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    ASSIGNMENT Making of a Social Entrepreneur Arbind Singh: A Social Entrepreneur Founder & Director‚ Nidan‚ Patna By: Jai Kumar Verma PGDIM – 19 Sec - A Roll No: 65 Social entrepreneurs are the individuals with business insight and who want to for a social cause. They can provide the new approaches needed to fasten the process of reducing poverty and hunger. By combining and developing the innovative ideas from individuals and investments from public‚ private‚ and civil society

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    a hard hit in the 1930’s. On top of the stock market crash‚ in the early 1930’s‚ Oklahoma had severe droughts and heavy dust storms. Hoping for a better life in California‚ many “Okies‚” people from Oklahoma‚ headed west to work as migrant fruit pickers. The film version of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath‚ the Taniguchi essay‚ and many other works describe the terrible disappointment the Okies found in California: unemployment‚ low wages‚ little hope‚ shanty-towns‚ and brutal working conditions

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    A Street Car Names Desire

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    A Street Car Named Desire deals with a culture clash between the Old South’s “plantation” mentality (priding itself on false pretenses) and the New South’s relatively uncivilized‚ yet real‚ grip on reality. The two characters who come to represent this tension are Blanche and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche advertises herself as a champion of “Southern Honor.” This entails an unfaltering dedication to virtue and culture. These are not‚ however‚ driving factors in her life but only mask her alcoholism and

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    Shocking Statistics About Tobacco There are 12 Crores tobacco users in India i.e. every 9th Indian consumes tobacco. Sixteen percent are cigarette smokers‚ 44% are bidi smokers and 40% are tobacco chewers and snuffers in the form of Gutka‚ Mishri‚ Zarda‚ Khaini‚ Pan Masala‚ chewing the Betal Quid and snuffing Nasvar. Smokers have 20-25 times higher risk of developing Cancer Bidis are more lethal than cigarettes Chewing and inhaling smokeless tobacco is the most lethal form of tobacco available

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    ENGLISH ESSAY In the play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams uses his brilliant writing to bring life to his characters in the story. I will be composing a character sketch on Stanley‚ one of the main actors in the play. I will focus on evaluating Stanley’s ever changing character traits in the role he plays. They consist of different moods that he demonstrates during the play: his aggressiveness‚ his love for Stella and also his rudeness and cruelty towards Blanche.

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    upper and middle class by being a spoke person for the poor. However‚ he found it really essential to label and discriminated specific racial groups by spitting out their name freely. Other ways he charged flame to his racial comments‚ “he German rag-picker” “the Chinese coolie”. The comments showed his pure racism. He did so by naming many countries to his audience in incorrect way instead of focus on individual people. It is exactly behavior we are experiencing or seeing in the current presidential

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    Vik Muniz: From Rags to Riches Vincente Jose de Olivera Muniz was born in Sao Paulo‚ Brazil in 1961. He now works and lives in New York City as an artist. He now makes beautiful works of art from the most bizarre materials and really brings to light the hidden beauty in all things. How he got his start as an artist living in the United States is quite an interesting story. One day he was driving home and he saw a fight happening. He stopped to break it apart‚ and after succeeding‚ one of the

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    hospital acquired diseases to the health care personnel who handle these wastes at the point of generation. Apart from the above‚ a good amount of hospital wastes such as disposable syringes‚ infusion bags‚ I.V. fluid bottles etc. are picked up by rag pickers and are recycled back into the market without any disinfection. It is important‚ therefore‚ to implement proper environmentally safe mode of disposing hospital wastes. Keywords: Public health‚ Hospital waste‚ Infectious diseases‚ Waste disposal

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    in the documentary. Vik Muniz in Waste Land does a good job persuading his audience by showing how he is a hero by incorporating the pickers into a giant piece of art. Similarly‚ by focusing on the catadores low-class life‚ the themes: classism‚ the art of salvation and environmentalism overall play a huge in this working class by having an artist give the pickers an opportunity to earn more money into pieces of art. Generally‚ classism plays a huge part in today’s society‚ in Waste Land‚ it is

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    PARTICIPATION OF THE YOUTH IN THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT OF BAGUIO CITY : An Impact Study Background of the Study The growth of the world’s population‚ increasing urbanization‚ rising standards livings‚ and rapid development of technology have all contributed to an increase in both the amount and variety of solid wastes generated by industrial‚ domestic and others activities (UNEP‚ 1991 ). The problem of dealing with greater volumes often more dangerous waste material‚ are particularly acute

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