Information History Thomas Cook is the world’s best-known name in travel. • Thomas Cook started organising leisure trips in the summer of 1841 when its founder‚ who gave his name to the company‚ organised a successful one-day rail excursion at a shilling a head from Leicester to Loughborough. • During the next three summers Mr Cook arranged a succession of trips‚ taking passengers on trips to the midland towns of Leicester‚ Nottingham‚ Derby and Birmingham. Four years later‚ he organised
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CCHU 9047 The Press‚ the Public and the Public Sphere Final essay A Critical Evaluation on a News Source and its Role in the Public Sphere: With Special Reference to the Electronic Version of Apple Daily (HK) Introduction The newspaper industry in Hong Kong has been developing gradually since the 19th century‚ and the Hong Kong Government Gazette‚ an official publication of the British colonial government‚ can be defined as the first newspaper providing an important reference to local
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conclusions throughout will draw from a variety of public government data such as Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (PESA)‚ HM-Treasury archives‚ personal accounts‚ blogs and online news articles. Pre 1997 - The Public Expenditure System The old spending system was known as the Public Expenditure Survey. Based around a total expenditure figure know as the ‘control total’‚ the system was central in planning and controlling public expenditure running up to 1998. Surveys took the form
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care/education be a public service with universal coverage or a private service? Should public services be privatized? . Currently‚ we are exposed to hear or watch several times in the radio or TV news important political people talking about reforms‚ which is sometimes only a cover way of talking about privatization of previously public services now and again. Defined in the strictest of terms‚ privatization means the sale of public utilities to private concerns. But as Public Works magazine noted
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sure that the intended meaning is conveyed by word choice. • Public - any group of people tied together by some common bond of interest or concern and who have consequences on an organization. - divided into nominatively‚ demographically and psychographically • psychographics refers to the various lifestyle‚ ie VALS (values‚ attitudes and lifestyles) • external public - exist outside an institution • internal public share the institutional identity • audience -people who are recipients
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Risks of Public Housing In the United States public houses are primarily located in neighborhoods characterized by low or middle-income families. A major concern is that these families become subject to dangers and threats that ordinary families do not get exposed to. Overcrowding of houses‚ poor health‚ and poor nutrition habits are among the many contributing factors to low-income families living in vulnerable and unhealthy public houses. Public housing is a prime illustration of low-income
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Hawthorne‚ the use of public shaming has an everlasting effect on a woman named Hester Prynne after she commits adultery within her Puritan society. She was sentenced to stand on a platform in front of her entire community‚ and she must wear the scarlet letter for the rest of her life. Public humiliation is the dishonoring showcase of a person for everyone in a community to see. To this day‚ some judges still use public humiliation to punish people for their wrong doings; however‚ public humiliation should
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical review a. The Nature and Classification of Public Expenditure b. Theories of Public Expenditure c. Causes\ Goals of Public Expenditure d. Effects Of Public Expenditure 3. Conclusion Introduction Economic theory postulates that government or the state has 5 basic functions: 1. Promotion of economic growth and development 2. Maintenance of price stability 3. Seek
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Land Ownership and Rural Land Expropriation in the People’s Republic of China PRC’s Land Ownership system is inspired in the communist public-owned-property principle. It is therefore different from the land system we know in the west. This land system obviously affects the way administrative expropriation of land takes place in the country. The administration and expropriation of rural land has created numerous violent conflicts in Chinese rural areas in the last years. Chinese peasants who
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Censorship‚ the MTRCB‚ and a Martyr from Tondo Freedom of speech and the public safety “Freedom of speech is the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference‚ subject to the laws against libel‚ incitement to violence or rebellion‚ etc.” Yet we are bound to such limitations in expressing our right of speech that mainly endangers public and personal safety and affect silence of other aliens. We can express whatever we want to say in terms of arts‚ writings
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