India is rich in water resources‚ being endowed with a network of great rivers & vast alluvial basins to hold groundwater. Conditions‚ however‚ vary widely from region to region. Whereas there are some chronically drought affected areas‚ there are others which are frequently subject to damage by floods.On the whole‚ under the pressure of rapid population growth‚ the available resources of water are being developed & depleted at a fast rate & the situation seriously underlines the need for taking
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Anton Chekhov The Bet It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how‚ fifteen years before‚ he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there‚ and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. The majority of the guests‚ among whom were many journalists and intellectual men‚ disapproved of the death penalty. They considered that form of punishment out of date‚
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Children: Victims of apathy and neglect sayem talukdar Bangladesh’s young population (under 18)‚ comprising 45% of the total population are virtually unnoticed. They are vast untapped wealth that could be turned into effective manpower. Born mostly of poor parents‚ the male children supplement the meager income of the parents‚ while most female children in urban areas work as domestic help. A big number of them fall into the clutches of child traffickers and end up in red light areas in the country
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the fruits of victory were. On one hand‚ the blind spot allowed for an unwavering march towards complete‚ absolute victory‚ which at the time appeared to be a great thing. However‚ there comes a time when the blind spot is revealed‚ and a day of reckoning fragments the stereotype. History shows the flaws in the advantage of the complete victory and the humiliation of an
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slow paced‚ and laid back lifestyle‚ live in the country. In the city‚ traffic is everywhere. You have to wait at stop signs and stop lights for a longer period of time due to the high volume of people. “By the Texas Transportation Institute ’s reckoning‚ the cities having the worst traffic problems are: Los Angeles‚ Calif.‚ Long Beach‚ Calif.‚ Santa Ana‚ Calif.‚ San Francisco‚ Calif.‚ Oakland‚ Calif.‚ Washington‚ D.C.‚ Atlanta‚ G.A.‚ Houston‚ T.X.‚ Dallas‚ T.X.‚ Fort Worth‚ T.X.‚ Arlington‚ T.X
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Hitler’s contemporaries - Baldwin‚ Chamberlain‚ Herbert Hoover - seem pathetically fusty figures‚ with their frock coats and wing collars‚ closer to the world of Edison‚ Carnegie and the hansom cab than to the first fully evolved modern societies over which they presided‚ areas of national consciousness formed by mass-produced newspapers and consumer goods‚ advertising and tele-communications. By comparison Hitler is completely up-to-date‚ and would be equally at home in the sixties (and probably
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Survival skills are techniques a person may use in a dangerous situation (e.g. natural disasters) to save themselves or others. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life: water‚ food‚ shelter‚ habitat‚ the ability to think straight‚ to signal for help‚ to navigate safely‚ to avoid unpleasant interactions with animals and plants‚ and cure any present injuries. Survival skills are often basic ideas and abilities that ancient humans have used for thousands of years. Hiking
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The Crucible - Quotations Characters: Abigail Williams • Stage directions: an endless capacity for dissembling • “…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” • “I’d almost forgot how strong you are‚ John Proctor!” • Stage directions: Winningly she comes a little closer‚ with a confidential‚ wicked air. • “I want to open myself! I want the light of God… I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the
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Minda~Quenn Yeary Saint Thomas Aquinas Philosopher and theologian St. Thomas Aquinas was born circa 1225 in Italy. Combining the theological principles of faith with the philosophical principles of reason‚ he ranked among the most influential thinkers of medieval Scholasticism. People were at odds as to how to unite the knowledge they obtained through revelation with the information they observed naturally using their mind and their senses. Based on Averroes’s "theory of the double truth‚"
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that she was confronted my Parris about the night in the woods‚ she goes on to tell them‚ “...Let either of you breathe a word‚ or the edge of a word‚ about the other things‚ and I will come to you in the black of night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Miller 468). Just in these few examples we see how different these two women
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