Anne Norton’s The Signs of Shopping starts her essay out with shopping at the mall. Shopping at the mall briefly describes what the mall is and who is there‚ for example‚ she explains that the mall is the only place where young and old of different cultures come together in one place. She goes on discussing how women use the mall to escape the household and for a sense of dependency. Thus more‚ surrounding themselves with women and simply enjoying their time with each other at the mall. However‚
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Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the relevant provisions of the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011 (and their predecessors) in eliminating pay discrimination on the ground of gender within the workplace and thus reducing the gender pay gap. The European Union is founded upon core values including respect for human dignity‚ freedom and equality between men and women. This equality extends to the workplace where both men and women are entitled to equal conditions of employment and pay
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Cause of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 During Asian Financial Crisis‚ the Thai baht devaluation‚ the Malaysian ringgit was "attacked" by speculators. The overnight rate jumped from under 8% to over 40%. The factors that triggered the 1997 crisis was negative perceptions of the Malaysian economy following the dramatic collapse of the Thai economy. Foreign investors and international rating agencies had failed to consider underlying risks in the Thai economy‚ and spurred by fear that
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The Clinton Era I: Debating Domestic Policy‚ 1993-1997 o Health Care • Healthcare prices were increasing drastically. • Hilary’s task force proposed seeping reform plan at expense of increased tobacco taxes. • Defeated by lobbyists for doctors‚ tobacco companies‚ the insurance industry‚ retired persons. • Fall of plan cost the Clinton presidency • While the plan failed‚ health care was still a major issue. o Crime and welfare reform • 1994-Clinton propses anticrime bill to fund drug treatment
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The Effects of 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand and Hong Kong The Asian financial crisis occurred since the beginning of summer 1997 in Thailand and was triggered due to the currency depreciation of Thai baht. Declines in the stock market and exchange rates and the assets prices affected the economies of East Asian countries on a large scale‚ most notably Thailand‚ South Korea and Indonesia. Although Hong Kong was suffered severely in the crisis‚ there was significant impact on its economy
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Can Norton antivirus detect worm’s virus? Fadi M.S Al-suhimat Recent Internet worm outbreaks have infected hundreds of thousands of Internet servers and user machines within minutes‚ causing billions of dollars in losses for businesses‚ governments‚ and service providers. The high stakes involved have inspired numerous research projects‚ through which industry and academic institutions are working to strengthen local-area and wide-area networked systems’ abilities to fend off cyber-attacks. To
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P3 Children Act 1998 The Children Act 1998 aims to protect children who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harms. The act has reformed the law relating to children over the last century 1989‚ and did not come into force until 1991. The act states that the child’s welfare is paramount and that the concept of parental responsibility replaces that of parental rights. The act also promises to safeguard the child and make certain services available for children who are cared for by their
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The Attractiveness of Telecommunications Industry in 1998 Ireland The Irish telecommunications industry has been heavily regulated since the 1980s. A state-owned body‚ Bord Telecom Eireann‚ being simultaneously the largest employer in the country and the provider of the poorest quality Telecom Systems in Europe‚ introduced the controls that fundamentally eliminated the competition and created a monopoly. This seemingly new‚ but propitious industry faced numerous obstacles‚ as its capital requirements
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in some other countries. Copyright protection is automatic as soon as there is: (1) a permanent record in any form of the newly created material; and (2) the material conforms with the criteria set out in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1998 (CDPA 1998). Although copyright protection has existed in the UK for several centuries‚ in modern times the scope of copyright has expanded incrementally to encompass new forms of creative material as well as new ways of disseminating material‚ made possible
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• The “new world” that Columbus boasted of to the Spanish monarchs in 1500 was neither an expanse of empty space nor a replica of European culture‚ tools‚ textiles‚ and religion‚ but a combination of Native‚ European‚ and African people living in complex relation to one another. »full text • The Native cultures Columbus found in the New World displayed a huge variety of languages‚ social customs‚ and creative expressions‚ with a common practice of oral literature without parallel east of the Atlantic
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