Philippine Party-List System: A Failure or a Success? The country’s population is about 90 million; about 70 percent of which is in poverty. It is not farfetched to say that majority of the country’s population is underserved and marginalized ― our farmers‚ fisher folks‚ the youth and the women among others ―and are in need of government’s attention. In a developing country like the Philippines‚ decision-making or policy-making must gear towards development of these underserved sectors of the Philippine
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American political party system has been a jigsaw puzzle since its inception July 2‚ 1776. America is a political system of two main parties: the republicans and the democrats. Although there are other parties that exist republicans and democrats are the only two that win positions in office. To establish the two party system means when there are splinter parties that are rarely parties created claiming neither democrat or republican but rather fractions of the original party. For example there
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The two visual systems hypothesis talks about the processing of the visual information in two different routes in the brain (van Polanen & Davare‚ 2015). This idea was first introduced in 1982 when Leslie Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin described experiments that distinguished two streams that served different functions(Melvyn A. Goodale‚ 1998). They used the method know as ablation or also called lesioning. Using both recordings from neurons and ablation‚ they found that properties of the ventral
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“Critical Appraisal is the systematic process used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a research article in order to assess the usefulness and validity of research findings.” I am going to attempt to critically appraise the following article‚ Seers et al (2008) “A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a single session of nurse administered massage for short term relief of chronic non-malignant pain”. The aim of this research is to assess the effectiveness of nurse administered
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“A one-party state can be the start of the slippery slope towards fascism‚” said by Hu Yaobang‚ who was the third Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Single-party system is a type of system in which state has single political party could form a government. Under a Single-party system government‚ all the party are illegal other than ruling party. Since single-party system state only allow single party in the government‚ citizen have no right to choose their ruling party. Therefore‚ it is not
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One country‚ two systems "One country‚ two systems" is an idea originally proposed by Deng Xiaoping‚ then Paramount Leader of the People ’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ for the reunification of China during the early 1980s. He suggested that there would be only one China‚ but areas such as Hong Kong‚ Macau and Taiwan could have their own capitalist economic and political systems‚ while the rest of China uses the "socialist" system. However‚ Deng rejected the proposed use of such a system for territories
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Kindship SystemIdentify and describe the kinship system of one of the cultures listed below. These cultures are found in Chapters 3 and 4 of your text. Code to work APH 6Q4YWJP8 Briefly describe the culture: Iroquois (Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee) 1. Between 200 and 500 million people still cultivate using horticultural methods (The Encyclopedia of Earth‚ 2006). In this chapter‚ we discuss 2. the following food-producing cultures: Iroquois‚ Yanomamö‚ Btsisi’‚ and Enga. 3. Among the Iroquois (Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee)
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2: Summarising and critiquing two practice theories In this assignment each student will summarize and critique two of the theories that have been presented. Most commonly‚ this will involve a comparison of the ‘strengths-based’ and ‘eco-systems’ approaches‚ but not necessarily (after consultation with your seminar leader‚ other theory traditions might be selected). The exercise will be undertaken with respect to case scenarios that represent key examples of contemporary social work practice. This
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Historically‚ the United States has seen and become a custom to a two-party political system. Typically a person identifies with a Republican or Democrat. That is not to mean that those are the only two parties‚ however. Third Parties are influential on the political aspect as well. They may not be as heavily represented‚ but they can be influential on political issues‚ and even benefit to the Republican and Democratic parties. Third parties bring something else to the ballot. They create an outlet for
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data sources that are available to the criminal justice system for reporting crimes that have been committed for specific periods of time. Those data sources include surveys that are used that gather data from individuals or households and there are reports that gather data from crimes committed and reported. It is important to understand that not all surveys and reports gather all the same information. Also‚ there are strengths and weaknesses to all the surveys and reports that are conducted‚ therefore
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