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    cognitive deficiencies such as: ADD, impaired problem-solving abilities, lower IQ scores and impaired school performance.5 Sadly, many of the aforementioned vitamins and often even the base amount of calories for a healthy diet are missing in developing countries and therefore this “window of opportunity” transforms into a “point of vulnerability,” where children develop a cognitive deficit that they carry forward with them into their adult life. “The macronutrients are the energy-yielding…

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    ve the developed countries the advantage when they purchased these materials from the developing nations (Martinussen, 1997: 91). This practice was seen as a catalyst of underdevelopment. Emmanuel’s theory became the subject of much debate and many theorists reworked some of his ideas. In the 1970s Geoffery Kay came up with his own theory of unequal exchange and he attempted to incorporate the ideas of Emmanuel to it to try and explain his ideas on the causes of underdevelopment. His theory…

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    from a ‘periphery’ or poor and underdeveloped states or countries to a ‘core’ of wealthy states or countries, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. Popular up through the 1960’s, Dependency Theory became prevalent following the Great Depression as export-oriented, Latin America, fell victim to global pricing. The overall exploitation and expansion of market capitalism, utilizing cheap labor and resources in infantile economies to continue to build strength in developed countries in…

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    problem that third world countries face. Despite their efforts, these countries (third world) are characterised or classified as countries that are under poverty, poor or no medical facilities, poor road networks of which they seem to be experiencing more underdevelopment than any form of development. On the other hand developed nations seem to be greatly benefiting from the continuous lack of development in these nations. Developing nation The word developing countries or nations in this case…

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    taught me many things ranging from medical aspects to cultural problems within countries all around Earth. De Blij taught me as the world is “flattening” we are being able to connect easier to different places all over the world, but as the world is “flattening” cities are becoming less like the ones around them and more like different cities across the globe. As these cities are becoming less and less like their own countries, it is causing their economy to grow since they are bringing in…

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    Tanzania can be used as a case study for dependent development, as well as many other impoverished nations in Africa. According to lecture, dependency theory states that global capitalism has a “core” (the rich), and a “periphery” (the poor). Resources of all sorts flow from the periphery of poor and underdeveloped states to the core of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. As mentioned in the article, dependency theory arose as a reaction to modernization theory, an…

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    clothes are made and who makes it is simple enough, but would we as a society ever have thought that the people that make them for us live in extremely poor conditions? Children and Developing Countries are heavily impacted by globalization because they are the easiest to change and be altered due to outside countries views. Children, out of all age groups, are the easiest to influence into a certain way of thinking. This is why kids are schooled at a young age, because this information has a…

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    It can help different countries battle drugs and different issues like HIV/AIDS: Numerous organizations are aiding in the scattering of data about transnational issues like medications and HIV. The International Narcotics Control program puts aside Rundown of Cons of Foreign…

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    and high mass consumption. Furthermore, they clarify what modernization is. There are several ideas about modernization and who created modernization. One is that places where has been grown are important, but rest of them are not, so the Third countries were isolated and technically undeveloped economics. Basically, Modernization theorists say that modernization is depended on locations, which mean if there are some places where are developed economically and technically, the close to these…

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    write about what it means to be an American. It is the tendency of people to identify themselves with a group. Whether that be a team, a state, town, gang, school, country, it doesn 't really matter. People love to be a part of something bigger than themselves, and countries are no different and definitively fall into this category. Countries are normally relatively simple to group. For thousands of years, wherever you lived or your religion generally determined what nationality you were. Even…

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