Good morning/ afternoon Introduction: Within recent years‚ a variety of issues have been proven to be associated with mandatory minimum sentencing laws. With the laws affecting a significant demographic of minorities‚ issues such as prison overpopulation‚ unfair judgement and extensive costs involved with prisons and the court have arisen. The concept of mandatory sentencing was originally implemented to ensure that certain criminals served long prison sentences‚ which would simultaneously punish
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Question 22: Compare the features of Malayan Union with the Federation of Malaya 1948. Answer: Malayan Union is a federation that brings a lot of protest among the Malayan citizens that be form on January 1948. The purpose of this federation is to simply the administration and as it unifies Malaya Peninsula under one government‚ it make easier for the British to rule. This idea was first brought by British on October 1945 to end indirect rule in the Malay States by uniting all the states into
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PS3240 Week 2 #4: Exploding the Powder Keg Myth (Preemptive wars almost never happen) Dan Reiter Important points • Existing argument: Preemption is most likely path to armed conflict (Int’l system as primed powder keg‚ waiting for single spark to explode into war) BUT these claims have not been matched by extensive empirical scholarship‚ has not been proven. Reiter’s Argument: • Empirical finding: preemptive wars almost never happen; in cases where they did happen‚ it was due to other
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According to Republic Act 5173‚ to ensure all safe passage of all vessels and watercrafts thru all navigable waters subject to the jurisdiction of the Philippines‚ the construction of all bridges over navigable waters has to be referred to the PCG for issuance of appropriate clearance‚ particularly confirming that the structure would not be hazardous to navigation. In addition to Republic Act 5173‚ the navigational span of the bridge should be provided in a way that it does not
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Competitive Advance of Nations Taiwan has been ranked 6th in “World Competitiveness Report” published on April 13‚ 2011. Taiwan has an intellectual advantage; in this country about 43.7% of the workforce is higher educated (graduate from college and university everywhere in the world). Taiwan workforce represents about 10 million people‚ accounting for 48% of the total population. Every year 320 thousand students are graduated from college and university‚ which make sufficient workforce supply
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Question 1: For many years‚ no casinos were allowed in Singapore. Explain the government’s rationale for allowing two integrated resorts to be built in Singapore. Why was there this change in policy? Question 2: Explain the economic impacts of the integrated resorts. Expected Economic Benefits from Integrated Resorts When the idea of building Integrated Resorts in Singapore was first introduced to the citizens‚ the government measured the expected economic benefits and social problems the
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Social Welfare in Australia Social security in Australia is a system of social welfare payments provided by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. These payments are administered by the Department of Human Services. Most benefits are subject to a means test. Payments are made to a variety of groups of people; Indigenous students and New Apprentices‚ age pension‚ assistance for isolated children (families with a child who lives a fair distance from school)‚ carers‚ disability support pension
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for someone’s mother. However both poems show the feelings of both the parents and the children. The poem “nettles” is a very strait forward poem and its main focus lays on one incident‚ which tells the story of a young boy who falls into a bed of nettles and his dad protects him. However “praise song for my mother” is completely different it’s more general than strait forward and each verse lists another reason why she loves her mother. Also “praise song for my mother” includes lots of metaphor’s
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The song is "Love Without End‚ Amen" a song written by Aaron Barker‚ and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in April 1990 as the lead-off single from his album Livin’ It Up. The song spent five weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart‚ giving Strait his first multi-week No. 1‚ as his last 18 Number Ones had only spent one week at the top. if you read the paragraph below then the lyrics
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Gale‚ F (1972). Urban Aborigines. Australian National University‚ Canberra. Koori Mail (2007). Volumes offer new hope for languages. Vol. 439‚ p 230. Marika‚ R (1998). The 1998 Wentworth Lecture. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Canberra. Accessed 17 September 2011. http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/wentworth/a318678_a.pdf Nunan‚ D (2003). The impact of English as a global language on educational policies and practices in the Asia-Pacific region.
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