diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and world renown author “literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty‚ and a building block of development‚ an essential complement to investments in roads‚ dams‚ clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization‚ and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women‚ it is an agent of family
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Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk Eliezer Yudkowsky (yudkowsky@singinst.org) Forthcoming in Global Catastrophic Risks‚ eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic Draft of August 31‚ 2006 Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Palo Alto‚ CA Introduction By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. Of course this problem is not limited to the field of AI. Jacques Monod wrote: "A curious
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The Negative Effects of Child Care on Child Development Dxx Wxxxxxxxx Anthropology 101 Mr. Bxx Lxxxxx September 5‚ 2010 Is child care having a negative effect on the development of children in the United States? Studies show that there are indeed negative psychological and developmental effects on children. Scientists in the United States‚ Canada‚ and the United Kingdom are coming to the same conclusion. It is best for a child to be cared for at home. Over the past five to six decades
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The industrial revolution brought many positive and negative effects to the factory workers‚ but a majority of negative effects‚ along with health problems and children working however‚ a positive effect jobs for women. To begin‚ during the Industrial Revolution‚ factories lead to health problems to the men workers‚ in addition to pollution. In document seven there is a photograph where there is an enormous amount of black smoke in the sky causing pollution. All the black smoke in the air
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Blakemore and Frith (2005) page state that a child’s brains motor complex‚ which controls hand and finger coordination‚ is not fully developed until a child is at least five years old‚ they add that this development rate is slower in boys. Therefore‚ this allows time for practitioners to ensure a child has the skills and confidence in their own mark making‚ experiencing all routes. Early mark making is different from writing. It is an experience for babies and toddlers which is physical and sensory
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they now have information they can use to sympathize with them.The prevalence of this issue is so widespread that most people do not see its significance. The website also stated‚ “There are more than 700‚000 registered sexual offenders in the United States‚ and many are lost to the imperfect system that can’t track them. The scariest statistic may be that 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls will be sexually abused before adulthood.” Registered sex offenders are all around us‚ and this statistics do not take
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so many problems happen to agricultural production. But some experts have found the GM crops to solve this problems. In one way several peoples have opinion that GM crops increasing the supply of logistics‚ but others say the yields can bring the negative effect to human life. There are some reasons that GM crops bring the good effect to the human being. Firstly the plant with GMO’s are have many merits‚ such us it is resistance from germs‚ have higher nutrition and have much harvesting result. Secondly
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Kelvin Chambwa Question: Personal growth and career development of managers and employees alike are among the most important tasks for managers. a) Describe characteristics of adult development b) Explain causes of career related stress for ages between 30 and 50 years c) Discuss organisational causes of stress and stress management strategies Introduction Early adulthood is entered when men (and women) begin careers and families. After an evaluation of themselves at about age
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LSD By Bix Lysergic acid diethylamide (or LSD for short) is an illegal potent hallucinogenic drug. History Albert Hofmann‚ a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical‚ synthesized LSD for the first time in 1938‚ in Basel‚ Switzerland‚ while looking for a blood stimulant‚ But its hallucinogenic effects were unknown until 1943 when Hofmann accidentally “ate” some LSD. It was later found that an amount as little as 25 micrograms (equal in weight to a few grains of salt) is capable
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Does TV have a negative influence on society? At-risk categories are kids and elderly people. The average American kid spends more time watching TV than attending school. Kids eat while watching TV‚ and they may do the same while doing homework. Elderly people watch TV even more than kids‚ since this is their main entertainment at home. TV is inherent in our lives. It is natural for a person to enter an apartment‚ switch on the light‚ then switch on the TV‚ and then keep on doing other things
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