The Economics of M‐PESA1 WILLIAM JACK 2 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY AND TAVNEET SURI 3 MIT SLOAN First version: October‚ 2009 This version: August‚ 2010 We gratefully acknowledge the support and collaboration of Pauline Vaughan and Susie Lonie‚ and other staff of Safaricom and Vodafone. The survey whose results are reported here was commissioned by the Central Bank of Kenya‚ managed by Financial Sector Deepening
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Feminism in M. Butterfly In the 1989 drama M. Butterfly‚ the masterwork of contemporary American playwright David Henry Hwang‚ the topic of sexual politics underlies all other themes‚ and creates a tension between the genders that pervades throughout the text; moreover‚ Hwang subverts traditional thematic aspects of sexual politics by questioning the most fundamental unit of sex by considering the very nature of gender and what defines a male or a female. These elements unite and develop a penetrating
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caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (Tortora‚ Funke‚ and Case 690). M. bovis is the etiologic agent of TB in cows and rarely in humans. Both cows and humans can serve as reservoirs. Humans can also be infected with M. bovis by the consumption of unpasteurized milk. This route of transmission can lead to the development of extrapulmonary TB‚ exemplified in history by bone infections that led to hunched backs (Todar). M. bovis accounts for only 1% of TB cases in humans in the United States.
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Ursula Hegi’s novel‚ Stones From The River‚ exposes the reader of the persecutions of religious beliefs‚ a gossiping dwarf‚ and the people of Burgdorf‚ a small German town in the time of the Nazi Holocaust. The novel is set in World War I and continues through World War II. The Second World War is brought on by the hunger of power it is known as the otherness war. “In the Third Reich otherness is a crime.”(Chadwick 2) Hitler‚ a Nazi leader‚ wants to gain control of Germany and
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human history has seen the creation and development of societal expectations based on a person’s sex. While the system is far from perfect‚ with gender inequality continuing to exist across the globe‚ humanity has accomplished much with this system. Ursula Le Guin uses The Left Hand of Darkness to pose an interesting question: what would a world be like where gender did not exist? On Gethen‚ the setting of the book‚ the people are androgynous‚ only taking on sexual characteristics a few days a month
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Aunt’s Side of the Story Throughout the novel‚ “The Wife’s Story”‚ written by Ursula Le Guin‚ every character witnessed the event in different ways. In this particular predicament‚ where a man is trapped in a world of wolves‚ there are several characters who experienced the man turning into something horrid‚ the creature‚ the kids‚ the mother and me‚ her sister. I don’t trust my sister’s husband‚ there is something odd about him‚ he just seems too good to be true‚ I feel like he is a snake in the
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Role Conflict and Burnout: The Direct and Moderating Effects of Political Skill and Perceived Organizational Support on Burnout Dimensions I. M. Jawahar Illinois State University Thomas H. Stone Oklahoma State University Jennifer L. Kisamore University of Oklahoma in Tulsa Drawing from previous research on the effect of role conflict on burnout and the Conservation of Resources theory‚ the authors propose that individual differences in political skill and perceptions of organizational support will
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[pic] [pic] An early period work "Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula" (Kandinsky 1908) Kandinsky’s creation of purely abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense theoretical thought based on his personal artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty‚ fervor of spirit‚ and deep spiritual desire inner necessity‚ which was a central aspect of his art. Kandinsky learned from a variety of sources during his youth and life in Moscow. Later
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M. Butterfly: Summary Act I Scenes 1-3 M. Butterfly opens in present-day Paris. Rene Gallimard is in a small prison cell. He describes his monotonous daily routine‚ and then confides that he is no ordinary prisoner‚ but a celebrity. People talk about him at parties from Amsterdam to New York. Scene 2 shows three people at a party joking about Gallimard‚ and the joke obviously has something to do with sex. Scene 3 returns to Gallimard’s cell‚ and he confides that he has been loved by the "Perfect
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different from traditional ecommerce. Mobile phones impose very different constraints than desktop computers. Analysis Customers Point of View The analysis which we infer from the information collected from the people and the m-commerce
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