Socioeconomically disadvantaged people are a population who lack sufficient income to obtain adequate health‚ food‚ housing and clothing that the rest of society can afford‚ find it difficult to ensure an adequate standard of living or are often unemployed and rely on social security and services. Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders (ATSI) fall into this category and make up a large amount of the people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged. A study by the ‘United Nations Draft Declaration
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Computer: Almost every home‚ office‚ or school has a computer of some kind these days. It may seems at first that having a computer brings only benefits‚ but further consideration shows that it also has disadvantages. First of all computers are very useful at school. It helps students to revise for tests or exams and makes subjects more interesting. Pupils can also learn new vocabulary and grammatical structures. Furthermore it allows students to become familiar
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Globalization is "the integration of states through increasing contact‚ communication and trade to create a single global system in which the process of change increasingly binds people together in a common fate." Some economists see globalization as being in the best interest of all states involved‚ while others believe that increasing modern trade and global economic relations is harmful in many ways. While globalization marks a move in the direction of a more open world-trading government‚ it
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Contents The introduction 1 Summary 1 The advantages and disadvantages of UK adopting IFRS 2 1.The benefits of UK adopting the IFRS 2 1.1 Consistently and transparency 2 1.2 Flexible and Understandable 3 1.3 Global comparability 3 1.4 Decision making 4 1.5 Multinational corporation and cost 4 1.6 Impact the structure of company 5 2. The potential negative impacts that UK may face. 5 2.1 The high costs of converting to IFRS 5 2.2 Lack of comparability and inconsistency 6 2.3 The impact of investors
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* Why do nurses and physicians use 70% alcohol to wipe the skin before injections? 70% alcohol is used rather than pure alcohol because when combined with water‚ the alcohol can penetrate and kill microorganisms more effectively. "Alcohols are more effective combined with purified water—70% isopropyl alcohol or 62% ethyl alcohol is more effective than 95% alcohol‚ because the alcohol gets inside the cell better. " Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectan… * Why is 100 percent
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Assess the claim that‚ the advantages of AMS outweighs the disadvantages… The additional member system‚ like every other electoral system has both advantages and disadvantages. Which of these outweighs the other remains debatable. The additional member system is described as a type of PR (proportional representation) system where the number of votes is equal to the number of seats gained. The AMS is a hybrid system with two votes and two systems mixed together‚ the first vote being your constituency
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DISADVANATGES: 1. Dams are extremely expensive to build and must be built to a very high standard. 2. The high cost of dam construction means that they must operate for many decades to become profitable. 3. The flooding of large areas of land means that the natural environment is destroyed. 4. People living in villages and towns that are in the valley to be flooded‚ must move out. This means that they lose their farms and businesses. In some countries‚ people are forcibly removed so that
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First‚ believe in the world—that there is meaning behind everything. Don’t look back—forward‚ infinite energy‚ infinite enthusiasm‚ infinite daring‚ and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished. This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside‚ not to lay the blame upon anyone outside‚ but stand up‚ lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. Tell the truth boldly‚ whether it hurts or not. Never
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TV viewing takes away the time that your child needs to develop important skills like language‚ creativity‚ motor‚ and social skills. These skills are developed in the kids’ first two years (a critical time for brain development) through play‚ exploration‚ and conversation. A kid’s language skills‚ for example‚ do not improve by passively listening to the TV. It is developed by interacting with people‚ when talking and listening is used in the context of real life. TV viewing numbs your kid’s
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A new study shows that children who spend more time watching television spend less time interacting with their family and playing creatively. Children watch television more than any other activity. Researchers from University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Children’s Hospital wanted to understand whether and how this affects children’s health and behavior. Dr. Elizabeth Vandewater and her colleagues surveyed 2‚900 children ages 12 and under around the United States and analyzed all of the children’s
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