3. “The threat of religious terrorism to Singapore is more apparent than real”. Do you agree? “Despite counter-terrorism successes by regional authorities‚ the terrorist threat in the region and to Singapore remains real.” – Mr K Shanmugam‚ Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs (AsiaOne News‚ July 19th 2010) Introduction Firstly‚ there is a need to clearly distinguish between apparent threat and real threat. This essay will adopt the definition that apparent
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From F to Faith: The Threat of Lutheranism The end of the fifteenth century had left Christendom with a Church in great need of reform. The Church had been greatly weakened by the events of the past few centuries. The fourteenth century’s Great Famine and Black Death had battered the public’s trust in the Church‚ as had the Papal Schism spanning from 1378-1417. When the ideas of Martin Luther began to spread in the early 1500s‚ the Church became afraid for its power‚ its reputation‚ and its
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First of all‚ what is stereotype threat? According to http://www.reducingstereotypethreat.org/definition.html‚ they say that "stereotype threat refers to being at risk of confirming ‚ as self-characteristic‚ a negative stereotype about one’s group". In my own words‚ stereotype threat is a negative assumption that someone says about another person. For example‚ some people say that all Asians are smart‚ white people are rich‚ blondes are dumb‚ or Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers. Throughout
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Question c: All expenditure cycle activities depend on the integrated database that contains information about suppliers‚ inventory‚ and purchasing activities. There are several general threats and controls that may be experienced by Proterm Automobile Industries Sdn Bhd in its expenditure cycle. The first general threat is inaccurate or invalid master data. When errors occur in the supplier master data‚ there is a tendency that the employees of Proterm Automobile Sdn Bhd may order goods from unapproved
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Antibiotics are rapidly becoming useless and we are forced to deal with the problems of the post antibiotic era. Our current state is urgent to say the least‚ the entire CDC urgent threat list is filled with a wide range of multi-resistant bacteria. Clostridium difficile is the first on the list‚ it is gram-positive and erupts from the distribution of normal colon bacteria. The on set primarily starts by taking antibiotics‚ because Clostridium difficile is immune to nearly all antibiotics. Second
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D. Introduction: What is your environmental threat: Urban Sprawl Define the environmental issue: The widespread dominion of immediate ecosystems and atmosphere by means of the expansion of cities and urban environments. Cities and roads grow like weeds‚ and act like them too; threatening to suffocate remaining ecosystems and organisms. Fossil Fuels from factories
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money‚ and depending on what type of graffiti it is may emotionally damage communities as some types of graffiti are set out as threats which may scare the community. Damage of property is also a type of anti-sociable behaviour which can be very expensive to repair or replace depending on what the criminal damages. An emotional way criminals could damage people is through violence against a person; as it may result in the person being scared to leave the house or be out of the house after dark‚ they
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What were the political consequences of the attempts to deal with the threat of communism in Australia in the 1950’s. There were many Government attempts to ban the Communist Party of Australia in the 1950’s. The idea of “Reds under the Beds”‚ was presented in the Communist Party Dissolution Bill and the Petrov Affair‚ which Menzies used to his political advantage. These two attempts to ban the Communist Party led to a significant change in the Australia Labor Party in the 1950’s that changed the
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Communist Threat Essay Australia responded to the threat of communism both internally and externally. Australia responded to various external threats during the 1950’s. The first threat was the Korean War in 1950 to 1953. Following 1945‚ Korea had been divided into communist North Korea‚ supported by the Soviet Union and later China‚ and non-communist South Korea‚ supported by the United States. North Korea invaded the South‚ and gained control of almost the entire country. Us president Truman
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under stereotype threat‚ but most people did not acknowledge it or they did not aware it. For example‚ after crossing a narrow‚ wobbly bridge‚ men tended to interpret their their feelings of anxiety as an intense attraction for interviewer. Black students who were told to finish a task which measure their intelligence would experience blood pressure rising dramatically‚ while they did not consciously aware of it. Steele later also indicated that the anxiety caused by identity threat would directly
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