Urbanization

Most people in the world will live in cities in the next 20 years. There are more opportunities to find work in the city than in the countryside. This attracts poor people who want to improve their lives, and create a better future for their children. A lack of housing is one of the biggest problems in cities in developing countries. To make up for the lack of available homes, newcomers often set up temporary shelters on the outskirts of cities. It is in these temporary shelters that the problems of urbanization arise. These crowded neighborhoods don't have electricity, running water, a sewerage system, roads, and other things people need to stay healthy. Because the conditions of their homes are so bad, these communities are called shantytowns and slums.

Corruption

Corruption is the abuse of public power for private gain. Corruption is unfair and allows those with money or connections to bend the law or government rules in their personal favor, even if that will hurt many other people. Corruption is expensive and hinders a country’s progress and development: · It reduces the amount of money the government has for public services and works, like building schools, roads and hospitals. · It weakens people’s trust and confidence in the government.· It discourages businesses from operating, which makes the country poorer in the end. Everyone, even you, can help eradicate corruption by choosing not to give or receive bribes, choosing to achieve things through hard work and honesty, and speaking out when you see corruption around you.

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My name is MARICONE ELLIS M. EVANGELISTA। My family call me ELLIS। I am 9 years old!!! My hobby are to play with my dolls।I इ am a simple girl but have a sense of humor। My motto is: WHAT IS BEAUTY WHEN BRAIN IS EMPTY? When i was in 3 years old I'm start to study. I love reading some pocket books. ठेस are some things I can't share with you. THANK VERY MUCH!!!!! Next i share with you about MY FAMILY.

GIRLS ARE IMPORTANT

Women and Girls-the Important Other Half What would you think if a country took half of its people and said to them, "We don't want you to go to school. We don't want you to earn money. We don't want you to own property. We don't want you to vote. You don't count."? In many countries and societies around the world that is exactly what is happening when laws and cultures discriminate against women and girls. What does this mean? It means that in some countries sons are valued more than daughters simply because they are male. When girl children are not valued in a poor family or society, it means that parents who don't have a lot of money to begin with may not give their daughters enough food to eat or take them to see a doctor when they are sick. Worldwide, more girls suffer from malnutrition than boys. Sons may be better fed than girls and receiveWhat does it mean? Discrimination: Treating people in a different, usually bad, manner because of their class, race, gender or some other category instead of who they are as individuals. Gender inequality: Giving men and women different opportunities because of their gender. better health care so they will be healthy in order to earn income for the family. These same values carry over to education. If there is not enough money to send all of a family's children to school, the boys will go and the girls will stay at home and help the family—even if the girls are the better students. And in many countries, girls and women do not have protection against violence from men. Of the 193 countries in the world, only 44 have laws protecting women from violence in their own homes. Discrimination is wrong because it hurts some members of society. But that's not the only reason why boys and girls need to be treated equally. Ending unfair treatment of girls is key to development and to ending poverty. Studies have shown that societies in which women have the same opportunities as men are wealthier and more prosperous. When you allow your whole society — instead of just the males — to go to school, work, and take part in the government, you have that many more people working to make things better. Girls who are educated are more likely to educate their own children, and provide them with better nutrition and health care. These things are just as important to poor families as money is. This is why fighting gender discrimination and inequality is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Fighting gender discrimination can be difficult because it can go against traditions. But there are now projects that focus on helping people understand that a girl child is just as valuable and important as a boy child. These projects also help people understand that women are as smart and capable as men and that they can do things as well as men can. This message is especially important for poor countries, societies, and families that could be benefiting from the skills and talents of their girls and women.

Girl

A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood and may also mean a young woman.[1] A girl plays with paper dolls. Biological gender interacts with environment in ways not fully understood. Biological gender interacts with environment in ways not fully understood.[7] Identical twin girls separated at birth and reunited decades later have shown both startling similarities and differences.[8] In 2005 Kim Wallen of Emory University noted, "I think the 'nature versus nurture' question is not meaningful, because it treats them as independent factors, whereas in fact everything is nature and nurture." Wallen said gender differences emerge very early and come about through an underlying preference males and females have for their chosen activities. Girls tend to like toys and other objects they can interact with, while boys will more likely prefer "things that they can manipulate and do things to." According to Wallen, expectations will nonetheless play a role in how girls perform academically. For example, if females skilled in math are told a test is "gender neutral" they achieve high scores, but if they are told males outperformed females in the past, the females will do much worse. "What’s strange is," Wallen observed, "according to the research, all one apparently has to do is tell a woman who has a lifetime of socialization of being poor in math that a math test is gender neutral, and all effects of that socialization go away."[9] Author Judith Harris has said that aside from their genetic contribution, the nurturing provided by parents likely has less long-term influence over their offspring than other environmental aspects such as the children's peers.[10] A girl pretends to drive a toy car. Gender differences emerge very early and have to do with underlying predispositions which are shaped by experience. In England, studies by the National Literacy Trust have shown girls do better than boys in every area of learning before they are 5 and girls score consistently higher than boys from the ages of 5 through 16, with the most striking differences noted in reading and writing skills. Moreover, girls tend to outperform boys at GCSE and A level in the UK.[11] Historically, girls lagged on standardized tests. In 1996 the average score of 503 for US girls from all races on the SAT verbal test was 4 points lower than boys. In math, the average for girls was 492, which was 35 points lower than boys. "When girls take the exact same courses," commented Wayne Camara, a research scientist with the College Board, "that 35-point gap dissipates quite a bit." At the time Leslie R. Wolfe, president of the Center for Women Policy Studies said girls scored differently on the math tests because they tend to work the problems out while boys use "test-taking tricks" such as immediately checking the answers already given in multiple-choice questions. Wolfe said girls are steady and thorough while "boys play this test like a pin-ball machine." Wolfe also said although girls had lower SAT scores they consistently get higher grades than boys across all courses their first year in college.[12] By 2006 girls were outscoring boys on the verbal portion of the SAT by 11 points.[13] A 2005 University of Chicago study showed that a majority presence of girls in the classroom tends to enhance the academic performance of boys.[14]

Art and literature

Art and literature Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, Jan Vermeer van Delft (1657). Egyptian murals included sympathetic portraits of young girls who were daughters of royalty. Sappho's poetry carries love poems addressed to girls. In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1460), Juan de Flandes' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1505), Frans Hals' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620, Diego Velázquez' Las Meninas in 1656, Jan Steen's The Feast of St. Nicolas (about 1660) and Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring along with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. Later paintings of girls include Albert Anker's portrait of a Girl with a Domino Tower and Camille Pissarro's 1883 Portrait of a Felix Daughter. American paintings featuring girls include Mary Cassatt's 1884 Children on the Beach and Whistler's Harmony in Gray and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander and The White Girl (shown at right). Many novels begin with the childhood of their heroine, such as Jane Eyre who suffers ill treatment or Natasha in War and Peace, who is sentimentalized. Other novels include Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in which a young girl is protagonist. Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book Lolita (1955) is about a doomed relationship between a 12 year old girl and an adult scholar as they travel across the United States. Memoirs of a Geisha was written by Caucasian American Arthur Golden as a representation of geisha life in early 20th century Japan. The book begins as the female main character and her sister are dropped off in the pleasure district after being separated from their family. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll featured a widely noted female protagonist. Moreover, Carroll's photographs of girls are often cited in histories of photographic art. Popular culture European fairy tales have preserved memorable stories about girls. Among these are Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rapunzel, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea and the Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood. Children's books about girls include Little House on the Prairie, Alice in Wonderland, Pippi Longstocking, Dragonsong and A Wrinkle in Time. Books which have both boy and girl protagonists have tended to focus more on the boys but important girl characters appear in Knight's Castle, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Book of Three and the Harry Potter series. There have been many American comic books and comic strips featuring a girl as the main character such as Little Lulu, Little Orphan Annie, Girl Genius and Amelia Rules. In superhero comic books an early girl character was Etta Candy, one of Wonder Woman's sidekicks. In the Peanuts series (by Charles Schulz) girl characters include Peppermint Patty, Lucy van Pelt and Sally Brown. In Japanese animated cartoons and comic books girls are often protagonists. Most of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films feature a young girl heroine, as in Majo no takkyūbin (Kiki's Delivery Service). There are many other girl protagonists in the Shōjo style of manga, which is targeted to girls as an audience. Among these are The Wallflower, Ceres, Celestial Legend, Tokyo Mew Mew and Full Moon o Sagashite. Meanwhile, some genres of Japanese cartoons may feature sexualized and objectified portrayals of girls. Sexualization of young girls in art and entertainment has been a common theme across all eras and mediums. This has been more or less explicitly visible in modern cinema and television. Some famous examples include Taxi Driver, Diva, Lolita The Blue Lagoon, Léon: The Professional and Pretty Baby, all of which deal with young girls in adult situations, typically under extraordinary circumstances.

Your Lawyer's here day!!!

Your Lawyer’s Here Day!

He’s got some bad news.“I did the best I could. But the State won’t allow you to receive your lethal injection from a man dressed in a Boba Fett costume while another man in a Darth Vader costume massages your balls and talks about how you and he are one and the same. And they won’t abduct your mother and make her watch while her exclamations of disgust are pumped into the execution room via a hidden microphone.”“What about the topless woman in a Greedo mask walking in just as I’m about to die and admitting to me that she shot first?”“No go,” your lawyer says.You shake your head in sadness for America. “They call this humane?”“You shouldn’t have killed those kids,” your lawyer says.Happy Your Lawyer’s Here Day!

About a GIRLS

GIRLS ARE PRETTY FOREVER The archive of every single "day" from the five plus years of Girls Are Pretty's existence. Updated sometimes! Hit the ANYDAY link in the upper-right to jump to a random one. Monday, April 21, 2008 Some Christmas Trees Can Talk and Fight Terrorism Day! When you were seven you went downstairs on Christmas morning to see what was waiting under the tree for you. In the living room twinkling with tree lights and tinsel, you found a mountain of gifts sitting under the majestic pine raining its dry needles all over the wrapping paper. It was when you started picking up gifts and shaking them that you swear the tree started talking to you. “Did you say something Christmas tree?” you asked it.It spoke again. You can’t remember what it said, which is why ever since then you've assumed you were just having a dream that morning. Most of your childhood memories can be relegated to the stuff of dreams, at least until those memories are confirmed by an outside party.Today, at age 35, you’re going to be woken up when your front door bursts from its hinges and an old, brown Christmas Tree still sprinkled with tinsel comes hopping through your apartment to your bed.“Why didn’t you kill them?” the Christmas Tree will ask.It looks like a tree that was thrown to the sidewalk on January 3rd. Except it’s standing on its own stump without a tree stand, and its branches shake around the midsection when it talks.“You were real?” you ask.“Christ. Don’t tell me you didn’t believe in me. So much for the wonderment of children.”“What did you tell me all those years ago?” you ask.“I told you that the world will end in 2008 unless you kill your parents and brother. You had 27 years for the love of Pete. We can track and gather info and we can collate data, and we can fake passports and bribe the right people, but to actually strike against a target we need humans. We’re only trees after all. We counted on you, man.”You tell the Christmas tree that you’re pretty sure you’re going crazy right now and you’re going to stop talking to it. The Christmas tree will get frustrated and just to piss you off it will go to your shoe rack and shake it’s branches over your shoes so they’ll fill with needles. Then it will leave.“Turn on the TV,” the Christmas tree will say before it hops out the door.You get out of bed and turn on your TV to find photos of your mother, father and brother displayed on the screen, captioned with Eastern European names. The words “Missing Nuke” are displayed above them in scary red letters. The newsman is giving out evacuation instructions to the populace.“I should have listened to my Christmas Tree,” you’ll think. “Now the whole world is gonna burn.”You lay back in bed, dizzy but warm in your heart. Finally, at 35, you understand the true meaning of Christmas. Then you see a bright white flash in the east.Happy Some Christmas Trees Can Talk and Fight Terrorism Day! Labels: childhood, Christmas, nuclear winter, terrorism Wednesday, April 16, 2008 You Sure Do Get A Lot Of DUI’s For A Woman Day! Getting pulled over for your fourth DUI turned out to be the best thing that’s ever happened to you. It looked like it was going to be the end of your life as a licensed driver, and you were probably even going to have to serve some jail time. Then the judge presiding over your hearing made one fatal mistake.“You sure do get a lot of DUI’s for a woman,” the judge said.No one knew what a stir that little statement would cause. A few people in the room even chuckled. But after you got your sentence for community service and AA, you immediately went to the press and told them about the double standard that sways over the county courthouse.Within days the story about the judge who thinks women should drive less drunk than men swept through the nation and you had your pick of top-notch lawyers fighting to argue your civil rights suit against the County. “It’s not that women don’t drink and drive just as much as men,” the judge said when interviewed on a local morning show. “It’s just that in my experience, they don’t get caught so much. Their center of gravity is different right? Maybe that helps them drive drunk better.”But no one bought it. The judge was condemned as a sexist and forced to resign. He later killed himself by closing up his garage and letting the car run idle. Your suit against the County won you a $3 million settlement and you finally got to open that coffee shop you always dreamed about. You still drink and drive, and you still get caught a lot, but you never have to do any time. None of the judges want you in their court room for even half a second after they saw how you handled their colleague. Which is nice because you used to be afraid to drink certain places knowing how far you'd have to drive home wasted. Funny thing is, now that you can drink and drive all over the place, all you want to do is sit at home and drink alone."Weird how that kind of thing works out," you mutter into your glass of bourbon just before it drops to the floor and you fall asleep sitting upright in a living room chair.Happy You Sure Do Get A Lot Of DUI’s For A Woman Day! Labels: partying Monday, April 14, 2008 You Can’t Stop Driving Day! Your ex-girlfriend used to design parking lots and since she left you’ve been unable to park your car without being reminded of her. She hurt you real bad, left you for your landlord, and you just can’t handle knowing that every time you park your car you might be doing it thanks to her ingenuity of drawing straight lines on a paved lot. It’s made it so that every time you get into your car to run an errand, you find yourself unable to park. You just keep driving until you run out of gas or open the door and roll out of the car while it’s still moving, hoping that it crashes lightly into a tree or a river and not some kids.Your therapist was good enough to give you one last session. He’s running beside your car right now, trying to open the passenger door. He needs you to go slower.“I’m only going five miles per hour,” you shout at him.“Slower!” he pants. “I can’t get in!”“I’m going three miles an hour! If I go any slower I’ll park. I can’t park!”“I can’t get in. Slower!”He’s grabbing at the door handle, slapping at it but he can’t seem to get a good enough grip to open it.“This won’t work! Call me!”You keep driving and you watch your therapist shrink in the rear view. You look over at the door and realize you forgot to unlock it. You can’t help but burst out laughing. You laugh and you laugh until you see the post office and you roll out of the car to pick up some stamps. The car crashes into a Blockbuster Video, which is convenient since you had to return “Becoming Jane” anyhow. It's sitting on the dash.Happy You Can’t Stop Driving Day!