Easterly argues for a more tailored and small scale approach to aid. Finally, Ester Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee argue for the experimental and small scale approach. ... A common argument is that a very small portion of the US federal budget, 1% goes to foreign aid. ... This sounds like a great plan, but I wonder why these strategies or mechanisms were not in place long ago, who will oversee it, and what the repercussions or consequences are. ... Easterly, argues for small scale, tailored aid efforts. ...

• Word Count: 1916
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Next I examine the development of, or lack of, civil society and the institutions which took place across the continent in the colonial era. ... In much of the British areas, the administration was sought by as cheap a means as possible, with only a small-scale educational regime in place for the purpose of sustaining sufficient clerical support by Africans. ... Development and Economics  The fact that a small number of Africans received education which culminated in joining the bureaucracies of the colonies, is part of the reason that there was no easy task for the post-colonial societies to...

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Picture yourself as a small child around the age of four. ... As the wounds heal, scar tissue joins the labia and covers the urethra, and most of the vaginal orifice, leaving an opening that may be as small as a matchstick for the passage of urine and menstrual blood. ... In communities where a persons place in society is determined by lineage traced through fathers, female circumcision reduces the uncertainty surrounding paternity by discouraging and preventing women's sexual activity outside of the marriage. ... Desperate attempts to educate the various cultures about the risks of pe...

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A small portion of the water in the hydrosphere is fresh. ... The Lithosphere consists of nine large plates and twelve smaller ones. ... The place where this happens is known as a mid-ocean ridge. ... In many places the huge plates of the earth's surface are slowly moving together with unimaginable force. ...

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Today, there are small civilizations of these tribes in South America and North America, but they live in extreme poverty. ... Instead of blindly throwing money at charities and countries, citizens and organizations need to start doing research and making sure their money is going to the right place. ... Regardless, in a place with such successful people and so much "opportunity" the amount of people who suffer every day is unnecessary to say the least; no one can deny that. ... It is a sad place to be, but in other countries, that is not an option. ... These affluent countries of to...

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The horn and rifles are then usually stashed in a safe place until it is safe to be collected. ... Specific hunting plans are set in place by legislation to improve black rhino population. Since there is often a surplus of males, especially in a small population as a result of translocation of a breeding group out of a donor population, it is recommended that only males should be hunted. ... This includes ensuring that incentives are maximized without discrimination against state agencies or the private sector, rewarding good biological management to black rhino conservation, and ensuring the ...

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In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. ... Livingstone first planned to become a medical missionary in China, but the Opium Wars made China a bad place for a westerner with good intentions. ... Nomads travel from place to place in search of food. ... The British government paid owners for their slaves, but the Boers complained the payments were too small. ...

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I think that all cats from the giant lions of Africa to the small house cat all came from the same ancestor. ... This would place all the cats most people know about like the tiger, lion, jaguar, puma, and friendly house cat into the main genus of cats know as Felius. ... And they range in size from the giant lion to the small house cat. ... Whatever type and for whatever reason they are kept they have all descended from the same species, a small weasel like mammal from the Eocene period. ...

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Smaller Swahili towns, however, such as Pate in Kenya, retain much of their traditional culture. ... The skill of the sculptor is to shape such objects from a single piece of wood with an adze (a small axe with a horizontal blade), expressing his own creativity within the bounds of conventional local styles. ... Africans have lost some of its tribal identity and culture; masking ceremonies are no longer common place in Africa. ...

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Since they lived in open bush and wide savannahs, they mainly were gathers, scavengers, and small game hunters. They are known for being the first humans to have used some kind of tools (Oldowan tools), which helped them to do some small game hunting, dismember carcasses, whittle wood points, and add meat as a regular dietary item. ... What might have happened is that some kind of kingship was emerging with the adoption a more permanent place to live in. ... Also, carrying small children is difficult when you are a nomadic person. ...

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There are many places where one might see the fundraising efforts such as in malls, online, on television, in radio and print advertisements. ... Pierce's small act of kindness, World Vision has become the very successful worldwide and well known organization that it is today. ... "Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. ...

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They would probably have a small war-like raiding to take prisoners. ... Williams, concludes that the only reason why the slavers continued in the business was due to "most of the credit mechanisms implemented by the traders and their suppliers and customers were in place before the trade fully developed." ... For example, in the small area of the Gold Coast (the coastal area of contemporary Ghana), with a population no more than a hundred thousand in the early 17th century, there were about 43 autonomous chiefdoms at this time. ...

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Yet, much of the developing world saw little progress over the past several decades, and in some places, such as parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, living standards declined. ... In recent decades, development progress has taken place at unprecedented rates, not only in advanced economies but also in the poorer regions and countries of the world: • Health. ... Even though a great deal of development has taken place; the trouble is that it has not been development of the most needed industries. ...

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Tourism is commonly associated with international travel, but may also refer to travel to another place within the same country. In sociological perspective, "tourism consists of the of phenomena of space movement connected with voluntarily temporal change of place in space, change of life rhythm and environment accompanied by making personal contact with the visited environment Mpofu (2009)Both tourism and globalization can have positive and negative impact on socio-cultural, economic, political and environmental aspects of indigenous (local) peoples. ... Further, small airline compan...

• Word Count: 1995
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Eskom calls the power outages "load shedding," cutting power in different places in the area. ... Smaller businesses, however, did not have that luxury. ... Some places lost up to a day's worth of sales during the week (NYT). ...

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After unification in 1871, German nationalism developed a chauvinistic character with the emergence of groups such as the Pan-German league, which campaigned for closer ties with German speaking Austria and for a German empire, Germany's "place in the sun." ... This is why nationalism is only aggressive and expansionist to an small extent....

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McCarthy seemingly describes the world as this dark eerie wasteland, but often there are glimpses of hope within this world, he conveys this through his word choice and small details. ... The earth truly isn't this hard merciless place it is interpreted to be rather it is just a little lost. ...

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The Apes once before able to get fruits and seeds from three to three now had to travel long distance to find food and the great human evolution is illustrated in table 1, each species with own characteristics and the approximated time that took place. Once it evolved into Homo erectus they started moving out of Africa looking for better places for food, shelter and climate conditions. ... Scientists believe that a small group of people left Africa and took few generations to migrate all the way from Africa to populate North America. ... On the burial, archaeologists found a flint tools, a bea...

• Word Count: 2012
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The word proverb comes from the Latin proverbium (pro meaning "in front of, on behalf of" and verbium meaning "word"), suggesting that a proverb takes the place of ordinary words. ... (Leslau 58) Proverbs are small pieces of wisdom, some moral and some philosophical, that are reduced to a few very carefully crafted words and/or phrases. ... "For the westernized elite, oral traditions are useful resources for placing an authentic African stamp on writings and they can aid in the reconstructions of traditional life." ...

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When the cities and territories become wider and expanded, there was a close collaboration with the development of science & technology around the world, the USA's National Academy of Sciences happens to be developing a large effort to promote scientific swap and to help build and support the capacity of local governments in smaller cities in the developing world to address their own serious metropolitan challenges. ... During the heyday of Atlantic slavery, a range of European countries established small forts on the East and West African coasts. ... Two major reasons colonialism took pl...

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The Preservation of a Precious Culture The institution of slavery was very trying for newly captured Africans. They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. Once in the new world and on the...

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Their lives have varied from place to place and time to time, but in general a slave was someone who was "owned" by somebody else. ... Runaways were refereed to as packages or merchandise; a conductor or stationmaster who had a message that "by Tuesday you should receive a shipment of four large kegs of dark ale and one small one" would prepare for the arrival of four adults and a child. ...

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Colonialism is a political system based on economic exploitation and domination; it puts the profit of the colonist country in the first place regardless of the profit of the region under colonial rule. ... The peasant farming means small-scale farmers, using family labor, cultivate a limited land area at a relatively low level of technology (Vercruijsse, 1988). ...

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The progress humans are seeing are much smaller in comparison to the harm being done. ... "Healing can occur and new life can sometimes be evoked, but only with the same intensity of concern and sustained vigor of action as that which brought about the damage in the first place" (12)....

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The novella "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad, takes place in the early 1900's and is about the European colonization in Africa. ... Marlow notices the painting to have "a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch," (46). ...

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