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 Climate Change: A Comprehensive Discussion      Among the many problems the environment is facing today, climate change has become the foremost issue. Living in a country where an average of 20 typhoons/storms visit in a year, many have observed that the typhoons have become fierce and more devastating as compared to several years ago. Take for example Typhoon Yolanda or Typhoon Haiyan in English which struck Southeast Asia most especially the Philippines in November 2013. It was one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded. It affected over 14 million people with deaths and damage to infrastructure. Studies indicate that warming ocean temperatures due to climate change contributed to its increased intensity and rainfall.         One problem brought about by climate change is global warming . Global Warming has affected the Earth through: Rising temperature - It is hot everywhere. Temperatures have reached unusual levels, Extreme weather...

 *Made this narrative for a friend's application video when she applied for a teaching post in a foreign land. This is based on her inputs and long experience in her career. I wake up each day looking forward to another wonderful day with my students. My classroom is my "happy place". Hi, everyone. My name is Teacher____________ and I teach grade schoolers in the Philippines. Before going home in the afternoon, I prepare my classroom so that it will be ready for the following day. I want to assure parents that their kids are in good hands - my students have a comfortable room for learning and a safe second home. Being with kids not only rejuvenates me each day, but also another opportunity to touch lives through teaching. To me, teaching is not only a profession but a vocation, not duty, but service. Seeing kids "light up like an incandescent lamp" so to speak, for having just learned a particular skill, is one moment caught in time, and moments like these I rep...