higher pay can motivate better-skilled workers and increase productivity. A living wage ensures that a worker can pay for basic necessities like housing‚ food‚ transportation to work and health care. A common definition states that the living wage should be high enough that no more than 30% of take-home pay needs to be spent on housing. But in most areas of the country‚ full-time employees being paid the current minimum wage will have incomes below the living wage. In dollar terms‚ that means
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Why Should We Care about Child Poverty in the UK? Poverty is a disease often associated with Third World and developing countries‚ where the outcome is often death from starvation or disease. Although this extreme form of poverty is rarely seen in the UK‚ there is a more discreet form of poverty which is taking hold at home in the UK; one which can be attributed to having less money and lower living standards than others in the same society (European Anti-Poverty Network‚ 2009). Child poverty is
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A Longer Life In today’s society people are living longer‚ healthier lives as compared to the yester years. Now the average lifespan of the everyday American has risen almost 30 years since the 1920’s and continues to rise due to the built up immunities to old diseases‚ widespread education causing more doctors to be in the office‚ technological advances leading to the medical advances we are constantly using today and tomorrow‚ the media output of disease breakouts‚ and the personal knowledge
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be a complex interrogatory. Should I be moral? If I should be‚ then why? Why is morality important to society? An assumption can be made that morals derive from a purely religious perspective or the Golden Rule approach. We are told that it is right to be moral. This is an ineffective answer‚ since it does not apply to someone outside the moral circle This in mind‚ there is really no way to prove this too a person who wants to know why he/she should be moral. According to Olen
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History 1301 Why you should not smoke Have you ever been walking into a store and a pungent smell slaps you across the face? You turn around only to see that someone is smoking a cigarette. Have you ever wondered the affects that smoking would cause? How would smoking affect a person’s appearance and health? Have you ever wondered just how many people smoke worldwide? According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)‚ about 43.8 million US adults (21.6 percent of men and 16.5 percent
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after the age of 28 or so‚ you will find that they look older and more worn out than married persons of the same age. Scores of studies done in North America and Western Europe shows that married people enjoy better health than singles. They also live longer. Take mental health for instance. Singles outnumber married individuals by three to one in mental hospitals. Outnumbering the singles however‚ are widowed people‚ testifying to a fact that the death of a spouse is one of life’s most stressful events
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Position Statement Being simple‚ but being superior. The Apple Hotel is positioned in a level of 5-star hotel; we provide simple atmosphere and impression‚ but superior service to our customers. Regarding to the high-class offered accommodation‚ the Apple Hotel provides customers an environment which is just like home. Differentiation * Image Differentiation Apple’s image is considered to be its personality. Differ from other 5-star hotels‚ our hotel possesses an exact image of apple instead
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monotony of daily life. It is a useful means of entertainment and physical activity. Sports and games help in character building. They give us energy and strength. Sports and games are means of mental and physical growth. During sports we come to learn many things. We learn how to maintain mental balance in the midst of hopes and despair. They make us learn how to tackle the difficult situation. Sports develop a sense of friendliness. They develop in us team spirit. They help in developing mental and
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Why Software Should Be Free by Richard Stallman (Version of April 24‚ 1992) Introduction The existence of software inevitably raises the question of how decisions about its use should be made. For example‚ suppose one individual who has a copy of a program meets another who would like a copy. It is possible for them to copy the program; who should decide whether this is done? The individuals involved? Or another party‚ called the ``owner’’? Software developers typically consider these questions
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I have to recognized that we- human beings – can’t act as the dictates of reason and conscience in “our fear of being lonely or ostracized‚ or facing other unpleasant consequences”‚ but it does not mean that we do not have the option. It does not mean that we always are forced to choose obedience if may not like the choices we face. I believe that we can still make something different‚ otherwise we always have the option of being disobedient‚ as long as we are willing to face the consequences of
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