Social Issues in the Philippines Falling Income The Philippine GDP per capita shrank to US$990 in 2000 from US$1‚129 in 1997 while the GNP per capita contracted to US$1‚033 from US$1‚197. This was a result of the Asian financial crisis‚ which caught up with the Philippines in 1998. After expanding 5.2 percent in 1997‚ the country’s GDP backpedaled by 0.5 percent in 1998. It grew by only 3.4 percent in 1999 and 4 percent in 2000. With a high population growth rate of 2.3 percent annually‚ economic
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Marijuana as a Social Problem Introduction Marijuana is a green‚ brown‚ or gray mixture of dried‚ shredded leaves‚ stems‚ seeds‚ and flowers of the hemp plant. You may hear marijuana called by street names such as pot‚ herb‚ weed‚ grass‚ boom‚ Mary Jane‚ gangster‚ or chronic. There are more than 200 slang terms for marijuana. All forms of marijuana are mind-altering. In other words‚ they change how the brain works. They all contain THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol)‚ the main active chemical
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Introduction Capital Punishment is defined as the legal infliction of the death penalty by the federal system or by the state. Also known as the death penalty‚ this sentencing is the most severe form of corporal punishment as it is irreversible and everlasting. We have all heard of the famous lex talionis of "an eye for an eye" in the Old Testament of the Bible. The view of proponents of the death penalty in reference to the "let the punishment fit the crime" ideal is that‚ in the eyes of many law
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EMPIRICAL STUDY ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THAILAND: PRIVACY BEHAVIOR AND CONCERN INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH SUBMITTED IN BUSINESS RESEARCH SUBJECT FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISRATION IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BY PONGSATHORN CHALERMCHUANG BANGKOK‚ THAILAND DECEMBER 2012 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION THE SOCIAL NETWORK 1.1 Background of the topic The social network is the type of community between peer to peer occurring
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S. Surgeon General‚ The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ and the National Institute on Drug Abuse) is five or more drinks in a row for men‚ and four or more in a row for women. Drinking levels this high significantly increase the problems the drinkers and for those around them. What is Alcohol Poisoning? Alcohol poisoning occurs when a person drinks a large quantity of alcohol in a short amount of time. The amount of alcohol in the bloodstream is called the blood alcohol concentration
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Jobs are there but less skilled workers.. +Sanitation ----abt the sewage cleaners ‚ +no major city in India is known to have a continuous water supply and an estimated 72% of Indians still lack access to improved sanitation facilities. +Health problems - diseases - malaria‚ TB ‚ aids‚ +Superstitious --- IT IMPACTS THE SCIENTIFIC TEMPER +Female foeticide - still prevails in rural and less developed areas +And due the tech and cultural changes the old age people are being sent out of homes
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ld wi thout a n y ba rr ier s a ll ows c ult ur e s fr om ot he r c ountrie s influen c e the Mala y si a n e spe c iall y th e y o uths. The re a re g ood a nd b a d c ult ur e s. T he socia l problems e me r g e d du e to bad c ult ur e s fr om ot he r c ountrie s. C ult ur e s which w e do no t fe e d int o our own c ult ur a l and r e li g ious v a lues. Most y oun g g e n e ra ti ons c a nnot
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nicknamed “Paris of the East”. Famous people are originally half Lebanese such as the well known Columbian artist “Shakira”. There are five countries which surround Lebanon which are: Turkey‚ Syria‚ Jordan‚ Cyprus & Palestine (Israel). Several problems started to appear in Lebanon. In 1943-1948 after France got out from Lebanon the Christians took the balance of power in the country while Muslims haven’t much of a power back then‚ this caused some tensions between those two. The tension reached
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Overpopulation is a condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. In common parlance‚ the term often refers to the relationship between the human population and its environment‚ the Earth.[1] Overpopulation does not depend only on the size or density of the population‚ but on the ratio of population to available sustainable resources. It also depends on the way resources are used and distributed throughout the population If a given environment has a population
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The fox jumped over the bridge. Driving under the influence of alcohol has affected and devastated countless people’s lives. Driving under the influence is one of the most dangerous situations you can put yourself or someone else into. The evidence against driving while intoxicated is massive and it has left a long trail of broken dreams and lives. If you drink and drive‚ not only do you possibly put yourself at risk‚ but your passengers and pedestrians‚ and other people on the roads. According
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