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    purposes only. Wanting safety and security does not mean that you are necessarily giving up your privacy. Take for example‚ the Barbara Katende story in the New York Times. She noticed a camera stationed on a rooftop about 200 yards from her sixth-floor apartment window. This was a rooftop she had seen‚ but never considered or paid attention to‚ each time she walked near her window in undergarments or bare. Ms. Katende was in the safety and privacy of her own home. Does this mean that since she

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    ABSTRACT Bangladesh is experiencing an acute shortage of electric power that is likely to be worsening day by day which stresses the need for the deployment of renewable energy resources to extenuate this energy crisis. Since Bangladesh is a country which is abundant in natural resources; the substantial availability of renewable energy sources in the form of solar‚ biomass‚ biogas‚ hydropower and wind energy can provide opportunities of sustainable energy based development. In Bangladesh‚ nearly

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    particularly important because health is wealth. Healthy rural dwellers will be able to provide a means of livelihood for their families‚ though they often rely on rudimentary methods. This then means that if rural dwellers can be empowered to access health-related information and practices‚ they can participate in social development and nation-building‚ and this can potentially help to reduce the wide margin between rural and urban dwellers. Health workers are faced with huge difficulties with regards

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    In fact‚ in densely urbanized cities available spaces which might be converted into parks can be hardly found and the increase in surface albedo might result annoying for citizens. Therefore‚ some decision makers decided to use rooftops as available urban surfaces to be converted into green and cool roofs. Some administrations already developed by-laws and initiatives to incentivize the wide deployment of green roofs. For instance‚ in 2005 in Toronto‚ Mayor Miller‚ during the meeting

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    business are: a) To supply and manage the sales of affordable‚ clean and filtered water utilising the water dispenser with the daily production of 1‚000 litres to the hostel dwellers in UMS. b) To save the time and electricity usage in the preparation of drinking water. c) To increase the level of safety among hostel dwellers and facilities by decreasing the usage of high voltage equipment to prepare drinking water. 2.0 TARGET GROUP a) Students living in the hostels of Kg. A‚ Kg. B‚ Kg. C

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    Identify what you consider to be the director’s main purpose and explore‚ in depth ‚ one or two main visual/ oral techniques used to achieve this purpose. An important theme in Frank Darabont’s film ‚ The Shawshank Redemption is hope in humanity. The film demonstrates that hope is a good thing . The director’s main purpose was to convey this idea through the film to the audience by using visual and verbal techniques. In Darabont’s film the theme of hope in mankind is important as it enables the

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    NON OBJECTIVE ART Composition with red‚ yellow and blue‚ composed by Piet Mondrian from 1937-1942  HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: * The art movement that Composition with red‚ yellow and blue was created in was Surrealism.  * After returning to Holland in 1914‚ Mondrian was fascinated by abstract paintings. * With the war outbreak in Holland‚ Mondrian was forced to stay in Holland‚ where in 1916-1917‚ he helped form the Neo-Plasticism movement. Neo-plasticism impacted and brought out the

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    percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005.[1] However‚ due to rising population‚ and the rise especially in urban populations‚ the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums[2] and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.[3] The term has traditionally referred to housing areas that were once relatively affluent but which deteriorated as the original dwellers moved on to

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    claimed that “low appreciation of green spaces is also reflected in the recent cuts in the maintenance of budget of many towns”. Nevertheless‚ it is generally believed that natural assets and components not only make the quality of life of municipal dwellers better but also provide the citizens with many kind of services such as the purification of air and water‚ social and psychological services and so on. According to recent studies‚ urban park brought many positive impacts on the well-being of citizens

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    English analysis – Circus cat‚ Alley cat The short story “Circus cat‚ alley cat” is written by Anita Desai and is on three pages. The short story is about Anna‚ a circus performer who becomes a nanny for an English family. Anna is performing with tigers and lions in an exciting show. The narrator is a child and has a wild imagination. When Anna is babysitting the children‚ the narrator often imagines that Anna cracks her whip‚ and controls the cats. One day Anna’s baby is taken away from her‚ and

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