During the 2010 monsoon season (July and August)‚ Pakistan experienced the worst floods recorded in its history. Heavy rainfall caused flash floods in the north and north-western regions of the country. The subsequent run-off created a southward moving mass of water approximately the size of the United Kingdom. The flood waters travelled downstream through Punjab and Sindh until they reached the Arabian Sea. Many of the main tributaries feeding into the Indus River were also flooded‚ further inundating
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Comment and Response to Texting and Writing by Michaela Cullington After reading Texting and Writing‚ by Michaela Cullington‚ I do not agree with many of her viewpoints. Cullington argues that texting does not affect a students writing. Textspeak‚ the abbreviation and shortening of words like used when writing a text message‚ does affect the way a student writes because they use the abbreviations‚ and their writings tend to lack punctuation. When a writer uses excessive abbreviations on a regular
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Hadaliot St. Ramat Poleg Netanya 42650 Israel Miss Anne McGeachin Senior Project Manager International Accounting Standards Board 30 Cannon St. London EC4M 6XH United Kingdom 2 July 2009 Dear Miss McGeachin Comment to Exposure Draft Income Tax I appreciate the opportunity to comment on IASB’s Exposure Draft Income Tax. This letter expresses my personal views based on my experience with a very specific issue: deferred taxes arising from the differences that result from there being a functional
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Case Summary Elise interviewed and stated that Scotty had been making sexual comments prior to the incident. The night of the incident Scotty was rubbing her legs up to her butt and then ran his hand into her shorts‚ where he started grouping her butt. Scotty then tried to rub his hand around to the front of Elise’s pants but Elise then got up and went to take a shower. Elise stated that after her shower she went into her room. Elise also stated that a few nights before the reported incident Scotty
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Examine and comment on the claim that the mind and body are the same‚ with reference to the topic you have investigated. The mind and body are the same is the view that hard materialists take. Hard materialists believe that when either the body or soul dies‚ the other dies too. This means that they believe there is no after life‚ no purgatory etc. Ryle and Dawkins are hard materialists; they also think that believing in the soul is dangerous to human endeavour. Being a hard materialist‚ Dawkins
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Comment on Daniel Defoe’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe‚ paying special attention to the organising role of the Protestant work ethic in the novel. Daniel Defoe‚ the son of a butcher‚ was born in London in 1660. He attended Morton’s Academy‚ a school for Dissenters at Newington Green with the intention of becoming a minister‚ but he changed his mind and became a hosiery merchant instead. In 1703 Robert Harley‚ Earl of Oxford‚ a Tory government official‚ employed Defoe as a spy. With the
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How is the health and welfare of children who attend school protected and supported? Draw on Units 2 ( Childhood)‚ 3( Health) and 4 ( Law) for your answer. The welfare of children who attend school are protected by law through acts of parliament and enforced through legislation. Their health is supported through various ideologies implemented throughout their schooling and through the National Curriculum. Health is about being in good physical condition and the knowledge to maintain it. Welfare
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Two human growth and development theories that are supported by research are Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Learning Theory and Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development. The Social-Cognitive Learning Theory asserts that learning comes from watching the behaviors of others. When a behavior is perceived to be rewarding‚ children imitate said behavior (Feldman‚ 2014). An example of this is children who observe others laughing in delight while playing with a certain toy. The children who observe this will
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How can care workers be supported to provide better care? Choose two example of unacceptable care from Unit 17 and discuss what changes could be made in each settings to enable care workers to work more sensitively and safely with care users. Providing a better care should be a mutual goal between carers and organisations or employers they work for. To reach this goal‚ adequate support is necessary right from the start. Thorough interviews can help select an individual most suitable for the position
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1984 Analysis Modernism is a recent important stepping-stone for the artistic world. It began in the 1900’s‚ and lasted until around the 70’s. This historic period‚ was mainly defined by the many controversies which the different developing societies all had to face. The consequences of such things‚ as rapidly-developing technology and the two world wars‚ new controversial ideologies started to rise. These new ways of thinking‚ brought new ways of writing‚ which is today known as modernism. The
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