Why is GDP per capita useful as a measure of living standards? What are the limitations of GDP per capita as a comparable measure of living standards? Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the monetary value of final goods and services produced in a given year by factors of production within a country. GDP reports are released on the last day of each quarter‚ reflecting the previous quarter. Therefore‚ it is measured on a quarterly basis and measures the level of economic growth in different countries
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MAN AND NATURE Human beings are the creations of nature. They drew everything needed for their very survival from nature. The air they breathe‚ the water they drink‚ the food they eat and thousands of articles they use daily-all come from nature. Yet‚ strangely enough‚ man keeps a hostile attitude towards nature. Conquest of nature is the expression which is often used to denote man’s activities like space exploration‚ taming the rivers‚ etc. which sums up man’s attitude towards nature. Our
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First‚ standardized tests cannot measure the true capacity and measure student performance. To get a good score on standardized tests‚ students just try to memorize all contents of what teachers told and taught them. By this process‚ students do not only try to understand deeply about the contents‚ but they also just memorize things whose notions that they do not know and comprehend well. This may cause students to forget the substances so easily. Moreover‚ in multiple-choice tests‚ students can
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wise. Claudia feels that the guests for her father’s birthday party are very rude. They do not want to acknowledge that Stella is her father’s new love by giving her a cold shoulder during the party. Claudia is very angry with all those immature adults so she decides to give all of them a lesson by wearing her new green pyjamas and showing it off in front of the guess‚ hinting that Stella and her are very close. The guests are ashamed so they start to treat Stella nicely after the incident.
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874 feet antarctic under the surface of the Southern Ocean. They were also surprised that they didn’t find any of the tubeworms and mussels typically typically found in hydrothermal vents all over the world. It’s a new type of ecosystem‚ that has led them to believe that the variety of organisms around vents all over the world must be more than what we previously thought‚ and has expanded to different levels of conditions. Lake Vostok is located 2.48 miles beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Lake
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varies across cultures and generations. It all depends on one’s perspective; however‚ a commonly accepted definition of irrational behavior seems to be behavior that lacks sound judgment. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka‚ and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ support this idea by showing us some illustrations of characters who think and act irrationally. Okonkwo‚ the main character of Things Fall Apart‚ displays numerous signs of human
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feeling hurt * embarrassed * afraid( to go out) * Depression ( poor concentration‚ low school achievement‚ absenteeism from school) 2. Health * Eye problem because of looking at the screen * Gaining weight because of setting all day on internet * Mental health problem’s * Physical damage to brain study has found –“ causing a level of brain damage normally seen in heavy substance abusers”. 3. Social isolation * family‚ friends‚ and educators * In school
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Outline： introduction：the Indian movie ‚one sentence was repeated the most times‚that is “All is well.”The movie told a story ........ Body part:to deliver a theme:Even if you are faced with frustrations and endless failure‚tell yourself--”All is well”‚recover your missing confidence‚then keep on fighting. Deliver the speech by personal experience: The first story: When I was a child in kindergarten‚i started to practice the violin because my uncle is good at playing it and he can instruct me
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“Numbering All the Bones” Ann Rinaldi The African-American heritage has become a very influential part of the American culture of present times. It has a long and troublesome history that leads to fulfilling their “American Dream”; a dream of hard work filled success. This hard work was introduced to the United States initially in the form of slavery. Stories of the trials‚ tribulations‚ and hardships of those indoctrinated into slavery can be educational for students of today on many levels.
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The Signal-man How does Charles Dickens use the ghost story genre to provoke fear in both the Victorian and modern reader of the Signalman? The Signal-Man is a ghost story from Pre 1914’s written by Charles Dickens it shows the difference of the fear that a Victorian reader would feel compared to what a modern reader would feel. The Signal-man projects the ghost story genre very well due to the fact that a ghost story is not supposed to be scary. A ghost story is just meant to play with the readers
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