Pollution | Types, causes and effects of pollution | different ways to reduce pollution

Pollution is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment. These harmful materials are called pollutants. Pollutants can be natural, such as volcanic ash, created by human activity such as trash or runoff produced by factories. Pollutants also damages the quality of air, water, and land. Major forms of pollution include air pollution, light pollution, noise pollution, plastic pollution, soil contamination, radioactive contamination, thermal pollution, visual pollution and water pollution.

Pollution may muddy landscapes, poison soils and waterways, or kill plants and animals. Humans are also daily harmed by pollution. Vulnerable populations has more effects on health because these populations already have higher rates of heart and lung conditions.

Types of pollution:

There are of following types of pollution

1. Air pollution
2. water pollution
3. land pollution
4. solid waste pollution
5. radioactive contaimination
6. soil pollution
7. thermal pollution
8. visual pollution
9. light pollution
10. noise pollution

These are some of the types of pollution.

Main sources of Pollution:

The main sources of pollution are as follows

1. household activities
2. factories
3. agriculture
4. transport

These are the main souses of pollution.

Once they have been released into the environment, the concentration of some pollutants is reduced by

• dispersion
• dilution
• deposition
• degradation 

In this way the concentration of some pollutants is reduced.

Every form of pollution have 2 sources of occurrence:

•  point sources
•  non-point sources

Point source is easy to:

• identify
• monitor

whereas the non-point source is hard to:

• control

Effects of pollution on the environment:

There are of following effects of pollution on environment

Pollution may be 

1. muddy landscape
   
2. poison soil
3. waterways
4. kills plant and animals

These are the effects of pollution on the environment.

Ways to reduce pollution:

There are following ways that reduce the pollution

1. Reduce the number of trips that you have taken in your car
2. Reduce or eliminate fireplace and wood stove use
3. Avoid burning leaves, trash, and other materials
4. Avoid using gas-powered lawn and garden equipment
5. by conservation of energy at home, at work, everywhere
6. use public transport, bike or walk wherever possible
7. use the chemical free products (paints or cleaning products) wherever possible.
8. use gas to cook or other purposes rather tan using cutting wood from plants
9. keep tuned cars, buses, boats and engins
   

All of these can be found in urban areas.

These are some of the ways that reduces the pollution. So, in this way we reduce the pollution.

Pollution disturbs the balance in the environment and ecosystem. As the technology grows the pollution also reaches its peak and give rise to:

illness of human health

global warming

Pollution not only effect human by destroying their:

• respiratory system
• cardiovascular system
• neurological system

It also affect:

• nature
•      Plants
•      fruits
•      vegetable
•      river
•      ponds
•      forest
•      animal 
  

on which they are dependent for their survival.

To overcome the pollution we should follow right guidelines to make the living better and healthy.

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Passive income | How can we generate passive income?

 

Passive income is the earning in which a person is not actively involved. In passive income, person does not require a little effort to earn. Passive income is usually taxable. Once, you have to do something to generate income and then you have to rely on that income. It requires a little time in the beginning and then it gives you benefit for a long time/throughout life. Physical appearance is not necessary for making passive income. Physical appearance is not necessary for making passive income. In passive income a person receives payment even after the work is over. With passive income you can make money, while you are sleeping or doing anything else.

Income

It is the money which an individual received after providing the services of any kind.

Types of income

There are three types of income

a- Active income:

Income for which services have been performed.

Examples:

 wages, salaries, commissions, and business income in which one participate actively.

b- Passive income

Passive income is the income in which one can earn regular income with a very small effort.

c-  Portfolio income:

It is the income from investment including dividends, royalties and capital gains.

              Examples

1.       Selling informative products

2.       Affiliate marketing

3.       Savings accounts

4.       Rental income

5.       Peer to peer lending

6.       Invest in high yield CD

7.       Dividing stocks Etc.

Sources of passive income

• Profit income
• Interest income
• Dividend income
• Rental income
• Capital income
• Royalty income

The internal revenue services (IRS) says passive income can come from two sources: rental property or a business in which one does not actively participate.

Importance of passive income

• It gives you the freedom of time
• It reduces stress, anxiety and fear of future
• You can do things that you want without any fear
• It gives you the ability to work from anywhere
  

Disadvantages of passive income

 1-At the beginning/setting up passive income take effort  and time 

 2-One cannot grow overnight

 3-It requires diversification to ensure that you have money flowing    in at all times

4-passive income can be too passive for some people.

How can you generate passive income?

·         By writing an eBook

·         Make YouTube videos

·         Try affiliate marketing and make sale

·         Sell your own products on the internet

·         Put your photography to work on the web

·         Purchase dividends stocks

Passive income can be made by writing an eBook. There also many other ways to make passive income that includes YouTube channel, through this we can make informative videos and get unlimited passive income for life time. BY affiliate marketing, in which we can also make passive income by generating sales. Passive income can be generated by selling others products in internet at different websites, by practicing photography we can also generate passive income and by purchasing passive income is generated. By purchasing dividend stocks passive income can be generated. So, these are some of the methods that are used to generate passive income.

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Online teaching | 10 biggest disadvantages of online teaching

Online teaching is completely technology based. Those teachers who teaches online faces many problems. They struggled hard to engage their students in class, perform different activities that are technology based. Those which did not have such skilled based knowledge are dropped in their online teaching career. Those which do not have strong communication skills are not survive in this field because skill knowledge is essential in this field. Those which do not handle various technologies get frustrated are leaves the online teaching field.

Following disadvantages of online teaching are discussed

1. The basic requirement of Online teaching field is internet connection. The connection of internet must be high to teach online classes. This is because the class continue smoothly and there must be no disturbance in class due to slow speed of internet. It’s the big challenge and some of the online teachers do not handle this and faces difficulty in running smooth class.
2. Time management is also a disadvantage in Online teaching. There is barrier of time between students and online teacher. An online teacher teaches different students at a time and handle each and every student this is a big challenge that an online teacher faces each day. Sometime technical problem created and sometime internet issue found etc.
3. There is also time barrier of the students outside the country (The time barrier may be day or night barrier). It is also found that at one country there is night time and the other country have day time. So, the online teacher is also responsible to teach their students at night time. Because it’s the duty of online teacher and get paid of this. To overcome this difficulty, an online teacher gets extra charges to teach their students at night time.
   

 4-  physical teachers develop the interests of students by direct contact to keep them motivated. 

Online education does not provide such opportunity, and this is a huge challenge.

5-  In online teaching students learn in isolation and brainstorming does not takes place as much as in physical classes because students do not get such company that can get good friends who can be of significant help in building future career.

6-  In online education the workload is more than in physical education. A student has to solve the task by their own effort without any help.

7-  There are lots of scams online which pretend to be offering courses, yet they are not licensed.

8-   Another disadvantage refers to the fact that online classes cannot filled with thousands of students that are trying to join the discussions.

9-  In online teaching, most of times the communication with others is through email.

Conclusion

• In online education the fee structure is affordable for everyone.
• It also not gives any guarantee of job as the students learns with low motivational level.
• Online teaching is not giving the all the skills that are required for particular profession as the students feel isolated from classmates.

• Slow internet connection also cause difficulty in learning through online class.
• Everything in this world has its ups and downs. There are a lot of challenges but they have their solutions as well (by using online tools)
• In Online teaching, there is a huge gap between teacher and student as they do not have in direct contact with each other.
• If the online management and handling is good then it gives lots of benefits also.

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Online teaching | benefits of online teaching

Online teaching is the teaching that takes place through electronic devices. It includes mobile, laptops and tablet. Teachers that teaches online are also called remote teachers, online instructor or distance teachers. 

How the online teaching is beneficial both for students and teachers? or

Benefits of online teaching:

In online teaching, teachers or instructor uses different technologies to teach their students in better way. online teaching has a lot of benefits both for students and for the online teachers. 

For teachers

Online teachers teach students through their homes via using technology and they feel free to teach their students as they do not need to reach at specific place of teaching. As the classes are conduct online, the demonstrator can conduct classroom at any time they want to conduct. Also, the institutions hold meeting online and discuss their matters easily at meeting, this helps a lot to keep the faculty members of an organization atone page and link all members to one another.

Online teaching gives opportunity to teach online students from all over the world from their home. So, it gives freedom to teach for long term to students.

Online teacher also has an opportunity to teach at one subject or more than one subject. It’s totally up to the teacher that how they want to deliver their services.  Online teacher also has advantage to take classes at specific days and timetable.

online teachers know more internet or computer skills than any other else. Because they search different techniques to teach their students in a better way and gives their best to teach them by using new technologies and strategies at internet.

Online teaching has no barrier of cast, culture, nationality and language. A technical tool TRANSLATION used to overcome this barrier. In different online training programs this method is used to communicate easily.

The online teaching that are practiced today is better than yesterday and the online teaching that are to be practiced in future is going to be better than today. Because technology grows day by day and a lot to new inventions are made in this world. 

Another benefit of online teaching is that an online teaches asks parents to make check and balance on their students. So that parents know about the students activity and schedule their day properly for learning and for other activities of a day. Also, the parents could take weekly or daily feedback of student performance and work on the weak aspects of their child so that he grows better. 

For students

• Through Online teaching, students can take lecture any time they want to take as when they are in reading mode and learns carefully by practical applications of technology.  Some students get bored, tired or uncomfortable during the lecture, in online teaching they have the opportunity to take the lecture when they are in learning mood.
  
• In students, Online teaching builds self-motivation and brings responsibility. 
• Online teaching puts adaptability to learning style and diverse needs.
• In Online teaching both the students and teachers face the internet expenses. So, this act places the equity among students and teacher. Sometimes the teacher internet signals slow or sometimes the student internet signals creates problems.

Student centered teaching:

Online teaching puts adaptability to learning style and diverse needs

Every student in this world has their own way of learning.

• visual display:
  

Some students learns more quickly through visual display while some students have the ability to learn by taking physical classes. So in this aspect online teaching is more beneficial for those who learn and pick the lesson more quickly through visual display and grows faster. These are those students that learns by doing.

• Take and retake of online lectures:
  

Some student did not understand the lecture at first attempt. So, in online teaching students have the opportunity to take and retake the lecture until they understand that lecture properly.

• Practical knowledge:
  

Online teacher teaches student through practical knowledge. So the student gets knowledge better than knowledge provided in books. The concepts of the students become clear and their knowledge get enhanced.

• Cooperative learning and team learning:
  

In students, cooperative learning and team learning grows through online teaching. They contribute with each other, answer the questions, share their opinion and listen each other carefully. In online teaching each and every student gets a chance to contribute in the class. 

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Tourism | why tourism is so important?

Tourism is the act of spending time away from home. In tourism, one spends his time out of the house and take some moments away from his daily routine, relaxation and pleasure. One enjoys the life as he wants to be and do the activities that he cannot perform in normal busy life routine. 

The word tourism comes from the Latin word tornus, which means a tool of making circle. The movement of people from there living place to another place for a short period of time for the purpose of pleasure is called tourism. Main types of tourism are Domestic tourism, bicycle tour, international tour, cultural tourism and beach tourism.

• Importance of tourism:

   Tourism in itself has a lot of importance

 Get educated:

One can get knowledge about the life style of the other people, their different skills, their daily plays, different delicious foods, their dresses, different culture of the people of different area or city and also how they make their living better with their culture etc.

·           Living style of people:

Tourism opens mind and gives real picture about the living of different people, their races, their worships, living standard, activities that they are doing every day.

·      Knowledge about geography:

  By tourism, one can come to know about different geographic situations at different area and also know that how the geographic changes take place. One can also come to know that the people of one area are far different from the people of another area. Their routine is different, their dresses are different, their food is different, their games are also different. 

·    Skills of people:

By tourism, one can know about the skills of different people and see that how they make their living beneficial by utilizing their skills.

·     Make new friends:

By tourism, one also meets with people, spends time with them, build relationships and also make new friends. That make them to be happy.

·     Beauty of the nature:

While having tourism, one can sees the beauty of the nature. He sees different hills, their formation that how they are formed by Almighty beautifully. He can also see the river, how the water flows randomly in rivers without any hurdle. How beautifully the Almighty have created all these things. On can also see the beautiful oceans, mountains and glaciers etc. These are the beautiful creation of the Almighty. One can also sees the chirping of beautiful birds and their movement, how the birds move here and there in the morning and spread their beautiful sound in the air. During tourism, one can enjoy Pleasant air and silent places that recover everyone from mental and physical problems.

·     Climate changes:

By tourism, one can also notice the climate changes. When one travel from an area, during travelling he noticed that how the climate change takes place as he moves away from the house (either it becomes hot, cold or normal).

·    Animals at different area:

During tourism one can see different animals. Animals are the beautiful creation of the God for us. We can eat them also can get hunting of the animals and used for different purposes. Their skin is also used scientifically for the formation of warm cloths. Different places have different animals. Some are found at one place and some are found at another place. All the animals could not be fund at one area. In different countries, there are present zoo houses, in which different animals placed, if anyone wants to see the animals, can go to the zoo houses and see them.

·      Modes of living:

During tourism, one knows about the people modes of living. How they can do agriculture, making food and getting income.

Sense of awareness:

Travelling also establishes a sense of awareness among the tourists. It also grows mind of tourists and develop sense of different situations and ways of getting out of any situation. One gets mature by tourism also.

·      Build memories:

Tourism also establishes different beautiful memories in tourist life. One can get happy moments in their mind. Things happened in their tour remains in their mind throughout his life.

For economy:

Tourism is also important to build economy and causes the growth of economy. It is also the source of employment of different people. Many developing countries focused in their tourism to grow the economy of the country and become richer.

• Purpose of tourism:

The purpose of travelling is to build social relationship with the people and community. When one chooses to travel, he should come to know that he has to face any kind of situation and he should prepare themselves to face all the circumstances. Because during travelling a lot of uncertain things could be happened that one can’t imagine because these are out of plan.

So, in this way tourism is important.

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