poverty in rural areas tends to be more widespread than in the urban areas. This is due to factors such as the inadequate employment opportunities in the rural areas, access to a range of key facilities is much reduced, and many households are headed by women often due to abandonment of families by the males and sanitation and water supply deficiencies are more intense leading to ill health. A close to 1.2 billion people i.e. a fifth of the world’s population lives in conditions of abject poverty. Almost
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Task 1. Form words matching the sentences using necessary suffixes and prefixes. You get 1 point for each right answer. The catastrophic defeats and losses of the initial stage of the war were clearly the result of the fundamental miscalculation of the Stalinist leadership that had chosen to ally the Soviet Union with the Nazi regime. The collusion with Hitler had deprived Russia of the critical buffer of Poland, allowing Germany to amass troops along the Soviet border and launch the surprise
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Secret versus Lane Bryant advertisements. It is acceptable for thin models to display their bodies in underwear; however, a plus size model is unacceptable. This sends a message to girls and young women that thin is beautiful, whereas, anything else is disgusting. Fortunately, there are good roles to combat this mindset, such as, Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson and Adele, as well as programs such as Mike and
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Where do we stand Quality versus quantity Issues in education for disadvantaged group Role of govt. schemes, strategies and NGOs Proceeding ahead from universal primary education Education for promoting gender equality and empowering women: Gender biases in curriculum, text book and in whole school ethos: status and its remediation Gender biases in higher education Schemes, strategies and policies for gender equality Education for ensuring environmental sustainability: Environmental
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Introduction The introduction of microfinance banks in Nigeria is the inability of Nigerian Deposit Money Banks to provide sufficient financial service to the rural poor. Microfinance banks have taken up the challenges of the gap created by the Nigerian Deposit Money Banks. Microfinance banks can be seen as an economic growth method intended to advantage the low income part of a given country like Nigeria, both rural poor and urban poor. Since the advent of microfinance banking in Bangladesh
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Visibility In nineteenth century, women in the United States were expected to fill the separate sphere of civilization. They were most likely living their lives mainly as caregivers and homemakers, whereas men were expected to live a public life and work in a factory and became a primary breadwinner in a household. Due to these traditional expectations for women in the nineteenth century, only a handful of women had the opportunities for higher education as men. Women had fought for equal rights and
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properly exit an airplane. Finally, the third week of training came: jump week. My classmates and I made five jumps from a C130 aircraft. Two of the jumps were with just a parachute, known as Hollywood jumps. Two of the jumps were with full combat loads. One of the combat jumps had to be at night so that we could earn our jump wings. I woke up at “zero dark thirty”; a phrase that means before dawn in the army. I rolled out of bed sore from the two weeks of five mile runs every morning in full uniform and
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POST TRAUMA STRESS DISORDER What is Post Trauma stress Disorder? PTSD is a condition that is most commonly associated with veterans of war who have experienced front line battle. However, it can affect anyone who has had a major trauma in their lives. These can include but are not limited to auto accidents, rape, child and/or spousal abuse as well as other traumatic cases. The Wounded Warriors Project is a service that offers assistance to those returning from war that have lost limbs
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Erich Remarque was born 1898 and passed 1970 he served his country during World War 1 and suffered from five injuries the last of the five injury's he had gotten was the worst of them all. He had served the country proudly and unfortunately in combat was wounded forever. Remarque was born in the town Osnabruck and returned their after the war. He worked as a teaches, a stone-cutter for the cemetery, and assistant editor of Sportsbild. In 1939 Remarque moved to the United Sates until the war ended
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changes in the position of women in the 20th century. In the 20th century women gained legal equality with men including the right to vote. Women now also have increased educational opportunities and girls now do better at school than boys. There are now more women in paid employment, plus laws outlawing unequal pay and sex discrimination. As well as changes in attitudes to family life and women’s role and an easier access to divorce. As a result of these changes, women now see other opportunities
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