In what respects has the character of women’s work changed since 1918? Answer with reference to at least two countries in Europe. The character of women’s work greatly evolved throughout the twentieth century‚ both progressing and regressing at different times within this period. Working for many women in 1918 and the years before it often meant menial wages in low quality jobs or not even being allowed to work at all as women were deemed as inferior in most European societies. Unemployment benefits
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Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960‚ he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time‚ he taught drama and literature at various universities in Ibadan‚ Lagos‚ and Ife‚ where‚ since 1975‚ he has been professor of comparative literature. In 1960‚ he founded the theatre group‚ "The 1960 Masks" and in 1964‚ the "Orisun Theatre Company"‚ in which he has produced his own plays and taken part as actor. He has periodically been visiting professor
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future studies. Introduction Uncertainty reduction theory was created by Charles Berger in 1975. This theory addressed the process of how we get information about other people in initial encounters. The first time we meet a stranger‚ we face a high level of uncertainty and we must want to reduce that uncertainty by getting more information about the other person. Therefore‚ Berger and Calabrese (1975) provided several strategies for us to deal with this kind of initial interaction. Researches
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instrument. (Marcuse‚ 1975) It is one of many different stringed instruments that developed during this time. It was among of the first‚ however to use a bow. The vielle has many different names throughout the many books and documents that discuss it. According to Sibyl Marcuse‚ the word vielle is the French equivalent to the fiddle and is a shortened version vielle à roue. This term was used from around 1180 until the late fourteenth century when it was changed to viole. (Marcuse‚ 1975) The French
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Sociological Principle of Language Teaching and Language Learning Speech Act Theory A theory of language based on J. L. Austin ’s How to Do Things with Words (second edition‚ 1975)‚ the major premise of which is that language is as much‚ if not more‚ a mode of action as it is a means of conveying information. As John Searle puts it‚ "All linguistic communication involves linguistic acts. The unit of linguistic communication is not‚ as has generally been supposed‚ the symbol‚ word‚ or sentence
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1975 GULF OIL REFINERY FIRE In the early hours of August 17‚ 1975‚ a tragic disaster occurred on the Gulf Oil refinery in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. This horrific disaster took the lives of eight firefighters‚ and potentially could have taken more lives if it wasn’t for the help of many surrounding fire stations. The cause of the fire was the overfilling of Tank 231. While no crude oil escaped from the tank as a result of being overfilled‚ large quantities of hydrocarbon vapors were trapped above
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Kent State | Environmental Protection | Reduction of Federal Taxes | The decision to bring the Ohio National Guard onto the Kent State University campus was directly related to decisions regarding American involvement in the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States in 1968 based in part on his promise to bring an end to the war in Vietnam. During the first year of Nixon’s presidency‚ America’s involvement in the war appeared to be winding down. In late April of 1970
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The Vietnam War persisted for decades and outlasted many American administrations. The protracted conflict‚ which lasted from 1955 to 1975‚ was ostensibly a civil war between the communists in the north of Vietnam and the capitalist regime in the south; however it escalated into a proxy war between foreign powers. The United States’ level of engagement in the war was a direct result of the U.S. presidents’ foreign policy: American leaders who were passionately anti-communist such as Kennedy and
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al.‚ 1975). Normal measures of visual acuity as a function of retinal eccentricity can be best described in reference to results obtained by Millodot et al. (1975) who plotted the minimum angle of resolution (MAR) as a function of target distance from fixation (eccentricity). The results showed a significant reduction in the MAR with increasing retinal eccentricity indicating that visual acuity decreases considerably as the distance of target from fixation increases (Millodot et al.‚ 1975). These
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3 Research-based Principles Guiding Watershed Management The purpose of this section is to identify various principles of watershed management that form the basis for the specific goals and implementation objectives for management of the Sudbury watershed lands during the period covered by the plan. These principles are distilled from a literature review of nearly 400 different sources‚ many of which are included in the Literature Cited listing at the back of this plan. 3.1 Principles
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