...also provide links to the relevant laws, regulations and policy guidance, and also fact sheets, Q&As, best practices, and other information. * Age * Disability * Equal Pay/Compensation * Genetic Information * Harassment * National Origin * Pregnancy * Race/Color * Religion * Retaliation * Sex * Sexual Harassment Beethoven For a musician to lose his hearing is the greatest possible misfortune. Yet, despite the inevitable frustration, it didn’t stop Beethoven composing some of the most sublime pieces of music in the history of man. Malala Yousafzai (1997 )– Pakistani schoolgirl who defied threats of the Taliban to campaign for the right to education. She survived being shot in the head by the Taliban and has become a global advocate for human rights, women’s rights and the right to education. Stephen Hawking – despite suffering from motor neurone disease, Hawking has helped popularise scientific concepts and make ground-breaking discoveries. Anti-Discrimination Act of 2010 (House Bill 1483) Discriminationary acts against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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...[pic][pic][pic] Top of Form [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] [pic][pic] Bottom of Form • Issues [pic] Reviews How Reality TV—And Its Criticism—Falls Flat Posted Friday, November 12, 2010 in Reviews by Erin Polgreen [pic][pic][pic] Top of Form [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] [pic] Bottom of Form [pic]Elimination-fueled competitions and make-over shows complete with product placement are everywhere these days. It seems reality television, sometimes called "unscripted" programming, is here to stay. The genre is redefining the way we interact with, understand, and socialize with our fellow Americans. It's not here for your approval and, to use a cliché commonly associated with the genre, it’s not here to make friends. Part of the reason for the resurgence in reality television is that it's the cheapest way to fill programming blocks. While we see much more of it today, reality TV is nothing new. It's been around since Candid Camera, which documented sneaky practical jokes on unsuspecting average joes, debuted in 1948. But things have changed since then. The genre hit its second stride in 2000 with Survivor, an elimination show in which “castaways” compete to win big by roughing it for the longest, and since then the genre has presented increasingly regressive caricatures of women, men, poor people, and people of color. In Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, media critic and activist Jennifer...
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...UNIT 3C: REPRESENTATIVE PROCESS IN THE USA SECTION 1: ELECTIONS & VOTING Primaries: * Election to select a parties candidacy for president * Open primary: A primary for any registered voter, democrat or republican. E.G. Texas * Closed: A primary for democrats and a primary for Republicans. (Separate one’s) * Invisible primary: candidates try to gain support and finance in the year before the primary * Proportional primary: awarded delegates in proportion to votes they get * Winner-takes-all: Win the most votes and you take all the states delegates Advantages: * Increased level of participation from ordinary votes (30% in 2008) * Increased interest from people * Increased choice of candidates (14 in 2008) * Removing power from party bosses Disadvantages: * Turnout is usually low * Voters are usually unrepresentative of normal voters (tend to be wealthier, old and better educated) * Process is far too long and expensive (Obama in 2008 announced his running 332 before the first primary * Fails to test presidential qualities Increased importance of primaries: * Really the only route to become a parties President Caucuses: * A meeting for the selection of a candidate * Usually held in states that are geographically large but thinly populated (Iowa, North Dakota, Nevada) * Turnout is usually pretty low, and usual favour ideological candidates National party conventions: Formal functions: ...
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...[pic] |题目 |从1852年到2009年对汤姆叔叔的小屋所作 | | |评论的研究 | |英语系 |院（系） |英语 |专业 | |学号 |B06011131 | |学生姓名 |吴何芳 | |指导教师 |Bracher Andy | |起讫日期 |2009年12月~2010年5月 | |设计地点 |第二教学楼 | Acknowledgements Many people gave me support and help in the process of writing the paper. I’d like first to give my grate to my dear teacher, Andy, who generously gave me his kindly help and instructions during the whole process of my paper-writing. Then I’d like to give my many thanks to my classmates who helped me a lot with my information collecting and paper-polishing. Most important of all, I want to give my thanks to my mother university and all the teachers in the English Department, who educated and cultivated me to be a qualified graduate in the future. Abstract ...
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...We’re nger stro ther toge The GenderWorks Toolkit is a practical, two-part guide to help: • Women’s groups campaign successfully on issues of gender, poverty and social exclusion and • Public bodies meet their obligations under equalities legislation and tackle poverty among women more effectively. The GenderWorks Toolkit ontents C Acknowledgements and Foreword 4 Toolkit credits plus how to order copies. A GenderWorks training participant and member of the Saheli Asian Women’s Group explains why this toolkit is so useful. Introduction 6 Why women? A look at the links between gender and poverty, and the need for women-only services. Women’s groups – the confidence to campaign 17 Real Women, Real Power 18 Five inspiring stories of women’s groups who achieved change in very different ways. Top tips for successful campaigning 32 Key messages from real women on how to achieve your aims. Self-analysis 34 Exercises and case studies to help you think about your group and how you can best achieve change. Lobbying letters 48 Practical examples to help you communicate with a range of audiences. Language, terminology and human rights 54 A look at the language used around issues of gender and poverty, and why switching the debate from needs to rights is important. If you’ve got a minute… 58 Practical suggestions about what you...
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...IN FEMINISM Structure 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Objectives 3.3 Liberal Feminism 3.3.1 Liberal Thought 3.3.2 Classical Liberal Feminism 3.3.3 Second Wave Liberal Feminism 3.3.4 Weakness/Limitations of the Liberal Feminism 3.3.5 Contribution to the Women’s Movement 3.4 Marxist Feminism 3.4.1 Foundations of Marxist Feminism 3.4.2 Other Key Elements in Marxist Feminism 3.4.3 Limitations of Marxist Feminism 3.4.4 Contribution to the Women’s Movement 3.5 Psychoanalytic Feminism 3.5.1 The Beginnings of Psychoanalytic Feminism – Countering Freudian Theories 3.5.2 Explanation by other Theorists 3.5.3 Limitations of Psychoanalytic Feminism 3.5.4 Contribution to the Women’s Movement 3.6 Radical feminism 3.6.1 Definition 3.6.2 The influences that shaped Radical Feminism 3.6.3 What are the variations of Radical Feminism? 3.6.3.1 Radical- Libertarian Feminism 3.6.3.2 Radical-Cultural Feminism 3.6.4 Radical Feminism – Its Structure 3.6.5 The Outcomes of the Movement 3.6.6 Critiques of Radical Feminism 3.6.7 Contribution to the Women’s Movement 3.7 Postmodern Feminism 3.7.1 Postmodern Thought 3.7.2 Postmodern rethinking of psychological explanation of gender 3.7.3 Postmodern Feminist 3.7.4 Limitations of Postmodern feminism 3.7.5 Contribution to the women’s Movement 3.8 Black Feminism and Womanism 3.8.1 The Beginnings of Black Feminism 3.9 Cyber Feminism 3.9.1 Origin of Cyber Feminism 3.9.2 Definition of the 100 Anti Thesis 3.9.3 Cyber art and its relation to Cyber feminism 3.9.4 Cyber Feminism...
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...1970s From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Seventies" redirects here. For decades comprising years 70–79 of other centuries, see List of decades. From left, clockwise: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil crisis put the nation of America in gridlock and caused economic damage throughout the developed world; Both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978; The 1970 Bhola cyclone kills an estimated 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (which would become independent as Bangladesh in 1971) in November 1970; The Iranian Revolution of 1979 ousted Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi who was later replaced by an Islamic theocracy led by Ayatollah Khomeini; The popularity of the disco music genre peaked during the middle to late 1970s. Millennium: | 2nd millennium | Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century | Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s | Years: | 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 | Categories: | Births – Deaths – ArchitectureEstablishments – Disestablishments | The 1970s, pronounced "the Nineteen Seventies", refers to a decade within the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and...
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...[pic] ChaseDream 《TOEFL语法大全》 ChaseDream TOEFL专区 VERSION July 2005 这份材料本身是包含讲解的！但是这些讲解不是默认就显示出来的，一定要点击word里面的“显示/隐藏编辑标记”之后，这些讲解才会出现。而且这些讲解是默认不能打印的，为了尊重原作者无老师也就不公开打印这些讲解的方式了。敬请原谅！ "Business Minds Meet Here. We Succeed Together!" Welcome to ChaseDream http://www.chasedream.com http://forum.chasedream.com 更新说明 2004年10月，《ChaseDream_TOEFL语法大全》发布以后，收到很多朋友的支持和反馈意见，在此一并对大家的关注致以强烈感谢。 这次再版，主要补充了最新的笔记：2005年1月的改错部分的语法笔记，2004年8月和10月的语法笔记，纠正了页脚错误。有位朋友提出，95年12月和96年北美题为什么没有语法笔记， 原因是《ChaseDream_TOEFL语法大全》参考了在太傻论坛《TOEFL语法笔记》的内容， 对于较早的题目， 太傻论坛《TOEFL语法笔记》没有收录， 我们也就没有收录。不便之处， 敬请谅解。 相信现在的语法大全的内容足够应付TOEFL考试了， 无论是机考还是笔考。 为满足喜欢使用PDF版本的朋友的需要，一并推出PDF 版本，PDF版本的解释部分完全显示，解释内容和WORD版本完全一样。 对于WORD 版本的使用， 恳请朋友们详细阅读第三页的使用说明。 2005年1月的改错部分的语法笔记是首次发表，有错误或者疑问之处，请朋友们反馈到ChaseDream论坛【TOEFL语法专区】http://forum.chasedream.com/list.asp?boardid=58，万分感谢大家的帮助。 希望有2005年1月填空部分和2005年5月TOEFL题目的朋友可以分享资料，我们再版的时候会尽量补全。 Zhoushao TOEFL, ChaseDream http://www.chasedream.com http://forum.chasedream.com 2005年7月8日 序言 《TOEFL语法大全》的出炉，倾注了无数考T路上朋友的心血，更是ChaseDream论坛里每一位无私奉献的版主和网友们辛勤劳动与智慧的结晶。继承了ChaseDream 《GMAT语法大全》的传统，《TOEFL语法大全》采用WORD文档，在电脑上面使用，能够非常方便的显示和隐藏答案解释，标注复习过程中间的疑问和注解； 对于不在电脑上复习的朋友，也可以打印出来作为复习参考。 ChaseDream论坛TOEFL专区的众多原创，从《PP语法笔记》，《最新题TOEFL语法笔记》，《0405语法笔记》到现在的《TOEFL语法大全》，ChaseDream每一次的奉献都是希望大家在准备TOEFL的路上能得到更多的帮助和支持。Free...
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...GLOBALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions This page intentionally left blank GLOBALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions Report of the AACSB International Globalization of Management Education Task Force AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business 777 South Harbour Island Boulevard Suite 750 Tampa, Florida 33602-5730 USA Tel: + 1-813-769-6500 Fax: + 1-813-769-6559 www.aacsb.edu United Kingdom North America Japan India Malaysia China Emerald Group Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2011 Copyright r 2011 AACSB International. Reprints and permission service Contact: booksandseries@emeraldinsight.com No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the copyright holder or a license permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the text, illustrations or advertisements. The opinions expressed in these chapters are not necessarily those of the Editor or the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication...
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