Hi!
The central idea of the metaphor was that the people in the lifeboat are the rich nations, whereas those that are drowning are the poor nations.
This metaphor is known as lifeboat ethics, and is used to illustrate the distribution of resources.
The metaphor depicts a lifeboat which is boarded by 50 people (the wealthy nations), and 100 people swimming in the surrounding water at risk of drowning. The 'ethical issue' is stirred by the fact that there is room for 10 more people on this lifeboat, and if the surrounding people should be taken aboard -and if so, what would be the conditions of such an act.
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Roosevelt's New Deal programs worked to aid the rural poor, as well as restore soil quality and establish better farming practices.
The Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration were agencies created to help poor people in rural areas.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Soil Erosion Service (later known as the Soil Conservation Service), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were involved in improving land conditions. Working in conjunction with the National Forestry Service, the CCC and WPA participated in planting millions of trees to act as windbreaks, to prevent the kind of blowing erosion of soil that occurred in the Dust Bowl.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution describes the structures and functions of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (The U.S. President). This Article describes the President's chief functions and duties. It outlines the President's term limits which are terms of 4 years. In addition it establishes the President as Commander and Chief of the U.S. Military as the head of the Marines, Navy, and Army. In addition it vests the power to make treaties and to appoint judges and cabinet members with Congress' approval in the hands of the President.
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Asimov's thesis is that the beauty of science is the same as the beauty of nature. He expands on this theory with a grandeur explanation of the vast happenings in nature and the universe, such as the speed of light and sound, and the truth that the stars are really amazingly large suns like our own.
