States between the ages of eighteen and sixty-four have been required to register for the military draft under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The draft has been used as a backup system for the United States military until 1973‚ when the Vietnam War ended. With the Vietnam War and the use of the draft‚ many people started to question the effectiveness of the Selective Service System. However‚ despite this‚ all men have been required to sign up because of a “just-in-case” factor. Now
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resort to the draft. The draft was introduced in 1940 when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940‚ which created the countries first peacetime draft. In 1973 the draft ended and the U.S converted to an All-American military. Even though there is no draft‚ yet‚ there is still a requirement for men who reach the age of 18 to register for selective service. America today is worried about a military draft becoming law. Some believed that the Bush
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feticide. Sex selective abortions and increase in the number of female infanticide cases have become a significant social phenomenon in several parts of India. It would be wrong to say that the government is doing nothing‚ but the problem is that sometimes even the government becomes helpless. If the people are not ready to change their mentality despite being educated‚ then ‘we’ are to be blamed. Any progress toward halting infanticide has been foiled by the rise in sex-selective abortions. One
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When one thinks of China it is common to conjure up images of rice fields and of the great wall‚ but also of crowded cities teeming with people and bicycles and cars. One rarely thinks of a nation populated mostly by men and boys‚ with a noticeable yet surreal absence of women. While this is a bit of an exaggeration‚ it has been noted over the past several decades that there is an alarmingly imbalanced sex-ratio. The policy has clearly contributed to the nation’s unnatural gender imbalance‚ as couples
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particularly brutal versions‚ such as dowry deaths and sati. Female foeticide is an extreme manifestation of violence against women. Female foetuses are selectively aborted after pre-natal sex determination‚ thus avoiding the birth of girls. As a result of selective abortion‚ between 35 and 40 million girls and women are missing from the Indian population. In some parts of the country‚ the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1‚000. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the
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It says in the second section of the selective service act; “The President is authorized to raise and maintain by voluntary enlistment or draft‚ as herein provided‚ special and technical troops as he may deem necessary‚ and to embody them into organizations and to officer them as provided in
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FEMALE FOETICIDE Female foeticide is the illegal practice of killing a foetus while it is in the womb‚ because it is a female. It is prevalent in our country as a major social evil. Abortion of female foetus is an act of murder. God is the author of life and nobody should have the right to take it. It is usually done under the pressure of woman’s husband‚ her in-laws or even because of her own parents. Even some women are in favour of getting their female foetus aborted through surgery which is
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http://www.wrtl.org/pdf/Female_Infanticide.pdf http://www.slideworld.com/slideshow.aspx/declining-sex-ratio-its-reason-ppt-2766079 http://www.essays24.com/Social-Issues/Infanticide-Females-India/34792.html China Focus - Pending FEMALE INFANTICIDE WHICH IS RAMPANT IN SOME PARTS OF INDIA AND CHINA RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & FUNDAMENTALS OF MARKET RESEARCH – MMS 1 (2011-12) NAME: SUBHASHISH CHAKRABORTY ROLL NO: 653 In third world countries such as India infanticide of females is common.
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M E M O R A N D U M TO: Client FROM: DATE: November 16‚ 2011 RE: Suggestive Business Entity for Cure of Cancer Question Presented What business entity would be best suited in order to create the enterprise for the client’s scientific cure of cancer‚ while keeping his main interests in mind: to get assistance in running the business portion of the enterprise‚ while limiting his personal liability; and providing investors with the most profit possible while limiting the scope of the
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use melting or softening material to produce the layers (SLS‚ FDM) where others lay liquid materials that are cured with different technologies. In the case of lamination systems‚ thin layers are cut to shape and joined together. Selective laser sintering (SLS) Selective laser sintering (SLS) is an additive manufacturing technique that uses a high power laser (for example‚ a carbon dioxide laser) to fuse small particles of plastic‚ metal (Direct Metal Laser Sintering)‚ ceramic‚ or glass powders
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