legitimized the informal adoptive arrangements which previously existed. There are now two different forms of adopting a child: open or closed adoptions. Although there are two options for adoption‚ all adoptions should be considered closed until an adoptee is 21. The adoption process for closed adoptions differs from the open adoption process and has more benefits. The open adoption process‚ is in which the adoptive parents actually meet and usually stay
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Lydia’s Open Door by American Anthropologist Patty Kelly is an intriguing case study about both the hidden and not so hidden aspects of sex work in Chiapas‚ Mexico. Her book proves the usefulness of ethnographic works where she engages with unconventional ways of knowing in order to determine the complex relationships that help to reproduce gender inequality. Lydia’s Open Door contextualizes prostitution within a political and economic framework revealing how it is impossible to diagnose one
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Tubman was called the "Maker of recent Liberia" for his Open Door policy of unrestricted foreign investment and his Unification Policy. The "Open Door" policy attracted many countries greenbacks in foreign investment expedited by Tubman’s eagerness to hand out concessions to foreign corporations. Tubman raised the country’s world profile by traveling abroad and permitting further international investment in Liberia. With this investment and also the financial gain from the freshly discovered mineral
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ICT10 A Framework for Implementation of Free and Open University Courseware in Kenya. Patrick Kinoti*‚ Adrian Kamotho Njenga* *Lecturer‚ Kenya Methodist University Corresponding email: Patrick.Kinoti@kemu.ac.ke Abstract Free and Open University Courseware (FOCW) refers to university course materials which may include lecture notes‚ presentation videos‚ syllabi and course outlines that are shared for free on the web. The concept of free sharing of university courseware is continuously gaining
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IT302 11/18/12 Research Assignment Week 6 Free and Open Source Software has been around for quite some time. Free software has always been a controversy. This time someone is trying to take a stance against it. More than just someone but a major software company namely Microsoft. The whole issue is coming against software patents. Patents are there to protect the make‚ use‚ and selling of an invention but in this case would deal with software. Microsoft is not keen on the idea of software
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plague the United States. Consequently‚ the poor white and black workers who found it already difficult to make a living‚ suffered even worse. In the poems “Share-Croppers” and “Open Letter to the South”‚ both written by renown poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ gives us a glimpse into the life of a blue collar worker in the mid-1930s. “Open Letter to the South” and “Share-Croppers” share a lot of similarities in regards to the depiction of how the working class were treated. Despite the similarities‚ the two poems
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An application of document clustering for Categorizing Open-ended Survey Responses Nishantha Medagoda‚ Ruvan Weerasinghe University of Colombo School of Computing Sri Lanka nmedagoda@yahoo.com arw@ucsc.lk ABSTRACT Open ended questions are an essential and important part of survey questionnaires. They provide an opportunity for researchers to discover unanticipated information regarding the domain of study. However‚ they are problematic for processing since they are unstructured questions to which
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For my first closed-ended question‚ I asked‚ “Do you support the building of nuclear plants?” I got a varied responses from the audience‚ eight‚ of the 16 in the class‚ supported the building of nuclear plants. The other half of the class said that they either didn’t have enough information or did not support the building. This leads me to believe that the class has mixed feeling on this topic and need more information over nuclear plants to make a decision. The next closed-ended question was‚ “Do
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The purpose of this paper is to do further reflections on the topic of an open society. For the purpose of the assignment‚ an article “The Open Society: Its Implication for Health Educators” from Dorothy Bird Nyswander has been reviewed. The United State is a multicultural country. We have people with varieties of race‚ culture‚ background and ethnicity living together. And‚ the question of how to create an environment that gave everyone equal chances in the society seems to be an endless debate
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The Open Economy The External Sector Introduction Global Economic Integration through: – (1) Opening up international trade in goods and services – (2) Opening up international movement of labour – (3) Opening up international movement of capital Macroeconomic policy focuses on (1) and (3) In a globally integrated world‚ macroeconomic policies of a country have repercussions on other economies too Introduction The extent of these repercussions depends on
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