vote. Gerrymanders are also another major factor that can influence an election. Gerrymanders allow governments to redistribute electoral boundaries. Governments are then able to win more seats by reducing vote wastage in safe seats and shifting the wasted votes into marginal seats therefore giving them a better chance to win the marginal seats. This tends to favor the government because they have majority support to change electoral boundaries. Malapportionment is another institutional factor which
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1. Define gender identity and sexual orientation‚ paying particular attention to the differences between the two. Gender identity is a person’s own understanding or perception of their gender. Sexual orientation refers to a person’s sexual or romantic preference or pattern. Gender identity is originated by the way a person feels about themselves verses sexual orientation which refers to a person’s romantic feelings about the same or other genders. A person who has clinically male genitalia may not
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Empowering Women as Key Change Agents Women bear almost all responsibility for meeting basic needs of the family‚ yet are systematically denied the resources‚ information and freedom of action they need to fulfill this responsibility. The vast majority of the world’s poor are women. Two-thirds of the world’s illiterates are female. Of the millions of school age children not in school‚ the majority are girls. And today‚ HIV/AIDS is rapidly becoming a woman’s disease. In several southern African
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Task One How would you define Criminology? There are many ways in which Criminology can be described. Criminology is a social science and it looks at society’s reaction to the laws which have been broken and tries to find out what has led a person to commit a crime by looking at the criminal’s behaviour and the criminal as a person. The definition of Criminology depends on the individual society‚ that the people involved come from‚ wither it be the criminal‚ the victim or the people trying to
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unsafe working conditions‚ denial of workers ’ compensation to those injured on the job‚ intimidation of those seeking to organize unions and exploitation of immigration status to ward off complaints. Two of three corporations used as case studies responded to the researchers: Tyson Foods‚ on its Arkansas poultry plant‚ and Smithfield Foods on a North Carolina pork plant. Phone calls from The World Herald to the third corporation‚ Omaha-based Nebraska Beef‚ were not returned. All three firms have operations
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and other things for them. At the start of the Industrial Revolution none of these laws existed and so working in a factory could prove to be very dangerous indeed. This section looks at some of the conditions faced by workers and offers a brief explanation of what was done to improve these conditions. Industries such as the cotton trade were particularly hard for workers to endure long hours of labour. The nature of the work being done meant that the workplace had to be very hot‚ steam engines
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creates a contrast with the feeble “whisper” and the violent “rage”. This contrast makes this moment a more striking one‚ and the author shows us Nyasha’s quickly changing mood. In Nervous Conditions‚ Nyasha is also depicted as a very changing character that can be very nice as well as explosive‚ like her violent altercation with Babamukuru. We have here another evidence that Nyasha changes very quickly‚ and this also adds to this moving moment. Dangarembga also creates a memorable moment through
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Three simple ways to change our attitude: 1/ Change the way we think: Our thoughts create our feelings and attitudes which‚ in turn‚ dictate every actions we take in life. If we have negative thoughts‚ it tends to control our feelings and subsequently our actions which would come out negative also. When we could start taking control over our negative thoughts‚ then it will leads us powerfully to control our emotions. Taking control of our thoughts and emotion require a lot practice and self-discipline
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person development and the factors‚ including transitions‚ which may affect development. 3 Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development 3.1 Identify the transitions experienced by most children and young people: Transition could either be a stage or an experience that can affect the behavior or development of a child or young person. Every child experience transitions at various stages of
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powers appears in Article I‚ Section 8. This article identifies in seventeen paragraphs many important powers of Congress. The last paragraph in the article grants Congress the power "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers"‚ this is known as the Necessary and Proper Clause. The Necessary and Proper Clause grants Congress the authority to create and enforce laws that are deemed “necessary and proper”. The draft of this clause provoked plenty
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