(i) Glass-Steagall Act (1933) Great Depression At the time after the stock market crash (1929)‚ during the Great Depression‚ most of the people agreed that the main cause for the event was the “improper banking activity” which was mainly seen as the bank involvement in the stock market investment. Banks were taking high risks in hope for rewards‚ they were “accused of being too speculative in the pre-Depression era” (HEAKAL‚ 2010‚ pg.1). They were not only investing their assets‚ but they
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CLEAN WATER ACT 1. Overview: a. Congress’s Overall Objective with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (later CWA): (§101): “restore and maintain the chemical‚ physical‚ and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.” National Goals: i. To completely eliminate the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters by 1985. 1. Not going to happen without stronger standards ii. Interim goal (101(a)(2): to make the water quality such that it’s fishable/swimmable
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in response to the Laming inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié in 2000. It went on to form the basis of the 2004 Children’s Act. The paper lists five outcomes which were identified in consultation with children and young people: Being healthy: Staying safe: Enjoying and achieving Making a positive contribution Economic well-being: Childrens Act 1989 Aims to protect child’s welfare are paramount in any decisions made about their upbringing. It states that every effort should
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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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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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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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