...Week 7: Checkpoint Urbanization Trends Urbanization is the population growth in urban areas due to rural migration. So, when discussing urbanization trends, we are analyzing the rate of urbanization mostly in terms of quantity. Growth trends that occur with urbanization are population (birth/mortality), income, and education and employment opportunities. Urban growth trends in the world’s poorest countries have led to massive overpopulation and expansion. Urbanization in poor countries is caused by increased opportunities. Urban areas are good places for employment due to their focus on a primarily industrial economy rather than an agricultural one which can be found in rural areas. People find opportunities in urban areas and thus move away from the rural areas to be at a closer distance to their jobs. Developing poor countries may have more promise of a bright future than a rural area. A major city in a poor, developing country is Lagos, Nigeria. Urbanization has occurred in this area due to huge population booms because of refugees and migrants from war. Their plan for urban renewal includes upgrading slum communities with roads, drainage, water supply, electricity, schools and clinics. This major city faces rapid urbanization which can be a challenge. The implications of urbanization in this area are political control and population growth and dynamics. Population has grown from 3,779 in 1978 to 19,167 in 2010. Another implication is that the country’s population...
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...Did you find chart helpful? Can you think of anything you would like to know that was not in the chart? I did find the chart very helpful because it explains the patient’s problems extremely well. If the practitioner has not seen the patient before, the chart is perfect to learn the basics of what is wrong. I did think the chart was harder to read than what we viewed in class. I do think the precautions could have been expanded as the only thing I could find was the low fall risk aspect. Did you find the information easy to locate? Explain your reasoning or how you would improve upon the chart if you did not find it easy to locate. A lot of the information that is in the bulleted list was not listed directly in the chart. I thought the chart was more like a scavenger hunt as I had to pull information from different categories to answer one question. I liked how the vital information was added to every page of the evaluation, and each page of the therapy sessions. The papers were in chronological order, and I had to keep flipping back and forth to view categories. I think if all the information were in the same section it would make it easier to read. If the...
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...Helpful or Harmful? People are always looking for a better way to do things, a new and improved product, and exciting, unusual, and beneficial additions to their lives. The source of such finds often times come from outside the native culture in the form of a nonnative species, such as exotic animals, insects to control pests, or plants to improve health or diet. Looking outside one’s country for such answers brings forth new challenges for businesses and government agencies. In order to keep the environment safe and prospering, a government agency or business must consider how the invasive or non-indigenous species will react, adapt, or change in its new environment, what harm it can bring to humans such as health risks or destruction to an industry, and finally, if there will be any added benefits to introducing a new indigenous species to their country. These questions need to be researched before introducing such nonnative species into a new environment. Both accidental and intentional importation of nonnative species can have a negative effect on the environment especially if not properly researched. When nonnative species are unintentionally imported, great damage can be caused to the environment. For example, the balsam woolly adelgids were accidentally imported to the United States from Europe. The result can be seen in Source A. The Balsam Fir trees are completely stripped of needles and have the sickly appearance of a dead forest. When species are unintentionally...
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...Sweatshops The word ‘sweatshop’ in today’s world has gained a predominantly negative connotation due to the Western perspective of this establishment. The term evokes a variety of emotions from people without a great deal of understanding of what the term describes or the reasons for its existence. As always, every issue has two sides, and in the case of sweatshops, it can be viewed as either the violation of human rights and dignity or as the building blocks of a country’s economy. This raises the very pertinent question of whether sweatshops are actually helpful or harmful. This essay attempts to showcase an informed and logical argument supporting sweatshops. The US General Accounting Office (GAO) defines "sweatshop" as an "employer that...
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...Helpful Kids PHL/458 Creative Minds and Critical Thinking Dr. Charles Osborne Getting the kids to help out around the house with the daily task of cleaning, laundry and doing the dishes was a nightmare. We would fight with them to the point that they would get grounded or even worse spanked. So one day my wife and I were sitting around the house talking about this and decided to true multiple different ways to get the kids involved, but without the hassle. After many attempts at all of those ways we came up with the “Hat Game”. This game proved to be a godsend and after five years we still do this every Sunday. As we were getting tired of all the uneccessary fighting and arguing with them to help us out, we slow down our yelling and showing frustration. We started to be very observant of them in what exactly made them do things without being told. As we watched we could see that they were very competitive kids. They always wanted to win at everything they did, especially between each other. We tried to figure out how to use this natural competiveness to our advantage and try to overcome this controversy. As we continued to define and evaluate the problem of the kids helping out with the chores, we failed lots of times. The kids would start fighting and then nothing would get done, except for me getting mad and just telling them to go to their rooms, leaving my wife and I to do all the cleaning. Some of the questions we asked each other were; how...
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...Is Coffee helpful for studying? We all aspire to get that university degree or high school diploma or even excel in the short course that we are taking to increase our chances of promotion. Getting quality certificate and to a large extent good grades involves hard work and determination, there is no shortcut to that. This means that the student has to study hard, spend a considerable time working on assignments, reading and writing term papers. Sometimes it can be difficulty for the students and even professionals seeking knowledge to get their minds together or focus on the work at hand. It could be an assignment which needs to be handed over within the early hours of the morning, studying for an examination which you must pass to improve your chances of graduating or just want to stay awake as you watch an important documentary which forms part of your project. It is time to take your cup of coffee, a drink that will boost your energy levels, keeping you alert and focused. So next time you are struggling with your books, take a cup of coffee and you will experience a level of energy that you greatly need to accomplish your dreams. Scientists have found that caffeine in the coffee contains a mild stimulant which helps in increasing the capacity to concentrate. Your mood will be enhanced, will be more alert and overall improve performance, a combination of factors which play very well for anybody who is studying. If you have a problem focusing or concentrating on the task...
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...Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being."[1] Human rights are thus conceived as universal (applicable everywhere) and egalitarian (the same for everyone). These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in local, regional, national, and international law. Peace education is the process of acquiring the values, the knowledge and developing the attitudes, skills, and behaviors to live in harmony with oneself, with others, and with the natural environment. i•de•ol•o•gy (ˌaɪ diˈɒl ə dʒi, ˌɪd i-) n., pl. -gies. 1. the body of doctrine or thought that guides an individual, social movement, institution, or group. 2. such a body forming a political or social program, along with the devices for putting it into operation. 3. theorizing of a visionary or impractical nature. 4. the study of the nature and origin of ideas. 5. a philosophical system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation Distance Formula The distance formula can be obtained by creating a triangle and using the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse. The hypotenuse of the triangle will be the distance between the two points. The subscripts refer to the first and second points; it doesn't matter which points you call first or second. x2 and y2 are the x,y coordinates for one point x1and y1 are the x,y coordinates for the second point d is the distance...
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...Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia nervosa is disorder found in many people who have a mix of past family problems, social problems, or certain personality traits. A person may have an eating disorder especially if they do a sport that requires their body to look a certain way such as ballet or modeling. People who always worry what they look like and try to be perfect may also have an increased risk of having anorexia nervosa. Doctors will diagnose a person with anorexia nervosa after several medical tests. The doctors will first take the patients height, weight, and age. They will then compare those statistics with the average healthy person who contains those traits. The doctor will then check the patients hearts, lungs, skin, blood pressure, hair, and perform blood tests. After the doctor performs these steps they will then ask the patient a series of personal questions. From there it is up to the doctor to diagnose the patient with a disorder if they have one. Anorexia nervosa is most common in young white females. Around 100,000 people in the U.S. have anorexia nervosa. Most of these are young females aged 15-24. Anorexia nervosa is very rare in black females. The effects of anorexia nervosa can be very unhealthy and even lead to death if not treated right away. People will obviously weigh much less than they should. They will be afraid of gaining weight and refuse to stay at a normal weight. People will vomit and also obsess over food. Anorexia nervosa is...
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...Critical Thinking Assignment Haley, Jennifer APOL 104 D43 November 26, 2013 Part one The Question of Origin: In Buddhism, they don’t believe in an all-powerful God who created our world so they diffidently don’t teach it. Believers look to Buddha, their religion’s founder, for a model of how act. Buddhist view, the world is infinite in both time and space; the world is created and destroyed over and over again in a process we call, natural evolution. The Question of Identity: Buddhist considers everything living to be sacred and/or spiritual in nature. They also believe in reincarnation and a person’s spiritual future is based only on ones good or bad decisions in a lifetime which is known as Karma. The Question of Meaning/Purpose: The primary purpose is to end suffering. Buddha believed and therefore taught that people suffer because they are too wrapped up in things that do not give long lasting happiness and are too busy trying to hold to things such as, friends, material possessions and things that do not last. In the end it will only lead to sorrow. This is where the Four Noble Truths come into play: teaches that all life is marked by suffering, suffering is caused by desire and attachment, suffering can be stopped, and the way to end suffering is to follow the Noble Eightfold Path. The Question of Morality: Love, respect and compassion are three things that are highly valued in Buddhism as an ethical and moral path for their model of behavior. The Noble...
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...Are Sports Helpful Or Harmful? Are sports helpful or harmful for students? Well the answer is both, but sports are more helpful than harmful. Students love sports and shouldn’t stop playing them just because the could get hurt, I mean everybody get hurt every now and that’s just apart of life. Sports are helpful Sports are helpful because sports get students outside and play. If students play sports then they can make good friends and learn to trust each other. Sports are the life flow of this country and if one school bans or discontinuing funding sports then another school will do the same. Schools should continuing funding sports because they are helpful to students. Sports makes students happy and promotes confidence in themselves. Even if they’re not good at sports it’s still good to play them. How helpful are sports? Sports are very helpful because they can lead to better grades in school which makes teachers and parents happy. Once the season ends, student grades tend to drop. Also playing sports can get you a scholarship to a good college. Getting a scholarship to a college is a great thing because you don’t have to pay all of the tuition to get in and sometimes you don’t have to pay at all if you’re good enough. Are Sports Still Harmful? Of course sport are still harmful, I mean seriously students will still get hurt but that’s apart of life. Just because a student or two could get hurt while playing a sport doesn’t mean...
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...Homeschooling: Harmful or helpful? Homeschooling is the education of children at home, typically by parents rather than in a public/private school setting. Unbeknownst to some, Homeschooling has been around for hundreds of years. It was the primary source of education before the 19th century and is becoming one of the fastest rising segments of K-12 education today. In many places, homeschooling is another option for parents who yearn to offer their children a different learning environment than public or private schools. Homeschooling can offer a more specialized education along with better opportunities for children that are better suited for an individual situation. The progress and achievement of the homeschooling movement validates that something is working. Many parents, teachers, schools, and political figures are highly against Homeschooling. This is a very controversial subject that has everyone talking. Does it work? Is it hurting our children or helping them? Answers to these questions can be identified by stating facts and statistics that will open your eyes to the world of homeschooling. Families are different now than they were hundreds of years ago. Education is becoming more important especially if you want a good job later in life that you can retire from. More and more people are graduating and attending college. Who ever thought there would be numerous types of teaching to pick from? Is it actually a parent’s right to choose what type of education...
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...within the school that needed immediate attention. Once I identified the issues and problems that needed to be fixed, I immediately began to search for answers. I have been in and out of the D.O.E. headquarters seeking help. Unfortunately, there is not enough funding. We have also requested assistance from our adopted government agencies. Unfortunately for us, this means of support has come to a stalemate. The problems that currently exist in Aua Elementary School are just too overwhelming for us to repair in a timely manner without any financial assistance. We have tried fundraising, but unfortunately the money that we have raised so far is nowhere near enough to make the repairs needed. So when I heard of the ACE Helpful Hands Program, I knew for a fact that this is an opportunity that I absolutely cannot afford to let slip by. Here are the issues and problems that we critically need assistance with and why we need a new face: • We have a major shortage of chairs and tables. So many of our students have to sit on the floor while in school. It is estimated that we will need approximately 30 folding tables and 150 chairs to accommodate some of our students that have to sit on the floor...
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...In the article by Sue Shellenbarger, “Delaying College to fill in the Gaps,” Ben Parker is a sophomore in college who experienced an academic turnaround. “Burned out by his senior year of high school from pressure to get into a competitive college, he quit his lacrosse team and let his grades slip.” He deferred his admission to the University of Iowa and enrolled in the National Outdoor Leadership School, a wilderness skills-training program. “He took a semester in Nepal studying language, living in a rural village and climbing in the Himalayas.” He gained the ability to enjoy hard challenges and stated, “By the time I got back to school, I was ready to be in school.” An increasing amount of students are taking a year off after graduating high school, known as a gap year. The article, “Should Your Student Consider Taking a Gap Year Before Starting College?,” states, “A gap year, sometimes called a year out, or year off, or bridging year, is a transition year, usually between high school and college, when the student takes time to do something else.” Many students believe that college is the next step when graduating high school, but taking a gap year is becoming a growing trend. High school students should take a year off before entering college because they will be motivated to return to school, because they will gain new skills, and because they will have time to decide on a career interest. Taking a gap year reignites one sense of curiosity for learning. Many students choose...
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...အင္းယားလမ္းက ခ်စ္ဇာတ္လမ္း အသက္ (၁၈) ႏွစ္ေအာက္ ကေလးမ်ား မဖတ္ရ/မ၀င္ရ ... မဂၤလာပါ ... စာဖတ္သူ ပရိတ္သတ္မ်ား ခင္ဗ်ာ ... အခ်စ္ ... အခ်စ္ ... လူတိုင္းေျပာၾကတဲ့အခ်စ္ ... အရြယ္ေရာက္တဲ့ လူတိုင္း ... ႀကံဳေတြ႔ ခံစားရတဲ့အခ်စ္ ... မာနေတြ ... ဂုဏ္သိကၡာေတြ ... မပါတဲ့ ... ရိုးရိုးေလး ျမတ္ျမတ္ႏိုးႏိုး ... ခ်စ္ခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ ခ်စ္သူႏွစ္ဦး ... ႏွစ္ကိုယ္ၾကား ... ခ်စ္ေတးသီပံုေလးကို ... စကားလံုးမ်ား ... ရိုးရိးေလး စီကာကံုးလို႔ ... စာဖတ္သူ ပရိတ္သတ္ကို ... ရင္သိမ့္တုန္ ... ခ်စ္ျခင္းမ်ား ု ေမြးဖြားလာေအာင္ ... တင္ဆက္လိုက္ရပါတယ္ ... ခ်စ္ဖူးသူတိုင္း ... ခ်စ္ဥးသူနဲ႔ ညားၾကပါေစ ... လို႔ ... ီ အၿမဲဆုေတာင္းလ်က္ ... ေမာင္ဟိတ္ ဤဇာတ္လမ္းကို (၂၇) ရက္၊ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ၊ ၂၀၁၁ တြင္ ျမန္မာဆိုက္ဘာမီဒီယာ (http://mmcybermedia.com) တြင္ ပထမဦးဆံုး စတင္ တင္ဆက္ပါသည္။ ဤဇာတ္လမ္းကို (၂၃) ရက္၊ မတ္လ၊ ၂၀၁၁ တြင္ အခ်စ္တကၠသိုလ္ (http://achittatkatho.net) တြင္ စတင္ တင္ဆက္ပါသည္။ သိပ္ခ်စ္ရတဲ့ ... ေမာင္ ... နဲ႔ ကၽြန္မ ... စေတြ႔တာ ... ဒီအင္းယားလမ္းမွာေပါ့ ... UFL ေက်ာင္းမွာ ညေနပိုင္း ... အဂၤလိပ္စာသင္တန္းတက္ဖုိ႔ သြားတုိင္း ... ေနာက္က တေကာက္ေကာက္လိုက္လာတဲ့ ... ခပ္ေတာင့္ေတာင့္ ေကာင္ေလးတစ္ေယာက္ကို ... အစကေတာ့ သတိမထားမိပါဘူး ... သံုးေလးရက္ေလာက္ေနေတာ့ သတိထားမိတာပါ ... ကၽြန္မအိမ္က ... ကန္လမ္းထဲမွာဆုိေတာ့ ... UFL ေက်ာင္းကို ... ဘက္စ္ကားစီးရမွာလည္း အဆင္မေျပဘူးေလ ... စီးလည္း မစီးခ်င္ဘူး ... လူေတြ ရႈပ္ယွက္ခတ္ေနတာမ်ိဳးကို ... ကၽြန္မ မႀကိဳက္ဘူးရွင့္ ... သံုးေလးရက္ေလာက္ ... ေနာက္ကေနလိုက္လာၿပီး ... ဘာမွလည္း မေျပာေတာ့ ... နည္းနည္းေတာ့ ခံရခက္တာေပါ့ ... ဒီေန႔လည္းၾကည္အံုး ... ကန္ေဘာင္ကေန ... ဒီဘက္ေလွ်ာက္လာေတာ့ ... သူ ... လိုက္လာတယ္ဆိုတာ ... လွည့္မၾကည့္ေပမယ့္ ့ သိတာေပါ့...
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...Helpful Hints for ACADEMIC MODULE BY GARRY ADAMS & TERRY PECK Practice Tests and Hints for IELTS Listening • Reading • Writing • Speaking fully updated for new IELTS Speaking Test format 101 Helpful Hints for IELTS PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publishers are grateful for permission to use copyright material. We would like to acknowledge the original sources of text material listed below. Permission has been sought to reproduce all material whose source could be identified. Information that will enable the publishers to rectify any error or omission in subsequent editions will be welcome. The nine Band Score descriptions on page 12 are reproduced from The IELTS Handbook, a joint publication of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, The British Council, and IDP Education Australia: IELTS Australia. The reading passage "Regional Student Survey" on page 97, is adapted from The ELICOS Student Contextualised - Facts & Figures by Ms. CM. Bundesen, with permission of the author. AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to acknowledge the support of the following people: Bruce Bell, HelenkaPiotrowski, Laurent Seibert, Andrew Thomas (Sydney English Language Centre), and Soon-Young Yoon. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Terry Peck and Garry Adams have extensive IELTS coaching experience, both having been involved in implementing and designing IELTS coaching programmes. Terry Peck was an IELTS examiner for a number of years in Sydney, Australia. AVAILABLE...
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