Environmental and Ecological Concerns in Sri Lankan Tamil Fiction: A Study on Selected Pieces - Dr. Kandiah Shriganeshan‚ Senior Lecturer‚ English Language Teaching Centre‚ University of Jaffna‚ ‚ Sri Lanka Destruction of the environment and natural resources is the main danger that the modern world has to face. There is an urgent need for institutional reform within modern society to safeguard the environmental resources and to maintain the ecological balance. Environmental sociologists have different
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In this essay‚ I will examine a case study with four individual service users; Mr D‚ Mr R‚ Ms M and Ms P who are all described as vulnerable adults with learning disabilities‚ how and why these disabilities have lead to the service users being regarded as vulnerable. For this reason‚ I would define what learning disability is and the effects it may have on the individual service users. I would use the labelling theory in this concept to explain my knowledge and understanding of vulnerability. I
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Serious Failures to Protect Individuals From Abuse Harold Shipman Harold Shipman graduated from Leeds school of medicine in 1970‚ and moved to Todmorden in 1974 to practice as a GP. In 1975 he was caught forging prescriptions for pethidine for his own use‚ and was fined £600 and ordered to attend a drug rehabilitation clinic. For the following years‚ he worked in several temporary jobs before securing a position as a GP in 1977 and eventually setting up his own surgery in Hyde in 1993. Dr. Linda
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) is a novel centering on forty-year old Soviet political prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukov’s experiences during a single day in a fictional Soviet labor camp in 1951. Before entering the labor camp eight years earlier‚ Shukov was a poor stone mason‚ with a wife and two daughters who he left behind when he entered military service in 1941 after the Germany army invaded the Soviet Union. During fighting‚ the Germans captured
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We Protect Kids From Everything But Fear When I was little‚ my mother when coming home from work‚ always brought us some treats. My sister and I used to enjoy those cookies‚ candies‚ chips‚ or chocolates. She was not concerned about how many calories we had already eaten or were about to eat. She used to take us to school without being afraid of all the bacteria we would be in contact with. Paula Spencer in her article “We Protect Kids From Everything But Fear” is expressing how this way of living
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Secret Life of Bees‚ Deborah Owens is the most crucial character in the novel‚ which is set in South Carolina in 1964. Deborah’s choices and characteristics affect the protagonist of the novel as well as many other characters. In The Secret Life of Bees‚ it is Deborah’s value for all life‚ bravery and motherliness that influence other characters and make her the character who shapes Lily the most and makes her the most plot-opening character in the story. Firstly‚ Deborah values all life. including
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the crown repeatedly. It was not logical for England to be in controlled of Americans when they could easily mange by themselves. The only option was to gain full independence and nothing less. Paine took note of the fact that although Britain did protect the colonies; it was strictly for the economic benefit not out of benevolence. It is also pointed out how if they were not so tightly bound with Britain then the colonies would not share the same enemies. In other words‚ there would have been no need
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How to safeguard and protect children from harm. Actions to take to evidence or concerns that a child/ young person has been abused in any way Signs & Symptoms of Physical abuse. Unexplained bruises. Unexplained recurrent injuries or burns or scalds. Wearing clothes to cover injuries‚ even in hot weather. Refusal to undress for games. Bald patches of hair Repeated running away. Fear of medical examination. Aggression towards self and others. Fear of physical contact – shrinking
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Community based group intervention for tobacco cessation in rural Tamil Nadu‚ India: a cluster randomized trial Abstract Objective: To determine the efficacy of community based group intervention for tobacco cessation and to identify the barriers for cessation intervention among rural men. Methods: We recruited 400 men (20-40 years) currently using any form of tobacco from 20 villages of the Indian State of Tamil Nadu and randomized them equally into intervention and control groups. A
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speech with the desire to avoid racial tension” (Bok 70). It is hard to tell the difference between free speech and issues other people may have with how you choose to use your freedom of speech. For that reason some universities “… enacted codes to protect their communities from forms of speech that are deemed to be insensitive to the feelings of other groups‚” (Bok 69). That would make the restrictions a lot more clearly on how to define the line between the
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