When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.<span>
I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.</span>
I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
There are a number of factors that have contributed to the increase in poverty and homelessness.
After the Great Depression the United States had a more welfare model to support the economy, this resulted in development of government housing schemes, investment in infrastructure etc which all created jobs.
After World War II as the United States became the dominant economic force in the world, a more capitalistic model was enforced. By the 1960s, poverty began to rise again.
Up until 1970s manufacturing jobs still provided a huge cushion for the poor but as the United States opened by, more and more jobs started to leave America. Most of the jobs that left were the low-paying jobs for low skilled workforce.
Loss of jobs, low welfare benefits, the failure of the private sector to build low-cost homes, numerous recessions as well as the recent Great Recession, have all contributed to the rise of poverty and homelessness.
<span>Those who were born on foreign soil now constitute about "10 %" of the US population.
According to PEW research center report there has been an increase in this number and it is likely that this number breaks a 125 years record within the next decade.</span>
We arrive to the post-classical period with vikings moving into slavic land and setting the basis for the city of Novgorod in 862, which would later be seen as the beginning of the Russian Empire.
A mixture of greek, slavic and viking cultures shaped Russia in its origins. Princess Olga from Kiev, as well as her grandson Vladimir, had great influence in <u>the conversion and unification of the population under Christianity</u>. This had tremendous impact in the early development and caused church and state to be extremely tightly linked together from the beginning.
<u>Geographical location</u> was a particularly defining element to the start of the Russian history. They were surrounded by waterways which made trading and transportation very easy early on. Being in permanent contact with byzantinum, viking, slavic and greek culture, pushed Russia to absorb all the diversity that made them culturally stronger. However, these very same circumstances made them extremely vulnerable to invasions due to easy access on water.
<u>Around 1240, the mongols invaded a prosperous Russia and managed to control them for over 2 centuries</u>. Eventually, Moscow's church gained enough power and allies to allow Prince Ivan to lead a successful army and begin an independent empire, breaking free from the mongols.
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B. Carbon Dioxide or CO2 is the majority greenhouse-gas polluter.
