20 April, 2009
Africa - A poem for politicians Everywhere!How pious those politicians are, When up there on T.V. Saying
that, all the things they do, They do for you and me. I don't
remember requesting weapons, Or to send my sons to war. Just how
many tons of food, Would all that money provide for? I didn't
ask for that highway, Or the ‘modern art' with purple
lights. I would rather all those millions, Helped with Human
Rights. Did I ask to stockpile food in hangars, Until the price
goes high. Why can't we send it, to Africa, Instead of ...
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Category: News and Society
15 April, 2009
Water Comes Clean: the World’s Need for Safe, Drinkable Water
Water is a naturally recycled product.From evaporation to precipitation, it is continuously in flux. It is channeled by the atmosphere from lakes and streams and oceans, absorbed by clouds and generously redistributed across the planet. But water's natural recycling process does not protect it from pollution.As water is channeled, it collects toxins floating in the atmosphere. These toxins are the result of natural pollutants and human industry, a potentially lethal combination that makes ...
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Category: News and Society
15 April, 2009
Malnutrition is a Great Concern in BangladeshBangladesh is one of the poorest country in the world.Due to economic distress condition Bangladesh people specially children are badly effected by malnutrition.Yesterday UNICEF and WFT has completed a research about nutrition crisis in Bangladesh rural area. According the report two million children are suffering from acute malnutrition in Bangladesh where one quarter of all households are hungry.Nearly 60 per cent of the households surveyed said they had insufficient food over the past 12 ...
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Category: News and Society
15 April, 2009
Homelessness in the USIn 2000, 11.3% of the US population, 31.3 million people, lived
in poverty. Here's the most current information on homelessin
the US. For ways to help, scroll down.
1. Since 2000, the number of people living in extreme poverty
has increased.
2.According to the 2003 report from the National Coalition for
the Homeless (NCH), Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York City, Los
Angeles and Atlanta are the top five 'meanest' cities in the US
for poor and homeless people to live in; California is ...
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Category: News and Society
15 April, 2009
Should We Worry About Immigrant Assimilation and Education?B>Yes, they are important to our future!
Many of tomorrow's workers and business owners are the children
of today's immigrants. More than 40% of the growth of our labor
force in the late 1990s was due to immigrants, and since
immigration WILL continue, they are important to our future
growth.
A concern is certainly that many of today's Hispanic/Latino
immigrants are uneducated and unskilled: this could mean that
their children will not fit into our knowledge-based and
high-tech economy. Often ...
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Category: News and Society
15 April, 2009
How Bill Cosby Got iy WrongBill Cosby got it wrong. His many speeches regarding the plight
of poor blacks in this country and their lack of personal
responsibility, were not only off the mark, but completely
irresponsible.
Cosby failed to take into account many mitigating factors, in
what became his regular rants about poor blacks in this country.
For example, the last of the civil rights laws was passed in
1965, so it's been forty years since the physical signs of
government sanctioned racism have been in place. Please ...
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Category: News and Society
12 April, 2009
Marx Without Marxism? A Study of Karl Marx as an InfluentialThe study of human political behavior raises numerous
complexities. Although scientific in principle, it is not an
exact science due to the unpredictability and changeability of
human society. It not only revolves around factual matters but
also answers to claims about how the world is and how it should
be. It is often shaped by the social environment of its
originator. All these factors however, do not disqualify it from
the realm of science. Driven by the desire to analyze their
environments, ...
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Category: News and Society
11 April, 2009
Women EmpowermentSince beginning, Indian constitution has always given due
consideration to the
women category. The
Eighth plan of Indian Planning claimed to provide benefits form
the economic development to women equally. Ninth and Tenth Plans
also emphasized on
empowerment of women.
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh was set up in1993 to help the economically
poor and deserving women.
Empowerment refers to freedom to choose and action in economic,
social and political fields. Initially women had no control over
his ...
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11 April, 2009
Michigan's Poor Children Face An Uphill BattleMUSKEGON -- Michigan's poor are having an increasingly hard time
making ends meet, according to a recently completed study, and
numerous social service organizations throughout the state.
According to the 2003 Market Basket Survey (which measures the
buying power of the poor), cash assistance and food stamps,
which make up all the poor receive, covers only 5 percent of the
income needed to pay for food, clothing and housing. One year
ago, Public Assistance provided 60 percent.
"That's a very ...
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11 April, 2009
Help Fight Poverty in Africa –through Education
For if resources are which determine the richest of a people then African countries like Nigeria, Angola, Sudan, Tanzania, and DRC Congo would be some of the richest in the world and countries like Israel, Singapore or Hong Kong would be some of the poorest.
Empirical evidence however demonstrates that it is the country that have embraced technology( the adequate exploitation of their mind resource), who have done better than those even more endowed with oil, gold, diamonds ...
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