Sitting down in front of your computer surfing the web‚ using your smartphone or tablet to post to social media‚ or turning on your favorite streaming video service for a movie with lightning fast internet speeds has become second nature to most of the world. This‚ however‚ is not the case in some rural communities in America. This has been changing since the 2009 Recovery Act was passed into law. Rural communities have steadily been getting the opportunity to join the urban core and experience broadband
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Chapter I Introduction In a beauty-pageant-crazy country like the Philippines‚ the annual Miss Universe pageantry is a most-awaited event for many Filipinos. It is that time when many Filipino people gravitate towards their TV sets with their eyes wide open as though entranced on the pageant events as they unfold. Probably next to boxing‚ the Miss Universe pageant is the most-widely watched worldwide event in the Philippines. As evidence of the country’s penchant for this event‚ the country has
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Introduction to Equality and Inclusion in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings 1.1 The term ‘Diversity’ means the state or fact of being diverse; different or unlike. Within equality and inclusion it is the difference between individuals and groups including: culture‚ nationality‚ ability‚ ethnic origin‚ gender‚ age‚ religion‚ beliefs‚ sexual orientation and social class. The term ‘Equality’ means the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in-quantity‚
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Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury Outline I. Introduction A. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health issue in the United States. B. TBI is caused by a bump‚ blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain C. TBI is generally categorized as mild‚ moderate or severe.
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I made my own decision that I would continue to play football‚ after I got done with recovery. Probably asking in your mind‚”Well why do you have to go to rehab?’’ Good question‚ It was my first game back from my first mishap‚ where I dislocated my shoulder. I had been playing a little that night‚but not a whole lot because it was my first game back and I didn’t know much about the position I was playing. It was kickoff‚ and I was on the very end of the field‚ in my position ready to make the tackle
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has been given so much importance. The banks have to overcome these difficulties properly in order to effectively counter the competition faced by the foreign banks. With the framing of laws as per international standards and setting up of Debt recovery tribunal we can say that steps have been taken in this direction. Banks in India have traditionally been saddled with very high Non-Performing Assets. Banks burdened with huge NPA’s faced uphill tasks in recovering then due to archaic laws and
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in an attempt to understand the Great Depression. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA‚ also nicknamed the Recovery Act‚ was a stimulus package put in place by the 111th U.S. Congress and was signed into law by the President Barack Obama in February 2009. Work on the bills had started way before President Obama officially took office on January 20. It was created in response to the Great Recession. The Recovery Act’s primary objective was to preserve existing jobs and to create
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Nations’ forests to work. The Works Progress Administration program; Roosevelt’s major work program‚ would employ 8.5 million Americans to build airports‚ parks‚ bridges‚ etc. Other programs included were‚ The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and The National Recovery Administration (NRA) were created to help unemployment. The Federal Emergency Relief Program (FERA) gave 3 million to states for work relief programs. The Agricultural Act subsidized farmers for reducing crops and provided loans
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1. To understand the importance of diversity‚ equality and inclusion 1.1 Diversity defines our visible and non-visible differences‚ which sets us apart from each other. It can include (but not exhaustive) differences in backgrounds‚ culture‚ personality‚ religion and belief‚ race‚ sexuality‚ language‚ disability‚ gender reassignment‚ sex‚ socio-economic status‚ ethnicity‚ political beliefs or other ideologies etc. Diversity encompasses recognition‚ acceptance and respect of our individual uniqueness
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Walt Whitman the poet of American inclusion Walt Whitman used his poems as a way of illustrating how he saw the perfect utopia that could be the “new world’ if only all of the diverse people that made up the American nation could come together and embrace one another. Whitman’s poems have a way of connecting people with their neighbors who may have been geographically close but where culturally‚ economically and ethnically worlds apart. In many ways Whitman is not so different from more modern
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