Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus is a banker to the poor and economist who was born on 28 June 1940 in Bangladesh. He was a professor of economics and is famous for his work in microcredit. Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983 to help the poor by giving out small loans. He turned the idea into Grameen Bank‚ which has made small loans to more than 7.5 million people now. His first loan was $27 given from his own pocket. This $27 was loaned to
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THINKING FROM THE QUR’ANIC PERSPECTIVE ABSTRACT The Qur’an is the main reference and source of knowledge for Muslims. It is logically follows that understanding the concept of thinking should also be referred to the Qur’an. Even though the word intellect is mentioned 49 times in the Qur’an and there are hundreds of verses that urge Muslims to think‚ but the theory of thinking from the Qur’anic perspective is not extensively explored to guide Muslim educators and curriculum designers and developers
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for each of the individuals. National Security was not a threat and will never be a threat to our freedoms. The criminals act against benevolence. If a nation is secured‚ it would be a total disaster for the grudgeful evils which would be profitable for the innocent souls‚ who just get to feel hurt or die with no reason....The nurturing buds‚ the mature flowers and the old trees; every being‚ from infancy to oldhood‚ needs defender to shield them. And‚ the National Security‚ with no doubt‚ acts
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The Outsiders Essay A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Anyone can become a hero through perseverance from any point in society. Ponyboy is part of a crowd who are like criminals known as the Greasers‚ who are poor and live on the east side of town. The Greasers are a gang that have Ponyboy‚ Soda‚ Steve‚ Johnny‚ Dally‚ Darry‚ and Two-bit Matthews. The Greasers are hated by the Socs‚ the Socials‚ who are the west side rich kids in the town. In the
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What do you think defines a hero? Heroes in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders help people a lot. Johnny‚ Darry‚ and Dally are all heroes because they help people in different ways. Johnny is a hero in The Outsiders because he has helped people. The first way he has helped people is when he killed Bob to save Ponyboy from drowning. This helps people because that way Ponyboy survives and does not die. The second way he has helped people is when he decided to turn himself in. This is an act of heroism
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National integration is the mean by which the people constituting a nation are brought together so that the whole people are unified by the leadership on the basis of their common system of symbols and institutions which these groups select‚ standardize‚ maintain arid transmit from generation to generation. National integration has two important aspects; firstly‚ the existing pattern of state and government and secondly; the formation and development of the character‚ mind and consciousness of every
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Lermentov’s most iconic novel‚ A Hero of Our Time tells the tale of a wandering soldier‚ Pechorin. Pechorin encounters many transformative women throughout his journey. A fateful prophecy about his death shapes all his interaction with these women. "When I was still a child‚ an old woman told my fortune to my mother. She predicted of me "death from a wicked wife"" (137). In A Hero of Our Time‚ Lermentov’s hero tries to escape his fate through women when‚ ironically‚ they are his fate. Pechorin
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The Role of E-cigarettes In Our Community Although they might be slightly more effective than nicotine patches and other aids in helping people quit smoking‚ electronic cigarettes still stand as a gateway to nicotine addiction. A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suggests more children and teens from middle school to high school are trying these new devices. About 1.8 million children admitted puffing on an e-cigarette with 160‚000 of them doing so with never having tried an
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In Reynold’s Price famous “Hero of Our Times” speech he says that‚ “Our need for heroes is at least as old as our need for enemies.” Even before Greek myths‚ there were boundaries and expectations because without enemies there wouldn’t be a need for heroes. To be an American hero in the twentieth century is a matter of perspective. In my perspective‚ to be an American hero in the twentieth century means that one must be a model to aspire others‚ sacrifice something of meaning for the greater good
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Write a few sentences explaining your answer- computations are not required (or desired) d) Suppose 90 users visit the site during a particular minute‚ use the normal approximation to estimate the probability that more than 25 of them click on an ad. e) If 900 users visited the site‚ would the probability that more than 250 of them click on an ad be higher or lower than the answer found in part (d)? Write a few sentences explaining your answer- computations are not required (or desired) 2. Suppose
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