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    Police and Society

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    Question 3: To whom do the police account? To what extent do current arrangements enable the police properly to account to the community for their actions? 1. INTRODUCTION: The community demands accountability from the police. The community has conferred upon the police powers which are not conferred upon ordinary individuals in the community. In any democratic society based on the rule of law and responsible government‚ it is fundamental that police independence be balanced with accountability

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    Computers and Society

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    Computers and Society The decade of the 1980’s saw an explosion in computer technology and computer usage that deeply changed society. Today computers are a part of everyday life‚ they are in their simplest form a digital watch or more complexly computers manage power grids‚ telephone networks‚ and the money of the world. Henry Grunwald‚ former US ambassador to Austria best describes the computer’s functions‚ "It enables the mind to ask questions‚ find answers‚ stockpile knowledge‚ and devise plans

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    With the development of scientific management‚ technology‚ and productive power‚ the products concerning the metal Magnesium have been developed in a diversified way involving Mg particle‚ Mg alloys‚ Mg powder‚ Mg ingot‚ Mg stick‚ Mg sacrificial anode and high performance sacrificial anode etc. The metal Mg‚ 2/3 density of the metal Aluminum‚ is one of the lightest metals. The potential application of the metal Mg is of great importance especially under today’s situation that energy has been greatly

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    Business and Society

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    Business and Society Saumu Hoza Strayer University Dr. Yvette Snowden Business and Society Description of the company and analysis of the various primary and secondary stakeholder groups‚ their roles‚ and relationships The company I have chosen is Third Federal Bank. Third Federal Bank specializes in providing banking needs for a wide range of customers and is characterized as a medium sized public corporation. The services provided by the company cater to the financial

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    6. “Robust knowledge requires both consensus and disagreement.” Discuss the claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. Robust Knowledge is the knowledge that is relevant and accepted by actors in the context of its application. This is achieved when the knowledge is credible‚ noticeable‚ and produced in a legitimate way. Knowledge is credible when it is accepted globally by a majority and is passed down from person to person. Knowledge is noticeable in everyone’s everyday experience and encounters

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    society in philippines

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    Society has developed through three overlapping stages -- physical‚ vital‚ and mental. Over the course of tens of thousands of years humanity has evolved from a society mainly concerned with the physical realities‚ such as our survival‚ a life of fear and threat from without‚ and the need for complete deference to authority; to a stage in which our individual vital needs and wants‚ including our desire to interact with others and expand and trade‚ come into their own; to the present emerging mental stage

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    Essay plan: Explore the claim that a consumer society is always a ‘throw-away’ society Introduction Introduce how the essay will be laid out and put forward the topics which will be covered in the essay. Where disposable income comes from Looking at where disposable income comes from in ONS statistics and evidence. New types of consumption - Veblen’s and Susman’s concepts Using concepts to demonstrate how attitudes to consumption have changed and how these changes have been described by Veblen

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    On Dystopian Societies

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    On Dystopian Societies A Report on our future world By Jeffrey Clemmons The girl scrambled for food through the thick wall of trash‚ the smell of mildew crossing her nose. She wore a tattered leather jacket and a pair of old jeans with shoes that people once called Chuck Taylors. She cursed when she didn’t find anything and turned back to her brother who was in the shopping cart looking hopefully at her. She sighed‚ “Nothing.” Her little brother sighs as well and she begins to push him in

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    Society and Language

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    ELL204/05 Society and Language (A) Four Dimensions of Sociolinguistic by Holmes (2008) Believe it or not? since the earth start until now‚ people talk ‚ people communicate for transfer their information or convey their feeling to other . Languages play an important role in this process of transfer. Every day we speak‚ but sometime we will say the same thing in different way .What makes us use the different way to speak? In fact‚ these are some factor that will cause us to change

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    Racism & Society

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    Racism is something we’ve all witnessed. Many people fail to believe that race isn’t a category‚ but a classification of people with no variable facts. In other words‚ the difference we make between races has nothing to do with genes. Race was created socially‚ primarily by how people think ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history‚ the meaning of the label “white” has changed over time‚ eventually adding groups

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