...Gregory Bady Paper Project 1 June 21, 2015 Before taking the quiz I was not aware of exactly where I stood on my political beliefs. Before taking this class I was not intune with my political side at all. I did know how ever that I shared views on certains things but did not know exactly where I stood on my views. After taking the quizzes they stated that I was more on the liberals side. The results were around what I expected especially after I started learning the definition of liberals and conservatives and the beliefs of one each one believes in. The results of each quiz that I took were very similar. I feel as if I am very unwavering in my beliefs and that is why the outcome of the test results were the same. I do agree with the outcome of the results from the test that I participated in. It was pretty accurate when I took into account and researched the beliefs and ideas of someone that considers thierselves a liberals. There are a few things that I found in my research that I did not agree completely with their ideas. A few of those were on topics dealing with healthcare and also topics that dealt with immigration. For the most part tho most of the ideas associated with the way that liberals think I was in agreement with. Quizzes like this I think are very useful tools especially to individuals like myself that are not for sure on what political catergories they fall under. Tools like this help give a better understanding and kinda puts everything into a better...
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...Bianca Capatina “Pressure groups define the political issues that dominate US politics”.Discuss. Being the most pluralist political system in the world, it comes as expected that pressure groups would have a considerable amount of influence over the American system.However, their sectional views alone are not dictating the political agenda of the US politics, but rather influencing it at different levels(local/state/national), depending on their insider/outsider status and levels of funding. Firstly, because Congress is dominated by their representative function, pressure groups have a leading role in the US elections. This is because their power and influence is heightened by Political Action Committees , which are pressure groups that collect money from their members (up to $5,000/individual)and give it to candidates and political parties which support their interests. This was done by protecting elected officials from accountability in 2000, when 98% of the House incumbents were re-elected, undermining the political efficiency and leaning towards corruption.Their influence could be further observed in 2012, when the SUPERPAC Priorities USA spent $67 mil. on advertising for Obama’s re-election. Priorities USA’s belief is that Republicans’ agenda is to reward the wealthiest few at at the expense of the middle class, so it it came naturally that after he got elected Obama cut the income tax of the middle class families and also offered them tax reliefs. Secondly, the revolving...
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...people across Sudan and abroad went to the poll in a largely peaceful atmosphere, voting overwhelmingly for secession. While the situation in the region remains fragile with key challenges ahead, the absence of major violence around the referendum itself and the widespread acceptance of its outcome are considered a success for preventive diplomacy. Central America What: Armed conflicts How: The United Nations was deeply involved in the search for peace in Central America, whose armed conflicts were brought to end in the 1990s. UN observers monitored the 1990 elections in Nicaragua. UN envoys helped forge landmark peace agreements in El Salvador and Guatemala, and in both countries UN field missions managed by the Department of Political Affairs verified the implementation of the accords. Evaluation: It is difficult to completely eradicate this conflict in Central America, however, it has helped to ease the tensions of this conflict. Singapore What: Singapore race riot 1964 How: The Singapore government intervene by making numerous arrests under the Internal Security Act (ISA), for those involved in subversion and rioters who were members of secret societies....
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...AFRICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY Name: Eric Wahinya – 11JCS005 Unit: Software Engineering Code: CSC320. Title: Assignment 2 Lecturer: Mr. Njuki Due Date: 26th June 2013 1. Using the waterfall model; model the March 4th 2013 voting process in Kenya. The software process models in software engineering are the workflow model which shows the sequence of activities in a process along with the inputs, outputs and dependencies, the dataflow or activity model that represents a process as a set of activities each of which curves out some data showing how the input to a process is transformed to an output and finally the role or otherwise referred to as the action model which represents the roles of people involved in the software and the activities for which they are responsible. The role or action model is divided into a number of categories and the waterfall approach is one of these categories aside from the others which are the evolutionary development and the CASE scenario. The waterfall approach takes the fundamental process activities of specification, development, validation and evolution and represents them as separate process phases such as requirements specification, software design, implementation, testing and so on. (Sommerville, pg 65). The figure below shows the software lifecycle as explained by the waterfall approach; Figure 1. The Software Lifecycle. (Sommerville, pg 66) Before the March 4th elections that took place in Kenya a number of preparations were made...
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...Rapping basically involves the speaking or reciting of rhyming lyrics, time after time set to a beat. The rhyming created by rappers is measured by many to be one of the most cultured styles of poetry. What’s more, these rhymes eventually address confrontational subjects such as sex, violence and socio-political issues. In the film you can see many of the rappers rapping first gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1970s as a kind of street art, like in the interview Ice-T had with an artist named Afrika Bambaata when he talked about the art of hip hop. He spoke about hip hop being a masterpiece and that no one painted it all especially among African American teenagers. During that time many of the young teens who dance over a beat that made you move in a special way from within like just feeling it like no other. It wasn’t until 1979, when the Sugar hill gang released their breakaway hit, ‘Rapper’s Delight, that record producers took notice of this developing musical genre. Once they did, numerous rap acts, including Run-DMC and N.W.A., raised, and rap’s audience began to swell. It wasn’t just African American male rappers...
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...Male vs Female : Social Issues Nowadays, social issues in our country become widely and it’s out of our control. The globalization makes our world become smaller and all the information could be easily to get by computers or which means emerge as internet. Social problems become more serious because bad things from other countries enter to ours. There are also has a good cultures however it also have bad things cultures that can influence to ours especially among teenagers. Most young generations cannot identify and also can’t analyze what are the different between good and bad things. They’re thinking speculation is far away from what adults do. The bad things that affect them could be eliminate the moral values for young generation. However, it’s not just among teenagers which means opposite sex such as male and female but almost many stage of people have this kind problem of social issues. To begin with, social issues are considered to affect the people of the society either directly or indirectly. The main things is, some people thought that it is from male carriage this kind of issues. For an example, a gay among of teenagers. Gay is the relationship within the same sex that involves man with man relation. When talking about same-sex relation, what comes in people’s mind is abnormal relationship. The first factor that caused this problem is biological influence. Therefore, natural biological is one of the reason why they get involve in gay. However, everyone knows that...
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...Social Problems Holly Regan HSM/240 January 17, 2014 Terra Harris Social Problems Some words may have alternate meanings, become more defined or even more complex within the context of human services. The definition of problem within the context of human services has a few specific meanings such as any specific thing, matter, person, or situation that is difficult to deal with, solve or overcome and a source of perplexity, distress or vexation. According to our text it states an example of the defined word and its proper use, which can and will vary according to the circumstances of the problem. An example could be by identifying drug abuse by noting the use, intentional exposure to, or ingestion of any illegal chemical substances used in a nonmedical way, (Chambers and Wedel, 2005). This also can be defined in another way people are more prone to hearing and can identify better with, addiction; the problem would be better known as addiction instead of using. The definition of policy within the context of human services is a program of actions adopted by the individual, government agency or organization or is based on the specific set of principles, a specific course of action or a selected method chosen from alternatives as a guide to determine present and future decisions along with a plan which embraces the general goals of acceptable policies and procedures. The example of proper use of policy involving a drug addict leads most often to a situation needing...
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...Tiago Flores Feijó Professor Lawrence 097 – M03 25 November 2014 A current topic in political debates, TV shows or even in chatting with friends is the legalization of marijuana. It is a polemical issue in our society with a lot of pros and cons. However, the main issue in this debate is why marijuana is still prohibited? The legalization will be the solution for several social problems that we have in our society, such as traffic, murders and everything that is involved in this illegal market. Serious dependence is the first argument that people against the legalization use in a debate. They say that marijuana causes dependence, and this dependence could interfere in social life of users, for example, school and job performance. First of all, there are research comproving that marijuana is less harmful to human health than most of other banned drugs, such as cocaine or crack. Furthermore, marijuana is less harmful than the main two legal drugs that we have nowadays. The dependence of tobacco and the changes in our mind of alcohol are countless times more harmful than marijuana. The main point in this discussion more than the dependence, is the social problems that the illegal commerce of marijuana causes. The current ways adopted by the government to combat the traffic are not working. The government does not know how to stop this illegal commerce. It happens because even with the legal prohibition the consumers do not stop to consume drugs and it does not stop trafficker...
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...Problems in Societies Institution Affiliation Name of Student Instructor’s Name Social Problems in Societies. Social problems are generally the issues that negatively affect a person, groups of people in a way that makes them feel not being part of a particular society (Williams & James 2010). These issues often cause a direct or an indirect effect to a society. The factors or issues revolve around the socio-economic or socio-political factors, some of which poses a great effect to a society to an extent of destroying it completely. In an efforts to minimize these issues, several still pop up each and every day (Ellis-Christensen, T. 2011, April 20). Social Problems in the society has led to many other unrelated problems which has in turn affect the well-being of different people in the society. Corruption is one of the major problem that affects peoples’ well-being in the society. This has resulted into a lot of other problems which lowers the self-esteem (Georgina, 2012). An example is in the place of securing jobs where the qualified ones misses the opportunity while the unqualified find their way into that slot by bribing the concerned panel for the job. Immorality and adultery is also another key problem that requires attention. Most family break ups and divorces have been brought about by these two issues. Immorality in the society has led to cases of rape which to some extent also involve young girls who later drop out of school. This ultimately leads...
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...Global Environmental Change 17 (2007) 445–459 Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications Irene Lorenzonia,b,������, Sophie Nicholson-Coleb, Lorraine Whitmarshb a School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK b Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK Received 25 August 2006; received in revised form 12 January 2007; accepted 17 January 2007 Abstract This paper reports on the barriers that members of the UK public perceive to engaging with climate change. It draws upon three mixed-method studies, with an emphasis on the qualitative data which offer an in-depth insight into how people make sense of climate change. The paper defines engagement as an individual’s state, comprising three elements: cognitive, affective and behavioural. A number of common barriers emerge from the three studies, which operate broadly at ‘individual’ and ‘social’ levels. These major constraints to individual engagement with climate change have implications for achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gases in the UK. We argue that targeted and tailored information provision should be supported by wider structural change to enable citizens and communities to reduce their carbon dependency. Policy implications for effective engagement are discussed. r 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Climate...
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...Change Agent Abilities Required to Help Create a Sustainable Future © ACPA – College Student Educators International (http://www.myacpa.org/) in collaboration with the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org ) May be reproduced for educational purposes with credit given In order to be a successful sustainability change agent, an individual must have the following: 1. Knowledge of the environmental, economic, and social issues related to sustainability (understanding); 2. A value system and self-concept to support and under gird the actions of a change agent (motivation); and 3. Change agent abilities (skills). Change Agent Abilities: The following is a listing of change agent abilities compiled from numerous sources. For ease of use, these sources have all been acknowledged at the end of this document. Change agents are: • Resilient • Optimistic • Tenacious • Committed • Passionate • Patient • Emotionally intelligent • Assertive • Persuasive • Empathetic • Authentic • Ethical • Self-Aware • Competent • Curious They can: • Communicate ideas clearly, concisely, and precisely both orally and in writing • Listen to others and incorporate their ideas and perspectives • Accommodate individual differences (cultural, socioeconomic, global, etc.) in your decisions and actions and be able to negotiate across these differences...
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...Social Problems Holly Regan HSM/240 January 17, 2014 Terra Harris Social Problems Some words may have alternate meanings, become more defined or even more complex within the context of human services. The definition of problem within the context of human services has a few specific meanings such as any specific thing, matter, person, or situation that is difficult to deal with, solve or overcome and a source of perplexity, distress or vexation. According to our text it states an example of the defined word and its proper use, which can and will vary according to the circumstances of the problem. An example could be by identifying drug abuse by noting the use, intentional exposure to, or ingestion of any illegal chemical substances used in a nonmedical way, (Chambers and Wedel, 2005). This also can be defined in another way people are more prone to hearing and can identify better with, addiction; the problem would be better known as addiction instead of using. The definition of policy within the context of human services is a program of actions adopted by the individual, government agency or organization or is based on the specific set of principles, a specific course of action or a selected method chosen from alternatives as a guide to determine present and future decisions along with a plan which embraces the general goals of acceptable policies and procedures. The example of proper use of policy involving a drug addict leads most often to a situation needing...
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...Collapse- book is about a history topic about how societies choose to fail or survive. The main characters are historical people and unknown kings of Mayan cities or Easter Island villages. Jared Diamond tells the story of the Viking explorer Erik the Red, who discovered Greeland and Vinland (Terranova, in Canada). Another character is captain Olafsson, a norse sailor who wrote the last news about Greenland in 1410. Another main character is Christopher Columbus, who arrived at Hispaniola in 1492, but now this island is two countries, the Dominican Republic and the Haiti. Diamond studied the politics of two presidents. the dominican Rafael Trujillo, who protected the enviroment and the dictator François, Papa Doc, Duvalier, who decided on politics of deforestatation of his country, Haiti. The author considered the bad politics of another main character, king George II, who was interested in sending merinosheeps from Spain to Australia, an idea which was succesful from 1820 to 1950 but then the farmers understood their lands lost fertility. Another main character is Tokuwaga Jeayasu, a shogun of Japan in 1600, who prohibited Christianity in 1600 and protected his country againt deforestation. The book takes us to a lot of places around the globe: Mayan cities, Rwanda, Viking colonies of Vinland or Greenland, Haiti and Dominican Republic, Easter Island and Polynesian colonies in Pacific, and the Chaco villages in New Mexico (United States). The time period was from 800 AC, when...
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...Shared Value Creation; Revolution or Rhetoric? Abstract The concept of Creating Shared Value(CSV), was made popular in a Harvard Business Review(2011)by M. Porter and R Kramer defines as, policies and operational practices that enhance the competitiveness of the company while transforming social problems which is related to the corporation into business opportunities and simultaneously yield greater profitability(Porter, Kramer,2011). As it sounds, it is a seductive promiseand has so far received obscene attention in the business markets and among business educators. Both authors seeks to regain trust in “business and society who has pitted against each other so long” …”Learning how to create shared value is our best chance to legitimize business”(Porter, Kramer, 2011) is how companies were viewed as prospering at the expense of the community. With both aims of evaluating and analysing the concept of creating shared value, in this paper, we suggest how CSV can help businesses harness its full potential by simply creating economic value while simultaneously creating value for society. Focusing on making the right kind profits, companies should look beyond just merely maximum profits but also integrates social benefits at the same time; starting a positive cycle which reconnects business with society. In CSV, it represents a new approach for businesses moving beyond CSR approaches in the past. However promising this bold new approach is, it has also created polarized...
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...NOTE: This is a published paper and should be cited as follows: Simmons, A.M. (2012). Class on fire: Using the Hunger Games trilogy to encourage social action. The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 56(1), 22-34. Abstract This article explores ways to utilize students’ interest in fantasy literature to support critical literacy. Focusing on Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series (2008, 2009, 2010), the author addresses how elements of the trilogy relate to violent acts in our world, helping student understand that violence and brutality toward children is not fiction, but very real, and that they can play a role in its abolishment, just like Katniss, through social action projects. Issues such as hunger, forced labor, child soldiers, and the sex trade that appear in both the fictional series and our world are discussed, encouraging students to assess their world and advocate for change. Examples of social action projects that utilize multiple literacies are suggested as a way to inspire students take action in the community and to stand up to injustice and brutality in hopes of creating a better world and a better human race. Using popular literature to pique student interest, this article explores how to incorporate the books in the Hunger Games series into the ELA classroom to support literacy and critical goals. Class on Fire: Using the Hunger Games Trilogy to Encourage Social Action Introduction The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, comprising...
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