a billion people, two-thirds of them women, will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or write their names,” warns UNICEF in a new report, “The State of the World’s Children 1999.”
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, points out that the illiterate “live in more desperate poverty and poorer health” than those who can read and write. The shocking number — 1 billion people illiterate — generated frightening headlines in major newspapers.
Poverty in the poorest countries is indeed something that ought to concern all of us, especially in a season when we pause to remember the less fortunate. But as usual, there’s more to this striking statistic than UNICEF tells us. Consider three points.
The Good News. Bad news sells, news watchers tell us. And 1 billion people unable to read and write — about 16 percent of world population — is certainly bad news. But let’s deconstruct the news.
First, UNICEF’s actual number is 855 million, a figure that did not appear in major newspapers. That’s still a large number, but it is 15 percent less than 1 billion.
The statement that best describes how these themes interact in <em>Gilgamesh</em> is B) Gilgamesh's battle with Humbaba shows us that a hero needs help to reach glory.
Enkidu, who is a good friend of Gilgamesh, has an important role in the battle with Humbaba.<u> Enkidu is the one that encourages Gilgamesh to get rid of his fears and reminds him about the weapons that they have brought</u> to fight against Humbaba. Moreover, he urges him to ignore the demon's pleas and to kill him once and for all.<u> Enkidu has an important role because he is the one that gives Gilgamesh courage again to fight against Humbabu and reach glory</u>.
<span>First are similarities, well, literary both have ‘green’.
And both have ‘house’ too. So the only similarities of the two are of their
words. But they differ so much if we contrast them because greenhouse effect is
a social problem where the gases from CFCs accumulated to the earth’s
stratosphere causing pollution and trapped heat. Green house is one of the ways people could
avoid greenhouse effect. In making your house green, that is making it
plant-friendly, you will be breathing more oxygen, less carbon dioxide.</span>
The Big Dipper is an asterism in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear). One of the most familiar star shapes in the northern sky, it is a useful navigation tool. Asterisms are prominent groups of stars that form patterns but are smaller than, or even part of, a constellation.
