Chief Justice of India: Mr. Altamas Kabir Governer of Reserve Bank of India: Mr. D. Subbarao Deputy Chairman Planning Commission of India: Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Chairman of IRDA: Mr. T.S. Vijayan Chairman of GIC: Mr. D. Ashok Kumar Roy Speaker of Lok Sabha: Ms. Meira Kumar Chief Election Commissioner: Mr.V.S. Sampath Prime Minister of Pakistan: Mr. Raja Pervez Ashraf Head quarter of IRDA: Hyderabad Head quarter of National Insurance Co. Ltd: Calcutta Biggest private General Insurance
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The effects of being a latchkey child differ with age. Loneliness‚ boredom and fear are most common for those younger than 10 years of age. In the early teens‚ there is a greater susceptibility to peer pressure‚ potentially resulting in such behaviors as alcohol abuse‚ drug abuse‚ sexual promiscuity and smoking.[4][5] The behaviors might stem from "unspent energy‚ peer pressure to misbehave‚ or hostility because of the lack of appropriate adult attention".[6]However‚ some children can exude other
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Stick to what you believe in‚ that’s what Lucentio did in The Taming of the Shrew. In the Shakespearean play Lucentio was set on marring Baptista’s daughter‚ Bianca‚ so he did everything he could to make it happen. Throughout the play Lucentio was a static character because he remained the same. Lucentio was a very determined man and continued to portray that characteristic throughout the whole play. He embarked on a journey to Padua to further his education; however‚ upon arriving he laid eyes
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Roller Coaster For many people‚ there is only one reason to go to an amusement park: the roller coaster. Some people call it the "scream machine‚" with good reason. The history of this ride reflects a constant search for greater and more death-defying thrills. How does a roller coaster work? What you may not realize as you’re cruising down the track at 60 miles an hour is that the coaster has no engine. The car is pulled to the top of the first hill at the beginning of the ride‚ but after
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represented a circle [1]. He continued to excel in his education preparing for entrance into college‚ ultimately winning a scholarship and gaining entrance into the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 1918. By 1922‚ after just four years of school‚ he earned his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Pisa [2]. After receiving his degree‚ he studied under Max Born in Germany at the University of Göttingen in 1923‚ and also under Paul Ehrenfest in the Netherlands at the State University of Leiden
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of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology‚ inventing an improved military compass and other instruments. Although he seriously considered the priesthood as a young man‚ at his father’s urging he instead enrolled at the University of Pisa for a medical degree. In 1581‚ when he was studying medicine‚ he noticed a swinging chandelier‚ which air currents shifted about to swing in larger and smaller arcs. It seemed‚ by comparison with his heartbeat‚ that the chandelier took the same amount
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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1. Architecture‚ with all its varying phases and complex developments‚ must have had a simple origin in the primitive efforts of mankind to provide protection against inclement weather‚ wild beasts‚ and human enemies. Hunters and fishermen in primeval times naturally sought shelter in rock caves‚ and these were manifestly the earliest form of human dwellings; tillers of the soil took cover under arbors of trees‚ and from them fashioned huts of wattle and daub; while shepherds
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I. Introduction Brazil is almost as famous for its inequality as for its soccer. According toFacing Up to Inequality in Latin America‚ the IDB (1998) ranked both Brazil’s total Gini coefficient1 (0.60) and its urban-only Gini coefficient (0.57) as the highest in the region. Its ratio of per-capita urban to per-capita rural household incomes (3.0) was also the highest in Latin America. The World Bank’s point estimates for Gini coefficients‚ listed in Attacking Poverty (WDR 2001) for as many countries
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as important as the time they spend in the school. When parents show interest about children’s studies and guide through their homework‚ they get the feeling of encouragement. They start to think that they are doing something right. No wonder‚ why ‘PISA’ research found that teenagers scored higher that the rest because their parents regularly did some academic activity around them. It is a normal tendency of children to mimic their parents. For example when they she their mother playing piano or father
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Humanism Research paper Humanism is the philosophical idea that emphasizes the dignity and worth of the individual. The term humanism is most often used to describe a literary and cultural movement that spread through Florence‚ Venice‚ Pisa‚ Milan‚ Rome and other Italian cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It involved a revival of study of the ancient Latin and Greek authors and trying to see what they actually meant. The time in which humanism grew was called the Renaissance‚ which
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