The Aswan High Dam was built to regulate and control the annual flooding of the Nile River in order to protect crops and property from such uncontrolled flooding and to generate electricity. Most of its effects have been positive but several environmental effects are:
- Water-logging: because of the continuous high levels of water, the soil around the area is saturated with water, which prevents oxygenation of the soil that is essential to several plants and crops.
- Salinization of soils: caused by the inability of water-saturated soils to absorb salt, it is toxic to crops and damaging to infrastructures.
- Soil Erosion: it is a consequence of soil salinization as crops die and are unable to hold the soil in place.
There were also other negative effects such as:
- Archeology: two important archeological sites of Ancient Egypt were flooded and covered by the dam waters: the ancient cemetery of Fadrus and the Buhen fort.
- Loss of sediment: the annual flooding carried an enormous amount of sediment that is now trapped within the resulting Lake Nasser. Many of these sediments were used by local industries to manufacture bricks and they lost access to this renewable source of raw materials.
- More expensive and difficult purification of water: because the water does not move as much it is more transparent and allows the sunlight to penetrate deeper. This, combined with the trapped sediments has increased the growth of algae that have proliferated to the point that water purification is more and more expensive due to the necessary removal of this plant.
Originally, it was supposed to be equal, two states. Today, the state of Palestine doesn't exist legally and most of the land that was given to Palestinians was/is taken over.
B. Nonviolent
MLK believed in non-violent protest and all of his rallies were free of physical violence (ex: lunch counter sit ins)
Woodrow Wilson was one of the main influences in the ending of World War I. He worked very close with the leaders of France and Great Britain in order to develop the Treaty of Versailles. In this treaty, the League of Nations was created. This idea, developed by Wilson, was supposed to be a collection of countries who worked together to keep international peace.
Even though Wilson supported it, the US Congress did not. This effort to not join the League of Nations was headed by Henry Cabot Lodge. Lodge felt that the US should avoid constant foreign entanglement. Along with this, Lodge worried that joining this organization would cause the US to be dragged into more wars in the future.
