Defining the family Is it time to redefine the family? Some commentators certainly think so. There is a great reluctance nowadays‚ especially amongst politicians and opinion-formers‚ to depict the family as a married couple with children. It is easy to assume that this unit is no longer the norm‚ and that families come in so many shapes and sizes that all our traditional assumptions are now redundant. So this seems a good opportunity to examine the facts about family life at the beginning of
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Cephalotus follicularis giant forms: “Myth or Reality” By Agustin Franco‚ Ph.D.‚ Sydney‚ N.S.W.‚ Australia Agustinfranco@hotmail.com This article is dedicated to those who spend their lives growing this beautiful‚ but unusual carnivorous plant. Cephalotus follicularis (labillardiere‚ 1806)‚ commonly known as the West Australian pitcher plant‚ Albany pitcher plant or Australian ground pitcher‚ is the only species of the genus Cephalotus. The word “Cephalotus” comes from the greek “kephalotos”
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opportunistic politicians for disruptive purposes. After 45 years of independence‚ ethnicity remains the stratifying factor. Multicultural policies through funding religious groups are considered as empowering minority communities to voice out. In reality such policies have empowered not individuals but their "leaders" who owe their status and influence mainly to their affiliation with the government which benefits in its turn by manipulating the population and projecting their conventional image to
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Ray Miss Dae Selcer ELA III 22 December‚ 2011 The American Old West: Myth versus Reality Western‚ a genre of short stories that are set in the American west‚ primarily in the late of the 19th century (“Western” 598)‚ and still being told until today by films‚ televisions‚ radio‚ and other art works. The major of moving to the west was because of the Homestead Act‚ 1862 (“U.S. Statues at Large” 392) which would give lands to people who stayed there for five years. This lead to
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HIGHER THE PRICE‚ BETTER THE QUALITY Is it a Myth or Reality? Survey Overview: Our survey has had 94 responses based on which we’ve derived various conclusions on how the chemistry between prices and quality work when choosing a product. We conducted a survey monitoring over 4 major sectors of regular application in our lives‚ them being FMCG‚ Apparels‚ Consumer Durables which include Laptops and Mobiles. Result Analysis (Based on Age Groups) FMCG industry: The younger age group in the
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will eventually develop a need for alternative ways of dealing with those groups of people and suggests four alternatives: normalization‚ conversion‚ containment and support for criminal enterprises. In The Social Reality of Crime‚ Richard Quinney tries to explain the need for crime within our society. Similar to Spitzer‚ Quinney
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“The concept of freedom to contract is a complex theory: is this a myth or reality?” To begin with‚ let us consider what contract theory is and what it holds. Contract theory is the study of how individuals and businesses construct and develop legal agreements; analysing how they make decisions under uncertain conditions‚ and when there is unequal information (Investopedia‚ n.d.). It is fundamental to know this along with what a contract is‚ to understand what freedom to contract is. For how illogical
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In the essay "Class in America: Myths and Realities" the author G.Mantsios advances a few hypothesis about the differentiation of contemporary society in the U.S. First author is showing that however‚ people rarely or never talk about the existence of social classes in the U.S. such classes not only exists but there is a huge abyss between them. Second part of the essays is demonstration that people who are born in the families already well doing have the better start‚ education‚ aspirations and
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The "myths and realities" of communication The communication process isn’t as straight-forward as we think it is. Often‚ the message we send across to another isn’t interpreted as we’d hope it’ll be. Misinterpretations or better known as misunderstandings cause problems that could’ve well been avoided. Misunderstanding is just one of the products of the myths of communication. These myths are wrong perceptions of communication. They are wrong principles of communication that we assume are right
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TALENT MANAGEMENT: Myth or Reality in Today’s SMEs? A study into the importance and use of talent management within small and medium-sized enterprises Daiva Baublyte Being an Individual Research Project presented in part requirement for International Business and Management Studies‚ Hogeschool INHolland‚ School of Economics‚ Amsterdam/Diemen‚ The Netherlands‚ and European Business Administration studies‚ Metropolia University of Applied Sciences‚ Vantaa‚ Finland. 25 May‚ 2010 Under
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