The amount of active worldwide Facebook users as of June 2012 is 955 million‚ accounting for approximately a seventh of the total population on Earth. With such a mass population of the world checked into Facebook‚ it sparks question as to what kind of effect this has. There is no doubt that Facebook itself is a fantastically engineered social media‚ connecting just about one billion of people in the world with the simple action of logging into a website. But with the rapid growth of this social
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Humans have created urban areas right since the ancient times. Urbanization‚ as we know it now‚ began with the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century‚ and has only been on the rise ever since. Statistics tell us that half of the world’s people already live in urban areas‚ with that number set to expand in the years to come. Our cities have been luring people for various reasons‚ the basic one being the hope of a better life. People are drawn to the cities for the comforts they offer‚ the opportunities
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The ideas of globalization being the main cause of the spread of Global diseases is valid‚ however in these day and age it is mostly inevitable‚ we live in a time when people wants to travel to new places‚ where countries economies and food production depends on each other geographic location and their abilities to produce and trade such goods. In time where medicine and its benefits can also travel worldwide the negatives impacts that these global trading causes‚ does not outweigh the benefits.
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I have to admit that bilingualism has several advantages. Nonetheless‚ tackling this issue‚ the lingual conditions in which children are raised to be able to speak two languages equally well should be also taken into consideration. Many linguists underline that while introducing the second language to learner‚ his/her exposure to a given linguistic system is crucial. Thusly‚ parents striving for teaching their children a secod language/a non-native language often rely on commercial language materials
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When the Internet was first introduced to the public‚ it marked an extraordinary change in every aspect of our lives. Today‚ with the explosive increase of sites on the Internet‚ technology has taken another dramatic rise. In the midst of this technological explosion‚ we might stop and ask some key questions. Is the Internet good or bad for education? Are students learning more or less? And what‚ exactly‚ are they learning? Although‚ using the Internet to research instead of encyclopaedias has become
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Flatbed trailers are the best way to transport loads that are impossible or impractical to transport in a regular enclosed dry van. Examples of flatbed freight include: large equipment‚ building materials and large machinery. Flatbeds allow for greater dimensional flexibility‚ which makes them the best and the safest choice for these types of large or heavy loads. We can handle all of your “less than truckload” (LTL) shipments and of course full truckload shipments. Flatbed trailers may be utilized
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Disadvantages: • Conflicts of interests between bank and investor: For banks savings deposits are a financing possibility at a favorable rate of interest; private investors‚ however‚ would usually prefer investments in securities to realize higher interest earnings. • Risk of concentration processes; but in spite of a decreasing number of banks‚ especially of private banks‚ neither a suppression strategy of big universal banks against smaller competitors nor a cartelization is to constate in
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Humanity is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing‚ unemployment is rampant. Local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa‚ South Asia and parts of Latin America. This "globalization of poverty" --which has largely reversed the achievements of post-war decolonization-- was initiated in the Third World coinciding with the debt crisis
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Project about: the effect of political economy of the state in global business. Submitted by: Amira Elwelely Submitted to: DR.Saed ghalap International Political Economy (IPE) is the rapidly developing social science field of study that attempts to understand international and global problems using an eclectic interdisciplinary array of analytical tools and theoretical perspectives. IPE is a field that thrives on the process that Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction." The growing
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Why Homeschooling Is Not for Everyone Is it a bad thing that homeschooled kids may be different than public school kids? Some people say that homeschooled children are smart and polite. On the other hand‚ there is a different opinion that home-educated children are lazy‚ old-fashioned‚ naïve and do not have a good education. Homeschooling is the education of children at home by parents who have numerous reasons for it; for example‚ better test results‚ religious reasons‚ and living in
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