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    The Brady Act

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    Violence Prevention Act is an Act of the United States Congress that instituted federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States. It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 30‚ 1993‚ and went into effect on February 28‚ 1994. The Act was named after James Brady‚ who was shot by John Hinckley‚ Jr. during an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30‚ 1981. (Federal Register) While the idea and implementation of the act had all the best intentions

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    Data Protection Act- 8 principles Founded in 1998 Personal data must be: 1. Processed fairly and lawfully. 2. Processed only for one or more specified and lawful purpose. 3. Adequate‚ relevant and not excessive for those purposes. 4. Accurate and kept up to date - data subjects have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected or destroyed if the personal information is inaccurate to any matter of fact. 5. Kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it is being processed.

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    stay hungry stay foolish

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    With the phrase “stay hungry‚ stay foolish” Steve Jobs wanted to say that we should never be content with what we have now and find our own way to perfection‚ that in this life there is always something that we can learn and use in our life later on‚ the “foolish” in this phrase means that we must be ready to try new things and be ready to step out of our comfort zone‚ we only live once ‚ so we must follow our dreams no matter what it takes. Long time ago I have read the book and found an excellent

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    *WEEEE WOOOO WEEEE WOOOO* the sirens blare we all quickly jump out of bed and rush for the bunker.I think that the Cold war was foolish because they just argued and threatened each others and could have been avoided .This war was caused by the soviet army entering the koreans territory .People would have routine drills to practice if there was a atomic bomb so you never knew if you were safe.”mankind must put a end to war or war will put an end to mankind. This war started because it had allies

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    The cause and effects of No Child Left Behind Most people have heard about the no child left behind act from 2002 to this present time. No child left behind was signed by the former President George W. Bush. This act was established to show improvement in school performance of American primary and secondary schools. This act caused a lot of neglect to important and interesting subjects‚ seeing as these are non -tested subjects‚ such as art‚ social studies‚ health

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    ------------------------------------------------- Speech Acts in Kris Aquino’s tweets ------------------------------------------------- Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Sociolinguistics of the Graduate School of Ateneo de Davao University By Juliet G. Vasay Dennis C. Jaum ***** Ateneo de Davao University October 24‚ 2012 Acknowledgements _________________________________________________________________ The researchers would like to acknowledge

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    Early Communication: Beyond Speech-Act Theory Anna Papafragou University of Pennsylvania 1. Introduction For the past two decades‚ speech-act theory has been one of the basic tools for studying pragmatics from both a theoretical and an experimental perspective. In this paper‚ I want to discuss certain aspects of the theory with respect to data from early communication in children. My aim will be to show that some of the central assumptions of the speech-act model of utterance comprehension need

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    From Protests to Separation All of the events contributed in causing the Intolerable Acts in some ways but I think that the Boston Tea Party played the most influential role of all. To help the East India Company from losing money‚ Britain passed the Tea Act which allowed the company to have a virtual monopoly of the trade for tea in America. This angered the merchants and the smugglers and they called for a new boycott on tea. Also on December 16‚ 30 -130 men dressed as Mohawks climbed aboard

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    The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) was a United States Congress Act that worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. These requirements also apply to imported meat products‚ which must be inspected under equivalent foreign standards. USDA inspection of poultry was added by the Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957. The Food and Drug Administration

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    Report The pragmatic aspect of syntax. The theory of speech acts Facts and we considered the most important aspects of this essay such as :pragmatics‚ syntax and speech act theory. The process of realization of language units in speech was viewed through the comparison of language and speech as a potential system of signs. Pragmatic investigations cover the fields of both linguistics and philosophy. In language

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