Provide a 8 pages analysis while answering the following question: South to North Water Transfer Project. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The southern and eastern parts of China are greatly influenced by the monsoon winds from the Arabian Sea. These winds are having a high level of water content which causes extensive rain in china but these winds reach northern and eastern parts of China only when winds are strong and monsoon season is at its peak. During weak monsoon winds, only southern and eastern areas are getting rains and northern and eastern parts remain deprived of summer rains. This scarcity of water has resulted in the destruction of strong dynasties in china because it leads to extreme drought and economic crisis.

In order to overcome this scarcity of water Government of China planned for a grand engineering project of transferring south water resources to the north by spreading an amazing design canal system. It has been planned that at the end this grand project will be able to transfer 44.8bn cubic meters of water to north each year. This is going to be one of the masterpieces ever build in the world. The plan of this project is to transfer water from south lying river Yangtze to the north in order to overcome the thirst of the north. North of China is actually having economically important and strong industrial as well as technological hubs of the country including Beijing which individually accommodated about 22 million people. This much large population in North results in a shortage of water obtained from aquifers in that region. Also in most of the areas covered in North, industrial development was only possible at the expense of agriculture in order to complete water requirements in industries.

South to north water project is expected to be completed in 2050 and was started in 2002. This mega project is based on the fact that the four major rivers of China, named Yangtze, Yellow River, Haihe and Huaihe will be linked together. This project explicitly consists of the construction of three major transfer routes of water extending from south to north and supplementary distribution system which will be capable of distributing water to eastern and western parts as well.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on freedom of human will. After all, without the notion of freedom as an attainable state another crucial phenomenon that exists in any society would virtually collapse. This phenomenon pertains to the notion of control that we may have over the ways we conduct our relationships in the wide sense of this word. The importance that human beings assign to the need of being in control of themselves, of those around them, and of external circumstances that they are immersed in, reflects one of the essential qualities of human nature as such – that of the striving of man to change the world we lives in, to adapt it to human needs, and to feel secure in it. All these aspirations presuppose the presence of at least some degree of control on the part of man, and with the development of human societies the phenomenon of control in its different social, economic, and political manifestations represented by schemes of distribution of power was gaining more and more elaborated and intricate forms. At the same time, along with macro events such as political and economic processes micro level of human relationships is not a less interesting realm of investigation aimed at finding out what the notion of control is, and whether we really have control over relationships in our life. Let us try to take a closer look at both macro and micro sociological scale of our life in order to examine what degree of control we really may have over the ways we conduct our relationships. Perhaps, such a discussion would also help us better understand the interrelation between the conception of control and the more fundamental notion of freedom of human will from which it stems.

Definitions of control

First of all, as we are speaking about control we have to define what we mean by it. In this respect, various definitions can be applied, ranging form the far-reaching characterisation of control as a power to determine, direct, and dominate, which in a positive way (similarly to the formulation of the concept of positive liberty that stands for ‘freedom for'(Carter, 2003) suggests that an agent exercising control possesses creative and almost God-like qualities, to the much more humble description of control as an ability of a human agent to restrain for some purpose her or his emotions, desires, or certain impetuses (Miller, 1998, pp.9-12). This latter definition offers a negative account of control, which again can be compared with the concept of negative liberty formulated as ‘freedom from’ (Carter, 2003). In between these definitions a range of intermediary ones can be located that specify different application of control in social, economic, private, and other spheres of human activity.