peak in 1950. Declines were seen after the introduction of the polio vaccine (Saxon‚ 2001). Today‚ polio has been almost completely eradicated in the US. However‚ we are now seeing the effects of post-polio syndrome. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of polio survivors are now affected by post-polio (Ryan‚ 2009).
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Types of Post offices Head office: A head office is the chief of a group of offices consisting of it self and a number of small offices called sub and branch offices which have been placed under its accounts jurisdiction .It is the central office for itself and for all the sub branch offices within the group and monetary transactions of the latter offices are incorporated in its accounts. Sub offices: A sub office is a post office subordinate to and in account with a head office. It’s headed by
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The Starchitect of Post-Modern Architecture Architecture was the first style to push beyond modernist values and shift to post-modern values. Modern architecture followed a uniform style that appears in the de Stijl movement; which preferred order‚ horizontal/vertical lines‚ simplicity‚ sameness‚ universal form‚ and purism; meanwhile‚ the Bauhaus movement used industrial materials and simple geometric forms. The international style or what can be termed as present-day architecture followed the modernist
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Post Secondary is not a waste of time and money. There are many skills‚ friends‚ and opportunities to be drawn from it. With a variety of post secondary schools it is very difficult to not find a suitable one that interests and enhances. Getting into top schools can have many benefits on your life. For example‚ if you attend a school such as Harvard you will be automatically looked in a different way. Things like these are also great for your resume. Apart from that post secondary allows you to go
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Ex post facto laws Name: Course: Institution: Tutor: Date: Ex post facto laws refer to laws that apply to acts committed before the enactment of such laws and are‚ therefore‚ disadvantageous to the affected persons. The United States constitution in article I‚ section 10 prohibits the state from enacting such retroactive laws. This prohibition protects individuals from unjust legislative acts. However‚ the ban on ex post facto laws applies only with regard to criminal and not civil laws
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English: Blog post 1: John Humphreys thinks that the OED has let him down by modernising. It’s done this by removing the hyphen from over 16000 words he describes that he finds it daft that we ‘don’t have time to reach for the hyphen key’ as its only one tiny key stroke. He feels that text speak is pointless and doesn’t save time as ‘the recipient of the message has to spend ten minutes trying to translate it’. He thinks that the text speak of the new generation is ruining the English language
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In sociology‚ industrial society refers to a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production‚ supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the west in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution‚ and replaced the agrarian societies of the Pre-modern‚ Pre-industrial age. Industrial societies are generally mass societies‚ and may be succeeded by an Information society. They are often contrasted to with the traditional
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Notes on post-Fordism and postmodernism Post-Fordism and Postmoderism: Capitalism requires a large number of low-skilled workers willing to put up with alienating‚ repetitive work on mass production assembly lines. This system is often called Fordism because the Ford motor company was the first to introduce this. Bowles and Gintis’ correspondence principle states that school mirrors the work place‚ and see the mass education system as preparing pupils to accept this kind of work. Postmodernists argue
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Classical & Post-Classical The classical and Post-classical periods in history had a closeness‚ yet‚ both time periods were highly distinctive. The economies both had high-points‚ as well as times where it was thought the empire would fail. The social structures took on many adjustments‚ due to particular forces such as war and religion. Religion‚ in order to have an impact on the social structures‚ was constantly being introduced to different views‚ such as Buddhism and Christianity. Politics
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Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome Are there truly side effects caused by tubal ligation? Candy Layne COM/220‚ Research Writing Instructor Amy McKenzie July 15‚ 2009 Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome Are there truly side effects caused by a tubal ligation? Ever heard of side effects from a simple surgery? How about the procedure causing harsh menstrual cycles? Thousands of women across the U.S. have had this surgery and have the same complaint. The surgery is a tubal
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