Thankfully we have organizations like UNICEF, UN, WHO and RED CROSS who are on the frontline to ensure poverty does not create havoc in the world. ... A study by the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that 75% of poor people depend a lot on agriculture. ... Having a second source of income in each house will undoubtedly elevate their financial and social status. Surely this will not erase poverty from the world map but it will eventually contribute towards a decrease in poverty rate and other social conflicts. ...

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The Republic of Mauritius defines sustainable development by the United Kingdom definition as "social progress that recognizes the needs of everyone, with high levels of economic growth and employment prudent, use of natural resources, and effective protection of the environment." ... Non-governmental Organizations Non-governmental organizations are not of the greatest importance in Mauritius. The greatest challenge between Mauritius and its non-governmental organizations is in the way of communication and more cooperation. ... The non-governmental organizations deal with social securit...

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AIDS is popular in Africa due to a number of social and cultural factors. ... Children who are the victims of double orphan hood are often place an impossible financial and social burden on elderly grandparents. ... Due to the thousands of orphan children in Africa many organizations, such as The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), are fighting for the orphan problem in Africa. Schools, faith communities, civic groups, organizations and individuals help to collect items for hygiene kits for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. ...

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We have studied many different social organizations throughout the semester. However, I feel as though the anlo-ewe of the southeastern coast of Africa would have be the social organization that would most prefer this type of musical activity. ...

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What impact do non-government organizations (NGOs) have on the health and well being of African children? ... Many organizations have been around for years and have helped hundreds of children. ... An organization that greatly helps he children of Africa is named Africa's Promise. ... The NGOs that provide money for organizations within Africa help with the modernizing of the country. ... This might be happening because when an aid worker is put in a position where there is isolation (one aid worker in a whole village) and when that worker feels superior to the villagers, the different...

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The Zulu culture has practiced polygamy for decades and it has become a symbol of the male's social status as well as wealth. ... There are various groups and organizations that are encouraging polygamous couples and cultures to refrain from this practice in order to prevent the spread of harmful and life threatening diseases. ... This short comic was created by an organization known as UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. ... Polygamy is an important part of the social culture found in South Africa. ... Many organizations such as the United Nations E...

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What changes in technology and social organization were crucial to their success? ... It is not less important to mention the relevance that technology and social organization had for their success among a huge variety of ecosystems present at that time. ... Circumscription (geographic and social) c. ...

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Assigned third-world economy status, dependent upon the world market, and caught amid social and political wars, Africa has not adapted well to the changes thrust upon it by colonial rule. ... The economy's reliance on the world market is an important economic effect of colonialism, as are the new social and demographic changes effected by Africa's incorporation into the global economy. ... The commercialization of commodities has attached specific money values to work or objects that had previously been for social use, and without ownership rights. ... The colonial era introduced s...

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Assigned third-world economy status, dependent upon the world market, and caught amid social and political wars, Africa has not adapted well to the changes thrust upon it by colonial rule. ... The economy's reliance on the world market is an important economic effect of colonialism, as are the new social and demographic changes effected by Africa's incorporation into the global economy. ... The commercialization of commodities has attached specific money values to work or objects that had previously been for social use, and without ownership rights. ... The colonial era introduced s...

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No social stability without individual stability.... Games consist of advanced technological apparatus and low organization, creating very superficial entertainment without satisfying humanity's need to be creative. ... These soma rations vary according to the social classes, where the lowest classes receive the least, the highest the most. ... These messages are composed of socially accepted morals and values. "All conditioning aims at making people like their inescapable social destiny....

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Other myths account for the organization of the world and society, for instance how men and women were created and why they are different from one another. ... Folktales are acknowledged as things which did not really happen, but are useful stories for providing moral or social lessons or for amusement." ... The epic tells that Sundiata made major changes in the organization of the Manlinke government and society. ...

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In the article, Cracking down FGM it states, According to the world health organization, Female Genital Mutilation affects 140 million women worldwide with majority cases occurring in Africa and the Middle East. ... In the article FGM and Social Change it states, "Changing social expectations is the key to ending the practice of FGM or cutting: the dynamics of social change towards the abandonment of FGM/Cutting in 5 African Countries...one of the first steps is to promote the alternative, not cutting" (Unknown 1). ...

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Much has been made of the fact that the post-colonial states which constitute Africa were the products of colonial demarcations, and whose territories are not congruent to existing political and ethnic organizations. ... As migrants flowed within the British empire, Asians who arrived in Kenya were given greater access to social, educational and capitalist opportunities by the colonials, as a result of higher 'racial' status (also Bennell 1982, p131). ... Even in some instances when the British expressed a desire to provide better social programs for education, as in Tanganyika, ther...

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These global cities share several key cultural, social, economic, and political features that serve to differentiate them from other large cities. ... Saskia Sessen argues that "the city has indeed emerged as a site for new claims: by global capital which uses the city as an organizational commodity, but also by disadvantaged sectors of the urban population, which in large cities are frequently as internationalized as is capital" (410). ...

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The apartheid system was a social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination which was enforced by the white Afrikaner government in South Africa. The apartheid system was enforced by a series of repressive laws and regulations which prohibited social contact between races, enforced segregation of public facilities, the separation of educational standards, created race-specific job categories, restricted powers of non-white unions and curbed non-white participation in government. ... He wasn't allowed to leave or promote any of his views or his organizations. ...

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The social lives of citizens were still dependant on the strict caste system, which regulated everyday life of the people of India. ... The depended strongly on agriculture among the villages, where organization was mostly tight knit and provided a secure political base for further cultural achievement. ... This growth of trade resulted in thriving African cities, such as Timbuktu, and helped develop new social and political patterns in a wide stretch of Africa below the Sahara. ...

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Still, the World bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cannot leave the sinking countries to survive on their own, that is why international organizations are subsidizing the governments and the economic activities of the poorest countries in the world. ... This is probably the most safe and practical method to decrease the unemployment and even solve some social injustices as the results of the apartheid system. ... This could potentially lead to conflicts and misunderstandings and form a base for social unbiased in the African continent. ...

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However Africa and India responded very contrarily to the way the west enforced their economic, social and political systems. ... The British offered a single organization of law and government that unified India. ... Soldiers were not able to transfer up in their social rank and laborers were forced to work long hours in horrifying conditions. ...

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The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political upheaval in France. ... In October, 2011, the Enhahda Party, an Islamic organization, won a plurality in an election to form a Constituent Assembly, which is working on drafting a new national constitution. ...

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Some of the factors that supported new imperialism are the demands created by the Industrial Revolution, the improvement in transport and communication, the spread of extreme nationalism, and the civilizing mission.1 European nation-states had become very powerful at this point because of industrialization and because of the organizational efficiency of the government, which distinguishes the new from the old imperialism whereby corruption was more prevalent. ... During that time, the concept of great powers' born by social Darwinism which suggested "survival of the fittest nation" was pr...

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Female slaves could be significant links in kinship networks, with their importance in the social system enhanced. ... "An African-American female slave would be effectively head of household even where there was a known and partially responsible father any master or mistress-supplied child welfare assistance went through the mother, and therefore strengthened the role, power, and economic position of the mother (internet)" The bonds developed by many slaves on the voyage across the Middle Passage continued and developed becoming a primary source of social organization that continued for...

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One faction of the Kikuyu people formed Mau Mau, a terrorist organization intent on purging all European influence from the country, but less strident Kikuyus attempted to either remain neutral or help the British defeat Mau Mau. ... While Kikuyus at large were becoming increasingly angry at white rule, a militaristic wing emerged, The Kenya Land Freedom Army, from which the organization Mau Mau grew (origins of this term are unknown but most agree it began as a derogatory label of settlers). ... By 1953, the guerilla fighting force of Mau Mau had largely been defeated, and by 1956, the fight...

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