Erin Brockovich‚ a 2000 Jersy Film Production‚ staring Julia Roberts is based on a true story that involved Pacific Gas and Electric Company using hexavalent chromium or chromium six as a rust inhibitor to prevent corrosion of pistons used in engines. According to the movie‚ for fourteen years‚ the Pacific Gas and Electric Company had been dumping water containing chromium six into ponds and covering them over. The ponds were not lined and the chromium based water leaked into the local water supply
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Assess the effectiveness of Tony Blair as a domestic policy maker. We have got ‘New Labour’ now‚ but to what extent have we really got ‘New Britain’? It could be argued that Tony Blair’s New Labour movement was successful due to his expertise in policy making. Blair‚ Labour leader from 1994 – 2007‚ made large reforms in domestic policy‚ concerning social‚ economic and constitutional factors. Whether this effective policy-making actually produced a ‘New Britain’‚ is a debatable subject. After the
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rebecca O’Neill X1783213 Evaluate the claim that Britishness is an ethnic construction Introduction The purpose of writing this paper is to analyze and evaluate the argument that ‘Britishness is an ethnic construction’ from the perspective of both its advocators and opponents. The discussion will include evidences that support the claim and also those who go against it in relation to the cultural and ethnic dimensions of britishness in order to provide a better understanding of the events
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To examine Terrorism it is important to first understand the definition of terrorism. The Oxford English Dictionary states “the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims” (Oxford English Dictionary Online). More depth is included in defining it as “a premeditated and unlawful act in which groups or agents of some principal engage in a threatened or actual use of force or violence against human or property targets” (Understanding Terrorism Gus Martin)
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Marina Formoso Martínez Modern Democracies: A Comparative Analysis Rousseau and Machiavelli: civic republicanism “not being the State or City more than a moral person whose life is in union menbers‚ and most importantly their own care is the conservation‚ it becomes a universal force required to move and compulsive wrap each part of the way most convenient to all. But besides the person ’s public‚ we must consider the particular persons who compose it‚ and whose life and freedom naturally
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opinions (2002:2). As the media continues to compel such power over socialisation‚ many researchers have set out to perceive the power of the mass media (Curran‚ Gurevitch‚ Woollacott 2006:1). This essay will discuss these theories‚ namely the liberal-pluralist and Marxist approaches as well as the role of media in society according to these approaches. Marxism takes the view that media has an undisputable influence over society and that this helps preserve differences of power between social groups based
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The social work profession emerged in the early nineteenth century as charitable organizations began employing trained workers rather than relying on volunteers. This was a century when disease‚ laziness‚ poverty and others were exposed as social evils that needed to be addressed. The movement to stamp out these social evils began with philanthropist women‚ joined later by charitable organizations and subsequently by the state or government itself (Gorsky‚ 1999). The philanthropic women who began
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Chapter 2 What What is policy? commitment to a minimally interventionist and small state (monetarism) - frame and shape the possibilities in the other areas of public policy. More specifically‚ policy decisions in one area may have significant intended or unintended impacts in another. Take for example the case of Australia when‚ in the late )980s in the face of high levels of youth unemployment‚ the federal government abolished unemployment benefits for sixteen and seventeen year olds
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Totalitarian and Authoritarian Dictators: A Comparison of Fidel Castro and Alfredo Stroessner Author(s): Paul C. Sondrol Source: Journal of Latin American Studies‚ Vol. 23‚ No. 3 (Oct.‚ 1991)‚ pp. 599-620 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/157386 Accessed: 27/10/2008 04:48 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms
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‘The problems associated with performance appraisal systems can be overcome by improvements to their design and implementation’. Discuss with reference to the orthodox and radical critiques of performance appraisal. Introduction Performance appraisal is an opportunity for an employee or those employees who are concerned with their performance‚ to get engaged in a dialogue with their reporting supervisors about their performance and development and the support required from their reporting supervisors
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