In the article “Black-White Differences in Achievement: The importance of Wealth” it explores how wealth affect academic achievement‚ as well as explain why there is such a huge gap in test scores between black students and white students. The author argues that wealth is an economic capital that is beneficial to a child doing well in school. This means that wealth can be used as a financial resource and can be converted into cultural‚ social‚ and human capital. Social capital is a having a form
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determining which villagers were the enemies. This was because the women and children could build booby traps or help house and feed the Viet Cong. U.S. soldiers commonly became frustrated with the fighting conditions in Vietnam. Many U.S. soldiers suffered from low morale became angry‚ and some became
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How accurate is it to say that the status of black people in the US changed very little in the years 1945-1955? I would agree with this statement but I would also think there are aspects of the status of black people that did change in these years and the impacts of which could be debated. In 1945‚ the Second World War ended. Black people’s status hadn’t changed but their attitudes had. They started to question why they were fighting for freedom in other countries‚ against the Nazi oppression
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It’s very difficult to walk into any office or workplace and not finding the Cisco logo somewhere from the beginnings of 1984 in San Francisco Cisco is a largely known company throughout the world in IT creating and selling all sorts of hardware devices such as desk phones‚ routers‚ and switches as well as software. Currently holding over 80 offices worldwide and employing nearly 74‚000 people around the globe with a current revenue of up to 12.6 billion so it is hard to believe that throughout its
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………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Is Compulsory Voting Justified in a Liberal Democracy ? The normative debate on compulsory voting has recently known a revival in political theory1. One of the main issues at stake is whether compulsory voting should be considered as a liberal or as an
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CHCAD401D Advocate for clients - Assignment 2 What you have to do Students are required to read the case study and answer the following questions. You need to have read through the learning material for CHCAD401D Advocate for clients and any additional resources on the OLS before commencing this assignment. Please reference your work. Referencing guides are available on the OLS under Assessment Guidelines. Task Read the case study and answer the following questions. Case study You are an
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school shootings since 2013. What can we do to prevent school shootings? The first thing they need to do is strengthen gun laws. Only people who are mentally stable and have a good reason should only be allowed to own a gun. All gun owners should attend a mandatory training; locking up your gun‚ loading and unloading safely‚ storing bullets separately and practices that make gun ownership safer. As parents we wonder how safe our kids in school are and what measures and precautions schools are
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Global Warning‚ Pollution‚ Climate Change‚ Greenhouse effect are the terms familiar to us in relation to our environment and society; however what are the measures taken by our government to protect the environment. Environmental issues increasingly become important and closely tighten within our daily life therefore this paper attempts to look at the way from the Australian government protect the environment by using different method includes legislation; signing international agreement and financial
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lines‚ that each person makes a difference but it’s up to that person what type of difference they want to make. Young people these days are put into the category that they cannot make a difference‚ they are belittled and made out to be careless. In turn these young people start to believe that they can’t make a difference therefore they don’t bother trying. This affect is seen in youth in their involvement in politics‚ the voting rate in Canada for youth voters has been declining for years according
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to the barrier to demand the gates be opened. They were met on the other side by huge crowds of Western Berliners waiting to greet them. This monumental step forward for Germany started celebrations that lasted for days. More than two million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in the reunification. People used hammers and picks to knock away chunks of the wall‚ while cranes and bulldozers pulled down section after section. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united
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