Australia Australia is a democratic legislature. The Australian Parliament is bicameral‚ consisting of the Queen of Australia‚ a 76-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives.The Constitution provides for the Commonwealth Government’s legislative powers and gives certain powers and responsibilities to the Commonwealth government. All remaining responsibilities are retained by the six States which were previously separate colonies. Each State has its own constitution‚ so that Australia
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DO WE REALLY NEED PRISONS The simple meaning prison is a place for the confinement of persons in law detention‚ espicially people who are convicted of crimes according to The American Heritage of the English Language (2000). The history of prison almost as old as history itself. At first‚ prison were not used as a punishment but as a place where people who were sentenced to capital or corporal punishment were kept for a short period of time. But as the time passed‚ it turned into a legal punishment
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When we change how we communicate‚ we change who we are. Communication can be used to alter a persona‚ depending on how they carry themselves by the language they use. Language can be easily manipulated by concealment or exaggeration‚ to create an ideal character. Similarly‚ words that wield power have a great effect on the user when used in appropriate contexts. On the other hand‚ those who are limited by language are incapable of modifying their identity. When used to your benefit‚ communication
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“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. The way we attain knowledge will determine how we see and understand things‚ but no matter how we see and understand them‚ it will never bring us to the objective truth. We use our perception to “see” things and we use our reasoning to “understand” things. It is common‚ if not inevitable‚ for us to manipulate the information received using the ways of knowing into what
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Why Should You Study Taxation? The tax law affects every individual and every organization. They rely on tax professionals to help them comply with the tax law‚ plan to reduce their tax burden‚ and resolve any tax controversies with taxing authorities. Auditors rely on tax professionals to help them determine a company’s income tax expense and income tax liability. Taxing authorities‚ such as the Internal Revenue Service and state departments of revenue‚ rely on tax professionals to help them
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That Vision Thing: Do We Need It? Michael E. Raynor T H E CEO OF IBM‚ LOUIS V. Gerstner‚ Jr.‚ was widely quoted in the press when‚ faced with the challenge of turning around the beleaguered computer maker‚ he said‚ ’the last thing IBM needs right now is a vision ’. 1 For a good many critics‚ Gerstner ’s comment was greeted with a heartfelt ’it ’s about t i m e ’ - - t h a t is‚ it is about time that a senior executive had the courage to speak up and put all that rhetoric about visions and
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today is‚ “How do we end racism”? This is a question that has plagued the mind of the American psyche for hundreds of years‚ especially those who feel the cruelty of being looked down upon for something they cannot control‚ the color of their skin. Do we have riots or do we lead nonviolent protests? Do we calmly speak to our friends about why it is wrong to use the “n” word‚ or do we beat them up whenever we hear them say it? I’m my opinion‚ there is no finite way to end racism. Rather‚ we just alter
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How Do We Know Anything? Solipsism is the main case and point in Nagel’s chapter on “How do we know anything?” Solipsism can be defined as a radical form of idealism subject to each person. One who follows the ideals of solipsism would deny the physical existence of anything‚ but the mind itself. The universe as we know it may only exist in a dream-like state of our own mind. Welcome to the matrix‚ where all your perceptions are only those of a reality simulated in your own mind. We can choose between
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We the Millennials Seventy five percent of the Millennials have a profile on a social networking site‚ which is almost greater than all three of the previous generations combined. Generation X‚ the Boomer Generation‚ and the Silent generation percentages combine up to only eighty six percent of having a profile on social networking‚ (Pew). This is mainly because they don’t have access to a computer. Many Millennials are spoiled‚ narcissistic and lazy due to the technology and bad
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Jeffrey Reiman explains that democracy does not guarantee that the public officials will do what the public demands them to do; in fact power is used accordingly to the judgment of the individual who withholds the power. Dunham and Alpert make it clear that “the public has the right to spell out the criteria by which the judgments should be made‚ and to insist both competence and good faith in the application of those criteria” (p. 5). Dunham and Alpert define social contract as “embodying a general
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