South Asia Theme 5 The region of South Asia underwent many changes and continuities that resulted in a heavily patriarchal and hierarchal social structure by 600 CE. Perhaps the biggest change in the society was the caste system brought about by Aryans from Europe. The invaders helped to develop the different statuses going from priests‚ to warriors‚ to merchants‚ to commoners‚ and the natives or untouchables at the bottom. Once people were born into their designated caste‚ it was basically impossible
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be a 3‚000 hectare peat land in Bengkalis Regency‚ Riau Province‚ which was set ablaze by an unknown party on 9 June. As many as 187 hotspots were picked up by satellites on 18 June 2013‚ down to 85 on 20 June 2013. On 23 June 2013‚ 119 hotspots were detected. On 24 June 2013‚ 159 hotspots were detected in Riau‚ out of a total of 227 detected in Sumatra. An air force officer explained that the low number of hotspots detected on some days was due to heavy cloud cover‚ which prevented the satellite
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Impact of Pollution The environment is a part of our daily lives yet most people do not consider the impact that their actions have on the environment. People interact with and depend on different aspects of the environment from the air to water and land. There are relationships between actions that we make and the environment‚ the most obvious one being pollution. The lasting influence we have on our surroundings may not be immediately apparent but future generations will have to live with
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Pollution is the process of giving out contaminants such as smoke and carbon dioxide‚ and too much of a certain products such as light‚ heat and sound that both cause harm to the environment. There are several types of Pollution such as Water‚ Air and Noise pollution. Water pollution is a global plague that affects the people‚ animals‚ and plants. These life forms need water to survive. The causes are contributed greatly by the human population. Recently‚ laws have been passed to protect the precious
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AS Sociology Essay "Examine the ways in which state policies/laws may affect family life". In this essay I will be writing about what changes state policies and laws have made to the society and how they may affect family life by doing so. There are many policies/laws out there that have had an effect on family life and one of these was the ’Child Support Act’ which led to the formation of the ’Child Support Agency’. Other policies/laws include the Family Law Act of 1996‚ Rewarding marriages with
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some of the ways in which material deprivation may affect educational achievement. (12 marks) Material deprivation is when people have insufficient physical resources to sustain life‚ and is common among lower-class households. It affects educational achievement in many ways‚ including a non-nutritious diet and inadequate housing. Howard (2001) claimed that poor nutrition leads to low achievement at school because poorer homes have a lower intake of vitamins‚ minerals and energy which reduces
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Pollution Introduction Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.[1] Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat or light. Pollutants‚ the components of pollution‚ can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. The Blacksmith Institute issues an annual list of the world’s worst polluted places. In
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“The challenges which entrepreneurs face in South Africa” Introduction Over the past few decades‚ the economy growth in South Africa has declined. The people who are focused on growing their businesses‚ are high potential entrepreneurs and they are also responsible for creating growth and employment in the economy. The economic growth rate needs to increase with 12% per year to get to the employment rate of 3% which will help to overcome the unemployment rate of 25.2%. But statistics reveal that
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This poem by Edwin Brock is often considered a poem against war‚ whereas in fact it is a poem about the loss of humanity. It is written much like an instruction guide or recipe book‚ telling the reader the manner in which a man can be efficiently killed. Each stanza deals with one method of killing; each one distancing the killer further from his victim‚ till in the last stanza there is neither killer nor victim‚ but just a living death. In the first stanza the crucifixion of Jesus is refered
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Pollution‚ we hear it every other day at school‚ college and read about it in newspapers. So what is it? Pollution occurs when pollutants contaminate the natural surroundings; which brings about changes that affect our normal lifestyles adversely. Pollution occurs in different forms; air‚ water‚ soil‚ radioactive‚ noise‚ heat/ thermal and light. Every form of pollution has two sources of occurrence; the point and the non-point sources. The point sources are easy to identify‚ monitor and control
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