Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men? By Laura Fitzpatrick Last year’s tax returns may already be signed‚ sealed and delivered‚ but April 20 is the day the average American woman will finally finish earning her 2009 salary — at least‚ the one she would have received if she were a man. That’s because U.S. women still earned only 77 cents on the male dollar in 2008‚ according to the latest census statistics. (That number drops to 68% for African-American women and 58% for Latinas.) To highlight
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Yes‚ Eurylochus’ hunger and desire for something forbidden fatally affects the rest of Odysseus’ crew as well as himself. When Odysseus and his crew find themselves on an island housing Helios’ beloved cattle‚ Odysseus remembers a warning that no harm should come upon the beasts‚ he passes it along to the rest of his crew. This warning becomes harder and harder to heed when a storm traps them on the island for over a month with a limited food supply. When one of Odysseus’ crew‚ Eurylochus‚ cannot
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Energy Crisis in Pakistan ‘Crisis’ has been coined by a Greek word which means ‘decisive moment’. Crisis is declared when something has gone to a level where an action must be taken to avoid complete disaster or breakdown. ‘Energy Crisis’ happens due to several reasons‚ some of which are: misallocation of resources‚ incompetency of exploration sector‚ increasing price of oil in international market‚ power wastage‚ less dams‚ little deployment of unconventional energy resources‚ etc. Energy
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TEAL #1 T: Using sensory imagery‚ Collins is able to create a tense and anxious atmosphere during the Reaping scene in The Hunger Games novel. E: For example‚ “the crowd draws in a collective breath and then you can hear a pin drop…” • Hyperbolic expression insinuates audience so nervous & distressed whilst waiting hear outcome Reaping‚ they barley breath • See image uneasy parents & children awaiting names tributes wwb facing certain death‚ once taken custody Capitol‚ forced murder for survival
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In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins the characters are put to the ultimate test to survive or end up dead. In dangerous and life threatening wilderness situations‚ one needs hunting skills‚ physical strength and mental strength in order to overcome the odds. One needs hunting skills to overcome the odds in a dangerous or life threatening wilderness situation. Peeta mentions Katniss’s hunting skills “She’s excellent‚ my father always comments on how the arrow never pierces the body‚
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Software crisis is a term used in the early days of software engineering. The term was used to describe the impact of rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of the problems which could be tackled. This was with regards to the difficulty in writing correct‚ understandable and verifiable_ computer programs_. VERIFIABLE:-With regards to hardware and software systems‚ a formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of intended algorithms underlying a system
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with 50 cents a day you can help end child hunger”. Unfortunately‚ a plethora of individuals scramble around looking for the TV immediately changing the channel before having to witness the harsh circumstances that these children go through. Numerous amounts of us resort to the saying “out of sight‚ out of mind.” As individuals we work so hard to ignore childhood hunger in other countries‚ yet we don’t realize that we’ve turned a blind eye to childhood hunger in the United States. It is no secret that
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Because of her lack of privilege‚ she has been forced to learn several skills that prove useful in the arena. In addition to her hunting and gathering aptitude‚ she comments several times on how she knows how to scrounge and her body is able to manage hunger better than those accustomed to luxury. However‚ her class resentments blind her a bit to certain other assets. Most tellingly‚ this happens with Peeta‚ who she considers "soft" and inferior to Gale even after Peeta begins to show his fortitude.
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Environmental Crisis "We Have An Environmental Crisis Because We Have A People Crisis - A Crisis of Population Growth‚ of Wasteful Consumption of Resources‚ and A Crisis of Apathy and Inaction." An environmental crisis is an emergency concerned with the place in which every human lives - the environment. A people crisis is an emergency with the community that inhabits the world environment. A crisis of population growth is a turning point where the environment can no longer sustain the amounts
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Jonathan Kozol‚ in his essay Still Separate‚ Still Unequal‚ is proposing that many Americans that live far from major cities are under the impression that racial isolation in urban public schools has steadily diminished in more recent years. But truth be told‚ according to Kozol thousands of schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by forced o to f law have since been rapidly resegregating. According to statistics‚ Kozol found that between 85 to 95 percent of students
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