UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI DEPARTMENT OF REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT Housing Policy Assignment NAME: KIMOSOP KEMBOI ANTHONY EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS A. Squatter Settlement and Homelessness The term squatter is defined is obtained from squat which means to live‚ build on‚ utilize‚ a property of a person without his concern and his approval or without any document of ownership like allotment letter‚ lease letter or the Title Deed. Dictionary.com defines a squatter as a person
Premium Management University Psychology
On the Origin of Evil Where does evil come from? This is a question that I find most interesting. In our modern day civilization educated by liberal institutions everybody speaks as if they are certain of what evil is. So what is it? At first glance the thing that sticks out to me when I hear this question is: Asking where evil comes from is like asking where hunger comes from. Where does the desire for procreation‚ for sexual reproduction come from? Is a lion evil? I am sure it could be viewed
Free Good and evil Evil Nobility
copyright infringement. Google however‚ claimed they were operating fairly under the “fair use” doctrine codified in the Copyright Act in 1976. (Copying/lending of books has been fair since 1930’s) (Laudon‚ Traver‚ 2009). In 2008‚ Google came to a settlement over the lawsuit with authors and publishers. They would pay cash and give other accommodations to the parties accusing them of copyright infringement. In return‚ they would retain non-exclusive right to sell books‚ place ads‚ and make other uses
Free Book E-book Publishing
The New World was discovered by Spain’s Christopher Columbus in 1492. Many believed that the settlement of the Spanish in the New World was the original settlement. For many years before the arrival of the Europeans‚ various tribes were scattered all throughout the Americas. There was an estimated 10‚000 people living in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. America was not a virgin wilderness for nearly 12‚000 years. The Spanish were the first to arrive in the New World. They
Premium Europe Americas Spain
Hawaiian settlements have generally believed to have been made in the 3rd century they brought lots of farm animals with them including chickens‚ pigs and sheep‚ and other plants and animals. Once they landed on the Hawaiian shores they immediately started to move in‚ the men went hunting while the women stayed behind and found a reasonable place to set up camp. After a while the Polynesians came up with a name for the little cluster of Islands they had found‚ they named it Hawaii. Not long after
Premium Infectious disease Immune system Vaccination
The undeniable fact of human race behavior from the very beginning till now is that every aspects of life are driven by beliefs and a certain mindset. Even after hundreds and thousands of years‚ with modern technologies and scientific researches booming‚ people are still harmonized together by religious beliefs and norms. It might seems like the world has gone to another stage where gods and myths are misguided with many individuals claiming to be free thinkers disapproving religions and their beliefs
Premium Human Religion Wealth
The most popular and accepted theory for the origin of the universe is the Big Bang Theory. This theory states that the universe began about 10 billion years ago in a violent explosion; every particle started rushing apart from every other particle in an early super-dense phase. This explosion sent energy and matter flying all over the place. However‚ there is an argument about whether time and space existed before the big bang‚ or did the big bang create time and space. As the universe expanded
Premium Universe Galaxy Solar System
In 1624‚ 30 families had arrived in North America establishing a settlement on modern-day Manhattan. The setting was around fertile soil‚ a river‚ and access to wildlife. Unlike other colonies‚ the Dutch didn’t take much interest in agriculture like most of the colonies. More so‚ that they were the first colony to do a more profitable fur trade. In 1626‚ the Director Peter Minuit arrived and was placed in charge of running the small struggling colony. New Netherlands was slowly expanding and this
Premium United States American Revolution Thirteen Colonies
Evolution of Polar Bears The observed fossil transitions that inform our knowledge of Polar Bear speciation are very well documented. Bear fossils change through time: generally‚ when examining the fossil record‚ successively deeper levels of sediments or sedimentary rocks yield successively older fossils. For some transitions from one species to another‚ one can find a well-characterized series of transitional specimens leading the observer across the species "boundaries" (Kurten‚ 1976). Sometime
Premium Bear Polar bear Bears
relationship with those of America‚ though separated from that continent by an open space of ocean‚ between 500 and 600 miles in width." At this early stage of his life‚ along with graduating college Darwin soon began collecting evidence for his theory of Evolution and natural selection. While on his journey Darwin made many observations. They were mainly about the different species he saw on the Galapagos Islands. Each island had a different variation of birds. He noticed that the beak sizes of the
Free Charles Darwin Evolution Species