On September 16‚ 2017‚ Puerto Rican meteorologist Ada Monzón announced via Facebook live that a Category 5 hurricane with 175 mph winds is coming to the Caribbean Island‚ Puerto Rico. Did you know it’s the strongest Hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over more than 80 years? It destroyed thousands of homes‚ flooded roads‚ fallen trees that blocked many highways and streets‚ 100% of the island with no power‚ electricity and no cell service communication. It has caused at least 13 deaths‚ hospitals are
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(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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HOMICIDE IN PUERTO RICO Table of Contents Abstract …………………………………………………………….3 Statement of the problem………………………………….4 Social Disorganization Theory of Crime………………7 The Social Learning Theory of Crime…………………..9 Recommendations…………………………………………….10 References…………………………………………………………12 Abstract In recent years Puerto Rico has shown staggering homicide rates‚ establishing the cause(s) for this development would be the first step in resolving the dilemma. Researching an
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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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Compared to how the U.S was developing into a powerful country‚ Puerto Rico was a very poor place in the 1940s. If you were to look up a picture of New York in the 1940’s‚ you’d see that it’s quite similar to how it is nowadays in the sense that you see a lot of taxis/cars‚ a lot of businessmen‚ and a lot of skyscrapers. In the 1940’s‚ cities like the one I just mentioned didn’t exist in Puerto Rico‚ just a lot of countryside‚ therefore‚ there were a lot of mountains‚ a lot of farm animals‚ and the
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