SW June 5‚ 2013 ‘Sick Around The World’ Video Summary This movie went around the world to different countries to show the comparisons and differences in healthcare compared to each other and the U.S. The first country that was visited was the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom spends 8.3% of their GDP on healthcare. The citizens pay nothing for premiums‚ all of it is paid trough taxation. Some services require co-pay‚ but all young people and all elderly are exempt from drug co-pays. The United
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Religion around the World The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted an interesting study regarding the demographics of worldwide religions. The group began by accumulating data from national censuses; analyzing the data from over twenty five hundred different censuses‚ large-scale surveys and official registers. Using this information the study group analyzed how religious change impacts societies found around the world. After gathering the required data‚ they went on
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Taylor Knight English 101- W22 November 4‚ 2014 Education Around the World Many children and young adults either have the opportunity to go to school to receive an education or do not have the opportunity to go school for an education. For the children who go to school on a daily bases probably go against the reasons why they go to school. Then‚ for the children who do not go to school will go as far to put their own life in danger to have the right for an education. Education is a right given
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Sick Around the World If your latest battle with your health insurance has you pounding your head with frustration‚ “Sick Around the World” on PBS may spur you to more drastic action‚ like leaving the United States altogether. In this “Frontline”‚ the Washington Post reporter T. R. Reid travels to five countries Britain‚ Japan‚ Germany‚ Taiwan‚ and Switzerland that manage to provide some form of universal health coverage to their populations. In each nation‚ he reports‚ insurance premiums
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Soccer is one of five popular sports around the world. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo‚ Lionel Messi‚ and Neymar are very athletic‚ popular players. They posse skills that make are unlike lots of players. Soccer is more entertaining when World Cup time comes around. Around 3 billion people watch globally and about a billion watch on TV. This game is to see who is the country who has the best soccer team. Every team will have star players that standout like nobody else’s on there team. Usually
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Microcontroller and Sensors Based Gesture Vocalizer Abstract: - Gesture Vocalizer is a large scale multi-microcontroller based system being designed to facilitate the Communication among the dumb‚ deaf and blind communities and their communication with the normal people. This system can be dynamically reconfigured to work as a “smart device”. In this paper‚ microcontroller and sensors based gesture vocalizer is presented. Gesture vocalizer discussed is basically a data glove and a microcontroller
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education to watch the movie Sick around the World. It really helped inform me of where our health care in America stand and how it compares to other countries around the world. In America there are 4.7 million people without healthcare coverage‚ while there is approximately 318.9 million people. Therefore only 314.2 million people are able to afford healthcare in America. America’s healthcare is 37th in the world‚ which isn’t very good for being the richest country in the world. I believe America’s healthcare
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“Sick Around the World”The reform about the healthcare system in the US has been debated within the government and the public for years. The need for change in the healthcare system echoed since the legislation of Medicare and Medicaid were created. US presidents have tried to push for a universal healthcare system because of its citizen’s outcry for better‚ quality care‚ for all. Surprisingly other countries have studied the US health system and reared away from its market based structure to more
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Posture and Gestures Posture In humans‚ posture can provide important nonverbal communication. Posture deals with: how the body is positioned in relation to another person or group of persons (for example‚ leaning stance‚ posture‚ standing‚ sitting‚ etc.) and how they are positioned relative to each other various body parts (eg leg imposed on the leg‚ hand in pocket‚ etc.) physique‚ that is how the body looks like (for example‚ whether it is large‚ has a broad back‚ weak legs‚ large head
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UNDERSTANDING BODY LANGUAGE TABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THREE DIFFERENT SCENARIOS: SCALE RATED FROM 1 TO 3‚ (meaning that 1 – poor‚ 2 – fair‚ 3 – normal‚ 4 - exaggerated) SCENARIOS (RATE 1-3) EYE CONTACT FACIAL EXPRESSION HEAD MOVEMENT GESTURES BODY MOVEMENT POSTURE AND STANCE PROXIMITY AND ORIENTATION BODY CONTACT APPEARANCE AND PHYSIQUE GROUP 1 FOUR FRIENDS 3 3
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