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Abstract: This study highlights on the findings of a survey study which was done in some schools within one of the sub-counties in Kenya. Evidence has been collected through a literature review, teacher questionnaires and interviews. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the existing factors that support or hinder teachers from utilizing ICTs in their classrooms despite having them. This study was guided by the theory of Technology acceptance model by Davis, Bagozzi and Warshaw, (1989).The study reviewed literature on the importance of the use of ICTs in teaching and learning. Descriptive survey is the framework that guided the study. The study area is Kericho County in Kenya. Analysis of data was done thematically to exhibit the attitudes, values and views of the teachers concerning the usefulness of ICTs in teaching and also the factors that hinder utilization ICTs. Descriptive statistics was also used to analyze data from questionnaires. The literature analyzed shows that ICTs are very important in the following areas: they make the lessons more interesting, easier, more fun for teachers and their pupils, more diverse, more motivating for the pupils and more enjoyable. Additional more personal factors were improving presentation of materials, allowing greater access to computers for personal use, giving more power to the teacher in the school, giving the teacher more prestige, making the teachers' administration more efficient and providing professional support through the Internet. The findings from this study reveals that factors hindering the utilization of this precious teaching materials includes, lack of clarity in the use of this ICTs in the curriculum, time factor, incompetence among the teachers on computer skills, overreliance on traditional methods of teaching and resistance to change.

Keywords: Information communication technology, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, pedagogy
Title: Mitigating Factors, and Factors Militating against Teacher’s Utilization of ICTs in Their Classrooms in Kenya’s Secondary Schools
Author: Dr. Langat Andrew
International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IJRRSSH)
ISSN 2349-7831
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Abstract:This paper is an attempt to study Bishop’s concept of home with the help of a few poetic oeuvre from her first book of poetry “North & South” published in the year 1946. This paper explores the complex concept of home in the autobiographical light. There is an attempt to unfold the deeper recesses of Bishop’s mind attempting to create enclosures resembling home in her poetry. Home, for Bishop, is a peaceful place filled with love and security but unaware she tends to create places which are no better than prisons which essentially are due to the pressure of loss of home in her life and the stress to achieve it in her poetry. While creating such enclosures, Bishop’s poetry transcends from the world of reality to the world of unknown, the mystic, the surrealistic world. 

Keywords:Elizabeth Bishop; enclosure; home; North & South; Nova Scotia; surrealism.
Title:The concept of Home in Elizabeth Bishop’s “North & South”
Author:Sulekha Sharma
International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IJRRSSH)
ISSN 2349-7831
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Abstract:The study is designed to evaluate the impact of TB on farmer's income in the Gash delta. It depends mainly on primary and secondary data, the primary data was collected by questionnaire through direct interview of the respondents in the Gash delta agricultural scheme. The sample covers 100 farmers of TB morbidity and debility cases selected randomly from the farmers in the area, using the registration list in Aroma, Kassala and Wager hospitals after diagnosis of the disease, another 100 healthy farmers were selected using the same method of sample selection. (The total sample size was 200 farmers). Secondary data was collected from different sources related to the field of the study. Statistical procedures were used, including frequencies and inter-correlation matrix for the selected variables. The principal results are summarized in the following points: 
There is a strong positive correlation between farmer's annual income and the following variables: Age, Educational level, family size, Number of working daily hours, Annual expenditure, Price per unit of output, Farmer's productivity and strong negative correlation with infection. Finally, a set of recommendations were generated which aimed to reduce TB infection and disease in the Gash delta:
1- Periodic test and prevention of the disease.
2- Isolation of the patient farmers with active disease, before starting effective anti-tuberculosis therapy, so as to break the chain of transmission of the disease among the farmers.
3-Adequate TB control and management program is needed and integration into primary health care.
4- There is a need of health education to teach the farmers about TB disease and how to avoid its infection.
5- Aroma hospital should have to coordinate with the Gash delta agricultural scheme to play an effective role in reaching and looking after the patient farmers.
6- The Gash delta agricultural scheme management should have to seek a way for supporting the patient farmer's income. 
7-The state government should have to compensate the infected farmers for the lost seasons.
8- Incorporate the international NGOs.

Title:THE IMPACT OF TUBERCULOSIS (TB) ON FARMER’S INCOME, IN EASTERN SUDAN, WITH SPECIAL REFRENCE TO GASH DELTA, KASSALA STATE, SUDAN
Author:Sumaya Mohammed Mustafa Mohammed Elamin
International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IJRRSSH)
ISSN 2349-7831
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Abstract: In lay man’s language, terrorism is the spread of terror through the use of guns, bombs, chemical weapons or any other form of violent, coercive, ambush. Counter Terrorism, on the other hand, is to retaliate and put a check to it is what we know and address terrorism. At the UN level, the international community has adopted a number of international treaties that are designed to combat specific types of terrorism, such as the hijacking of aircrafts. However, till date there has been no agreement on a definition of terrorism. The recent attempt by the UN to define terrorism in UN General Assembly Report (28 January - 1 February) has been criticized for its lack of precision.

Title: Counter Terrorism and the Protection of Human Rights in the Perspective of the Civil Society & Countering Global Terrorism
Author: MADHULINA SARKAR
International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IJRRSSH)
ISSN 2349-7831
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