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Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [320] through privacy settings. [321] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.
Shirley Anita Chisholm ( / ˈtʃɪzəm / CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. [1] Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [a] for ...
ECISD logo introduced in 2013. Ector County Independent School District ( ECISD) is a public school district based in Odessa, Texas, United States. In addition to the majority of Odessa (the portions in Ector County ), the district also serves the communities of West Odessa, Gardendale, and Goldsmith, as well as rural areas in Ector County. [1]
Climate change threatens people with increased flooding, extreme heat, increased food and water scarcity, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can also be a result. [11] The World Health Organization (WHO) calls climate change the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. [12]
Palestine ( Arabic: فلسطين, romanized : Filasṭīn [e] ), officially the State of Palestine ( دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn ), [f] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia. It encompasses of two disconnected territories — the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The country shares its borders with Israel to north ...
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private, Ivy League, research university in New York City, United States.Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States and is considered one of the most prestigious ...