...said when asked her opinion about it the topic, “It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” (NMSU Library, n.d.). Blume, herself, is no stranger to censorship. Several of her writings have made ALA’s list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books. Her 1975 novel Forever was both challenged and banned in over 10 different states because of its descriptively sexual content, disobedience to parents, “lack of moral tone,” and use of profanity (Censorship & Judy Blume, n.d.). Forever is the story of two high school seniors, Katherine and Michael, and their journey throughout their relationship. The teens meet at a party and fall in love from there. Eventually, Katherine loses her virginity to Michael and they promise each other that they will last “forever.” They managed to keep this promise for a while until they were forced apart for a summer because Katherine’s parents made her get an out of town job. Judy Blume created a typical teenage love story. In 1983, schools in Akron, Ohio decided to make a change to their libraries. Forever had been available for kids to take out at any time. However, after going...
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...For many years people have been smoking and other people have been complaining about it. It’s been a continuous war against why or why not smoking should be allowed in public places. On one hand, you can go outside your home and say have a drink with some friends at a bar, on the other hand you’re going to a restaurant to celebrate your son or daughters graduation and you have to breathe in the smoke from across the room. Smoking in public places subjects people who don’t care to smoke to second hand smoking, which is said to have worse effects then firsthand smoking. The effects of smoking are not a good thing any way you look at it. It causes lung cancer, it causes you to have hard time breathing, and it could even cause you to lose your voice. This is why I believe that smoking should be banned from public places. I think smoking in bars is fine. Let there be a designated public place outside the home to smoke, but keep it contained. Don’t make people who don’t want to breathe in the pollution feel like they can’t get away from it. Smoking needs to be banned from public places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The price of cigarettes is twice as expensive then a gallon of gasoline these days. There are people that smoke more than one pack a day. At an average of $8.00 a pack, people could easily waste half a paycheck a month just on cigarettes...
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...1- http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/37136.php 2- http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/breast-cancer-information/about-breast-cancer/breast-cancer-facts 3- http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-help/type/breast-cancer/about/screening/mammograms-in-breast-screening 4- http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cancer-of-the-breast-female/Pages/Treatment.aspx 5- http://www.nhs.uk/breast-cancer/pages/symptoms.aspx 6- http://images.google.co.uk/search?num=10&hl=en&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=667&q=graph+showing+how+many+people+develop+breast+cancer+a+year+in+the+uk&oq=graph+showing+how+many+people+develop+breast+cancer+a+year+in+the+uk&gs_l=img.3...1155.19497.0.19674.88.12.10.66.75.0.350.1425.7j4j0j1.12.0...0.0...1ac.1.cDLE3QjXk7Y#imgrc=AedFsVGLmQKN3M%3A%3Bkl2QeQqCa-9iSM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.cancerresearchuk.org%252Fprod_consump%252Fgroups%252Fcr_common%252F%2540nre%252F%2540sta%252Fdocuments%252Fimage%252Fcases_crude_f_breast_png.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.cancerresearchuk.org%252Fcancer-info%252Fcancerstats%252Ftypes%252Fbreast%252Fincidence%252Fuk-breast-cancer-incidence-statistics%3B650%3B440 – picture 7- http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Cancertypes/Breast/Treatingbreastcancer/Radiotherapy.aspx 8- http://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/cancer-information/treatment/pages/radiotherapy.aspx 9- http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Radiotherapy/Pages/Side-effects.aspx 10- http://www.naturalnews.com/breast_cancer...
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...1 Percent vs. General Public Upper class vs. the common people and the effects of the upper class interest to keep power; how well does the 1 percent of America represent my interest? I say it is a 50/50 relationship. They like money and power, and they, would do whatever it takes to keep it, so the decisions keep business as usual helps keep people employed but at the same time business as usual can mean the opposite. Money equals power, and I believe that, there (Americas 1 percent) interest to keep making money and to keep power they would do what’s required to keep our economy going witch mean job security for right now. Job security is something scares right now, and economy is not getting better. When the upper 1 percent of America that’s controls large businesses that employee a majority of our community decide to move to another country to save money that is when we (community) have conflicted interest with the upper 1 percent. Interest and conflict is something happening all too much now a day. America’s general public is not much different from the upper class when it comes to interest. The upper 1 percent wants to make money and so do the general public the only difference is that if the upper 1 percent decides to take their assets to another state let alone another country our general public will end -up with conflict. This is just one of the main reasons our economy is hurting, and our general public unemployment rate has gone up. It is a 50/50 relationship...
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...policy for the citizen of every age. The management of Mall is responsible to maintain the peaceful environment in mall during shopping hours. At the same time it is responsibility of every citizen to help management of mall to ensure safety and security for every individual. Its a basic right of Mall that public should cooperate in maintaining the discipline throughout the week and specially parents should accompany their teenagers within the mall in order to create a healthy and safe environment for shopping. - What rights and responsibilities do teenagers have when they shop? ANS. This is the responsibility of parents to guide their children how to behave in a public place. There should be some kind of training programs conducted by local administration for better environment of learning for the teenagers. Teenagers have equal right of surfing in shopping malls like others do. -What are the interests of other ‘stakeholders’ (parents, society, government, etc.)? ANS. The parents can play vital role in development of ethics and good habits among young children. These teenagers should be preached by their parents about how to conduct/behave in public places like shopping malls. The society can publish on radio and television the documentaries in order to improve the growing age adolescent of that country; since these are the wealth of nation. -Should the proposed escort policy be implemented? Supposing the answer is ‘yes’, how should the Mall communicate...
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...Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Library and Information Service which consists of two libraries (Crawley and East Surrey - Redhill), is part of the Kent Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Libraries group. I have been working there for just over four years and have had the pleasure and opportunity to work and lead a partnership between a UK and an African library. The partnership is specifically between the Albert Cook Medical School Library, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and Kent Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Libraries (formally South Thames Library and Information Service). It has existed informally since about 1994. This was made formal in September 2000, under the guidance of the registered charity Partners in Health Information (PHI). The aim of the partnership is to encourage the free flow of health related knowledge between nations. For further details see: http://www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/lis/documents/Ugandaleaflet.pdf During the span of this partnership a number of visits have been made to UK and to Uganda. I have been specifically involved with the visit that took place in January 2005 to set up the website for the Albert Cook and more recently in March 2009 to update the site. The main aims of the latter visit was to change the site from a static Hyper Text Mark Up Language (HTML) to a dynamic website with the potential for added functionality. The improved website would also facilitate library staff updating the library website themselves. ...
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...police has always been one of maintaining public order. Discuss. While the main roles and functions of police have evolved and developed over time the major responsibility of maintaining public order has remained the primary role. There are many varied roles and positions within the police however it seems there is a shared focus on maintaining public order. This is evident through all of the eras of policing and portrayed through a number of incidents, events and periods of time. A small sample of these will be used throughout this essay to depict the main role of police at different stages. Public order regulation is defined as the policing of behaviour in public places, maintaining public order and can also be done through crime control and prevention (White & Perrone 2010: 225). Maintaining public order through various methods of crime control, crime prevention, order maintenance and regulation is evident in the functions of every era of policing (Broadhurst & Davies 2009: 47). Police are often required to conduct public order surveillance, intervention and monitoring at major public events for example sporting events, parades such as Mardi Gras, strikes, funerals or marches (White & Perrone 2010: 289). Upholding public order can also extend to policing domestic violence and other disputes (White & Perrone 2010: 289). The above outlines of the functions through all of the eras of policing reinstate that maintaining public order is a priority function for Australian...
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...Information Systems: Elements Concepts, And Impact Library Information Systems Introduction Libraries offer services that allow any income class or background to access top quality information, the use of computers and internet, as well as the ability to borrow such information to take home. Libraries ensure that both appropriate knowledge and technology is available to anyone, and not just those with a high enough income to possess such technology and information themselves. Not only does this aid the community, this helps raise the education levels of society as a whole. Libraries assist users to directly access information online through digitising the appropriate information. Outcomes A libraries automation program allows users such as a librarian to access the information stored about the libraries catalogue as well as perform tasks such as cataloguing for tracking books and to reference materials. By using special library programs, these systems can not only assist in locating items, but can also validate a user’s library card (a small card used to identify certain borrowed materials to those who borrow said items), assigned “due dates”, and find what books are in demand from other users. Elements of a Modern Library Hardware Input devices may include: * Computer * Keyboards * Mice * Scanners * Screens * Laptops * Whiteboard Marker Kit Output devices may include: * Copiers * Audio-visual Projectors/Monitors * Microform ...
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...relations has been discussed by a variety of scholarly voices. Among the most prominent is Michel Foucault, who described the various ways that consumer markets circumscribe public spaces, placing important distinctions between class members. In particular, Foucault discusses heterotopia – the public space which carries both physical and psychological gravity. For Foucault, public spaces are characterized by existing without truly existing. The heterotopia serves as a metaphor for a larger context while having the appearance and characteristics of other everyday spaces. Tyndall takes this notion a step further by developing social rules that are attached to consumer places, such as malls and shopping districts (Tyndall, 2009). This version of consumer-driven rules – culled from qualitative research and personal interviews – depicts a new notion of public-ness that is less egalitarian than ever before. It is a version of public space that is not entirely open to the public. Baker adds to this perspective by historicizing the commercialization of public space, dating the use widespread use of public space for advertising purposes to before the dawn of the 20th century (Baker, 2007). This argument inextricably links the notion of “culture” with “consumerism”, and sets the stage for the potential for access to public spaces to be consumed, or purchased. Finally, Klingle underscores this spatial history of consumption, placing the transaction of consumer power contexts as diverse as...
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...LITERATURE REVIEW a. Definition 3 b. Presentation Of Arguments And Debates4-5 c. Conclusion6 d. Hypothesis And Research Questions6 PROGRAMME AND RESEARCH DESIGN a. Research Objectives7 b. Research Methodology7 c. Questionnaires8-10 RESEARCH FINDINGS a. Research Findings11 b. Analysis Of Research Findings12-13 c. Case Studies14-18 d. Conclusion 19 BIBLIOGRAPHY ABSTRACT This research focuses upon the experience of urban Space by evaluating human behavior and space to human relations. In addition, approaches to installation of temporary activities into the public realm and its impact that these can have upon perception, identity and activities within public space. This research explores the essential presence of temporary activities with in a city ,which requires a critical understanding of the functioning of public space .Finally this research would suggest possibilities of better spatial pattern to enhance spatial interaction and revive urban identities. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION: If an urban environment is to be considered as a spatial ‘system’ and it is to be valued as a whole, “one must consider its parts in relation to its parts, its parts in relation to the whole and the whole in relation to the parts” (Archer et al., 1984, p. 8). People tend to respond to their environment according to their experiences, structuring and information obtained from the space. The long time scales of developing urban...
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...the workplace unless it was unreasonable, “…only if he had an objectively reasonable expectation of seclusion or solitude in the place, conversation or data resources” Shulman 955 P.2d at 469. To be qualified as unreasonable, the intrusion should involve invading another person’s solitude in a manner considered highly offensive or unauthorized, for example, the employee’s privacy was video monitored, so it has been physically invasive, such as a hidden camera in a locker room or a bathroom is unlawful. To answer this question, an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace in a locker room or a bathroom. Also, the Supreme Court of California recently held that: “In an office or other workplace to which the general public does not have unfettered access employees may enjoy a limited, but legitimate, expectation that their conversations and other interactions not be secretly videotaped by undercover television reports, even though conversations may not have been completely private from the participants’ coworkers.” Sanders v. American Broadcasting Co., Inc., 978 P.2d 67, 69 (cal.1999). 2. In the office workplace there are typically two types of workspaces, an open area, in which there are several desks and where conversations can be overheard, or an enclosed office, in which—when the door is closed—conversations cannot be heard and where one would expect virtually total privacy. Explain whether it makes a difference if an employee is in an open area...
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...Libraries: The Venue and Agent for Societal Advancement Joshua jayvee Dela Cruz It is really so awkward to hear from people saying that you are a mere nerd for spending most of your time on reading at the library. You would see them over reacting and speaking out so loudly about the trends that technology has been giving to them. Seeing and hearing them say “Google will do. Aside, Yahoo and Ask.com is always there” would really heat up your being. They confidently declare that there’s no reason for everybody to stay at the library and pointing out the coolness of the internet and antiquations of the libraries. Precisely, those who say these lines are the persons who are not financially hard-up and can do afford the classiness of the modern world. Let us stick to the fact that most of the Filipino people are on the line of poverty are public and school libraries are really needed to stay out of innocence and be able to uplift oneself. Most of us had really forgotten the importance of libraries nowadays specially that we are drowned with the technology and social communications. Libraries had always been the partners of our educators through the years in rendering invaluable services to the society. As Norman Cousins once said “A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.” He had proven that through libraries we were able to picture out the different eras that we obviously haven’t undergone. Through libraries all the new learnings...
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...TS2924: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN – MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM ASSIGNMENT 1 INSTRUCTION This is an individual assignment. Submit this assignment to your tutorial instructor TWO (2) days after your tutorial session. Read and understand the following passage and answer the questions provided. CASE STUDY The National Smallville Library caters to the 1000 odd people that are living in the township. The three-storey library houses more than 200,000 books and caters to almost 1000 users daily. It also has 300 computers for the library users, equipped with a broadband Internet service. The library is open 24-hours and has a cafeteria. The library is equipped with a state-of-the-art computer system that keeps track of all borrowers and books in the library. Every month, the system updates the Chief Librarian of the status of borrowers (e.g. outstanding borrowers) as well as outdated books. The library users are normally students of the Smallville High School and working adults from around the town. To use the facilities of the library, an application form must first be filled up and given to the Library Clerk. The Library Clerk will then process the form and record the applicant’s data into the computer, where the data will be stored in a file. A Member Card with the user’s details will then be given to the applicant. Members can then use the card to borrow books. The card must be passed to any of the available Issue Clerks on duty when a book is borrowed. The Issue...
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...CAVITE LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Undergraduate Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Business and Entrepreneurship Cavite State University Imus, Cavite In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology JENNIFER ACEBO DYAN JESSICA LIM JOBIN DEL ROSARIO INTRODUCTION In today’s modern age where computer has become a way of life, it is evident that a majority of country’s institution still do not adapt high technology. Particularly in some schools, library transactions are still done on paper. We all know that modern school libraries are operating at great pace striving to serve as many students as possible with the best of their abilities. But as the years rolled by, the number of study has grown and the manual method of managing student and book records is no longer practical. A Library Management System is a system that makes use of information technology to perform managerial objects. The main goal of a library management information system is to store, organize, share and retrieve vital information needed to perform daily operational functions of the library. St. Matthew Academy of Cavite does not have one. Since library has a very large number of books and large number of members, it is impossible for librarians to handle day to day activities manually. Therefore, a library management...
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...taxpayers, who were black, and all other black residents should not use the public library. The circuit court deemed tat the public library was part of the public school system and was properly limited in its use to whites. The taxpayers appealed. The court found that the legislation authorizing the school districts to levy taxes in order to establish a public library did not give the school districts the authority to convert the public library into a school library. The court held that the plain language of Acts 1915, Ch. 64 & 5, provided that each library be established for the use of the inhabitants of the town where located. C. ISSUE: Why the taxpayers, who were black, and other black residents should not use the public library? D. HOLDING: The court held that the board was not vested with the powers to justify the exclusion of black persons from the library. The court reversed the decision of the circuit court suppressing an alternative writ sought by the taxpayers for the board to show cause why they should not use the public library, and remanded the case. E. RATIONALE: It was stated within the case that if the library is a part of the school system, then clearly the board was bound to make such a separation. If it is not a part of the school system, then the board has the power to make such a separation as police regulation under the authorities. In the management of the public library authorized by the legislative acts said the Board of Education does not...
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