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    result of his environment‚ as well as boredom‚ a misplaced sense of heroism‚ and childish recklessness combined with later drug addiction‚ Jackson becomes a criminal. Terkel records Jackson saying “Everything was: try and get away from the morbid life‚ goin’ home fightin’ rats and cockroaches”(Terkel 220). His actions catch up to him‚ and Jackson is arrested. It’s then that his story changes‚ as Jackson says “While in jail‚ I made a conscious decision that I wasn’t gonna allow drugs to use me

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    Başak Erel 108611006 Berke Baş Multiply-city; Representations of Urban Experience Slums During the Urbanization Process of Turkey The word ‘slum’ was firstly mentioned by a writer called James Hardy Vaux‚ in his book ‘Vocabulary of the Flash Language’ which was published in 1812[1]. At those times ‘slum’ was also a synonym of illegal commerce. Today‚ ‘slum’ is used to describe the residential areas of a huge amount of people of the world. According to the UN-Habitat report released in October

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    Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study In Khulna city‚ there are about 102 slums and 66 squatters. Nearly 20 percent of the total population is currently living in these slums and squatters. The number of slums is almost twice (106) the number of squatters (66). The major slum areas are Rupsha‚ Khalishpur and Sonadanga area. The two slums in Khulna city are selected for study areas such as Rupsha Ferighat of Rupsha‚ and Shekpara basti in Shekpara. The background concentrated around

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    At the center of Roberts’ account is the First World War. Roberts’ argues that before the war‚ most of the slum dwellers were part of an undermass. Men and women who had unskilled work‚ if they had any work at all‚ whose lives were marked by poverty and the constant quest for money to buy food or pay the rent. He dismisses those who look back on the period as some sort of golden age‚ arguing instead that the grinding poverty held little rosiness for most of Salford’s population. Their lives were

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    away with and visit a near by slum to distribute them. We also decided to perform a street play to lay stress on importance of education and promote literacy among them by pursuing them to attend the classes which we will run in their locality on every Sunday in the evening. Once everything was decided we contacted our principal and informed her about our idea. She was overwhelmed and not only gave her consent but also parted the school mini bus to take us to the slum on Sundays for this good cause

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    CHAPTER-I INTRODUCTION Nutrition is a multidisciplinary subject. It is the provision necessary to support life of all living organism. It is a focal point for health and well-being. It is a special significance concern in countries with disadvantages in socioeconomic and hygienic standards. The problems of poverty‚ safe drinking water‚ environmental hygiene and poor literacy contribute to the problems of nutrition and public health. Many common health problems can be prevented with a healthy diet

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    the capital of Ghana alone harbours about 25 slums as recorded by the UN Committee on Economic‚ Social and Cultural Rights. This number adds up to a total of 80 per cent of the total inhabitants of the capital city. Shelter and water forms part of the basic needs of human but it is the most deficiency when it comes to slum settlements which are a sign of underdevelopment. This precipitates the need for modernization that leads to the upgrade of slums hence development. Over the centuries the definition

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    The term “slum dog” is offensive and it basically dehumanizes the people who lives in the slums. Dharavi is given a bad reputation by the industrialized areas. It is the largest slum that is located between the economic hub and Bollywood industry of Mumbai. Most of the people makes a living by doing recycling jobs like rag picking. It is a dangerous

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    The poem “An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum” by Stephen Spender‚ begins with a stanza depicting the worrying condition of the students in elementary school. As the poem extends further‚ Spender points out the corruptions in the Government and accuses it for paying little attention to children’s education and health conditions. He argues that the children should break through the confinement of slum‚ and embrace the beauty of nature. In the slum‚ Children do not have pleasant moments; they

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    SETTING UP OF A POLYCLINIC IN AN URBAN SLUM A Project Report Submitted by DR. RACHANA C. INGLE In partial fulfillment for the award of POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION AND HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT At GARWARE INSTITUTE OF CARRER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT MUMBAI UNIVERSITY MAY‚ 2013 DECLARATION I hereby declare that the project entitled “SETTING UP OF A POLYCLINIC IN AN URBAN SLUM” submitted for the Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration and

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