Mainstreaming

his kids, he also ate a small amount of canned vegetables at family dinners and a daily protein shake. The fact that he lost weight isn't really the part that's puzzling. You can lose weight on any low-calorie diet, and you can also lose weight mainstreaming methamphetamine. What's surprising is that some of the things your doctor measures and that are considered indicators of good health -- i.e. cholesterol and…

6. Benchmarking Initiatives: As a vital service provider in Dhaka city, Dhaka WASA introduced benchmarking techniques in order to improve its performance. A committee consisting of the Dhaka WASA senior staff members along with the Managing Director works in this initiative. The Benchmarking committee caters the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and South Asian Water Utilities Network (SAWUN) in the matter of Benchmarking and Monitoring of “Program for Performance Improvement…

offered the right to an education similar to his/her peers, in a common setting. Others view inclusion as a more complex concept. Griffin and Shelvin (2007) claim that inclusion can be segmented into three phases: segregated provision, integration/ mainstreaming and inclusion. I believe Bailey’s position above, remains in the mainstream/integrated position, as it lacks reference to the humanitarian right of a child to be educated amongst peers, reference to the promotion of a cultural shift…

crisis. This is the result of a male-dominated society. Joni Seager, a scholar and activist in feminist geography, global environmental policy including climate change, gender equity measurement and gender audits of institutions towards gender mainstreaming, states that “Women who take the lead in community organizing are not necessarily feminists, nor are they necessarily aware of, or interested, in feminist analyses of power, culture, sexuality, structure. In fact, many women who are in the…

Violence is very common in the media and can cause many problems in society. In today’s age televisions, personal computers, and cellular devices are prevalent in households. Many Americans can spend up to 4 hours a day watching television and 4.7 hours a day on their cellphone. If 8.7 hours is spent on either a cellphone or on that is equal to roughly 243.6 hours in just one month. That is one third of our time a month spent either watching television or looking at social media on our cellular…

Many schools have already implemented new placement models for deciding what classes students will take. For example, Davidson County, North Carolina has begun taking, “high school transcripts, college placement exams and whether students have earned previous college credit”, (Smith) into account when deciding where to place students. As well as, according to Jay Mathews article, Are remedial courses actually hurting community college students? Published in the Washington Post, Montgomery…

Learning can be defined as; “The relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or behaviour due to experience” (Mayer, 1982, p.1040). New theories of learning are leading to very different approaches to the design of curriculum, teaching, and assessment. Theorist B.F. Skinner adopted and developed the scientific philosophy known as radical behaviourism. He distinguished two kinds of behaviour; respondent behaviour which is elicited by a known stimulus and operant behaviour which is not…

Intellectual disability is a term that is used when a person has definite boundaries in cognitive functioning and skills, in conjunction with communication, social and self-care skills. However, before getting to the concept of intellectual disability more ahead we should understand the perception of disability itself. Disability is an individual execution, which contains physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual mental illness impairments, and several types of chronic diseases. Intellectual…

The life of Amy Tan is a miracle; we can see her power inside everything she creates. Her novel has strongly appealed, which can make people feel they are inside of her story. She is an Asian American writer. In her book you may see the fusion of American culture and Chinese culture. Her personal life has strongly influenced her writing, and she draws on her family and relationship with her mother, also work experiences. Amy is the second child of her family and she was born in Oakland,…

In a chapter of his book entitled How the Aid Industry Works, Arjan de Haan presents four main challenges facing the aid industry as a whole in the twenty-first century. First, he argues that the number of relevant actors has increased, posing challenges of coordination and increasing the potential for conflicting approaches. He provides the following example to back up this claim: “the focus of China’s aid on infrastructure is generally regarded as very welcome, because this has been an area…