On April 7‚ 1782‚ George Washington created the Badge of Military Merit in order to reward those in the military who performed singular meritorious actions. But for unknown reasons following the Revolutionary War‚ the award had “broken service” and was not presented to anyone for approximately 150 years. However‚ it was redesigned in the 20th Century and is now known as the Purple Heart. One example of the Purple Heart is displayed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Speller of Windsor‚ N.C. The medal
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Assess the merits of Utilitarianism (24 Marks) Utilitarianism is a theory aimed at defining one simple basis that can be applied when making any ethical decision. It is based on a human’s natural instinct to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Jeremy Bentham is widely regarded as the father of utilitarianism. He was born in 1748 into a family of lawyers and was himself‚ training to join the profession. During this process however‚ he became disillusioned by the state British law was in and set out
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Question 3a. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the caste system? How did the caste system reflect Indian society. A caste system was used by the ancient Indian society to separate themselves into categories. There are advantages and disadvantages with the use of this system but they all reflected Indian society in different ways. The term Caste and Varna meant “heredity” and “color”. The caste system was originally created to separate the early Aryans from the native Indians
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Advantages and Disadvantages of a push system and a pull system Following the Course Name Guidelines Student’s Name University Push & Pull System A Inventory director must have the capacity to add to a robust inventory control structure to oversee client request. The interest for the item will control Inventory expenses‚ conveying expenses‚ asking fees and capacity costs. Inventory control structures are generally arranged as push or draw models. Knowing the definitions‚ central focuses and
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What are the Merits and Demerits of internet Merits • Shopping: Along with getting information on the Internet‚ you can also shop online. There are many online stores and sites that can be used to look for products as well as buy them using your credit card. You do not need to leave your house and can do all your shopping from the convenience of your home. • Online Chat: There are many ’chat rooms’ on the web that can be accessed to meet new people‚ make new friends‚ as well as to stay in
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We all know that every child is unique. Every child has different skills and potential. The same goes with every child’s ability to learn at school. Some child can grasp school lessons faster as compared to other children. How the child performs in school should not be compared to other children because each child has a different learning pace. Brilliant students would need to compete with other students who get good grades for them to be able to keep their rank in school. At the same time‚ those
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Disadvantages 1. Loss of Freedom of choice - Citizens no longer have the choice to choose who governs them. They cannot vote in elections as it is all decided for them. 2. The Government will have absolute power. The government may not think in the best interests of the people. They may be more interested in building large lavish palaces for themselves than feeding their people. 3. The people may be oppressed by the regime as the government would be intent on keeping their power away from the
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he world Health Organization had implemented the ICD-10 diagnostic coding system a long time back to replace ICD-9. The primary reason for this being that ICD-9 has several problems and is outdated. Moreover‚ since the classification is organized scientifically there can be only 10 subcategories in every three-digit category. As new discoveries are being made every other day‚ there is also no scope to assign these diagnoses to numbers as most numbers in most categories have been assigned diagnoses
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14d)‚ and superficial muscles of the superior gluteal region (Figure 10.20b). Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education‚ Inc. xiii xiv Instructor Guide to Text and Media for Human Anatomy & Physiology Chapter 11 Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue
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The Merits of Environmental Uncertainty People are creatures of habit and have a need to know what the world has in store for us. We plan every aspect of our lives from what we will eat later in the day to what we will be doing 40 years from now when we retire. The business community is no different and seeks to plan and predict what the future will hold in terms of their success. We are at a point in time in which there is a great amount of uncertainty in the business community. Investors
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