over 200 villages across Jharkhand‚ Orissa‚ Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh with seven NGOs‚ helping famers improve their living standards and productivity. "We do not produce the videos ourselves but rather facilitate the process of training people from the community in the production of locally relevant videos‚" Gandhi‚ 29‚ told IANS. "We intend to extend the Digital Green system to 1‚200 villages in the next two years across South Asia and Africa. We will also be exploring closer collaborations
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Carley Whitehorse Professor Silva English 200 January 3‚ 2016 This Land Is Your Land This Land was made for you and me‚ but was it really? I do not believe this is a true statement. I believe that each person believes they are entitled to their own space and their owns thoughts and depending on where you are in the world and what beliefs and lifestyles you live‚ you may not believe any land in which are you on feels like it belongs to you or that you share the same values as those you are surrounded
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Roshanda Willey EDU – 215 October 21‚ 2012 Peter Hensley Equal Opportunity in Education Over the years many schools have low performance grades. This is how the Title 1 program came into the play. The Title 1 program was implemented so schools are able to get more money to help them get these low income students the help they need. We have a lot of students that are not performing on grade level. Many of them need extra help and their parents are not able to get it for them. Now we have a
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Following the Civil War‚ many Americans chose to settle west of the Mississippi river and shaped a distinct culture in this region. Generations later‚ this fascinating culture was transformed into the Wild West‚ a romanticized version of the lifestyle‚ to entertain the masses. The romanticized perception of the Wild West differs extensively from the reality of western settlement‚ but in some aspects mirrors the true western lifestyle in the post-Civil War period. Native Americans and cowboys‚ for instance
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Gast’s painting of American Progress from 1872 shows the progress of modernization. The American Progress is Gast’s most known formerly piece of work. It shows many different advancements and improvements in areas such as technology‚ transportation‚ political‚ economic‚ scientific and personal growth. This painting was used in travel brochures to promote the Westward movement. It encouraged Easterner to move out West and to begin a new life. During this time‚ many early Americans believed in the manifest
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The American people from 1820 to 1860 found themselves living in an era of transition and instability. The society they lived in was changing and traditional views and values were being challenged. The response to this period of uncertainty was a movement towards reform and an ever increasing desire for order and control amongst the people. The largest driving force for reform was the nation’s commitment to progress and development and other vehicles of reform included burgeoning religious sects
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Turner’s essay From The Significance of the Frontier in American History‚ he posits an interesting argument‚ capturing the idea of what Americanization is and how the discovery of the frontier captures the real sentiment of American History. Amongst the many things I appreciated about his essay concerned how westward expansion signaled a detachment from European influence. This‚ to me‚ is interesting because when I think about our nation’s eastern shores I think of the technology and infrastructure
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Prior to the age of industry‚ 1865-1920‚ products were made by hand. Most businesses were owned by one or two people. The industrial revolution was the time period when products were made by machine rather than by hand. There were many causes of the growth of industry. In addition‚ there were many effects of the growth of industry . the age of industry was a turning point in american history. There were many causes of the growth of industry. One cause is new inventions‚ the new inventions increased
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did not fully believe in the Islamic state and resided in West Africa. The Jihads of this era not only changed the faith of many people‚ but also the landscape of West African democracy. Although Islamic Jihads had occurred in the past‚ they never surmounted to the magnitude of those of the 18th century. What factors and leaders caused the West African Jihads‚ of the 18th and 19th centuries‚ to be so effective? The people of West Africa were tired of governments who constantly over taxed
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‘The actions of Native Americans themselves contributed nothing to the advancement of their civil rights in the period 1865 to 1992’. Native Americans admittedly‚ did surprisingly little in the initial two thirds of the period‚ despite the Plains Wars and other small-localized armed resistance during the nineteenth century; the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1889 effectively marked the end to such resistance. Whilst it can be argued that their efforts were at best lukewarm during the beginning‚
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