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    Ken Lee Gregory Voigt ENS 303 May 9‚ 2013 Tennis Serve Introduction: The tennis serve is one of the most scrutinized athletic motions in all of sports. It is extremely complex and involves many parts that must move in synchronization in order to execute a proper serve. The mechanics of the serve need to be solid because there is a very slim margin for error. When done effectively a serve will have good placement and power to start the point where the server is in an offensive position and

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    constant and abundant; the wages of this group are kept low. Horizontal inequality has resulted from women’s double burden of being underpaid for performing the same private work as men as well as the seemingly sole responsibility of unpaid‚ domestic labour. Concurrently‚ ongoing engendered disadvantage is on display in the high levels of vertical inequality whereby opportunities for the advancement of women within market society and the broader economy are stifled. These issues are further propagated

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    Investigation-No Sugar by Jack Davis Jack Davis is a renowned Indigenous man‚ famous for his playwriting‚ acting‚ poetry and Aboriginal activism. Born in Perth in 1917‚ Davis‚ The fourth child in a family of eleven‚ spent his upbringing in Yarloop and the Moore River Native Settlement‚ located approximately 96 kilometres South of his birthplace. His mother was taken from her tribe in Broome and raised by a white family; his father‚ William Davis‚ was also removed and cultivated by whites. Throughout

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    Women and Poverty is a topic that comes close to my heart. More than 1 billion people in the world today‚ the great majority of whom are women‚ live in unacceptable conditions of poverty‚ mostly in the developing countries. Poverty has various causes‚ including structural ones. Poverty is a complex‚ multidimensional problem‚ with origins in both the national and international domains. The globalization of the world’s economy and the deepening interdependence among the nations present challenges and

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    Livelihood Finance and Training POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES Uplift Training By Vivian G. Villegas – Uplift 2004 General Objective: To understand and know about some causes and effects of poverty‚ its impact on society. Objectives: At the end of the seminar the participant will be able to: 1. Describe the situation of poverty in the Philippines. 2. Identify some causes and effects of poverty. 3. Enumerate some programs and some solutions to alleviate poverty. Participant: All Staff Length

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    Tsakas Spyridon GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY It seems like every day in the news and newspapers there is yet another mention of globalization and whether or not it is good or bad. Does anyone really know what the term actually means or stands for though? There are many varying definitions of this term however the most appropriate since it is proposed by the World Bank would have to be the one cited by Branko Milanovic which states that it is the “freedom and ability of individuals

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    Japan’s Lost Decade : An Introduction Japan’s economy has endured the first lost decade during the 1990s. Looking at the current situation‚ experts are pointing out that Japan is now experiencing their second lost decade due to similar characteristics of the first which is stagnant‚ non-improving condition of their economy. Did Japan learn anything from the previous lost decade‚ or did the steps taken to avoid another lost decade were too weak? What was the problem? We will try to look into the

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    attempt to free the Zimbabwean economy (Bond 93). In 1991‚ Zimbabwe introduced what is known as the Economic Structural Adjustment (ESAP)‚ to stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty. The government would “de-emphasise its expenditure on social services and emphasise investment in the material production sectors such as agriculture‚ mining and manufacturing”(Gibbons 10). To begin economic restructuring‚ the Zimbabwean government received financial assistance from the World Bank (WB) and the

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    Final Exam Margarita Belova 964010565 otterloutre25@yahoo.com The relation of art and society according to Plato‚ Rousseau and Benjamin The relation between art and society is very complex and might be seen from the various perspectives. The main concern‚ however‚ has always been the one of the function of arts within the society – that is to say‚ what people need the arts for. Of course‚ this theme was challenged by many philosophers of different ages‚ who

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    Introduction Brazil is almost as famous for its inequality as for its soccer. According toFacing Up to Inequality in Latin America‚ the IDB (1998) ranked both Brazil’s total Gini coefficient1 (0.60) and its urban-only Gini coefficient (0.57) as the highest in the region. Its ratio of per-capita urban to per-capita rural household incomes (3.0) was also the highest in Latin America. The World Bank’s point estimates for Gini coefficients‚ listed in Attacking Poverty (WDR 2001) for as many countries as the

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