New India The hit-film slumdog millionaire is a well-known film about three children from the slums. Many people have watched this film‚ and although its storyline is thrilling‚ the perceptions it gives about India as a whole being poor and dirty and that everyone is a thief‚ killer or prostitute are misleading; although the slums are poor and dirty‚ not everyone in India lives in a slum. Not everyone who does live in a slum is a thief and will do anything for money‚ and many people in India are
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------------------------------------------------- Transport in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The Mumbai-Pune Expressway‚ India ’s first expressway The Bandra Worli Sea link‚ with Worli skyline Transport in the Republic of India is an important part of the nation ’s economy. Since the economic liberalisation of the 1990s‚ development of infrastructure within the country has progressed at a rapid pace‚ and today there is a wide variety of modes of transport by land‚ water and air. However‚ India ’s relatively low GDP
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like India tourism has become one of the major sectors of the economy‚ contributing to a large proportion of the National Income and generating huge employment opportunities. It has become the fastest growing service industry in the country with great potentials for its further expansion and diversification. FEATURES OF TOURISM IN INDIA Today tourism is the largest service industry in India‚ with a contribution of 6.23% to the national GDP and providing 8.78% of the total employment. India witnesses
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THE RETAILFORMULA FOR IKEA IN INDIA [pic][pic] Names and Relation numbers Group 12: Julian Hoffbauer: 86282 Anwar Mohi-ud-din: 66913 Sonja Bogacki: 83353 Susanne van Scherrenburg: 78940 Lecturer Mr. Oude Lohuis Mr. Boels Mrs. Wedrychowicz Mrs. Kooijenga Date 11/06/2009 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The following report scans the various environments of India and includes a retail formula to determine if an expansion of IKEA to India would be preferable. It will be
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India and English From 1857‚ when English was introduced by the Imperial Government as the only medium of education‚ the English language has played a significant role in the lives of Indian people. After a long struggle by national leaders‚ in the 1920s‚ the British rulers reluctantly permitted school education through the medium of Indian languages (designated as vernaculars). In 1947 when India gained independence from the British rule‚ English was to have been replaced by national languages
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Area And City Area People who live in the country might long to live in the city and those in the city may long for the peace and quiet of country life. However‚ country life and city life has several differences which may attract one person or repel another. Firstly‚ an elderly person might find life in the city to be better in the long run as there is better access to health care facilities and around the clock emergency services. However‚ the kind of health care available in the city is not
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BANGKOK: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF A HYPERURBANIZED PRIMATE CITY Gerald W. Fry "The rapid expansion of a deteriorated environment and high social costs are the most obvious and immediate results of this overconcentration process. Eventually‚ the public investment on the expansion of urban infrastructure will reach a point of diminishing returns. Urban problems can bring national development to the edge of failure. This would be an appalling situation indeed!" Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura1 "Hyperurbanization
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? (Summary): The Cities of Tomorrow and the Cities to Come‚ by Noah Toly starts off with his search for the perfect place in Uptown‚ Chicago to meet with his students‚ talk about their days‚ and what they have been learning in school. He discovers‚ Alma Pita a little Mediterranean restaurant located in a very diverse community. After six years of meetings‚ Alma Pita closed and he was forced to begin his search again. Toly makes note of a huge variety of options for ethnic foods available just blocks
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The City of Ember is about a small group of people who live in complete darkness‚ save for a few electric lights which fill their houses and corner the ends of the city streets. The city is small‚ and its history goes back several hundred years‚ but the only real history any member of the city has relates to a group of people called “The Builders.” As far as the inhabitants of Ember know‚ “The Builders” created Ember from nothing. It just exists. And life in this city is difficult‚ the children
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Literature Research Essay: Reading the City. Cities are places which enable the realisation of the self‚ or conversely cities separate the self from creativity and imagination in spaces of alienation and estrangement’ (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). Discuss the city as a site of self-enhancement and/or ‘alienation and estrangement’ in the texts on the unit. Our surroundings manipulate the way we react and interact with both others and ourselves. We are like putty waiting to be moulded by the
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