Scattered throughout India are approximately 500‚000 villages. The Census of India regards most settlements of fewer than 5‚000 as a village. These settlements range from tiny hamlets of thatched huts to larger settlements of tile-roofed stone and brick houses. Most Indian villages are small; nearly 80 percent have fewer than 1‚000 inhabitants‚ according to the 1991 census. Most are nucleated settlements‚ while others are more dispersed. It is in villages that India’s most basic business--agriculture--takes
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Little girls dream of becoming princesses‚ boys pro football players‚ but once we all start to grow up‚ we realize how different life is from the way we imagined it when we were five. Every child has an idea‚ a dream of how his or her life is going to turn out‚ when they play house or cops and robbers‚ they see those things as the truth; their future. Before‚ when we were little‚ when we couldn’t figure out what things were and what words meant we’d make it up. We would fill in what we didn’t know
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Essay on the condition of people living in Slums (355 Words) by Puja Mondal Essay Essay on the condition of people living in Slums! The parts of the cities‚ where these slums are located‚ are quite congested‚ as they are over populated. The conditions of the slum areas in metropolitan cities have deteriorated to such an extent due to the high density of population that the people there hardly enjoy even the basic amenities. The lanes are narrow and the houses are nothing but a single
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rural town‚ no more than a frontier settlement‚ set in some of the world’s most fertile land.[6] He spent his summers working on nearby ranches and later with migrant workers on Spreckels ranch. There he became aware of the harsher aspects of migrant life and the darker side of human nature‚ which supplied him with material expressed in such works as Of Mice and Men.[6] He also explored his surroundings‚ walking across local forests‚ fields‚ and farms.[6] The Steinbeck House at 132 Central Avenue
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Pompeii and Herculaneum Economic life: The amphitheatre: The amphitheatre was built in 70bc by the magistrates to provide entertainment for the people of Pompeii. The Pompeii amphitheatre is the oldest surviving amphitheatre in the Roman world. The capacity was 24000 and because seats were numbered‚ only the most important people of Pompeii would be allowed to sit at the front. The amphitheatre was mainly used for games that lasted a week and were funded by the magistrates. While entering the
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Life on the Mississippi 1. One example of the first point of realism is‚ “After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now‚ just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning; the streets empty‚ or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores‚ with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the wall‚ chins on breasts‚ hats slouched over their faces‚ asleep-- with shingle-shavings enough around to show what
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the most influential aviators in history: he set multiple world air speed records‚ built the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 "Hercules" (better known to history as the "Spruce Goose" aircraft)‚ and acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines‚ which would later on merge with American Airlines. Hughes is also remembered for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in later life. His legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator‚
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REWILDING OURSELVES Humans are not alone on the planet. There are many other things that influenced by human. Also we discover new kind of living things with technological improvements. However‚ some kind of organisims become extinct because of damages by human influenced. Instead of human ‚ there are so many organizations to protect the animals which are dying out ‚but we all know that is not sufficent and we also don’t know what to do for the absolute solution exactly. It is my thought
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Achieving the good life John doe PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Daniel Beteta 1 February 2013 I grew up in a small Midwest town called Anderson Indiana. Whenever people ask where I’m from and I say Indiana they think corn fields and country living but that’s far from the truth. In my experience I have seen corn fields everywhere but my home state. I have yet to see any farms or anything that would suggest country. One could question the dialect of Indiana residents. It has been said that
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Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter‚ the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore‚ near Belluno (in Veneto)‚ in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore‚ taken from the place of his birth. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante’s Paradiso)‚ Titian was one of the most versatile
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