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    No one wants to stray too far from home too fast‚ or become and individual overnight. We want to be able to crawl back to our parents when the tough gets going. Pulling up the roots in Gail Sheehy’s Predictable Crisis of Adulthood refers to the stage after adolescence when you should be “pulling up your roots”. Your roots in this aspect‚ is referring to your home. We try to separate our own views of the world from our families. In the process of separating our views from our parents we normally are

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    of the passage suggests‚ Sheehy predicts different stages that most people experience between the ages of eighteen and fifty. She uses age as a major factor to indentify and categorize the human stage into six stages: “Pulling Up Roots”‚ the “Trying Twenties”‚ “Catch-30”‚ “Rooting and Extending”‚ the “Deadline Decade”‚ and lastly “Renewal or Resignation.” Sheehy refers to her self-proclaimed stages of life as the “developmental ladder” in which everyone will go through at some point in their lives

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    The Trying Twenties In the text‚ Gail Sheehy describes the difficulties‚ as well as freedom‚ which twenty-somethings are presented with when they enter the adult world. The twenties is the period when one is eager to find his own way of life. Some choose to go to graduate school‚ some get married early and try out different jobs to see which suits them best‚ and some stay single and put their career first. Two impulses are at work during this period. One is to be set as early as

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    Summary for Chapter Three and Four Chapter three starts with a new question: Is technology predictable? First‚ you must know what they are trying to predicate. This is where Nye begins to describe the differences between inventions and innovations which are differing terms it seems. Basically‚ innovations are improvements of the inventions. After this‚ he describes the different people who use different types of prognostication to foresee the future of inventions and innovations. The type of prognostication

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    “ENERGY CRISIS” CONTENT: INTRODUCTION: 2. Pakistan’s Energy Sector A: Energy Supply B: Energy Consumption C Sources of Energy in Pakistan 3 Non-renewable resources (Fossil fuels)       A: Petroleum products B: Natural Gas  C: Coal 4 Renewable Resources  a: Hydro power   Current Hydropower stations  Potential Hydropower stations 5 Alternative Energy Sources  A: Wind  B: Solar   C: Agricultural biomass /biodiesel  D: Tidal 6 Causes of Energy Crisis A: Growing

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    Energy Crises Energy is considered to be life line of any economy and most vital instrument of socioeconomic development of a country. Energy is pivotal in running machinery in factories and industrial units‚ for lighting our cities and powering our vehicles etc. There has been an enormous increase in the demand of energy as a result of industrial development and population growth‚ in comparison to enhancement in energy production. Supply of energy is‚ therefore‚ far less than the actual

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    SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN ADULTHOOD AND OLDER ADULTHOOD Erikson’s Crises in Adulthood and Older Adulthood * Generativity vs. Stagnation (Interest in establishing and guiding the next generation) * Child birth‚ caring about others‚ believing in the human species * Volunteer for organizations or mentoring at work * Stagnation – self-indulgence‚ boredom‚ lack of psychological growth * Midlife Crises – no support in research; more of a cohort effect (started in 1970’s – teens

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    ENERGY CRISIS IN PAKISTAN By Awaam ENERGY CRISIS IN PAKISTAN By Awaam After thoroughly suffering from the electricity shortage and being humiliated completely‚ reacting in a typical Pakistani way that is to analyse only after a crisis has set in rather than before‚ we decided to look into this matter at depth. To our utter surprise we found that while there were many articles passionately discussing various political issues around this matter‚ there was hardly any objective analysis in

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    Energy crisis in Pakistan Energy is the bloodline of a country’s economy. A continuous and sufficient energy `supply can ensure a healthy and progressive economy. Pakistan is unfortunate to face severe energy crisis in recent years. The parting gap between demand and supply is mounting with every year and it is pushing the country into dark ages. Worst part of this menace is the fact the installed capacity of electricity can not only fulfill the energy demand but can also produce surplus amounts

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    The Prodigious Roaring Twenties Everyone knows that the roaring twenties was the decade that so many things happen. Some of those things were intentions‚ new entertainment‚ styles‚ behavior; even bad things took place in the 1920s. Some of the great inventions we still used today were invented in the 1920s. Young men and women all over America were changing the style and coming out with new trends. Also young men and women all over America started to change their behavior and become rebellious.

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