http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20090312-193830/Filipino-girls-outdo-boys-in-intl-math-test Filipino girls outdo boys in int’l math test By Miko L. Morelos Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 22:11:00 03/12/2009 Filed Under: Education MANILA‚ Philippines -- Filipino female second-year high school students consistently outperformed their male counterparts in mathematics‚ according to two surveys conducted by a US government agency. Citing the findings of the
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Legal Base US-Cuba Business History The well-known Unites States (US) embargo against Cuba is generally related to the 1960 when the Cuban government under Fidel’s Castro wake‚ seized private land‚ privates companies and taxed the US products in excess. But this harsh relation dates back from 1898 when‚ after the Spanish-American war‚ Spain cede the Puerto Rico‚ Guam and Cuba territories to the US. The US granted Cuba its independence with the condition that it could intervene in the country
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Fahrenheit 451 and Current American Society The novel Fahrenheit 451 reflects current American society in many ways. A couple of these ways are one‚ television is a reason for people losing interest in books and is causing negative effects‚ two in the book there are people who are rebelling from societies rules by keeping books in their minds. They are disobeying the law and that is similar to current American society there are many people rebelling from the governments rules. First of all‚ television
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Legal Awareness: Valid Warrantless Arrest No. 1: A police officer or a private person may‚ without a warrant arrest a person when in his presence‚ the person to be arrested has committed‚ is actually committing or attempting to commit a crime. The most common application of this is the “in flagrante delicto” rule in “buy-bust” operations. “In flagrante delicto” basically means getting caught in the act of committing a crime. A buy-bust operation is a form of entrapment usually conducted to enforce
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’ (Classroom material p.1) Legal advice is important to civil cases but even more in criminal cases where liberty of a person is at stake because they would have committed a crime and they might go to prison for it therefore in criminal cases it’s vital for a person to receive legal funding. Poor and less educated people are denied access to justice as it is difficult for them to get advice or for them to be offered assistance. Some people may not get access to legal advice and assistance as they
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“It is difficult to judge the success of reforms in legal aid provision as we lack agreement on the aims and objectives of a legal aid system”. Discuss. INTRODUCTION Legal aid helps with the costs of legal advice for people who can’t afford it. If anyone needs help with the costs of legal advice‚ he can apply for legal aid. Whether he will receive it depends on: the type of legal problem he has; his income (how much he earn) and how much capital (money‚ property‚ belongings) he has; whether there
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Children in recovery that have been removed from their homes due to unsafe conditions end up in Out of Home Care (OOHC). The two most significant styles of OOHC are Non-related Foster Care and Kinship Foster Care. 1 in 4 foster care children are placed in kinship programs‚ whereas 48% of children go into non-related foster care. A kinship program helps to connect children with a family member whether by blood‚ marriage‚ or adoption. A benefit for a child that goes into a kinship program is that it
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Current Situation Before Zuora Tien Tzuo was the chief strategy officer at Salesforce.com and K.V. Rao was head of strategic marketing and business development at WebEx. Both Tien Tzuo and K.V. Rao worked on building their respective billing solutions that was a big barrier to many SaaS companies. Once realized that this is a huge unaddressed problem for SaaS companies‚ they saw this an opportunity to exploit this new e-commerce niche in the SaaS Industry‚ thus creating Zuora. Cheng Zhou‚ the head
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The legal system of the United States of America is very similar‚ almost to the point of being identical‚ to the legal system of the English-speaking Caribbean.”Discuss. The legal system of the United States of America and the English speaking Caribbean are predominantly common law legal systems. Both legal systems share a number of similarities; however‚ there are quite a number of pronounced differences that would make it impossible for one to conclude that both systems are similar to the point
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Sanju Jacob Current Event 2 When the economy declines‚ jobs will tend to decline. In today’s society unemployment is one of the greatest challenge that is facing many people around the world. Because of the low unemployment is seen in countries like Greece and North America‚ the people cannot live to their potential. Unemployment brings uncertainty and fear. In this article “Scariest Part of Greek Unemployment: Generational Warfare” by Eric Kuttien‚ Greece is in a financial collapse. The economy
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