Why we are where we are! • The deficit has risen as a number of complex factors come together. • There was a rapid increase in spending in the last few years of the labour government • This followed many years of when Gordon Brown was the Chancellor of the Exchequer and he advocated fiscal prudence‚ being very careful with the balance of spending and taxation. • Later on there was an acceleration in the growth of public spending • One example would be state education • Between 2005 and 2010
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Street Corner Society Community is seen as “complex system of friendship and kinship networks‚ and formal and informal associations’ ties rooted in family and ongoing socialization process” (Class notes‚ Soci. 421.15‚ Sept 23rd/2010). This paper discusses how Shaw and McKay’s social disorganization theory applies to “Street Corner Society”‚ and through this theory a strong association between social ties and crime rates will be examined. Essentially disorganization is seen as is the absence of social
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Courts in UK Her Majesty’s Courts of Justice of England and Wales are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in England and Wales; they apply the law of England and Wales and are established under Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom does not have a single unified judicial system—England and Wales have one system‚ Scotland another‚ and Northern Ireland a third. There are exceptions to this rule; for example in immigration law‚ the
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Referendums are devices for obtaining extra legitimacy for policy proposals or for reducing internal party disputes over party alternatives. They tend to replace the normal role of parliament and are a form of direct democracy‚ although initiation comes from the government and not the governed. There is an indication of the growing frequency of the use of referendums as a way of legitimising policies or appealing to the public beyond divided party structures. What was seen as non-British‚ inconsistent
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Roth -Engendering inequality: Processes of Sex-Segregation on (within occupations) Wall Street 1. What method did Roth use in her study? Qualitative 76 MBA grads randomly selected using random numbers table 2. P. 205 Do men and women with the same job preferences and human capital receive comparable earning? No‚ there was $200‚000 difference in earnings between men and women in the same positions p. 209 p. 205: women have different earning even when their job preferences and investments
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I Customs and traditions in the UK Every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions. Britain is different from our own country. This is natural. In Britain traditions play a more important part in the life of the people than in other countries. Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. It has been the law for about 300 years that all the theatres are closed on Sundays. No letters are delivered; only a few Sunday papers are published. Foreigners coming
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Some may say that the United States is a country of opportunity. Many say this because the European migrants came to the United States in order to escape from oppression. However‚ opportunity is when all the citizens of a country get the chance to live equally in society and are treated fairly under the law‚ regardless of race or gender. However‚ the “Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson‚ and “The Myth of Latin Woman” by Judith Cofer show the sexism that has existed in the United States
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POV of 2 interlinked articles: Makwana (2005) argues that the sustenance of WTO‚ World Bank and IMF is not beneficial for developing countries‚ since they are sustained by the economically dominating governments of the developed countries. Since these countries see neoliberalism as the way to achieve development in developing countries‚ yet fail to liberalize their own markets to the free international‚ competitive trade by implementing protectionists measures‚ like import tariffs and subsidizing
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What do you think the book definition of equality is? Do you think of a math equation or equality between people? This is the definition I got from a dictionary from the school library. “e·qual·i·ty‚ noun‚ a symbolic expression of the fact that two quantities are equal; an equation.” Is that what equality means to you? What about jobs‚ beliefs‚ and racial equality? We have all these privileges because of our dedicated Veterans. When your parents go to work‚ they probably don’t think about it too
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Equality is important in every marriage because women are belittled by men because men assume women were inferior to them. I believe Nora leaves to be able to find herself as a mature women rather than being treated as a “doll” in a dollhouse. No person wants to be belittled by a man especially if that man is their husband. Nora feels that she is being depreciated by her husband because Torvald is always demining her calling her nicknames that alway include the word little in them such as
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