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East Africa food crisis | Oxfam Australia - 0 views

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      Underneath the "what oxfam is doing"  there is a point: that states that they are also assisting communities to prevent this from happening in the future.
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      Oxfam compound is currently receiving 1400 people a day and half of them are kids
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      shock and disbelief at these people's conditions
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      this people need support and oxfam providing clean water and support is essential to the survival of the people.
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  • As a result they've been unable to grow food to earn an income and are therefore dependent on food ai
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  • three regions: Somali, Oromiya and Tigray, and are aiming to reach around 1 million people with clean water, basic sanitation, and veterinary support.
  • We're helping communities look for more sustainable sources of water, by drilling boreholes, developing motorised water schemes and improving traditional water harvesting systems
  • we're ensuring that 500,000 heads of cattle have access to water, pasture, vaccinations and medical treatment.
  • Disease can spread quickly among animals too, particularly as they get weaker due to the impact of the drought. Most people in these areas depend on their livestock, and
  • We're also providing “cash-for-work” projects for locals to help clean local reservoirs and  build latrines, and have trained community officers on efficient management of water sources.
  • Somalia remains the epicentre of the emergency: UNHCR estimates about a quarter of the population (1.8 million) have been displaced
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Tools for Living - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 4 views

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    • Juan Mayen
       
      "Can you imagine Harvard requiring shop class?" - The author makes emphasis on how crazy would it sound if this truly happened. Clearly opposing the author's argument and using this as a base to later on support his argument. In other words he uses the counter argument as support for his argument.
  • Oberlin's environmental-studies program introduced him to the problems of fossil fuels and the notion of alternative fuels
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      The author points out that it might be true that people's educational program might lead(with or without learning practical skills in the process) them to some of the same aspects such as alternative fuels. But without having practical skills (or experience) their knowledge is useless.
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The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands « Sigm... - 6 views

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      Naysayer, the author introduces the lawyers as a negative voice, and expands upon it.
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      There is a "But" right after "liberal-arts education". This but is prone to indicate that a counter argument has been made. And that is that there are Colleges who already try to be "practical work colleges".
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T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • What does this mean for our own data spills?
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      Naysayer, the question is explicit. This mentions of what happen when we personally mess things up. All of the "social" world is there to see it. And they might have a totally different view of things or events that you do as something more serious or not to play with.
  • The whole system is giving very ambitious people much less chance to reinvent themselves,”
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      Naysayer?, People want to be different and the social media is not allowing people to become a new "John" or "Wanda"
  • Weren’t we better off knowing a little bit less, a little less often, about everyone else?
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      Question implied :Could we be better if we knew less about people, and not know so often? I probably have to agree on this one, we tend to look to much at fb and see people's relationship status change as fb changes its page characteristics (sigh* timeline, profile etc..)
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T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      Naysayer, Pamela is recognizing that some people might say that this can be amusing or annoying. With Pamela writing this specific passage, this passage helps her expand upon other aspect such as the, "it can also be hurtful."
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T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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      Pamela also takes lightly the comment the google spokesman said by jumping with her phrase "The faceless Web, seriously?" In my opinion that is considered informal and briefly mocks what has been stated.
  • Even if we like a person, we don’t necessarily like — or even “like” — what we find out about them online.
  • “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,
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      Naysayer! Pamela is quoting somebody and by that she is also pointing out what somebody might speak against. Which in this case the perceived argument from anyone can be "Hey at least you can block them out of your fb, twitter, etc"
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    A Google spokesman asserts that the program is designed to combat "the faceless Web." - Here Pamela is pointing at a naysayer because what the google spoke's women goes in the exact opposite direction Pamela is trying to lear her article too. Pamela previously states that there is too much internet interactivity and that people continuously see other people's lives(and therefore faces too), she gives it a tone in a way that it seem that this social media is going to drive her crazy.
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