Answer:
The main contrasts between Andrew and Robert are presented with the help of these attributes of their characters.
<em>Andrew is content to stay on the family farm, while Robert dreams of traveling.</em>
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<em>Andrew enjoys working the land when Robert prefers reading and thoughts of adventure.</em>
Explanation:
Andrew and Robert are two brothers in Eugene O'Neill's play "Beyond the Horizon"
They are very similar in some attribute, while in some other attributes, they are at opposite poles from each other.
Andrew is described as on who has much interest in the fields, he takes all the pain to keep family's farm and fields in good shape. Robert, on the other hand, is totally indifferent to what is happening at farm and fields. He is characterized as having a poetic and delicate nature - reading books, and thinking about adventurous journeys occupy much of his time.
There is no contrast between Andrew and Robert on the bases of caring for their family. They both care much for their family.
Andrew is not resentful about Robert leaving the farm. He just says that everyone at farm including Andrew himself will miss him a lot.
The statistic in this excerpt supports the idea that humans are not the only one responsible for climate change. There is a counter position about the exclusive responsibility of the human being towards this.
According to the excerpt, no scientific body that is considered serious in their investigations, can accept the responsibility from other factors than the human emissions of greenhouse gases.
A report written in the New York Times statrs that
…<em>”The global, long-term warming trend is “unambiguous,” it says, and there is “no convincing alternative explanation” that anything other than humans — the cars we drive, the power plants we operate, the forests we destroy — are to blame….”
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<em>…”Scientists said the report’s findings were clear.
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<em>“This new report simply confirms what we already knew. Human-caused climate change isn’t just a theory, it’s reality,”…
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This means that, there is not a doubt that humans are the responsible for the global warming and its negative effect over the earth.
<em>The Sports Gene </em>was written by David Epstein and published in 2013.
This book supports the idea that sports success has to do with both 'nature and nurture', that both genetics and training are highly influential, but also that each of them cannot bring what the other does.
The more a person practises, the better he/she will be. But up to a point. No one can achieve something that his/her body is not biologically or genetically prepared to do. This idea is in disagreement with other authors such as Anders Ericsson, who supported that training mattered more than innate talents and that could offset genetic inclinations.
