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Question
Write 3 sentences on what comes to your mind when you chance to see the following.
A rag picker
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Solution
- On seeing a rag picker, I feel that he is poor and does not get enough food; it was doing such work.
- He does his job very obediently. He separates biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste into two different sacs.
- He is exposing himself to various diseases by working in such areas.
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