Author: James Johnstone
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The Power Of Compliments In Education
How long has it been since you last received a compliment from a person for anything you do: getting high grades, passing a test, working more productively, etc.? Whatever that compliment is for, your soul will be filled with warmth and pride, from which you have more motivation to pursue your wishes. Thus, in the…
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Self-Education: The Key To Success
Self-education is not new. People have educated themselves on a variety of things by the process of experimenting and executing. We were taught traditional ways to acquire new information and skills at school. Teaching yourself or self-education demonstrates how you actively decided to learn something without teachers or guidance. Why is self-education the key to…
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Poverty And Problems: Environmental Pollution
Continuing in the “Poverty And Problems” series, the topic of this blog post will talk about the problems that any country in the world is currently facing: environmental issues and global warming. Perhaps many people wonder what poverty has to do with environmental pollution and the abuse of natural resources. This article will answer this…
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What Is Ecological Poverty?
A household that lives below the poverty line is a poor one. However, are monetary factors, more specifically the income, enough to decipher the poverty level a family has to face? That is why some economists uphold the theory of Ecological Poverty, which considers another fundamental attribution of human life – the environment. What Determines…
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Breaking The Cycle Of Poverty
The Cycle of Poverty describes a loop in which poverty persists in a whole family’s tree for years: a child lives in impoverishment, grows up unemployed, and later cannot secure sufficient finance for their family. How to break this seemingly endless chain of devastation? How can a child grow up receiving adequate resources to develop…
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Poverty And Problems: Family
In my second article on Poverty and Problems, I will write about a topic that is perhaps quite surprising to many people: Family. Many of us have seen articles or news programs reporting on broken marriages of politicians, rich billionaires, or celebrities in newspapers or on television. This makes many people mistakenly think that it…
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The Relationship Between Poverty And World Hunger
It is already the 21st Century, and food produced by worldwide farmers is abundant to feed everyone. Why are we still thinking about hunger? Unfortunately, poverty and hunger are still one of the most pressing issues due to a straightforward reason: around 690 million people in the world suffered from hunger in 2020. While you…
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Poverty And Problems: Migration And Immigration
As I have introduced in previous blog posts, poverty is the root cause of many social problems and ills. That’s why I want to post a series of blog posts about poverty and its effects on people and society. And in the first blog post, one of the topics that are receiving great attention from…
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How Does Poverty Affect Children?
Children are most vulnerable to negative influences from the outer world and require protection and special care from adults. However, not every child receives equal and well-off upbringings due to a myriad of causes, one of which is poverty. Poverty Effects On Children’s Health Children living in low-income households are liable to poorer health. In…
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Academic Pressure: Effects and Management
On one hand, Academic Pressure can be a motivation for students. It can have a significant influence on students because it helps students get out of their comfort zone to try their best while studying. On other hand, Academic Pressure can also turn into stress which causes students to feel burdened, leading to a downgrade…