Political Italy’s Bersani seeks way out of vote impasse ROME (Reuters) - Italian center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani rallied his party on Wednesday behind a plan to form a minority government backed by populist Beppe Grillo after failing to secure victory in last week’s election.Bersani‚ whose coalition threw away a 10-point lead in the opinion polls before the February 24-25 vote‚ won control of the lower house but let slip a workable parliamentary majority by failing to win the Senate.The result
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notion that hipsters use taste to obtain social currency. Hipsters‚ these seemingly trendy leaders in what is cool‚ are motivated by their superior taste. The article claims that there is three distinct types of hipsters: college educated upper middle class types‚ wealthy hipsters‚ and couch surfers. The differences seem to exist due to the nature of taste for hipsters. Rather than “stable and peaceful‚” taste is much more competitive amongst the different hipster groups. With taste‚ they are able to get
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First‚ Robert Colescott’s painting‚ A Taste of Gumbo‚ effectively represents form and composition. Gardner explains that form “refers to an object’s shape and structure” and composition “refers to how an artist composes (organizes) forms in an artwork” (7). Colescott’s complex piece of art conveys a sense of African history and racism in America. It “addresses the African roots of a popular American food that French colonists claimed to have invented” (de Young‚ Colescott). The subject of the painting
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concept. Absolute poverty measures poverty in relation to the amount of money necessary to meet basic needs such as food‚ clothing‚ and shelter. In economic terms‚ income poverty is when a family’s income fails to meet the federally established threshold. Whereby‚ Relative poverty‚ defines poverty in relation to the economic status of other members of the society. In richer countries like Australia‚ poverty is conceived in relative rather than absolute terms. Poverty therefore can be defined not
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causes of how so many people in today’s society are in poverty. One way poverty is described is as "absolute poverty". "Absolute poverty" is defined by Encarta online dictionary‚ as the measure of the number of people living below a certain income threshold or the number of households unable to afford certain basic goods and services (Encarta "absolute poverty"). In other words‚ in the United States‚ absolute poverty is used with an official poverty line set in dollars and representing the annual income
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Exp. 2: finding relation between vgs and vds Spice Code: ‚‚‚‚‚‚ \*** SPICE deck for cell NMOSCH1{sch} from library 2011A3PS271 *** Created on Thu Aug 22‚ 2013 14:45:24 *** Last revised on Thu Aug 22‚ 2013 15:13:10 *** Written on Thu Aug 22‚ 2013 15:13:17 by Electric VLSI Design System‚ *version 9.04 *** Layout tech: mocmos‚ foundry MOSIS *** UC SPICE *** ‚ MIN_RESIST 4.0‚ MIN_CAPAC 0.1FF .global gnd *** TOP LEVEL CELL: NMOSCH1{sch} Mnmos-4@1 net@16 net@7 gnd gnd NMOS L=2U W=2U
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market. These conditions make it difficult to work their way out of poverty. In order to be considered poor‚ a citizen must be below the poverty line. The poverty line is based on the minimal amount of money required to live. “The average poverty thresholds are $11‚139 for one person‚ $17‚374 for a family of three‚ and $22‚319 for a family of four. Based off of
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Poverty Reduction and Welfare Provision for Single Parents in Aotearoa/ New Zealand and the United States - A Comparative Analysis Abstract In 1999‚ UNICEF reported that countries which have the most generous welfare provision‚ have the lowest rates of child poverty and that children who live in sole parent families are more likely to live in poverty (Bradbury & Jantti‚ 1999). This paper will look at child poverty in New Zealand and the United States and at welfare provision for single
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using poverty thresholds that are issued each year by the U.S. Census Bureau. The thresholds represent the annual amount of income needed to sustain at the lowest level families of various sizes. A family is classified as poor if their pre-tax income is below the poverty threshold. The pre-tax income does not include any non-monetary benefits such as public housing‚ Medicaid‚ food stamps or any employer provided health insurance. Here is a sample of the 2010 poverty thresholds: Single Individual
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essential goods and services allowing a person to reach min levels of satisfaction of basic needs * - 1901 rowntree developed a poverty line of essential goods and services needed to meet the minimum substance requirements in households. Poverty threshold is set using the monetary value of the basket plus a fixed amount of money aimed at covering other types of expenditure. Households less than this are considered poor. Positives 1. Easily understandable 2. The definition of it fits in with
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