Author: Elena Zettelmeyer

Are Smart Cities Promise Of Sustainable Development, Or An Eery Utopia?

Building new “smart cities” could help solve two major current problems: rapid urban population growth and unsustainable living practices, including inefficient water and electricity use. These problems are pressing, as the biggest threat to human kind is global climate change, and smart cities bring new technologies that offer a bold,

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Are Reparations Still Relevant?

With the 2020 elections approaching, many topics that concern Americans have become a subject of debate between candidates competing for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Among these topics are gun control, healthcare, immigration, climate change, and – within the conversation of how these candidates plan on improving civil rights and

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A Comparative Analysis On The Health Status Of Angola And Burundi

Angola and Burundi are two sub-Saharan African countries with high levels of corruption and poverty, low food security, and severe human rights issues. Both countries are recovering from long civil wars that have severely affected their health status. In this essay, I will be comparatively analyzing different political, social, and

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Can Aid Spur Development? The Case Of Microfinance

There is a persistent divide between the average living standards of the relatively rich ‘global north’, broadly referencing mode economically developed countries (MEDCs), and those of the ‘global south’ broadly referencing less economically developed countries (LEDCs). This gap is a popular subject of discussion in social media, the news, and

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