Innovation in Education Gimms Andrews Final Submission Stratford University EBM 502 Research Methods Dr. Venkataraman Subramaniam 3rd March 2010 Introduction There are nearly 10‚000 underprivileged children studying in the slum schools of HOPE worldwide India (www.hopeworldwide.org.in). It is a challenge to get good books for these children. We came up with an idea to overcome this challenge. We will approach many schools in Delhi and tie up with the management to
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the world: Lagos‚ Nigeria. At first sight one would assume this slum city is a rough‚ lawless‚ dangerous place. It is easy to assume that. Through this documentary we get to see what an everyday looks like for those who DO live and work there. It is amazing to see these individuals practice resilience‚ they are people to admired rather than pitied. This film expresses the struggles each individual experience from living in this slum city. It also shows us just how much unity Nigerians have. They
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How Jacob Riis’ “How the Other Half Lives” Brought Social Change via Photography Jacob Riis’ “How the Other Half Lives” brought to light the disparity between the exorbitantly wealthy of New York and the immigrants who live in the slums such as the Five Points. Urban populations grew exponentially in the United States when floods of immigrants entered through Ellis Island. During the turn of the 20th century corruption was embedded in every aspect of industry‚ economy‚ justice‚ and politics. This
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Shakespeare is insulting his Mistress. He does so by saying what she is not. He says negative things about her appearance and voice. The ‘Blessing’ poem is about people and children in a slum and their reaction towards water. They believe it as the ‘Voice of a kindly god’ because they hardly get any water in the slum. Water is rare to them. The poems
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How does the quality of life in Dharavi differ from the life in Palo Alto and how does it affect the happiness and daily life of its citizens? What factors influence this? Dharavi suffers from a low quality of life and is unable to meet many of its citizens needs. The area lacks privacy as well as sanitation and houses are usually composed of mud and logs. Many factors cause this low quality of life‚ but the main cause is found in history. The area of Dharavi started off lacking lots of proper materials
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Slum Dog In the film slumdog they’re had happen to be a whole lot of misfortunate events and stress into living a better life. The movie showed that to get through life you have to first get through obstacles to reach success. Jamal and his brother Salim were born and raised in Dharavi slums of Mumbai‚ India. The whole slum area seemed to be rough and nasty. I couldn’t imagine how life they’re could be. When a whole attack happened at the slum the violators had knocked out Salim and Jamal’s mother
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to a lack of time‚ importance‚ and information. These men used the representative heuristic by utilizing their schema of "slum kids" as a prototype. They also used the availability heuristic as media portrays these children in a bad light. Ultimately‚ this led to confirmation bias as the jurors expected that the boy must be guilty due to their stereotype/prejudice towards "slum kids" and so they only remembered details that supported this. Alternatively‚ the opposed juror (juror #8) acted
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do‚ places to see and towns to visit. If you’re more of a city person you can take a look at the magnificent buildings that Mumbai has to offer‚ or if you’re abit more of the adventures type you could go spend a day looking and walking around the slums and getting a real feel of what it would be like to live in India. Some of Mumbai’s main attractions include the Gateway of India‚ Bolly wood and Haji Ali. The gateway of india was built during the British Raj and is located on the waterfront in
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18th‚ 1914. The lockout today is viewed as one of the most significant and severe disputes in Irish labor history. Some of the factors that lead to the Dublin lockout were the worker’s right to unionize and the extremely poor living conditions in slums‚ in which where over one third of Dublin’s population made their homes. During this lockout many important figures emerged on both sides of the fighting. Irish workers looked to people like James Connolly as well as James Larkin as leaders of the struggling
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CAUSES OF MULNUTRITION IN CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEAR OLD IN MATHARE SLUMS NAIROBI PRESENTED BY [Name] Admission number SUPERVISOR: A RESERCH PROPOSAL SUBMITED TO KENYA INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF A DIPLOMA IN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS MANAGEMENT May 2012 DECLARATION Student’s declaration I declare that this is my original work and has not been submitted in any other learning institution for the award of degree or diploma. Name Signature Date Supervisor
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