LECTURE NOTE ON DEFINITIONS AND MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY By Professor S.I. Oladeji Department of Economics Obafemi Awolowo University‚ Ile-Ife. Introduction The eradication of poverty has been declared by the United Nations World Summit for Social Development in 1995 as the unfinished business of the 21st century. The issue was also topmost in the agenda at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000. Apart from eradication of poverty and hunger‚ the other listed
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How to think for yourself Have you ever heard a saying which says "Plato is dear to me‚ but dearer still is truth"? That’s what I want to talk about today. Nowadays less and less people are encouraged to think for themselves. However‚ it should be. Try to imagine a world where everyone shares the same style of thinking. Can you really tolerate it? So I intend to remind of you to learn and think for yourselves. Students have shown that the students in China have little encouragement for thinking
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Everyone should take a second and weigh out the pros and cons before deciding to eat fast food. There are many health risks when it comes to eating food that is made within a matter of seconds. The food is not properly taken care of‚ which leads back to where the food is originally produced. Even if it is easy to buy and cheap‚ the health risk outweigh the five minutes of satisfaction that fast food brings. The health risks that come from eating so much fast food are life threatening. First of
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spoils‚" the name for this system was given. The "spoils system" dealt with political considerations rather than who was best fit for the position of officeholder. This practice increased the number of bureaucrats in the American government. Jackson thought that any smart man could perform the tasks of officeholders since he believed that their jobs were easy. During Jackson’s presidency‚ he replaced some of his cabinet members for political reasons‚ but less than twenty percent of his cabinet was removed
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How do you love when your heart’s filled with fear? How do you forgive when it’s so hard to forget? The story of African-American Antwone Quenton Fisher “Fish”(played by Derek Luke) leads people to ask these kinds of questions. An important person in his life being his psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport (played by Denzel Washington) from the navy helped Antwone with his issues and anger by being there for him to talk to and release all of his stress and pain that he has held inside throughout his
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Experiences…How do they make you‚ “you”? What do you think makes you‚ “you”? I think your culture‚ religion‚ and experiences contribute to make a person who they are. I believe that certain aspects of humans and their experiences work together to create a person. For me‚ culture or religion can help shape a person’s characteristic because they play important roles in affecting how they view life. Another characteristic that can influence who or what a person is‚ is their experiences. When you experience
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that his inner self does not change by using long sets of repetitions throughout most of his poems such as poem 31‚ the repetition of “in vain” stating that everyone in the world cares what others think of themselves no matter how hard a person tries not to. Whitman illustrates that no matter what a person has experienced‚ the person may change on the surface but everyone shares at least one quality which unites a society together which is why he shows compassion towards all races and human beings in
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I’m not a rich man‚ nor do I fly around the world and drink champagne with famous people in exotic locales‚ nor do I own a sports car or SUV or a yacht. And yet‚ I’m very happy. Much happier than seven years ago when I ate fried foods and sweets all time time and felt unhealthy and overweight‚ when I watched television and was out of shape‚ when I shopped a lot and was in debt‚ when I worked a job that paid fairly well and had no time for myself or my loved ones. How have I accomplished this?
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1 TARGET GROUP 4 3.2 SAMPLING 4 3.3 METHODS APPLIED & ISSUES ENCOUNTERED 5 3.4 ETHICAL CONCERNS 10 4. SUMMARY RESEARCH 11 5. TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS 16 6. RECOMMENDATIONS 17 1. INTRODUCTION For twelve days in March 2013‚ one student form SGS and one from FIS‚ performed a minor field study in the third village of Nam Dich. This has been a part of a course that has been composed through collaboration between the faculty of Global Studies at the University
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