Megacities

environmental challenge of megacities

The Kanto Plain, Tokyo is one of three large cities, the other two is Yokohama and Kawasaki, located along the northwestern shore of Tokyo Bay. Tokyo also intersected by the Sumida River , that has an extensive network of canals.

Land reclamation project = Tokyo's available surface area by filling in the bay + providing room for waste disposal, additional port facilities, and new residential areas.

Pollution of the environment = public offense. While the national government is often slow to address environmental issues,growing public pressure has led to legislation requiring industrial polluters to rectify any environmental damage for which they are responsible. regardless of widespread use of bicycles and public transportation, automobile exhaust is a problem in Tokyo. The imposition of emission standards has lately eliminated some of the smog that has plagued the city.

week 10 indegenous people

Bruno manser was born on 25th of august 1954 in basel, switzerland. during his lifetime, Bruno Manser, one of the founders of the bruno Manser fund and its president for many year, was the best known Swiss activist campaigning for the protection of the rainforests and the respect for human rights. He has been missing since his last journey to the Rainforest of Sarawak.
In the jungle of the Malaysian state of sarawak, on the island of borneo, near the Indonesian border of Kalimantan, Manser created richly illustrated notebooks during his stay in 1984 to 1990 with the penan people. He stayed with the nomadic bad of along sega, who become the penan figurehead for their struggle. He also visited many other settled penan communities in the upper Baram district. These book later published, with some succes. Having spent much of the 1970s educating himself in atunning array of practical handcrafts, Manser took himself off in 1984 to find a way of life in which he could use his skills for greater benefit.

art

The pipa is a four-stringed Chinese instruments.Sometimes called the Chinese lute,has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12–26. The pipa started in the Qin Dynasty and developed by the Han Dynasty. It is one of the most popular Chinese instruments and has been played for nearly two thousand years in China.

Since the revolutions in Chinese instrument making during the 20th century, the softer twisted silk strings of earlier times have been exchanged for nylon-wound steel strings, which are far too strong for human fingernails, so false nails are now used, constructed of plastic or tortoise-shell, and affixed to the fingertips with the player's choice of elastic tape.

Electric pipa

was developed in the late 20th century by adding electric guitar-style magnetic pickups to a regular acoustic pipa, allowing the instrument to be amplified through an instrument amplified or PA system.

media

media refers to ..

In comunication,

Electronic media-communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy.Example of electronic media are newspaper,radio,television,internet and etc.

New media, media that can only be created or used with the aid of modern computer processing power

Recording media, devices used to store information.

In computing,

Computer data storage devices, material objects which hold data used in computers.

Media player (application software), a piece of software designed to play audio and video.

In life science,

Growth media,objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth.

Media filter, a filter consisting of several different filter materials.

Tunica media, the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel.