From the Georgia Historic Newspapers collection.The Dublin Post, 1878-1887 - Online for free viewing as part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers collection.Rome News-Tribune, 1910-1999 - Selected issues, most from 1910, and from 1950-1990, are available online for free viewing through Google News Archive. Enter Rome News in the source box. Hawaii Ulukau: Hawaiian Electronic Library, 1834-1948 - A collection of historic Hawaiian language newspapers available for free searching and browsing.Hawaiian Language Newspapers, 1834-1927 - More than a dozen historic newspapers with free online access from the University of Hawaii. Scattered dates and titles available. Illinois Barrington Review, 1914-1930 - Free access to full–page reproductions from January 1, 1914–December 29, 1921 and April 23, 1925–November 13, 1930. Also available, an index to births, deaths and marriages from the Barrington Courier-Review from 1890-2006.Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections, 1895-1945 - Titles available among the more than three dozen newspaper titles include the Daily Illini (1916-1945), the Urbana Daily Courier (1903-1935), and the Express - Tallula, Illinois (1895-1896, scattered issues). Free!Chicago Tribune Archive – Historic article images from 1852 to the present. There is a fee for individual article access, or available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (check with your local library).Chicago Defender Archive – Historic article images from 1905–1975. There is a fee for individual article access, or available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (check with your local library).Quinc y Historical Newspaper Archive, 1835-1919 - Free access to the Quincy Daily Whig, Quincy Daily Herald and Quincy Daily Journal.Flora Digital Newspapers Collection - Free, online historical newspapers from Flora and Clay County in Southern Illinois from the Illinois Digital Archives.Chronicling America, 1836–1922 – Includes the Chicago Eagle (1889–1922) and the Cairo Bulletin (1868–1878), plus a few others. Indiana Hoosier State Chronicles  - Indianas digital historic newspaper program offers online access to several dozen Indiana newspaper titles,  encompassing over 58,000 issues and over 360,000 pages.Muncie Post-Democrat, 1921-1950 - Includes issues of the historic anti-Ku Klux Klan newspaper published by George Dale from 1921 until his death in 1936, and continued as a local newspaper after his death until the 1950s. Free!NewspaperArchive  - The Indiana Historical Society partnered with Newspaper Archive to digitize 5,625 rolls of microfilm representing 760 Indiana newspapers, encompassing more than 2.5 million newspaper pages dated 1924 and earlier. View for free  in the William H. Smith Memorial Library, or online with a subscription to NewspaperArchive. Iowa Adams County Free Press, 1876-2000 - Over 100,000 digitized pages online for free searching and viewing.Cedar Rapids Newspaper Archives, 1857-1998 - Free online access to a number of Cedar Rapids area historical newspapers, including the  Cedar Rapids Gazette,  Des Moines Daily News  and  Iowa State Leader.Charles City Press, 1930-2007 - A free online database containing more than 3,300 historical newspaper pages from the Floyd County Museum.Sioux County Newspaper Archives, 1878-2000 - Search or browse over a dozen Sioux County historical newspapers for free. Kansas Kansas Memory Historic Newspapers, 1850-1987 - Selected pages and articles from historical newspapers across the state.Chronicling America, 1836–1922 - Explore selected issues from over 20 historical Kansas newspapers in this free digitized collection from the Library of Congress.GenealogyBank - Historic Kansas Newspapers, 1841-1981 - Selected (mostly short) runs from over 68 historic African-American Kansas newspapers can be searched and viewed through a subscription to GenealogyBank, including such newspapers as the Wichita Searchlight and the State Ledger (Topeka).Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection - Kansas  - Subscription-based site Ancestry.com offers digitized issues of the  Atchison Globe, in its various incarnations, from 1882-1976, plus the  Great Bend Tribune,  Salina Journal, and  Western Kansas Press. Kentucky Historic Kentucky Newspapers, 1896-1916 - The Kentuckiana Digital Library has over 35 historic Kentucky newspapers online for free searching and viewing. Available issues vary by paper - from one to several thousand. Louisiana New Orleans Bee, 1827-1953 - Free PDF files are browseable by date, but there is no other search feature. From the Jefferson Parish Library.Louisiana Newspaper Access Program  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ A small number of the earliest newspaper issues from each of Louisianas 64 parishes.Chronicling America, 1836–1922 – This free historical newspapers collection from the Library of Congress offers access to over fifty historical Louisiana newspapers, including the Louisiana Democrat, the Colfax Chronicle and the Madison Journal.Google News Archive  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Digitized Louisiana newspapers in the Google News Archive collection include a large run of the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, the Louisiana Courier, the New-Orleans Tagliche Deutfche Beitung and the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung. Maryland Google News Archive  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Browsable and searchable Maryland newspapers in the Google News Archive collection include the Baltimore Afro-Eagle (1933-2003) and the American Eagle (1856-1857).Maryland Early State Records Online, Newspapers, 1802–1947 – Browsable only, these digitized early Maryland newspapers date as early as the 1802 American and Commercial Daily Advertiser to the Civil War era Baltimore Clipper and more recent Cambridge Chronicle (1830–1947).Maryland Gazette Collection, 1728–1839 – Browsable, digitized pages from the Maryland State Archives. Massachusetts The Barnstable Patriot Digital Archive, 1830–1930 - Searchable digitized newspaper covers Cape Cod and the Islands, plus the Hyannis Patriot (1894-1930) and Sandwich Observer (1910-1911). From the Sturgis Library.The Chatham Monitor Cape Cod Chronicle Historical Collection  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ The Eldredge Public Library has digitized and made available online their entire collection of historic Chatham newspapers.Provincetown Advocate – Search the Provincetown Public Librarys digitized collection of Provincetown area newspapers, including the Provincetown Advocate, Provincetown Banner, Provincetown Beacon and News Beacon. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the search link.Boston Globe Historical Archive  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Historic article images from 1872-1922, plus current content from 1979-present. There is a fee for individual article access, or available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (check with your  local library).The Liberator  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Digiti zed images from 1831-1865 can be searched or browsed for this influential anti-slavery newspaper published by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Available with a subscription to Accessible Archives. Michigan Cass City Newspapers  - Free PDF images of the Cass City Chronicle (1981–2009) and Enterprise (1881–1906) from the Rawson Memorial Library.The Commercial Record  (Saugatuck) – Back issues of this Saugatuck-Douglas community newspaper are available for browsing for most of the period 1868–1967. A small portion of the content has been indexed and is searchable.Grosse Pointe Newspapers  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Includes the Grosse Pointe News (1940–present), Grosse Pointe Review (1930–1952), and Grosse Pointe Civic News (1923–1934). From the Grosse Pointe Public Library.Making of Modern Michigan  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Dozens of historical newspapers dating back to the mid-1800s are available from a cooperative of 52 participating libraries, including the Manchester Enterprise (1867-1892) and Owosso Press (1862-1869).Lake Orion Review  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Searchable archive covering the years 1868-1957 from the Orion Township Public Library. Minnesota Holt Weekly News  - Searchable and browsable archive of the community newspaper Holt Weely News from 1911-1952.Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ A great gateway page to the Minnesota historical newspapers available online at Chronicling America, including various incarnations of the Saint Paul Globe (1878–1905) and Bemidji Pioneer (1896–1922).Winona Newspaper Project  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ This searchable archive includes available issues of the Winona Argus (1854 and 1857), the Winona Daily Republican (1860–1901), the Winona Republican-Herald (1901–1954), and the Winona Daily News (1954–1976). Mississippi The Citizens Council  - Digitized issues of the newspaper of the white supremacist Citizens’ Council of Mississippi, published from October 1955 to September 1961.Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection, Mississippi  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Subscription-based access to ten historical Mississippi newspapers, including several incarnations of the Daily Democrat Times (1904–1912 and 1930–1977) from Greenville, Mississippi.The Memphis Daily Appeal  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Although located in Memphis, Tennessee, this newspaper included several Mississippi towns in its coverage area, including Hernando, Grenada, Jackson, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Missouri Chillicothe Constitution Tribune  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Searchable archive of more than 320,447 newspaper pages from the Chillicothe Constitution Tribune, 1889-2006.Missouri Digital Heritage, Newspapers  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Online archive of historic newspapers from St. Louis and other locations from the collections of various Missouri libraries and historical societies.Chronicling America1836–1922 – Over three dozen historical Missouri newspapers can be searched or browsed in this free online collection from the Library of Congress. Includes the St. Joseph Observer, Jackson Herald, and many others. Montana Chronicling America  - A small handful of Montana historical newspapers are available online as part of this free Library of Congress project; the two largest runs are The Anaconda Standard (1889-1970) and Daily Yellowstone Journal (1882-1893).Digital CharKoosta News  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Digitization of this newspaper published by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation covers the years 1956 to 1961, and 1971 to 1988. Nebraska Nebraska Newspapers  - Searchable full-text of selected Nebraska newspapers published in the state before 1923, plus great background information on each newspaper. These newspapers also available through Chronicling America.Chronicling America  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Nebraska newspapers digitized in this freely available full-text database from the Library of Congress include The Dakota County Herald (1891-1965), Omaha Daily Bee (1872-1922), Columbus Journal (1874-1911) and The Red Cloud Chief (1873-1923).The Ord Quiz  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ This historic newspaper from the Ord Township Library is available as searchable PDFs, browsable by date. Nevada Las Vegas Age Digital Newspaper Collection, 1905–1924 - Digital images of the Las Vegas Age from the special collections of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. Published from 7 Apr 1905–30 Nov 1947, but several issues are missing, including all of 1916.Henderson Libraries Digital Collection  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Includes two newspapers dating back to the mid-20th century – The Henderson Home News (1951-current), and The Big Job and Basic Bombardier newsletters (1940s) from the BMI magnesium plant in Henderson, Nevada. New Hampshire Paper of Record  - A few short runs of historical New Hampshire papers, including The White Mountain Reporter and Carroll County Independent, are available online from the subscription-based site, Paper of Record.Newspaper Archive  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Several New Hampshire newspapers can be accessed via a subscription to Newspaper Archive, including the Portsmouth Herald (1898–2007). New Jersey Atlantic County Digitized Newspaper Collection  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Digitized newspapers published in Atlantic County from 1860-1923, including the South Jersey Republican (1863-1923) and Mays Landing Record (1877–1906).Red Bank Register Newspaper Archives  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Full text searching of this New Jersey newspaper covers the years 1878–1991. From the Middletown Township Public Library.The Bayshore Independent (Matawan)  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Select digitized issues covering the years 1971 through 2000, from the Matawan - Aberdeen Public Library.New Brunswick Daily Times  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Access to searchable, digital issues of the New Brunswick Daily Times (1871–1916), from the New Brunswick Public Library. New Mexico Chronicling America  - Nearly 5 million digitized, searchable newspaper pages from historical New Mexico newspapers can be searched online for free in this collection from the Library of Congress. Includes historical runs of The Albuquerque Citizen (1895–1909) and The (Albuquerque) Evening Herald (1914–1922).New Mexicos Digital Collections  Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Digitized copies of several New Mexico newspapers (Belen News, Borderer, Revista de Taos...) are online as part of a digital collections project of the University of New Mexico University Libraries. They also host a  searchable database  for locating non-digitized New Mexico newspapers. New York NYS Historic Newspapers  - Over 4 million digitized newspapers pages from historic newspaper titles across much of New York State are available for free online searching and browsing.  Fulton History  - Dont let the title and design of this website fool you! Owner Tom Tryniski has digitized and made available online for FREE over 30 million historical newspaper pages, mostly from newspapers across the state of New York.The Brooklyn Newsstand  - The Brooklyn Public Library offers free online access  to the full run of the  Brooklyn Daily Eagle  newspaper, which was published from 1841 to 1955, as well as  Brooklyn Life, a society magazine published from 1890 to 1931.

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Sexual Behavior And Substance Abuse Related Activities

There is little to question about youth who socialize with peers who engage in deviant behavior. They are at a bigger risk for criminal behavior and substance abuse–related activities. In addition, there is more research suggesting that interventions that aggregate the at-risk peer go hand and hand with one another. They Examined data from two peer-group intervention studies and found that youth in the experimental group had increased adolescent problem behavior and negative life outcomes in adulthood, whereas youth in the control conditions did not show such effects. I suggest that, youth may be particularly vulnerable to negative outcomes as a result of peer aggression. The youth in the juvenile justice system have to deal with peer†¦show more content†¦Those Risk factors are the impact of peers, developing pathways, of aggression. We explore these factors of violence in children and adolescents with attention to the original problem of violence to describe the dif ficulty, unanswered questions, and clinical relevance of the current findings of peer pressure leading to aggression. Interventions, including cognitive behavioral therapy, psychopharmacological treatment, and psychosocial treatment, are reviewed with serious recognition of the need to use multiple modalities with and to expand research to define optimal treatment for, potentially violent children and adolescents. The information considered for this review focuses on violence as defined as physical aggression toward other individuals. Other studies are included with wider definitions of violence because of their relevance to assessing the potential for violent behavior.  © Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2004 although arrest rates for serious violent crimes and juvenile homicides have fallen from an all-time high in the mid-1990s, many adolescents and children remain involved in aggressive delinquent and violent behaviors such as physical fighting, bullying, using weapons, verbal threats of harm to others, and chronic impulsive aggression . In 1999, juveniles accounted for 16% of all violent crime arrests, and homicides committed by youth

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Whaling A Narrow Vision of the Future Free Essays

Whaling is a controversial issue today. Thousands of ecological organisations vote for an international ban on whaling to give whale populations a chance for a rebound. The current paper discusses the pros and cons of an international ban on whaling. We will write a custom essay sample on Whaling: A Narrow Vision of the Future or any similar topic only for you Order Now The paper seeks to prove that there should be no international ban on whaling, as long as whaling benefits economies and medical research. The paper tries to deny an assumption that a moratorium on whaling can give whales a chance to rebound sufficiently and, instead, promotes an idea that legalisation of whaling will facilitate monitoring and managing whaling operations all over the world. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 4 Whaling: A Brief Insight 4 An International Ban On Whaling: The Benefits of Legalisation 6 Whaling: A Never Ending Debate? 8 Conclusion 10 Recommendations 10 References 11 WHALING: A NARROW VISION OF THE FUTURE Introduction Whaling is a controversial issue today. Thousands of scientists and ecological organisations argue for an international ban on whaling and view such a ban as the only way to restore whale populations in global marine ecosystems. Thousands of others are confident that an international ban on whaling will not benefit animals: the decreasing number of whales is the reflection of the natural processes which no ban can stop. The history of whaling dates back thousands years ago. People hunted whales as long as they had boats and could sail. Today, whaling has become a convenient object of speculations and no one has been able to justify the need for an international ban so far. Objectively, there should be no international ban on whaling because whaling benefits economies and medical research, and legalisation of whaling will facilitate monitoring and managing the number of whales hunted and killed for commercial purposes. Whaling: A Brief Insight Whaling is a controversial issue today. Thousands of ecological and animal rights organisations argue that an international ban on whaling is necessary to give whales a chance to restore their populations. The estimated number of Blue Whales today is less than 3500; in 1931 alone, almost 30,000 Blue Whales were killed for commercial purposes. The current population of Blue Whales represents less than 1% of the total number of whales killed between 1910 and 1969. However, it was not before 1966 that an official moratorium on commercial whaling was provided, to afford a good beginning on the long journey to recovery. Whaling dates back to the times when humans started to build boats – thousands of years ago, whaling was one of the most widely used forms of hunting. For thousands of years, whales had served excellent sources of food, wax, and oil. Hunters valued them even more for their size and the quantity of various resources they could provide at once. Only by the middle of the 1870s did whale oil products give place to oil products based on petroleum and since then, whales have been mostly used for meat. Today, Japan and Norway are considered as the biggest threat to whales – these countries, plus Iceland, seek to lift the ban on whaling by all possible means. More importantly, these countries continue hunting whales despite the moratorium on whaling brought in in 1986. Norway is hunting whales in the North Atlantic; American Eskimos and Russian northern aboriginals are allowed to hunt whales in small quantities to meet their needs for food. Japan actively engages in whaling, to pursue the needs and goals of medical research. Notwithstanding the potential benefits of the ban on whaling, this ban is likely to cause serious economic difficulties. Today, no international ban on whaling should exist, because whaling is associated with significant economic benefits, because whales serve the needs of medical research and, finally, because legal whaling will facilitate monitoring the number of whales hunted and killed for commercial purposes. An International Ban on Whaling: The Benefits of Legalisation That whaling is the source of both direct and indirect economic benefits is difficult to deny, and there should be no international ban on whaling, to let different countries meet their economic needs. The inner markets for whale products are too small to support the countries like Norway and Iceland. The latter continue hunting whales, according to the quotas that had been set by the International Whaling Commission. Japan and Norway fail to meet their sales targets and lose significant financial resources due to the small quotas and the lack of hunting opportunities. In 2008 alone, Japan lost more than $20 million â€Å"whaling† dollars, which could have been directed to support various economic social programmes; in the similar fashion, Norway is experiencing difficulties with its whale product markets. Given the difficult economic situation, whaling could become an excellent opportunity for countries like Norway and Japan to generate additional jobs and to use whale products as an extremely valuable export item. Before the moratorium on whaling in 1986, the share of whale products in Norwegian exports accounted for 2 percent of all marine products and, simultaneously, for more than 70 percent of the total merchandise products on average. There should be no international ban on whaling, because it limits economic opportunities of sea countries and does not give them a chance to improve their economic situation. Whaling is the source of numerous indirect advantages. Indirect benefits of whaling arise from the link between commercial whaling, the size of natural whale populations, and the size of fish stocks. Because whales are the largest consumers of fish stock in the North Atlantic, they threaten the stability of numerous other fish stocks, including krill and cod. Although the relationships between whales and other fish populations are increasingly complex, scientists assume that whale stocks around Iceland could lead to the 10 percent decline in other fish stocks, including cod stocks. Given that the annual sustainable yield of the cod stock is no less than 350 thousand tons, a ban on whaling could cost Iceland 35 thousand tons of cod stock every year – a number too significant for a small country like Iceland. There should be no international ban on whaling, based on the premise that whales were and remain an important object of medical research. Whales are equally important for human and animal research, and it would be fair to say that an international ban on whaling will significantly reduce the existing medical research opportunities. As a result, an international ban on whaling will wane the hopes of those who seek a cure for the most difficult diseases. Since the middle of the 20th century, whales had been hunted and used for their hypophyses. The number of whale hypophyses dropped with time and their popularity declined, but they made a profound contribution to the development of medical research and pharmacology. Whales’ pancreases were extensively used in the production of insulin. Whales used to be an effective source of growth hormones for people; the hormones were extracted from whales’ thymus glands. Today, the world must think twice before an international ban on whaling becomes a reality. The world must avoid banning whaling activity in the future, to give medical researchers sufficient opportunities to pursue their research goals. Although the topic of animal research is increasingly controversial, it is not within the scope of this paper to discuss the pros and cons of such research. Simultaneously, it is clear that despite all limitations, researchers will continue to apply to the benefits of animal research, to enhance the efficiency of their research operations. In the current state of medical knowledge, whales present a valuable opportunity to help people with complex diagnoses. In general terms, any ban on whaling is likely to result in significant negative changes and serious losses, both economic and scientific. Nevertheless, ecological and animal rights organisations continue asserting that such a ban is necessary to restore the number of whales in natural marine ecosystems. Whaling and Nature: A Never Ending Debate? That whale populations decline and need a chance to restore their number is the central argument ecological organisations use to support the need on an international ban on whaling. Needless to say, whale populations do decline but whether whaling is the direct cause of ecological problems is difficult to define. The current state of research provides compelling evidence that the decline in the number of living whales is natural, and no ban can change it. The argument in favor of an international ban on whaling exemplifies a recurrent conflict between perception and rhetoric, and while more and more scientists vote for an international ban on whaling, even more scientists and organisations come to recognise the irrelevance of such a ban. The fact is in that scientists lack scientific evidence to prove that whale populations, including Atlantic humpbacks, can rebound sufficiently due to an international ban on whaling. Another question is in whether an international ban on whaling and, as a result, the growing number of whales is likely to misbalance the global marine ecosystem. Throughout the last centuries, the number of whales had been constantly declining. Whether more whales work for the better or the worse of the ecological system is still the issue of the major concern. The historical data regarding the number of whales that lived in the international ecosystems and were hunted throughout the last two-three centuries implies that whales living in super-abundance do not benefit ecological systems but, on the contrary, can â€Å"eat out the oceans as fast as they can go†. Scientific assumptions about potential extermination of whales are based on numbers – scientists believe that the rapidly declining number of whales during the last two centuries indicates the threat which whaling poses to the stability of whale and other fish populations in various marine ecosystems. However, before an international ban on whaling becomes a reality, scientists must decide what natural effects it will produce and whether it is worth banning whaling for the sake of insignificant changes in whale populations. Moreover, it would be fair to assume that even in case of such a ban, countries will continue their whaling activities; and not a ban but legalisation of whaling will give ecological organisations better opportunities to manage and monitor various whaling activities. Murray (2010) is correct, saying that the resumption of limited legal whaling will help organisations reign control of the practice and will, ultimately, save the lives of almost 18,000 whales every year. If ecologists seek effective means to restore whale populations, there is no way for them better than making whaling legal, acceptable, and widely spread. Conclusion Whaling is a controversial issue today. Thousands of ecological organisations vote for an international ban on whaling, to give whales a chance to restore their populations. There should be no international ban on whaling. Whaling is the source of significant economic benefits. Whaling benefits economies through more jobs and higher export profits. Indirect benefits of whaling imply an opportunity to preserve numerous fish stocks, including krill and cod, which whales consume in thousands. Whales benefit medical research and give a hope to cure the most complex human diseases. That the number of whales gradually declines is not necessarily the result of whaling but a natural process which no ban can stop. Legalisation of whaling will facilitate monitoring and managing whaling operations, and if ecologists seek effective means to control whale population there is no way for them better than to make whaling legal and acceptable. Recommendations Whaling should be legalised. Governments and ecological organisations must develop a system of quotas and limits to the annual number of whales available for hunting. A system of monitoring must be developed to control the number of whales killed for commercial purposes and the changes in whale populations in various ecosystems. How to cite Whaling: A Narrow Vision of the Future, Papers

Friday, December 6, 2019

Financial Activities are Complex in Nature †MyAssignmenthelp.com

Question: Discuss about the Financial Activities are Complex in Nature. Answer: Introduction: The article clearly projects the manner in which Uber functions and the way in which it manages the wealth. The ethical considerations are neglected and this was due to the fact that taking the ethical route will not help the company to cement its dominance in the company.The main article suggests that due to key issues like the way Uber manages its operations and wealth, it will not be feasible to make necessary ethical changes that are required to make the company more ethical. The reason behind this can be attributed to the fact that this can disrupt the companys plans to establish dominance in the industry. Wealth management was the focal point of attraction of the company. Uber being a start-up has accumulated a huge chunk of wealth and will transfer to the shareholder once it will reap huge profits (Levin, 2017). The growth of the company is strongly linked to the activities of a financial manager. Financial activities are complex in nature hence, to take care of all such activ ities the financial manager needs to function in full swing. The funds that Uber raised amounting to $11.5 billion was utilized in an effective manner by dint of the activities of the financial manager. The overall goal of Uber was to have an expansion on an aggressive basis and to compete with rivals such as Grab or Lyft (Myers, 2017). The method of wealth management is selected and followed by the financial manager. However, as per the details, it can be witnessed that the company is incurring a loss. Going by the overall fund's exposure and the management, the company is a high-risk investment and that the financial manager needs to ensure that the company will generate strong returns (Berk DeMarzo, 2013).The business model of the company is selected by the financial manager because he is entitled with the responsibility of utilizing the funds in a strong manner. The model of the business of Uber is that of expansion initially and then profits. As per the business model, it is e vident that Uber needs a lot of infrastructures and hence, cash needs to be available. The financial manager is delegated with the task and in the case of Uber, the financial manager has undertaken the task (Goulden, 2017).This implies that the allocation of funds has been done in a manner so that it can be utilized in an optimal manner. The funds are utilized considering the size of the industry and the status of the asset. The mode of raising funds is an important consideration and the same needs to be done with proper diligence. In short, the mode of funds through which the funds are raised is an important activity that is solely dependent on the financial manager.Moreover, the article even indicates that the policies of the company did not adhere to the business function because there were many activities of the company that was unethical in nature that led the company to suffer. Scandals and other misappropriation led to the degradation of goodwill. References Berk, J DeMarzo, P 2013, Corporate Finance, Pearson.Goulden, M 2017, Uber cant be ethical its business model wont allow it. viewed 17 November 2017 https://theconversation.com/uber-cant-be-ethical-its-business-model-wont-allow-it-85015Levin, S 2017, Uber's scandals, blunders and PR disasters: the full list, viewed 17 November 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/uber-travis-kalanick-scandal-pr-disaster-timelineMyers, S 2017, Uber: The good, the bad, and the really, really ugly, viewed 17 November 2017 https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2017/04/22/uber-in-a-nutshell/