Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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The Line to the Lunches Think back to when you were a kid and you waited anxiously for the whole school year to be over with so you could do that one special thing. For my friends and I it was going to the big‚ red bricked church down the road and getting free sack lunches. The older I got the roles had been switched‚ from receiving the lunches‚ to providing the lunches for the anxiously waiting kids. Community service changes the life of you‚ and also the lives of others. Even though it is cliché
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TRAINING PROCESS AND TRAINING NEED ANALYSIS Introduction Training can be described as “the acquisition of skills‚ concepts or attitudes that result in improved performance within the job environment”. Training analysis looks at each aspect of an operational domain so that the initial skills‚ concepts and attitudes of the human elements of a system can be effectively identified and appropriate training can be specified. Training analysis as a process often covers: * Review of current
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SYNOPSIS OPTIMIZATION OF FUNCTIONAL TRAINING PROCESS at Mahindra & Mahindra‚ Swaraj Division‚ Mohali. Companies have found that investment in human capital in the form of training and development yields high returns. The ones that recognize the value of their employees and place a new emphasis on education and training are becoming more competitive‚ successful‚ and profitable as a result. Training can be broadly divided into 2 categories: Behavioral Training: This training is given to employees to improve
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Interview Techniques Task 1 Task 1- In the form of a written report or oral presentation. 1.1 Describe (P1) the reasons why a media professional may be required to carry out an interview? Consider the following when writing your answer and provide examples to support the points you make. (500 words max written) Purposes of interview: research; enhancement of audience understanding; presenting information; interpretive e.g. expressing or justifying opinion‚ accountability; emotional e.g. allowing
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9 August 2012 “You have rejected the best earth could offer:” …and it was worth it The short stories “The Birth-mark” and “The Artist of the Beautiful‚” both written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846‚ demonstrate and attempt to symbolize the boundaries of beauty in society. In “The Birth-mark‚” the young and exquisite Georgiana has simply one imperfection‚ a red hand-shaped birth-mark on her cheek‚ which her husband‚ a prominent chemist by the name Aylmer desires to have removed. In “The Artist of
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Safety Auditors Training Scheme (SATS) Alexander CS CHAN MSc(Eng)‚ DipOccHyg‚ MIPlantE‚ MIOSH‚ FHKISA‚ RSO Industrial Centre‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong SAR. Albert W.K. KWOK MSc(Civ)‚ CEng‚ MICE‚ MIStructE‚ MHKIE‚ MIOSH‚ POSHA. Industrial Centre‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong SAR. Abstract Safety audit is not new in Hong Kong. It starts in multi-national oil and local power supply companies. Starting from 1996‚ safety audit has been
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paper is to answer questions in reference to the training of the backhoe operator’s position at a Winnipeg gas utility company. The backhoe operator position was posted and hired. The firm opted to hire a man with little experience. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the training deficiencies that occurred after hiring an inexperienced backhoe operator. Backhoe Operator 1. What are the potential costs to this lack or training? Why do you think the company operated in this manner?
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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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Exceptional customer service is delivered by exceptional people. Before we can be sure that we are meeting the needs of our customers and providing quality service‚ we need to be able to retain‚ develop and invest in employees first. The programs and training that I would like to implement are employee incentives programs‚ which will consist of both financial and non-financial incentives‚ and a mentor program which in and of itself serves as a non-financial incentive in that it gives employees more responsibility
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