European Parliament It is the only directly elected body of the European Union They have 754 members (MEPs) They are elected once every 5 years through turnout for voting is low The EP drafts EU legislations which affects UK‚ which we must adhere to‚ but we can still make up our own laws They also control the EU budgets It has 2 places of work; Brussels in Belgium‚ Luxemburg city‚ Strasbourg in France Advantages of being in the EU I believe an advantage of being in the European Union is
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Unit 71‚ Outcome 1 Explain how current and relevant legislation and policy affects work with children and young people. Current legislation is the result of The children Act 1989 which was brought in to ensure that all people who work with children worked together and was clear about their responsibility’s and knew how to act if allegations of child abuse were made.Following the death of Victoria Climbie in the year 2000 an independent inquiry highlighted many problems with how reports of neglect
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Course Description: This Public Speaking course is designed to introduce students to three basic modes of speaking. It provides each student with the necessary skills in order to communicate effectively. This lecture-performance course teaches the student how to develop and further enforce verbal and non-verbal communication skills and values. It includes: research‚ presentations skills‚ critical listening and thinking skills‚ audience analysis‚ anxiety reduction‚ and voice and articulation. In
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Chapter I: The Problem and its Settings “You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.” ~ David Ryan Introduction Internet and online game addiction‚ sometimes referred to as cyberspace addiction or online addiction‚ can manifest itself in many ways in today’s teens. If your daughter/son/sister/brother just spent an entire beautiful weekend updating his/her page on Facebook‚ playing online games on Y8‚ playing Vice City‚ battling
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How Successful Was Stalin’s Economic Policy? Stalin’s economic policy primarily consisted of two factors‚ collectivisation and the five year plans. The aim of collectivisation was to destroy private ownership that had been allowed whilst the NEP was in effect. The reason for this is that private ownership was a capitalist idea and therefore it went against Marx’s theory of communism. Another aim of collectivisation was to make the state a proletariate; this was needed because in order to reach
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meaning is conveyed by word choice. • Public - any group of people tied together by some common bond of interest or concern and who have consequences on an organization. - divided into nominatively‚ demographically and psychographically • psychographics refers to the various lifestyle‚ ie VALS (values‚ attitudes and lifestyles) • external public - exist outside an institution • internal public share the institutional identity • audience -people who are recipients of something (message
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Carol Stotts PPA 603: Public Budgeting System Public Budgeting Professor Gillen November 12‚ 2012 Explain the philosophy of public finance. The philosophy of public finance is based on raising funds for public purposes. The writer maintains that public finance may also be defined as a science because (1) it deals with a definite and limited field of human knowledge. (2) It admits of an orderly arrangement of its facts and principles‚ and contains many laws of general
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which is an effective public transportation system. Public transportation systems are said to be for a means of helping people make their daily lives easier at a low cost. Not only do these systems provide convenience to people in urban areas they also are designed to reduce the traffic congestion‚ or at least not increase the rate at which it already is. These benefits all sound great for advancing the productivity of Americans‚ however‚ when a person thinks about public transportation they automatically
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Chapter 9 The Government and Fiscal Policy Principles of Macroeconomics‚ Case/Fair‚ 8e 9.1 Government in the Economy Multiple Choice 1) Fiscal policy refers to A) the techniques used by a business firm to reduce its tax liability. B) the behavior of the nation’s central bank‚ the Federal Reserve‚ regarding the nation’s money supply. C) the spending and taxing policies used by the government to influence the economy. D) the government’s ability to
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show the effects of two sociological perspectives and there importance in assisting the social care worker to understand the family. The essay will also look at social policy on how it is developed and he issues of private and public issues. This will include how four sectors of social care will aid the case study family and how these organisations are funded. In today’s society‚ there are many different family structures and these structures are interpreted differently depending on the individual
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