live in because now there is more technology‚ better health conditions‚ and education. To start with‚ the actual world is surrounded by technology‚ which brought a lot of great changes to our lives. Most of these changes contribute to making our life more secure and convenient. For instance‚ thanks to the technology‚ there are cameras everywhere‚ making the city‚ for example‚ more secure and always ready to act if there is any act of theft. In addition‚ there are cell phones and GPS‚ which help
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speech entitled ’Responsibility of a Caring Society Towards the Elderly.’ Better living standards and health facilities together with sound development planning has resulted in longer lifespan. Recent population census indicate that the average life expectancy of the average Malaysian is 75 years for women and 73 for men. Although this is an achievement of sorts‚ we should join forces and not shirk in our responsibilities to the elderly. How can we care for an ageing population? Caring for the elderly
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Portugal and Uganda Portuguese Republic and Republic of Uganda are two extremely different countries when it comes to social and economic development. Portugal‚ located in Europe on the Iberian Peninsula‚ while Uganda is located in Africa and is a landlocked country. Portugal is considered a developed country with high living standards and advanced economic. According to the United Nations on Economics and Social Council‚ Uganda is slowly trying to develop‚ but is ranked amongst the least developed
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The Industrial Revolution Many of us cannot imagine life with out the mall or better yet life with out a cell phone. We take for granted being fortunate enough to be born a child of the new millennium. With our convenience however comes ignorance. We forget about the time when it took a year for a letter to get delivered from the east coast to the west coast. We forget that we did not just appear to be in this country and that everything was already here. The era that changed all that was
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in government healthcare by mixing public and private financing. Universal healthcare has ranked France number one in the world for healthcare. France’s infant death rate is 3.9 per 1‚000 live births‚ compared with 7 in the U.S.‚ and average life expectancy is 79.4 years‚ two years more than in the U.S. The country has far more hospital beds and doctors per capita than America‚ and far lower rates of death from diabetes and heart disease. The difference in deaths from respiratory disease‚ an often
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retain it in their mind. Scientists have also discovered that smoking can cut 11 years off a woman’s average life expectancy. If a pregnant woman smokes‚ it is not only harmful for her own health but also for the expected baby. Therefore‚ if smoking is injurious to health‚ why do people make it a habit ? In a democratic society‚ people talk about their freedom of life and freedom of liking. He may justify his smoking habit saying‚ "It calms me‚ it helps me work‚ think and forget the
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POPULATION EXPLOSION SPEECH With the advancement of technology even some control has been made on natural calamities. Through all these measures though death rate has decreased but birth rate has not appreciably decreased. Thus‚ it will be seen that it is the high birth rate as compared to low death rate‚ which is the main cause of population explosion in India. In under-developed and developing countries the cost of living is increasing day by day. For an average person it has become extremely
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dirty and saving a drowning child and making you choose between "lowering your standard of living" and saving many starving people which you cannot see‚ people disagree. As Singer mentions‚ proximity seems to be the major issue. Is a Bengali human life less important because they are not an American citizen‚ or in his examples‚ an English citizen? In regards to his assertion that we should give until we reach a point where we are marginally at the same standard as those we are giving to also holds
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University of Massachusetts - Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Research Report 07: The Genetic Structure of an Historical Population: a Study of Marriage and Fertility in Old Deerfield‚ massachusetts 12-2-2008 Anthropology Research Reports series Chapter 1‚ Background of the Study Alan C. Swedlund Prescott College Swedlund‚ Alan C.‚ "Chapter 1‚ Background of the Study" (2008). Research Report 07: The Genetic Structure of an Historical Population: a Study of Marriage and Fertility in Old Deerfield
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marriage. Mathewes-Green was born in 1952. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina as well as a M.A. in Theological studies from Virginia Theological Seminary. She has spoken against abortion in her speeches since she is pro-life as well as written books on abortion. Mathewes-Green begins her article by stating that because a woman is able to reproduce at a young age‚ she should. She says that our sex drive is a natural way of telling us to reproduce young. It gives the woman
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