Extreme poverty

Vast number of migrations are taking place because their homes, belongings and/or their land has been destroyed or gone due to extreme weather conditions such as hurricane and floods, droughts and pollution due to global warming. With these migrations comes the problem of a pandemic or epidemic and their lives in…

Corruption in the public sector which is generally defined as “the ill-usage of public office for private benefits” is a complex behaviour. At every stage of development, corruption appears to exist and exacerbate the conditions of economic progress and poverty (Chetwynd and Spector, 2003). The costs of corruption can be more significant particularly in countries with pre-existing negative pressure on economic growth as well as the recent political transition to democracy. In a corruption…

As far as environmentalists know, the environment has taken a turn for the worst. There have been many facts proven by scientists that climate change is a problem, but people still do not understand the attention it needs. Whether people realize it or not, climate change is happening now. The 2016-elected United States president, Donald Trump, has made it clear that he will not be helping to protect the environment before it completely obliterates. However, there are steps people can take to…

In 2000, the UN came out with its Millennial Development Goals (MDGs) for world improvement. Prominent among these was the goal to halve world poverty by 2015. This may seem like a noble goal, and on face value it is, but the implementation and manipulation of the MDGs has decreased the true impact of “halving world poverty.” The MDG on world poverty has changed its goals throughout the years diminishing what it deems the “morally acceptable” number of poor from 828 million, to 1,329 million, a…

of the seventeen (17) Sustainable Development Goals spearheaded by the United Nations is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere.” Several targets were set in order to achieve this particular goal and the timeline was set to 2030. These targets or actions include: eradication of extreme poverty everywhere; reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty; Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all; ensure…

Currently, IT industry is going through a revolutionizing change. Competing market emphasizes us more on first time right delivery and zero delayed delivery. Also, the industry has changed a lot the way it operates or the technology it adapts. Now the question put forth is can the technology or the mode of operations help us to achieve the two goals stated above? Earlier people used to pedal a bicycle to reach their destination. At that point of time the problem was to reach a place with…

Why Use Scrum? Scrum Overview According to Scrum Body of Knowledge or SBOK (SCRUMstudy, 2016): Scrum is one of the most popular Agile methodologies. It is an adaptive, iterative, fast, flexible, and effective methodology designed to deliver significant value quickly and throughout a project. Scrum ensures transparency in communication and creates an environment of collective accountability and continuous progress. The Scrum framework, as defined in the SBOK Guide, is structured in such a way…

impact your health and well-being. There are many ways weather impacts a person. Seeing how everyone is different the effects are different as well. Wintertime brings some people down, while violence has been tied to the hotter months of the year. Extreme weather like hurricanes or blizzards can impact mental health problems. The weather has a way of changing people. One of the most common types of health issue that comes from the change in weather is called seasonal affective disorder.…

Businesses to achieve their goal for which they are set up involve number of activities. To better handle or manage these activities or to make the work easier these activities are divided into smaller activities or tasks. A process is simply a well-defined set of steps and decisions points for executing a specific task (Vsellis, 2015). Streamlining these tasks, certain agreed upon steps are followed. So process methodology is an agreed upon way of doing business or running these activities. A…

quote because you may go and do an extreme sport with friends and something might go wrong, which could end your life there.Thesis-Extreme sports are a bad idea because they are dangerous, and wingsuit flying and base jumping are probably the most dangerous of you.There has been fatalities of extreme sports over the past 5 years per 1,000 participants.Between 1930 and 1961,71 out of 75 people died trying to perfect a wingsuit. Paragraph 1-Topic Sentence-Extreme sports are a bad idea because…