peasants and pastoralists, so we are still in less than a $1 a day. I can say far below from a dollar per day. I don’t know how to say it, it is far below a dollar per day because when a farmer harvest, for example, in Mara, the majority of them cultivate maize, Millet, sorghum, beans, cassava, some of them tobacco and cotton a little bit when you go to Bunda and so forth. But when you look at all these crops, farmers predict the climatic condition of their area is a semi-desert like-So they cultivate crops that fit in the dry season. Yet even farmers engage in commercial farming, the government is not ready to prepare the market for them, where to sell their produce. They become discouraged. They don’t know where to sell, they are discouraged. For example, this year many farmers failed, and they thought agriculture would rescue their lives, but they found no market, they sold low price of oppression, this is what we call corruption. So with hope they work hard, making sacrifice eating a single meal hoping to harvest, and rescue his or her family, but the result is negative. The situation force people to run away from our region to different regions thinking that in Mwanza for instance, he may become mpiga debe [someone looking customers for buses at the bus station], or wash cars, some of them move completely from their families to seek life. So I think people still live below of what so called a dollar a day. Participant P#1 again explained poverty in terms of the…
James Paul Gee, in “What is Literacy?”, expands on the definition of discourse by breaking it down into its two vital parts, primary and secondary. According to Gee, discourse provides us with identity kits, which vary based on cultural and socio-economic factors, and our abilities to participate and share meaning with others in the world. The distinction between primary and secondary discourses lies in the physical and abstract acts of being, belonging, absorbing, engaging, and producing, as…
American holiday that we all look forward to. In other countries like Europe, they don’t have the same holidays, traditions or values. They have a very different lifestyle than we do in America, particularly in Italy. Italians eat different foods, listen to different music, and have a different education system. Living in America, I can tell that our lives are contrasting from those who are living in Europe. In Italy, there day to day life is significantly diverse than America. It all starts…
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eighteen years of my life throughout elementary, secondary, post-secondary and maybe graduate school. This amount of time dedicated to educating myself places me in a better position. When looking for a good job and become a productive member of society. Our teachers, instructors, and professors are important throughout this process. In truth, when I walked into my geometry class as a freshman I was terrified because of multiple reasons. I knew my performance in geometry class, as well as my…
States for all school-age children. Federal funds for education are collected through taxation and are dispersed to the states. The individual states add to the federal funds, and then distribute the funds to the local districts, which, in turn, add local funds and disperse the funds to the local schools. The U.S. federal government spends on average $7,743 per student for education (Rossier Online, 2011), and the total average spent per student is around $12,000, while “the average OECD nation…
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