Introduction The classical definition of a slum is “characterized by overcrowding‚ poor or informal housing‚ inadequate access to safe water and sanitation‚ and insecurity of tenure.” (Davis 2007:23) There is has been a rapid growth of urban cities over the last couple of years and people are migrating out of rural areas and into these cities sometimes bring poverty along with them creating urban slums. There are many slums on earth and most of them are located in the Third World countries although
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Urbanisation and Growing Slums: Challenges for Administration Ankita Singh M.Phil Scholar‚ Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy. Banaras Hindu University. India is passing through a phase of rapid urbanization‚ which has been ushered by general development‚ industrialization and the huge influx of population from rural to urban areas in search of better economic opportunities. What would precisely be considered as urban development is achieving balanced growth
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The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and the Restless by David Mindich starts out by stating the focus of his article is the declining interest in news‚ and young people are not watching it anymore. The demographic that watches news now are getting older and older. You can notice this by looking at the commercials that are shown during the news. They appeal to an older demographic in general. Mindich uses logos‚ ethos and pathos to convince us that there is a collapse of big media‚ and that the consequences
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Second Language Teaching in Elementary School with a Multimedia Gloss Marilena Zoi 1‚ Ioanna Bellou 1 and Tassos A. Mikropoulos 1 1 The Educational Approaches to Virtual Reality Technologies Lab‚ The University of Ioannina‚ Greece Abstract. This work investigates the effects of a special designed multimedia gloss on learning outcomes concerning vocabulary learning in German as a second language in elementary school pupils. The gloss involves annotations of unknown words in three different
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for knowledge is resurrected in a student’s mind. Wenke ______. High school aged students are represented in the text by Wenke. Wenke’s target audience she is writing to the high school administration. She blames high school administrations for the epidemic saying‚ “schools are drifting away from emphasizing learning and are emphasizing the grade instead.” (Wenke 532). Wenke writes with students in mind to the high school administration to listen to her claim. Wenke makes her claim to explore
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Analysis of Prompt #6 Is driving an SUV the American way? According to the creator of this bumper sticker‚ it’s not. The purpose of this bumper sticker is to make a statement to Americans driving a sports utility vehicle (SUV) that driving these oversized vehicles is hurting the U.S.A by emitting large amounts of emissions into the ozone‚ polluting the air they breathe‚ and increasing the demand of oil from foreign countries. The illustrator of this sticker emphasizes his beliefs by using the American
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“In One Slum‚ Misery‚ Work‚ Politics and Hope” published in the New York Times and written by Jim Yardley exposes what life is like inside one of the most densely populated and largest slums in the world. Yardley breaks life in the slum into four segments‚ “misery” discusses the lack of infrastructure‚ “work” covers how the economy and industry are run‚ “politics” explains the inequality in the urban landscape of Mumbai‚ while “hope” demonstrates the payoffs of hard work for those living in Dharavi
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changes in children ’s sports have reflected the popularity of professional sports in our society. Sports games and sports news are available to the public twenty-four hours a day on television and the Internet even the radio. Due in part to this‚ schools and other organizations have changed American athletics from more of a fun playtime to intense competition. The effect of competition in youth sports on children has been the subject of much criticism and praise by physicians‚ psychologists and parents
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Facts One fall afternoon shots could be heard near an elementary school‚ housed in the Inland Empire. The gun shots appeared to be coming from the adjacent apartments‚ which are in close proximity to the elementary school. The adjacent apartment has a history of high gang affiliation‚ thus resulting in criminal activity. Shortly after the gun shots were heard the local police department contacts the elementary school to lockdown the school site due to safety precaution. The lockdown was to remain
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The Character Building through Character Education in Elementary School Nowadays‚ several people need the improvement in intensity and quality of character education implementation in formal educational institutions. This claim is based on the growing social phenomenon‚ namely the increasing juvenile delinquency in society‚ such as a mass brawl and various other cases of moral decadence. Even in certain large cities‚ these symptoms have come to the extent that is very disturbing. As the example
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