MEASURING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRIMER ON THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX What It Measures The HDI is a composite of three basic components of human development: longevity‚ knowledge and standard of living. Longevity is measured by life expectancy. Knowledge is measured by a combination of adult literacy (two-thirds weight) and mean years of schooling (one-third weight). Standard of living is measured by purchasing power‚ based on real GDP per capita adjusted for the local cost of living
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Meet Ernie a fourth grader from Alabama‚ he is very polite‚ and shy‚ that is until he found a new app called Call of Duty. The only problem is the app cost forty dollars‚ and Ernie’s parents would never allow him to buy the game. His parents are all about him being active and playing outside with the neighborhood kids. This angers Ernie and he becomes obsessed with with getting the game and doesn’t go outside for three months. He becomes very rude to neighborhood kids‚ and his parents which doesn’t
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The Love Triangle of “Jolene” Emotions such as love and anger fuel many song writer’s hearts. The typical love triangle story is described in the song “Jolene” originally sung by Dolly Parton. In October of 1973 Dolly Parton released “Jolene” it reached the Billboard Hot 100 as number 60 that year (Trust). The rolling stones rated “Jolene” as 9 out of 100 greatest songs of all time (Petrusich). This famous song is the anthem for all women that have been cheated on by a man and wished to confront
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choose but I chose Consuelo. She is a young Puerto Rican girl that narrates the whole story. Basically she is telling every detail of her life‚ things that happened to her or her family or her neighbors and things that were happening in the island. I chose Consuelo because she is the protagonist; she’s the one that expresses in the novel everything in her life like what is happening to her sister Mili because she was not as normal as everyone else‚ ”What did you do? I grabbed Mili’s hand and pride
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1. Introduction Human Resource Management (HRM) is a distinctive approach to manage people. People make a business function efficiently and yet they cause the greatest difficulties. Especially in the new information-based economy‚ people‚ not physical assets‚ are now critical. But people‚ unlike coalmines and factories‚ cannot be owned. Organizations therefore must create an environment that makes the best people want to stay. In this regard‚ Training and Development (T&D) can be the most important
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“Jurassic World” is a film that caught everyone’s eye since the series of Jurassic Park started in the early 90’s. Jurassic World is what Jurassic Park was going to be before the situation got worst. Not only is the movie about big scary dinosaurs they are also companies involve in the making by putting in their product. Which is called product placement. Which you see a lot of in Jurassic World. Many of the product were tie-ins that were worked into the plot of the movie. At the beginning you see
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"Hideous Kinky" by Esther Freud An analysis of the relationships between the protagonist and her family The novel "Hideous Kinky" by Esther Freud was written in 1992. It is a story about a mother who travels to Marrakech‚ Morocco with her two daughters. The three of them live in several places around Morocco‚ meet various people and experience ups and downs. In this essay I will analyse the relationships between the protagonist and her sister‚ mother and father. The protagonist has a close
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Dilapidated has a negative denotation that means to be “decayed‚ deteriorate‚ or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse.” In the passage‚ dilapidated has a negative connotation that is used to characterize the way creole was used. Usually infrastructure is described as in a dilapidated state‚ but Chamousieu characterizes a language to suggest the inferiority with which the creole is looked at in public institutions. Creole “circulated easy‚” but its “dilapidated state” refers
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marriage in a prosaic bourgeois town. Her attempts to escape the monotony of her life through adulterous liaisons with other men are ultimately thwarted by the reality that the men she has chosen are shallow and self-centered and that she has overstretched herself financially. In despair‚ Emma resolves her predicament by taking her own life. What should we make of this rather slight story‚ initially based on the life of a real woman who‚ like Emma‚ scandalized her village with her affairs with other
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The Godfather A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children‚ and is considered a group‚ whether they reside together or not; the traditional family‚ which usually consists of family values and beliefs. In American literature family serves as a base in our society which can be shaped and molded into many different forms. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather demonstrates family as a successful business‚ with strict and traditional Italian roots. The story is focuses on the Corleone
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