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    Forever: an Overly Sexual Abomination or Coming of Age Novel?

    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

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    Smoking in Public Places and Why It Should Be Banned.

    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

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    Biology Links

    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=&tb

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    Shcool

    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

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    Mall of America - Case Study

    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

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    Uganda Partnership

    Surrey and 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

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    Role of Police

    Q3. The main role of the 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

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    Info Systems

    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

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    Consumption and Public Spaces

    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

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    Understanding Temporary Structures

    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

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