Executive Summary This report is based on the system at the Births‚ Deaths and Marriages office of the Salford Council. The first part defines soft systems methodology‚ which was the method used to gain an understanding of the situation‚ and why it was an appropriate methodology to use. A rich picture is employed to illustrate the situation at the Births‚ Deaths and Marriages office. Root definitions are created using the CATWOE technique for the analysis of the system from the perspective of
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Contextualisation of Antigone. Original Setting Antigone is set originally in Ancient Greece in Thebes‚ The play is about the Princess Antigone rebelling against her Uncle‚ King Creon of Thebes‚ after he states that her brother Polyneices‚ who rebelled against his country‚ will not be buried after his death in war. Her other brother‚ Eteoclese is going to be buried with full military honours. Antigone‚ finding this unfair‚ asks her sister Ismene to assist her in burying their brother‚ who refuses
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how far were these successful? Once in power‚ Stalin was determined to modernise the USSR as quickly as possible‚ he wanted to compete with other foreign countries‚ but also he was afraid of a German invasion hence forth he set about achieving modernisation through a series of five year plans. These plans were set up by the GOSPLAN‚ the state planning organisation which Lenin had set up in 1921. The GOSPLAN set ambitious targets for the production in the vital industries such as coal and iron. The
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One of the major debates in the sociology of religion is concerned with the extent to which modern industrial societies have become secularised. The founding fathers of sociology saw secularisation as the inevitable outcome of modernisation. Comte‚ Durkheim and Weber each assumed that when societies achieved scientific and technological complexity‚ individuals would cease to rely on religious meanings and explanations and instead use rational explanations to understand their world. It seems important
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To what extent is Christianity a living religious system that links directly with the life of adherents? Christianity today is a living tradition which requires contribution and commitment through adherents. It’s through Pope John XXIII a modern day Christian role model‚ he’s changes have impacted Christian adherents through modernising the church‚ which is considered “perhaps the greatest revolution of Catholicism of the modern era”. However through traditional practices such as ‘Sunday worship’
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Minister of finance‚ set himself the task of modernising the Russian economy. State Capitalism – Witte believed that modernisation could only be achieved through state capitalism (the direction and control of the economy by the government‚ using its central power and authority). The Russian currency was put on the Gold Standard (the system in which the rouble‚ had fixed gold
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Russia possible essay questions: Collapse Reform and reaction‚ 1855–1881 Why did Alexander II order the emancipation of the serfs in 1861? (12 marks) Crimean War defeat His own beliefs Political considerations Why did defeat in the Crimean War lead to reform under Alexander II? (12 marks) Inadequate army training suggested Russia was not an “elite state” Social unrest caused by the defeat Pressure from intellectuals Explain why Alexander II introduced further reforms following the Emancipation
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TOPIC: Literature in all its forms - novels‚ stories‚ poems and drama - are useless and have no signifigance in later life MY STAND: For TIME: 4 minutes As a debator on this topic I will be speaking for the movement. Literature in all its forms are useless and have no signifigance in later life. It is a fact that can’t possibly be denied even by the most avid of literature lovers! Literature can’t be to ANY practical usage in our later lives. Ten years from now‚ apart from that tiny 1% of
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1 What is a Constitution? 2 Explain the difference between a Codified and an Uncodified Constitution 3 State the Advantages of an Uncodified Constitution 1.)A constitution is what sets the guidelines for a country. It lays out who has power‚ what peoples rights are‚ and generally what sort of system the country will be run under. The basic concept of the modern constitution which is used today was originally based on the idea of John Locke that the country should be governed under rules and guidelines
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greater certainty. Insurers are solid partners for the development of a workable supplementary system of social protection‚ in particular in the field of retirement and health provision. As institutional investors‚ insurers contribute to the modernisation of financial markets and facilitate firms’ access to capital. Insurance promotes sensible risk-management measures through the price mechanism and other methods and contributes to responsible and sustainable economic development. Insurance fosters
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