AIR POLLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES Guides and Tips Home / Blog / Air Pollution in the Philippines Air pollution is a common and frequent problem nowadays. When you are on your way to work‚ you pass by your neighbors’ backyard where he is currently burning their garbage from yesterday‚ then you come across a smoke-belching public utility vehicle‚ then a guy beside you lighted a cigarette and started suffocating you with second-hand smoke. You cannot always depend on your handkerchief on covering
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Soils of the tropical savannas The soils of the tropical savannas‚ along with the distinctive wet/dry climate‚ are a major determinant of vegetation in the region‚ and of potential land uses. Soil is an outcome of five broad factors: parent material‚ climate‚ relief/slope‚ time and organisms. | Infertile soils Given the variations in all of these in the savannas it is no surprise that there are many different soil types in evidence in northern Australia. Generally speaking the combination of these
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be able to access resources so that they can meet their needs and hence achieve wellbeing. However there are factors that affect their access to resources which include disability‚ education‚ ethnicity/culture‚ gender‚ location‚ and socio economic status Age is an influential factor in accessing resources from the government and from non government sources. A person’s age is used to determine their entitlements to financial assistance such as the aged pension which helps to satisfy their financial
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and material objects. Although everyone has his or her own vision of the dream‚ it seems that money plays an important role in everyone’s dream. It seems that money has changed the dream and become the driving force behind the materialism and social status that many Americans strive for. The mommy in the play shows how the dream has become more self- centered and discusses how she just married daddy for his money. On the other hand‚ the grandmother exemplifies the older version of the dream when family
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Mildred Pierce‚ Mildred made so many choices: decided to go outside to find a job‚ worked as a waitress to make a living‚ opened her own restaurant to meet Veda’s increasing material requirement‚ got married with Monte to promote her family’s social status and kept silent in her daughter’s murdering case to protect her daughter. Mildred did all these things only for her daughter presenting her great motherhood. These choices could liberate her temporarily‚ but not for long run. We can see from the
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refer to it as stratification: a structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society. Ascribed status is a social position assigned to a person without regard for that person’s characteristics‚ for example‚ being a Queen is an ascribed status‚ as is being a female. By contrast‚ achieved status is a social position attained by a person largely through his or her own effort. This can be positive or negative so a person can be an ex-prisoner or
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Flint as a teenager‚ Tamarla was almost born into this status. Let alone other ascribed statuses that lay claim to poverty such as being an African-American‚ being a woman (let alone single) and living near Flint‚ Michigan where unemployment was over 8% and the crime rate was over triple the national average in 1999. Tamarla had achieved the status of parenthood‚ having her first of three children at age 20. She had also achieved the status of a hardworking tax payer‚ working up to 70 hours week
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stories show how class effects and influences characters decisions while alienating them from all classes. A Marxist approach would reveal that economic status is a primary element in both “A Rose for Emily” and “Odour of Chrysanthemums”. In “A Rose for Emily”‚ Emily’s class‚ her subsequent fall from affluence‚ and Tobe’s depressed socioeconomic status all relate to prosperity and the class system. In the story by William Faulkner‚ many of Miss Emily’s actions emphasize on Emily’s “class” such as when
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macronutrient intake between Indonesians 16-18 from two different socio-economic groups and their links to malnutrition Research Question Is there a significant difference between macronutrient intakes of Indonesians with a high and low socio-economic status (SES) in Jakarta‚ Indonesia? Reasons For Choice of Topic During the course of the International Baccalaureate program‚ I was privileged to be able to participate in one of the CAS projects‚ the CAS Clinic. As a member of this CAS group‚ I was exposed
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Social and Emotional Development of Low Income Children Growing up within a family living with a low socioeconomic status can have a detrimental effect on a child’s social and emotional development. Some factors that may be affected by a low economic status are weakened family and peer relations‚ lowered self-esteem‚ the tendency for aggression‚ as well as health problems. Not necessarily though does this always have a detrimental effect on children; it may serve constructively as well. A family
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