How to measure development? Few can deny that the world’s wealth is highly concentrated. ‘Populations of North America and Eastern Europe eat well‚ consume most of the world’s fuels‚ live in generally well serviced homes while many people in Africa‚ Asia and America are less fortunate.’ In those areas majority of population lack balanced diets‚ reliable drinking water and adequate incomes. Many of them are illiterate‚ malnourished and suffer from various contagious diseases. We cannot reject information
Premium Developed country Emerging markets Country classifications
largest country in the world (after Russia‚ Canada and China). Including the states of Alaska and Hawaii‚ The US covers an area of 9 millions square km. It borders Canada on the North. Besides‚ it is such a great nation that it covers 4 times zone. Almost every kind of climate may be found there but the country lies mostly in the temperate zone. The US is a varied land of forests and mountains. If we look at the map of the USA‚ we can see lowlands and mountains. The center of the country is drained
Free United States
Many developed countries are paying increasing attention to the needs of the disadvantaged. How far is this true in Singapore? * In May 2011‚ Prime Minister Mr Lee realized the government’s need to "lend a hand to those hurt by globalisation and technological changes that have‚ among other things‚ widened the gap between the rich and the poor" * The government is not only focusing on monetary assistance programmes‚ but also a sense of reassurance‚ concern and empathy. * Government also
Premium Sociology Demography Total fertility rate
Hi everyone! My name is Akerke ! I am here today to talk about Kazakhstan. I want to introduce my country where I was born‚ where I live and who I am for those who don’t know about it. I also have a lot of reasons why I choose this topic. Now we are living in developing country and to live here without education‚ without skills is not possible. When we were born our government had an enormous responsibility to take care of us‚ nurture us and educate us. We go to school to fill our minds with wonderful
Premium Central Asia Future
Malaysia is a country which has different races of different skin colour‚ religious views‚ tradition and culture. However‚ it is all seems peaceful in this multiracial condition because it is hardly any racial disputes happening. Yet it was not all good if we look back in the olden days. What we have today is a blessing and a fruit of wisdom of our forefathers who see the importance of social integrity to realise the dream of a peaceful‚ modern and liberal country. In the past of 55 years
Free Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
A country is also a brand. Applying branding techniques to promote countries has grown rapidly due to increased global competition. There are three objectives that make a country wants to strengthen or create its branding strategy: attract tourists‚ stimulate the foreign investment and promote the exportations. In order to boost the image of COLOMBIA‚ in 2007 the Ministry of Tourism and International Affairs developed a brand called COLOMBIA IS PASSION. After a briefly SWOT analysis‚ strengths
Premium Colombia Brand Illegal drug trade
Good Country People Deception has served a lot of purposes for most individuals. There are people who intentionally mislead others to take advantage of their weaknesses and gullibility for their own personal interests. On the other hand‚ there are individuals who are‚ at some point in their lives‚ emotionally and physically scarred and choose to mask their resentful experience by retreating from one world into another world. In Flannery O’Connor’s “Good People Country‚” these forms of deceptions
Premium Deception Love Short story
Rasfa One thing I will create in my country is a distilling station where I can clean the natural source of water that I have and make it into clean water in which people can drink. The distilling station will be full of workers from my country and will be hard working country men to make sure that the water won’t be contaminated. The way the water will be distributed is that through pipes from the distilation site to water towers or transferred to trucks witch then will go to facturies to produce
Free Food Bread Bottled water
listen to. For example‚ most people that live in the South will listen to country music. Country music has definitely changed from what it was in the 1980’s to what it is today. In today’s country music‚ one can listen to different songs that go from singing to almost rap like beats and rhythm. In today’s times‚ people can get songs off of iTunes‚ Pandora‚ and even listen to songs off of YouTube. Most people‚ when they hear country music playing‚ associate it with the South. For some‚ when they hear
Premium Abuse Bullying Hip hop music
Looking at two similar‚ yet different‚ articles “A Quilt of a Country”‚ by Anna Quindlen‚ and the other‚ “The Immigrant Contribution”‚ by John F. Kennedy. It may have been hard‚ but we can tell some important things to you that you might have missed. While reading these articles‚ we found big differences between the two. Some people might say these are too similar to tell a difference. Well‚ let me to you something‚ both articles seem very similar with a glance‚ however‚ they both have many differences
Premium Difference Diction Similarity