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    The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was established under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 ‘as the principal prosecuting agency’ in England and Wales that take over cases which the police had decided to prosecute. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 transferred most of the charging power from the police to CPS‚ giving the impression of a public service that counterbalance the increased police force while delivering justice by working independently of them. However‚ since the inception of CPS‚ there

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    The title of Santha Rama Rau’s short story “By Any Other Name” refers to the character of Santha‚ who is a five and half year old Indian girl‚ which experiences discrimination for the first time while attending an Anglo-Indian school during the time period in which the British ruled India. Her mother had always home-schooled both her and her sister‚ Premila. When her mother gets ill‚ because her father is an officer of the civil service‚ they can attend this Anglo-Indian school for free. Her mother

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    Leaders and Leadership What is leadership? Leadership is a special form of power‚ one that involves the ability‚ based on the personal qualities of the leader‚ to elicit the followers’ voluntary compliance in a broad range of matters. Leadership is distinguished from the concept of power in that it entails influence‚ that is‚ change of preferences‚ while power implies only that subjects’ preferences are held in abeyance (Etzioni‚ 1965). There are two approaches that we are going to discuss in this

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    A leader is a person who influences a group of people towards the achievement of a goal. The types of leaders vary but in this case‚ we will be dealing with the religious and political leaders. A religious leader is one who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body while a political leader is a person actively engaged in politics especially a full time professional member of a deliberate assembly. A political leader can also be a person who is experienced or skilled

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    The Filipino youth exemplary leaders Is the Filipino youth empowered? First let me ask you this question: Is youth‚ in general‚ empowering?  Does being young bring about a sense of knowing what you can and need to do? Does it give us the divine power known as empathy? Well‚ no‚ not all youth are given that chance. Not all people are given the loving embrace of a parent or the right societal values- that is what separates the Filipino youth from any other youth.We may say that the Filipino people

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    objectives. Transformational leaders are change agents. They influence the mission and objectives to make way for a brighter future for the organization. Bass (1990) states that transformational leadership commonly involves the actions of leader’s influence on followers. People in these organizations follow the leader because they so desire. They are motivated to do more than is originally expected because of their feelings of trust‚ admiration‚ loyalty‚ and respect for the leader. They want to go the extra

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    “That accursed and crawling snake‚ that miserable reptile that has just glided into its slimy home‚ is freer and better off than I. Here am I a man‚ yes a man! Yet he is my superior‚ and scorns to own me as his master” (Douglass 177). The Heroic Slave is a fictional novel written by Frederick Douglass loosely based on actual people and events. It depicts actions that took place during the 1841 hijacking of the Creole by the 135 slaves on board and focuses on the life of Madison Washington. I

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    called a mock-epic. A mock-epic poem is supposed to be the inspiration of a Muse and the language is stilted and grandiose‚ but the subject is of very frivolous and of commonplace nature. Mock-epic or mock-heroic or heroi-comical terms are applied to literary works in which the epic or heroic tradition is ridiculed. Characteristics of “The Rape of the Lock” as a mock-epic poem: 1. Parody: Hazlitt has called the poem ‘the perfection of the mock-epic’. It belongs to the literary type‚ called burlesque

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    Module 2 – Assignment 2 Leader Profile B-6027 Perspectives in Change Leadership Argosy University Online Dr. Richard Dool Matt Bass September 2‚ 2012 Leadership is an art and a science that is developed and perfected by the summation of innate abilities‚ understanding the behaviors of people and how to capitalize on their strengths‚ and the unique ability to inspire and drive under challenging and dynamic circumstances (http://www.gwinnettnetwork.com/ArticleWhatMakesAGreatLeader

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    Heroic Characteristics Essay Compare and Contrast Imagine back to the 1950’s where a african american women comes home from work and her and others are forced to give up their seats. She quietly refuses‚ and she is arrested. This is Rosa Parks story. On December 1‚ 1955‚ Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested for challenging the laws of segregation. Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activists and is well known as “the mother of the freedom movement. She

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