...Poverty in India Absolute poverty or destitution is the term used to describe deprivation of basic human needs i.e. food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and education. While relative poverty refers to economic inequality in a particular location or society in which people live (The Economist, 2010). India has 1/3rd of World’s poorest population according to World Bank and it has been facing significantly high levels of poverty with most people living in agrarian and rural communities where 77%of poor Indians live. India is amongst the globally largest countries and thus poverty has a considerable pressure and weight on the country; about three-quarters of India’s population reside in rural areas and suffer higher levels of poverty regardless of efforts and policies being implemented from the past four decades (Prato & Longo, 2012). The rates of poverty in the country are affected by issues such as presence of factors, population density, ecological conditions and irrigation facilities etc. While there are other factors too that influence the level of poverty in rural areas of India i.e. caste, land ownership, literacy and gender (Yusuf, 2014). Impacts of Openness and Literacy rate on poverty in India Degree of openness refers to an economic metric, calculated as the ratio of country's total trade, the sum of exports plus imports, to the country's gross domestic product. The interpretation of the Openness Index is the higher the index the larger...
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...Term Paper Psyc 400, Spring, 2015 Title of Paper: Factors Contributing to Literacy Skills in Children from Low-Income Families In American society, education is considered by many to be an equalizing force for people from all walks of life. It allows the nation’s best and brightest to distinguish themselves from their peers through intellectual merit - at least in theory. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation does not live up to the ideal, especially for children from low income families. Children who are already growing up with the disadvantages of poverty are further hindered by underfunded and ineffectual primary schooling, setting them even further behind middle and upper class children. Before beginning a discussion of the factors or strategies contributing to early literacy, it is important to first establish that there is in fact a discrepancy between low-income children and their more affluent peers in the first place. A review of the research literature is required to lay certain inaccurate stereotypes to rest, such as the notion that poor children are simply lazier students, and do not face additional difficulties with the acquisition of literacy skills. A comprehensive empirical study by Babuder et al (2014) explores the relationship between poverty and reading skills in children, with the results being unanimously negative. The study goes beyond assessing the reading skills of the children, and measures the basic phonological and semantic skills needed...
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...expectancy, percentage of rich people in the country, and also the level of inequality including social problems. The Adult Literacy (% of population) graph means that the percentage of people in a country that can read. As we can see, different countries have different percentage, the question is why? I think this is because when the percentage of people was young, they didn’t have enough money to support their lives to get the education or they didn’t get enough time to get education while busy working to earn money and livestock to support their family. As for poverty they don’t have enough places to work. Most of them work as a fisherman and sell what they get from fishing, crops, and teaching in school. This is because it is hard to find jobs in a specific country especially a poor country. For the Goss Domestic product in US dollars, the product of all the work is counted in US dollars. This is high according to each currency of each country. I want to give it a press on the word poverty. Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Is it enough to blame poor people for their own predicament? Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their plight? What about their governments? Have they pursued policies that actually harm successful development? Such causes of poverty and inequality are no doubt real. But deeper and more global causes of...
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...average population growth rate of 1.41%, this is a clear indication that this population will increase more with time. When looking at the age structure, people who are 15-64 years old make up 65% of India's population and only 30% being under 15 years of age. This clearly indicates that India is composed of a rather young population. As per the 2011 census, literacy levels stand at around 74.04% and this is a significant progress from the 14.5% rate at the time of India’s independence in 1947, though the census still reveals that the adult literacy rate in India was more than 11% lower than the average World Adult Literacy Rate of 84% (Census of India, 2011c, p.101). Despite major reforms and programs intended to develop the education system, India is still struggling with low rates of illiteracy, especially in the country’s rural parts. Different states have been experiencing different rates of increase in literacy levels, although with very high disparities caused by the different classes of the Indian society. For instance, Kerala and Mizoram states are above the national average at 82.14%, while others like Bihar have a literacy level of about 65.46%...
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...The purpose of this essay is to discuss the influences of parenting on children’s mental health; with a particular focus, on the role played by parent’s attachment styles, in cohesion with the parent’s physical and psychological health. The essay will further highlight an existence of additional complex factors, above and above parenting, that affect children’s mental health, varying from, social, environmental, cultural, stigma and poverty effects. Mental health can described as state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life. Research outlines that, a child mental well being is thought to depend a combination of factors such healthy and balanced nutrition, socialization, and nurturing, provided by primary caregivers, extended family, and the community of residence, a potential impact to which, the child development process can proceeds along a healthy, or potentially traumatic trajectory (Gardner, & Gunn, 2012). From a social and nurturing perspective, the attachment theory supports the above notion, by stating that the quality of mother-child (or primary caregiver) attachment, is regarded as a pervasive factor in the development of an individual’s relational psychology throughout the entire lifespan (Bowlby, 1982; Freud, 1932). Attachment theory evolves from a basic premise that attachment behaviours are part of...
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...poverty I had a very disheartening experience yesterday! I am currently student teaching in k-12. My elementary experience involves teaching under an over worked art coordinator and under the individual classroom teachers. I have developed and written new art lessons for each grade according to the state standards and the coordinators curriculumn structure. When I actually get to teach in the classrooms I get 50 minutes to present art history, aesthetics, criticism, demo new techniques and have students do the project. Any other art they get is at the descression and under the guidance of thier homeroom teacher. This week I introduced the 5th graders to monoprinting using plexiglass plates which I supplied from my personal inventory and washable markers. We viewed and discussed monoprints created by Wayne Thiebaud. I used this to introduce the monoprinting technique and to discuss Pop art. The students had a previous lesson about the work of Andy Warhol and I was thrilled that they were able to make great comparissons between the two artists work. For the art project the students were to create a Pop Art monoprint. We brainstormed about possible images they might depict. Everything was going so well until a couple of the kids told the teacher they didn't know what to draw. The teacher then announces to the entire class that they can draw what ever they want, because this is thier art work. So much for pop art! I got decorative names, simplistic scenery, and what I call...
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...poverty I had a very disheartening experience yesterday! I am currently student teaching in k-12. My elementary experience involves teaching under an over worked art coordinator and under the individual classroom teachers. I have developed and written new art lessons for each grade according to the state standards and the coordinators curriculumn structure. When I actually get to teach in the classrooms I get 50 minutes to present art history, aesthetics, criticism, demo new techniques and have students do the project. Any other art they get is at the descression and under the guidance of thier homeroom teacher. This week I introduced the 5th graders to monoprinting using plexiglass plates which I supplied from my personal inventory and washable markers. We viewed and discussed monoprints created by Wayne Thiebaud. I used this to introduce the monoprinting technique and to discuss Pop art. The students had a previous lesson about the work of Andy Warhol and I was thrilled that they were able to make great comparissons between the two artists work. For the art project the students were to create a Pop Art monoprint. We brainstormed about possible images they might depict. Everything was going so well until a couple of the kids told the teacher they didn't know what to draw. The teacher then announces to the entire class that they can draw what ever they want, because this is thier art work. So much for pop art! I got decorative names, simplistic scenery, and what I call...
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...Poor health literacy is a “silent epidemic” that challenges the functioning of the healthcare system. Low health literacy levels are associated with higher risks of hospitalization, inability to manage health conditions, poor health outcomes, and inability to seek proper treatment and understand options available (Palumbo, 2015). Those with inadequate health literacy are more likely to be poor and uninsured (Levy & Janke, 2016). According to a study done by Pati et al. (2010) concerning maternal health literacy, children whose mothers had poor health literacy were much less likely to participate in welfare programs they were eligible for. 12.7% of people in the United States are living in poverty (Semega, Fontenot, & Kollar, 2017), yet those...
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...It is important to make sure as many people as possible are able to read and write to be able to complete all necessary daily activities, both at home and at the work place. A person needs to be able to read and write to fill out job applications, follow rules and directions, and maintain financial records. Some of the common causes of illiteracy are poverty, the lack of literacy within the family, and learning disabilities. Due to poverty some children are needed to work outside of the home, to help compensate the family’s income, instead of being able to go to school to receive the education that is needed. Therefore, poverty leads to the lack of literacy within the family. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly twenty-two percent of all of the adults living in the United States scored below basic skills during an assessment in 2003 (“Illiteracy: The Downfall”). “Sixty years ago, most illiterate adults were people who were uneducated” (Kunerth). Today, learning disabilities are often the cause of illiteracy in adults. The Florida Literacy Coalition estimates that half of the adults in literacy programs now, have learning disabilities. In the 1970s teachers used a one-size-fits-all type of program to teach adults how to read. It was the same program that school aged children were using. The old method did not work for those persons with a learning...
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...on the economic realm, as in product and market interactions just yet. It is more on lives and living in subsistence. * Identify key life-changing circumstances. * Reflect on what you learned about living in poverty—i.e., the types and nature of challenges that individuals have to face in different areas such as food, etc. The factors on the change of the people’s life in the poverty The first week reading introduces two people who have the completely different lifestyle in their live. Meanwhile, Sumitra, a low-literate buyer, her life experience move me a lot and let me understand several things for the people who live in the poverty and only have a very low literacy. It is not very hard to identify the reason why there is a huge change in Sumitra’s life, which is the power of the education. During her whole 46 years, Sumitra faced two huge change in her life. First, her husband’s death deeply influenced her lifestyle, because her husband’s salary is the main income for the whole family. Also, her husband is the only person who was wanna teach Sumitra how to realize or take the bus. After husband’s death, the construction of the whole family changed, and her son needed to work, and Sumitra had to afford the family. However, because of her low-literacy, she faced significant problems in her normal life. For example, she was cheated by the sellers, or took a wrong way bus because of the lack of the knowledge of the number. All these challenges required Sumitra to make...
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...How Language Abilities and Deficiencies Impact Literacy Development Multnomah County had a survey done for kindergarten teachers. The results suggested that 19.4% of their students were not headed toward literacy success, due to a lack of necessary language and pre-reading skills. There is a 90% probability of a child that is a poor reader in first grade, still being a poor reader three years later, in fourth grade (http://www.co.marion.or.us). As Early Childhood Educators, we must help our students. Creating literacy rich environments for our students will assist them in the literacy process. Early language abilities make a positive impact on literacy development. Language and literacy both have many definitions. This paper will refer to the following interpretations. Language is a method used to communicate. This may be in written or verbal words that are routinely arranged. Literacy is simply the ability to read and write (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary). This paper will discuss language as it relate to the development of literacy. Language in Literacy During the first few years of life, language and literacy development begins. It is linked to our first encounter with books and stories. It is linked to the “baby talk” from our caregivers and the noises that a babies makes in return. Language is learned naturally from the child’s parents and teachers. Soon after birth the baby starts to make cooing sounds. If these sounds are properly...
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...Statement of Problem One district located in a Colorado metropolitan area has struggled to achieve literacy growth according the the Colorado Department of Education. This particular district has been labeled as priority improvement because of the lack of growth. Within this school district one elementary school has been an exception and has not only surpassed literacy growth when compared to other schools in the district, they have been able to surpass literacy growth when compared to Colorado state averages for growth. In addition, this school has maintain this growth over multiple years and with multiple principals. This school has been known for independently driven Professional Learning Communities (PLC) in which the teachers take the lead in directing their own learning. When the teachers and leaders in this school explain how this practice was developed, they credit a former principal that initiated the change more than 10 years ago. Since then, the school has continued those practices with more than 5 different principals. Furthermore, this school serves a large population of students in poverty, students of color and students which are diverse language learners. Although some...
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...12 Introduction to Micro And Macro Economics | Major Issues in Pakistan Economy: A Statistical Overview | | | | | Table of Contents Page Historical Background of Pakistan...............................................................................3 An Overview of Current Situation in Pakistan.............................................................5 Major Issues in Pakistan: .............................................................................................7 Illiteracy.............................................................................................................7 Poverty..............................................................................................................12 Corruption.........................................................................................................15 Overpopulation and Population Health.............................................................18 Unemployment..................................................................................................22 Inflation.............................................................................................................26 Energy crisis......................................................................................................30 Political instability............................................................................................33 Conclusion and Recommendations............
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...claim. However, he provides insufficient evidence and makes assumptions that are inaccurate and unfair to the families who are receiving S.S.I. Furthermore, he weakens his argument by introducing other thesis statements later in his paper. This distracts from and sometimes contradicts his initial thesis. Kristof begins with an interesting and potentially important statement that dependence on S.S.I. inadvertently perpetuates illiteracy, but he doesn’t ground his argument with clear evidence or maintain his focus. Kristof states that poor parents in the Appalachian hills purposely pull children out of literacy program to increase their chances of qualifying for S.S.I. (Kristof, 2012) He provides some good quotes from people involved in literacy programs and education departments who say they have seen families do this. His sources sound credible. Billie Oaks, who runs a literacy program in Breahitt County said, “The kids get taken out of the program because the parents are going to lose the check. It’s heartbreaking.” (Billie Oaks as cited in...
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...assignment talks about why northern states are less developed than southern states. Since overall economy of India has improved and the growth rate overall is good but if we compare the growth rate of southern states and some western states it is more than that of northern states (excluding Delhi and Punjab). This is the main reason why the overall growth rate of the country is not booming. In this study I have examined the state wise performance of more developed states and why they have developed more than other northern states. Majorly I have talked about following sectors which affect the growth of a region. They are:- * Population * Agricultural * Electricity and power supply * Illiteracy * Industrial development * Poverty * Income * Government impact The performance and growth totally depends upon the growth and development of all the states. If all the states individually will perform well then naturally India will do well. 1. Population :- It plays a major role in the development and growth of the region. Higher the population it will be difficult for the state to maintain the GDP rate and also unemployment become more. In totally the northern states as a whole has remained the highest populated area since independence. The population growth is 2.4 per cent which is higher than the southern region of India. Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh have the most of the population of India and hence are the least developed...
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