Recently‚ I wrote here that the fundamentals of the 2008 race decisively favor Barack Obama. As is often the case‚ however‚ my words were met with a familiar riposte: What about the race factor? Are white Americans really ready to elect a black man as president? It’s a recurrent refrain among Democrats and even some hopeful Republicans. As Andrew Kohut wrote here‚ “56 percent of Democrats believe that many people will not vote for Mr. Obama because he is black.” With the first ever African-American
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I believe all people should be treated fairly‚ and you would think that would be a commonly held belief‚ but I get a lot of shit for it anyway. And so‚ I continue to march on and make my voice heard. Let me tell you about the first time I marched in the streets of Washington DC. I was 15. I was standing in the center of a boisterous‚ chanting crowd. People were marching‚ waving their banners and posters in the air. Compelling images filled the air as voices through the microphones boomed with
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A Criminal Record Does Matter April 11‚ 2013 Sociology 381 In the article‚ Mark of a Criminal Record by Devah Pager‚ the effect that a criminal record has on black and white males is examined. Pager ’s goal is to answer whether and to what extent employers use criminal history‚ whether race plays a role in hiring‚ and whether there are different results for black applicants than for white applicants when applying for a job. In order to conduct this research Pager uses Audit Methodology. The
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-Work left to complete: To be completed by 24th September 2015 and emailed to assessor Unit 030: 2.1 - Identify the positive outcomes for children and young people that practitioners should be striving to achieve. (Talk about Every Child Matters – these are five outcomes that practitioners should be striving to achieve) 2.2 - Explain the importance of designing services around the needs of children and young people 2.3 - Explain the importance of active participation of children and young people
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person. Anthropologists and Historians have discovered that any society that rejected art would not thrive and may eventually become extinct. “Anywhere that neglects the arts shortchanges its people.”‚ states John Tusa in his article titled “Art Matters”. For example‚ Sparta‚ despite its name‚ rose to become a dominate military land-power in ancient Greece. Though Sparta’s great victory‚ nearly nothing is left from the city because
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Ahmed‚ Director. Sub : Request to Publish and Article on “Does Critical Mass Matter? An Inquiry into Descriptive Representation of Women Member of Parliament in Bangladesh Dear Sir‚ I will appreciate if you kindly have the attached article published in your Magazine at your earliest. Thanks yours‚ (Md. Monir Uddin) Joint Secretary M/O Finance Division Bangladesh Secretariat. Does Critical Mass Matter? An Inquiry into Descriptive Representation of Women Member of Parliament in Bangladesh
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employee engagement Playing to Competitive organizations need to engage their people in a way that focuses on performance that matters to the enterprise. Here’s how by Jim Shaffer win 16 Communication World • March–April 2009 www.iabc.com/cw ncreasing employee engagement during an economic downturn is akin to tuning up your car so it runs on eight cylinders instead of six. The car performs much more effectively and efficiently with the additional power. Understood correctly‚ engagement
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counterproductive environment for those they work with (Kinicki & Fugate‚ 2016‚ p. 444). Several months ago a member of upper management was walking through our department looking for my supervisor and made a derogatory comment to the effect of‚ “Nobody that matters is around…” He quickly tried to clean up this statement but his true feelings were already released. It was at this time that I knew his true feelings of those not in management‚ particularly myself since I was the only one not in management close
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Wolves Matter There are many different types of relationships in nature. Some are symbiotic‚ some are parasitic‚ some competitive‚ and still others are predacious. Each type of relationship has its own importance for nature and ecosystems to maintain a sense of homeostasis. Wolves are an extremely important predacious and symbiotic player in their ecosystems. Besides promoting healthier herds‚ wolves help balance competitive relationships between other species‚ and even help control the populations
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Chapter 10: Physical Characteristics of Gases Section 10-1 The Kinetic-Molecular Theory of Matter Prerequisites The kinetic-molecular theory is based on the idea that particles of matter are always in motion. The theory can be used to explain the properties of solids‚ liquids‚ and gases in terms of the energy of particles and the forces that act between them. ideal gas: an imaginary gas that perfectly fits all the assumption of the kinetic-molecular theory. Kinetic-Molecular Theory
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