Arabia’s Number One Enemy: Traffic Accidents 1. INTRODUCTION Traffic Accidents are the main cause for the death and injury of many people and account for huge property damages in the world in general and developing countries in particular. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no exception to this world-wide problem. Traffic accidents are in fact‚ the first major death rate in the country where 6‚485 citizens have died and more than 36‚000 were hurt in over 485‚000 traffic accidents during 2008 and
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Outline and assess the usefulness of official statistics in measuring crime (50 marks) Crime is behaviour that breaks the law. Crime itself is deviant. Deviance refers to the behaviour that most people see as differing from acceptable social norms or standards of society – as abnormal or immoral. Official statistics is crime reported by the public and recorded by the police (or detected by the police themselves). Records are published every three months. The process involves the witness discovering
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2.3 Explain the importance of active participation of children and young people in decisions affecting their lives. Participation is the process by which children and young people influence decision making which brings about change in them‚ others‚ their services and their communities. There are many opportunities for children and young people to take an active part in shaping where they live‚ the services they use and the running of local and national organisations. They have a right to be involved
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The lecture is about traffic congestions‚ which is one of the major problems in the UK’s transport system. The lecture consists of 2 main points which are‚ firstly‚ the effects of the congestions and secondly‚ how the British government have tried to address the problem by creating the Integrated Transport Policy. The first point made by the lecturer is that overcrowded roads have its effects. First of all‚ they affect directly in the country’s economy‚ as all the lost time have its repercussion
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Explaining Concepts Concepts of Dating According to the article Dating‚ by Beth L. Bailey. We know dating is a new style of courtship‚ which was started in the early twentieth. With the emergence of this new style of courtship‚ the old one was replaced. What I remembered as an example of good explanatory writing is the writer using time order to tell the history of old courtship and when the new system of dating was emerging. And the readers probably are young people they don’t know how the
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Assess the usefulness of consensus approaches to an understanding of the reasons for crime and deviance in society According to consensus approaches‚ every society shares a set of core values known as collective conscience. The behavior which is different from these core values is to be viewed as deviant. Crime and deviance can be explained by consensus approaches through several theories. One explanation of crime and deviance from the functionalist perspective was Merton’s strain theory. He said
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Atmospheric Pollution in Beijing and the Solution Based on Traffic Planning Xu Zhao JRSB101‚ Communications I Jackie Quantz‚ Instructor December‚ 02‚ 2010 Summary The following report introduces the main reasons of air pollution in Beijing - Coal burning and auto emissions. Also‚ the report analyzes the current situation of Beijing - private vehicles increased rapidly in recent years and public traffic cannot meet the demand of public transportation. Comparing Beijing with
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concerning their limitations and benefits. This essay also focuses on other types of crime data such as the victim survey and qualitative data‚ to see whether they provide a more truthful portrayal of crime. The first half of the essay analyses the usefulness of official statistics. Here a main theme is the socially constructed nature of crime and crime statistics‚ and the consequences of this‚ and how the accuracy of official statistics is affected by the problems associated with police recording‚ such
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Monopolistically competitive market In Principles of Economics (third edition)‚ N. Gregory Mankiw describes the market as the combination of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service (64). Economists have defined three key elements for any industry to be classified in the market: the number of firms‚ the similarity of the products and the ease of entering a certain industry. By using these features‚ four market structures can be classified—perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚
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Most people living in big cities‚ such as Beijing and Jakarta‚ generally complain about one common problem‚ traffic jam. In São Paulo‚ the length of traffic jam once reached 129 km. Transportation analysts and governments of cities have suggested solutions to this problem‚ one of them is to create a good public transportation system throughout the city. There are some characteristics that a good transportation system should have. First‚ a good transportation system has to serve most of the city’s
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