Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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constructive discharge: • Work conditions must be deemed intolerable to the reasonable person • That said conditions were created with specific intent to force an employee to quit Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) speaks about discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs. Disparate Treatment – A person is held to a different standard than other employees centered exclusively on their association to a particular religious belief. Failure to accommodate
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Title: The development of underdevelopment Author(s): Andre Gunder Frank Source: Monthly Review. 41.2 (June 1989): p37. Document Type: Article Full Text: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT We cannot hope to formulate adequate development theory and policy for the majority of the world’s population who suffer from underdevelopment without first learning how their past economic and social history gave rise to their present underdevelopment. Yet most historians study only the developed metropolitan
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Kaysha Whakarau-Twigge 12004012 Community Development: 179.320 Assignment 1: Essay Community Development Word count: 2275 (excluding references). Class coordinator: Polly Yeung Community development is formed when there is a need for change within a group of people. When people come together with the same vision of helping and changing a community’s way of living‚ it is essentially what community development is all about. Community development has many different definitions‚ however
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BOOK REVIEW Novel : The Shadow Lines AUTHOR : Amitav Ghosh Awards : winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1989). Bibliography : The Shadow Lines(novel)‚ Wikipedia(Internet). Main Characters : Mayadebi‚ Tridib‚ Ila‚ May‚ Narrator‚ Nick‚ grandmother. POLITICAL SCENERIO : The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events: 1.Swadeshi movement 2.Second World War 3.Partition of Country 4.Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta CHARACTERS ANALYSIS : The characters in this
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Homework No 1 Due date 08 June 2014 By consulting Handout 1 and 2: 1) Identify the key issues and challenges in the article. Describe why do you think it is issues or challenges 2) If you were a team of rural development specialists‚ how do you address the issues and what kind of intervention should be provided? 3) Please provide your key recommendation to policy and decision makers for them to include in the policy frameworks. Cambodian Poverty Cambodia’s census conducted in 2008 recorded a population
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decades‚ performance enhancing drug controversies have made headlines around the world. Drug use over the years in the sporting world has become a worldwide phenomenon due to the advancement in technology which has allowed for greater research and development of performance enhancing drugs. While drugs are generally categorized as detrimental to an individual’s health and social status‚ many athletes still choose to embark on experimenting with the opposing concept of drug use‚ in that it will supposedly
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looked out her living room window and saw a gray sedan pull up. She heard the doorbell ring. Since she was not expecting anyone‚ she did not answer the door. She heard glass breaking and ran out the back door to a neighbor’s house‚ where she called 9-1-1. She saw broken glass on the carpet in the entry hallway and saw where the door had been pried open with some sort of tool. Pinsk told Johansson her Apple computer‚ a pair of diamond
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Ch 12. Waiting Line Models Contents 1. Structure of Waiting Line System 2. Single-Channel Waiting Line Model with Poisson Arrivals and Exponential Service Times 3. Multiple-Channel Waiting Line Model with Poisson Arrivals and Exponential Service Times 4. Economic Analysis of Waiting Lines 5. Other Waiting Line Models 6. Single-Channel Waiting Line Model with Poisson Arrivals and Arbitrary Service Times 7. Multiple-Channel Model with Poisson Arrivals‚ Arbitrary Service Times and No Waiting
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TASK ANALYSIS 4. Care for Self 4.1. Dressing frame 4.1.1. Small Button frame Nature of Activity: Table Activity Materials Used: Cloth Mat‚ Dressing frame with small buttons Presentation: Teacher greets the child “Good morning Mary. How are you today?” The child responds to the teacher in a similar manner. Teacher says “Today we are going to do a very interesting activity. We are going to work with small button frame‚ would you like to learn this activity? The child
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