The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia,Africa,and Central and South America.In Africa there are at least one hundred million illiterates,comprising eighty to eighty-five percent of the total population.In Europe the figure is about twenty-four million,most of them in Southern Europe,with Sp...
How Women and Illiterates Shaped Education Outcomes in 20th Century Latin AmericaPolitical participationpolitical competitionvoting institutionswomen’s suffrageliteracy restrictionseducationNo abstract is available for this item.doi:10.2139/ssrn.1797766Sweet, Cassandra M...
Canada, Australia, and/or New Zealand [17,18,19], all of which are developed nations that share similar colonial histories [20,21]. To our knowledge, this is the first study that uses national survey data to simultaneously study Indigenous health disparities in the USA...
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I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy. — Christopher Hitchens 0 I don't dictate to anyone...
Yeah, enormous challenges. No, this is not to underestimate the challenges. I mean, there are going to be landmines everywhere. The reconstruction is going to be quite extraordinary. But I think this is not a developing country where, you know, the majority of people are illiterate, right?
of Western Europe, for example, wrote in Latin but nobody spoke it natively. After all, only a few people could write at all at the time, and the leaders of the Grand Duchy themselves were illiterate. The written language used to be learned by the scribes together with the writing ...
The gender gap in educational attainment has been closed, and women have even surpassed men in some indicators after many years of effort. The 1982 census found that among young people aged 20–34, one-third of women (33.3%) were illiterate or semi-illiterate, more than twice the proportion...
In both Athens and Rome, participation in the democratic process (The Greek worddēmokratiameans “people power”) was limited to thedēmos, which were free, male citizens. Women and enslaved people did not have a vote. America 101: Why do we vote on the first Tuesday?
Re: "learnt many things about how not to run a company" @Raff Lets be fair, having better managers when running a country often leads to the few or one having far too much power. Its actually a good thing that political leaders are incompentant, it limits them from gaining too much...