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    Annexure- A Banaras Hindu University PBAS Pro-forma for Promotion under CAS Part-A: General Information And Academic Background | |Name (in Block Letters): | | | |Date and Place of Birth : | | | |Sex: Male/ Female

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    4. WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON HEALTH? – 171 4. What are the effects of education on health? By Leon Feinstein‚ Ricardo Sabates‚ Tashweka M. Anderson‚ Annik Sorhaindo and Cathie Hammond∗ ∗ Leon Feinstein‚ Ricardo Sabates‚ Tashweka Anderson‚ Annik Sorhaindo and Cathie Hammond‚ Institute of Education‚ University of London‚ 20 Bedford Way‚ London WC1H 0AL‚ United Kingdom. We would like to thank David Hay‚ Wim Groot‚ Henriette Massen van den Brink and Laura Salganik for the useful comments

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    Historical Recount: Marco Polo and his voyage to China. In 13th and 14th centuries‚ many people believed that Marco polo and his family have been one of the first Europeans to visit China with a famous book The Travels of Marco Polo that had been written by a writer called Rustichello. The most appealing thing about Marco Polo is that Marco and his father were not explores. Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy. He grew into a wealthy merchant family and had an education‚ which would have

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    entrepreneur‚ and spent a great amount of time to raise the necessary funding for his expedition. Not only‚ he used his family connections to reach out for Britain wealthiest people‚ but sent them a personal letter along with a copy of the expedition prospectus. He managed to secure the needed £51‚000 for the expedition. Eventually‚ he took a huge financial risk to accomplish his dream. He continuously adapted himself and his crew to changing ice/weather conditions just likes a business entrepreneur

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    The European overseas voyages left Britain and France with different territories in North America. Britain has thirteen colonies and France ruled a large area named New France. The two engaged in several wars before the French Indian war. By 1754 Britain controlled the majority of the colonies leaving the French with much less. These two areas were expanding closer and closer with the question of who would dominate who. The Ohio River Valley was used for communications between the two halves of the

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    maiden voyage. The ship had over 2‚227 passengers aboard. Days later‚ this beautiful masterpiece sank to the bottom of the ocean. Nearly 1‚500 people died that day on the Titanic‚ after crashing into an iceberg. But was it really the iceberg’s fault for the lives lost? There were many people accused for losing the lives‚ however‚ only one makes sense. Stanley Lord‚ the captain of the Titanic‚ is to blame for all the lives lost that day. Stanley went to sleep after seeing the signals‚ he didn’t

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    "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance” 1) In what context should the Endurance expedition be analyzed? As a scientific endeavor? An entrepreneurial venture? An exercise in imperial opportunity? By what criteria should the expedition be evaluated? Given your answer to the preceding question‚ was it a success or a failure? The case study examined Ernest Shackleton and his Antarctic exploration with his ship the Endurance. This expedition took place in

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    on his voyage? Robert Walton wants to travel to the Artic and be the first to set foot on it. Walton is also excited by adventure and new experiences. 2. How did Walton prepare himself for the expedition? He has been preparing himself for six years‚ gathering information about the Arctic‚ and training himself physically so that he will be able to endure the harsh climate of the region. 3. What did Walton read for the first 14 years of his life? For the first 14 years of Walton’s life‚ he reads his

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    If the Shoe Fits‚ He Did It. Romeo and Juliet was not originally from Shakespeare; Arthur Brooke wrote a poem and Shakespeare turned that into a marvelous play. Many characters could be blamed since most of them are either Montague or Capulet. They don’t seem to like the other family and they fight. Benvolio is the one who is mostly to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he forced Romeo to go to the dance‚ and then he pushed Romeo to search for a girl‚ and after threw him under the

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    1 He Who Fights Monsters “He who fights monsters must see to it that in the process he himself does not become a monster.” Friedrich Nietzsche raises a crucial point: in a search for justice‚ how can one assure that one will not be consumed by one’s cause? The novel The Round House by Louise Erdrich focuses on Joe Coutts’s quest for justice and on how narrowly he avoids Nietzsche’s prophesied fate. Since the tribe Joe belongs to has no authority to prosecute Linden‚ the man who rapes his

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