The International Literacy Day (ILD) Theme: Literacy and Peace: The Role of Literary Societies and Academics Date: Thursday‚ September 8‚ 2011 Venue: PAS‚ 2 Broad Street‚ Lagos Time: 10:00 am Literacy and Peace: A Reflection by Remi Raji In order to address the predictable union between "literacy" and "peace"‚ it is to Plato that I turn. In one of his books‚ the classical theoretician of ethics and morality in nation-building suggested that the transformation and advancement of the
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LITERACY IN PAKISTAN Pakistan’s Senate on Wednesday was informed that national literacy rate is 54 percent out of which 66.25 percent male and 41.75 percent female are literate. This was stated by Minister for Education‚ Mrs. Zubaida Jalal in her written reply to a query raised by Senator Sardar Latif Khosa in the Senate here. Giving the province-wise and gender-wise detail‚ the Minister informed that an estimated 60.8% population is literate in Punjab province. The literacy rate for male and
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Importance Of Financial Literacy Most college students enter college without proper education on personal finances. Students open credit cards and loans and end up in debt before they finish college. Unfortunately‚ students are unfamiliar with even the most basic economic concepts needed to make saving and investment decisions. In the article‚ “ Schools Should Educate Teens in Financial Literacy” by Braun Mincher he asks “How do we expect to make wise financial decisions when we have little education
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Health Literacy Health illiteracy has become referred to as the silent epidemic. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website‚ the National Assessment of Adult Literacy showed only 12 percent of adults have proficient health literacy. That means nine out of ten adults may lack the needed skills to adequately manage their health and prevent disease. Healthy People 2010 define health literacy as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain‚ process‚ and understand
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a text is an image and an image is a text [1]. We have to learn how to read images through the process of vision. We live in a media and image saturated age where we are taking images all the time and we need to broaden what it means to be literate‚ to read images rather than text as image. It’s more than reading and writing‚ its reading the visual world. Studies show that 21st century students’ today are consuming images at an extraordinary rate [1].In 2013‚ young people were actually looking
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September 11‚ 2001. A day no American will ever forget. It was a day that this nation realized that we as Americans are not invincible. We can be hurt. Planes flew into both the north and south towers of the world trade center. The towers collapsed killing thousands of people. This event has been not only terrifying‚ but it has also been insightful. In my English IV class‚ we read multiple articles that were published after 9/11. These articles gave us insight by looking into the historical significance
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Contribution of India in mathematics The most fundamental contribution of India in mathematics is the invention of decimal system of enumeration‚ including the invention of zero. The decimal system uses nine digits (1 to 9) and the symbol zero (for nothing) to denote all natural numbers by assigning a place value to the digits. The Arabs carried this system to Africa and Europe. 1) Aryabhata is the first well known Indian mathematician. Born in Kerala‚ he completed his studies at the university
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One view is that the literacy rate has risen from 72% to 90% in the last 30 years. According to the 2005 Functional Literacy‚ Education‚ and Mass Media Survey conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO)‚ 48.4 million or 84% of the estimated 57.6 million Filipinos who are 10 to 64 years old are said to be "functionally" literate (Source: "8 out of 10 Filipinos are functionally literate" by D. Pepito‚ TODAY newspaper‚ February 17‚ 2005). Functional literacy was found to be higher in females
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and were used to restore confidence and help bring a halt to the decline of lower Manhattan. The 9/11 terrorist attack was a series of four attacks on the United States on the morning of September 11‚ 2001. The attacks killed 2‚996 people‚ injured over 6‚000 others‚ and cost at least $10 billion in property damage and infrastructure. The greatest factor that contributed to the loss of life of 9/11 was the construction of the towers
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The construction of a fundamental understanding of numeration and place value concepts forms the foundation for all additional branches of mathematics (Booker‚ et al.‚ 2010). Computational processes and patterns of thinking require a clear understanding of these concepts‚ as they underpin the learning and use of mathematics (Booker et al.‚ 2010). Developing mathematical thinking from an early age is extremely important in establishing students understanding of number concepts. Clements (2001‚ p271)
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