A declining rupee: What does it mean? Photos The Indian Economy is suddenly faced with numerous issues‚ among them a sharp devaluation of the national currency‚ the rupee. And the rupee’s performance has been much in the news in recent weeks. Reference currency The value of a currency is its purchasing power – that is‚ what you can get for a unit of the currency in terms of goods and services. In today’s context when it is said that a currency is declining or being devalued‚ it is with
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Culture and Crime in Society Culture as a set of practices formed among individuals that form a given society has been cultivated and formed over time. The accepted cultural practices can often have positive and negative impact on not just what is perceived acceptable and appropriate in a society‚ but also can influence rate of certain crimes. Culture as a collection of practices‚ rituals‚ goals‚ values‚ and customs of a given society is formed over many years. There are many different
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The Comparison of Morality between Asian and Western Societies Introduction Morality is a tool of indispensable regulation means in human society‚ which has an invisible mandatory "soft restraint" and brings about enormous influence on national‚ society and individual activities at all times. Moral standards of societies are products of a combination of different factors‚ including time‚ region‚ culture and others. Influenced by globalization and increasing Internet social network‚ the distances
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Western philosophical theology raises the question if God is so wonderful then why is there evil? The two specific arguments in this theology are: The deductive form and inductive form. In the deductive form God is supposed to eliminate evil and because he doesn’t he is not viewed as all knowing and all powerful or even entirely good. Since evil does exist God’s capabilities are questioned. The inductive form sees the amount of evil in the world and questions God’s existence. God should be doing
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Growing up in the United States I’ve learned that some Western cultures identify gender by sexual appendages. This is now known to no longer be true. Sexual orientation on a global scale has different outlooks. In Western Civilization when a person is confused about their sexual orientation‚ they switch to the other gender. For example‚ in the intersex video a child named MC was given the gender of female after being born intersex. While growing up MC was physically a girl‚ but showed characteristics
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Soil erosion is a major concern in the southeastern region of Nigeria due to high population densities and farming techniques‚ which has resulted in the presence of numerous gullies. While gullies are found all around the world‚ the existence of gullies in Nigeria is regarded as one of the worst environment disasters‚ having negative implications on the environment and the quality of life for humans and other species (Adetona & Ezezika‚ 2011; Ajaegwu & al‚ 2010). Large quantities of soil in Nigeria
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takes from 100 to 400 years to build one centimetre of top soil‚ man can and often does destroy it almost overnight by haphazard land use and improvident husbandry. Irrational methods of cultivation‚ deforestation‚ destruction of natural vegetation due to overgrazing by pasturing animals etc.‚ accelerate denudation. Besides‚ failure of rains‚ floods‚ depopulation and loss of cattle caused by famine and pestilence‚ disturbance caused by war and interference with or change in the natural drainage
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the media in modern society? How does it contribute to‚ create‚ direct or represent that society’s ’culture’? Consideration of the role‚ influence and development of the Media in Society and Culture involves addressing fundamental questions about Culture and Society themselves. The insight of various thinkers into the social and cultural role of the media has been underwritten by presuppositions which are‚ in turn‚ informed by points of view on what constitutes society and culture. How do we conceive
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Soil erosion Soil erosion occurs when soil is removed through the action of wind and water at a greater rate than it is formed SOIL The soil covering the surface of the earth has taken millions of years to form and we must learn to respect it. Soil is formed at a rate of only 1 cm every 100 to 400 years and it takes 3 000 to 12 000 years to build enough soil to form productive land. This means that soil is a nonrenewable resource and once destroyed it is gone forever. If we disregard this‚ a
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Coastal Erosion Coastal erosion is a naturally occurring phenomenon resulting from the continuous action of wind and water. Both act to remove small pieces of land from one location and deposit them elsewhere. Weather events such as hurricanes and nor’easters speed the erosion process‚ as do tidal waves. Currently‚ rising sea levels resulting from melting polar ice decrease available land as well. While erosion has always been a factor of coastal living‚ increasing populations along the worlds
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