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Multiculturalism
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1685.... entitled to as far as educational rights. The UN proclaims universally that, "Everyone has the right to education" and that "education shall be free," [UN, 1948,Article 26 (1)]. These definitions are very broad and far-reaching, and are rarely adhered to as fundamental human rights. "Many governments are inclined to define human rights in the manner most convenient to suiting their own political interests." (Boutros Butros Ghali, 1993). Essentially, there is no benchmark that compels any government education system to provide for a multicultural society. It should be inter .....
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Analysis The Impact Of Shift Work
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1194.... enhances economy advantages (Maurice 13). Adaption of shiftwork may result in a reduction in unemployment, or may provide work for those potentially unemployed (Perlow 46). In some cases, the choice may be between shift work and no work at all. In addition, shiftwork can enable full use of capital goods. James Walker suggests that from the point of view of the economy as a whole, the introduction of shift work, by reducing the stock of capital required to produce a given output, can encourage the entry of new firms into an industry and thus makes the economy more competi .....
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Effects Of Social Pressure On
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3036.... However, the higher the proportion of minority members in a group, the more likely they are to be successful. She also suggested that the presence of female students in a male dominated law school tend to affect their achievements. She also claimed that minority students are perceived as “tokens” or symbols and not as individuals. There are three main characteristics of a “token student” that can be explained as forms of social pressure. First, they are highly visible, thus they face performance demands that can be met by over achieving. As a r .....
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The Issue Of Authority And Res
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 763.... is now ‘become melodramatic, irrelevant, and tiresome’. She knows that her mother only means well but sometimes she wishes she could be like Lonnie. Lonnie is in care of her father; her mother had passed away some time before. Her father never notices her and does not show his affection for her, she is pretty much on her own. The narrator considers her as a ‘Blue-Baby’ and privileged. The narrator also sees her mother as ‘shameless and obscene’; she tries to direct her friend’s attention away from her mother as much as possible. .....
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Satellites
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 843.... from orbit. The U.S. made the first step.
In 1954, the U.S. relayed a voice message off of the moon. Three years later, in the October of 1957, the Russians sent Sputnik 1 in orbit. Sputnik 1 sent radio beeps from space making the Russians the first to put an artificial satellite into orbit. The U.S. felt the increasing pressure of the need for space technology, and on July 29, 1958 the U.S. government signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA. That October, a theory by a man named Tsiolkovsky created in 1895, was put into effect. The theory of Geosynchr .....
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The Study Of Psychology
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 643.... the experiment, if we were given more time a more throe job would have been done. The class showed me that surveys are not the most accurate means of finding your experiment. When trying to conduct a survey there are so many variables to cope with it is incredible. My group showed ways around surveys in that it is easy to prove your point; you just give the survey to who agrees with you. Surveys are black and white and if you draw a conclusion from one, it may not be accurate and most likely is not. A group also did their experiment using an observation method. Using this .....
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The First Flush Toilet
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 394.... of these methods created were all inefficient in some way. Whether
is was the smell, the inability to get rid of the waste, the slowness, or
the tremendous energy put into it for every bow- movement. The basic
mechanism was very simple--it was made of a float, a metal arm and a
siphonic action to empty the reservoir of water.
In the beginning of this method was not popular and the flush toilet
was given the name "Valveless Water Waste Prevented". The slogan used to
sell this product was "Certain Flush with easy Pull. Will Flush when only
Two-Thirds Full". Today, eve .....
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Gynephobia
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 554.... and underdeveloped feelings such as fear,
shyness and a sence of inferiority towards women. Such symptoms are the
results of past psychological and/or physical abuse from this opposite
sex. Quite often in a male's teenage life, abusive mothers and other
female members of the family account for a large percentage of the abuse
being done to these innocent juvenile males. Another large and common
offender to men in this sensual epoch of growth are the unusual
agressive and dominant female characters who possess negative and often
destructive relationships with them. Al .....
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