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    Rural Sanitation in Ghana

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    Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) latrines programme implemented from 1980 to1987 on the initiatives of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development was unsustainable due to constraints in funding. Except for a UNDP assisted project in two regions (Volta and Central) of the country in 1984-87 and a project implemented under a Programme of Actions to Mitigate the Social Cost of Adjustment (PAMSCAD) which made the building of five (5) demonstration latrines for each hand dug well provided in a community

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    THE BENEFITS THAT ENGINEERING HAS BROUGHT TO THE WORLD INTRODUCTION Engineers apply the principles of science and mathematics to develop economical solutions to technical problems. Their work is the link between scientific discoveries and the commercial applications that meet societal and consumer needs. They also use their imagination and analytical skills to invent‚ design‚ and build things that matter. They are team players with independent minds who turn ideas into reality. Many become

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    insulators ‚ and the invention of the of a basic electrostatic generator. Continuing on to 1600’s‚ William Gilbert‚ an English Physician‚ connected the term electic with the force that certain substances create when rubbed against another. In 1800 Alessandro Volta invented an early electric battery he called a Voltaic pile. This produced a steady electric current‚ and this lead to the discovery that particular chemical reactions created electricity. Only once Michael Faraday created the ‘Faraday disk’

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    consists of six couplets‚ and two blank lines marked with italic brackets; 145 is in iambic tetrameters‚ not pentameters. Often‚ the beginning of the third quatrain marks the volta ("turn")‚ or the line in which the mood of the poem shifts‚ and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany. In Shakespeare’s sonnets‚ however‚ the volta usually comes in the couplet‚ and usually summarizes the theme of the poem or introduces a fresh new look at the theme. each line containing ten syllables This scheme interlaces

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    Geography: Burkina Faso

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    Cote D’ Ivoire. Burkina Faso has a topical climate‚ warm‚ dry winter‚ hot and rainy summer. This region is mostly flat land‚ most of the hills are located in the west and south of country with a total elevation of 297m‚ the lowest point is Black Volta River with 200m height and the highest‚ is Tena Kourou with 749m height. Mineral resources are: Manganese‚ limestone‚ Marble‚ Phosphates‚ Pumice and small amount of Gold. Agriculture:

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    Edmund Feng Humberto Garcia ENG 057 5/10/2024 The analogy and comparison of Mckay and Zamora—two lives‚ two stories. Claude Mckay and Jamira Zamora both immigrated to the US‚ and both were isolated and alienated. However‚ differences still divide the two of them‚ differences rooted in their past - the reasoning behind their immigration‚ alongside their experiences. To me‚ Claude and Jamira couldn’t be further apart from one another just because of those differences in history and experiences

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    Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? In Shakespearean sonnets (also known as English sonnets)‚ all poems are written about one thing; love. Each sonnet consists of fourteen lines. A sonnet also consists of an iambic pentameter‚ a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (such as fare WELL). In each stanza

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    My Thoughts on “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” Gabrielle Willis Dr. Ingo Stoehr English 1302.V99 27 February 2013 Outline I. Introduction II. Purpose a. Love Parody b. To show he loves her III. Form c. Sonnet d. Iambic Pentameter e. “Turn” f. Alternating pairs g. Couplet Conclusion IV. Content h. Description i. Comparison j. Satire k. Hyperbole of the Allusion V. Conclusion William

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    “What will a future without secretes look like” Ted Talk by Alessandro Acquisti is simply summarized by the video title; it also explains how social networks destroyed our privacy. Marty copper‚ the father of the cell‚ phone build the first cell phone 37 years ago and ever since then everybody’s privacy has exponentially decreased. Apple watch is finally going to get released spring 2015‚ with such a powerful device always attached to the user‚ the human intimacy with technology is greater than

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    unappealing to e e cummings. However‚ Cummings has struck the fine balance between maintaining traditional form and introducing radical reform. His sonnet ‘it may not always be so’ conforms to the conventional fourteen-line length‚ positioning of the volta and iambic pentameter rhythm of a sonnet; the allowances that Cummings has made in terms of conforming to traditional conventions has served the purpose of allowing his work to remain recognisable as a sonnet. This introduces the added dimension of

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