paper To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published on July 11‚ 1960 and was an immediate bestseller. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and was voted “best novel of the century” by the Library Journal. With more than thirty million copies in print‚ To Kill a Mockingbird remains a bestseller. Regardless of all the praise‚ this novel has been banned and challenged in many different areas due to profanity and racial slurs. To Kill a Mockingbird was challenged and temporarily banned in Eden
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Europe was in a dark age for the following reasons. Thousands of people died from the bubonic plague‚ crusades were intense‚ and power of the government. For instance‚ the bubonic plague‚ also known as the “black death”‚ spread around at rapid speed. According to the Black Death document‚ “The plague infected the Indians in India‚ the Sind‚ the Persians‚ and the Crimea. … killing daily one thousand or more and destroying the population.” Many knights died because of the crusades‚ some of their man
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Business Ethics Provisions in company act 2013 with respect to CSR and Corporate Governance Provisions in company act 2013 with respect to CSR and Corporate Governance The long-awaited Companies Bill 2013 got its assent in the Lok Sabha on 18 December 2012 and in the Rajya Sabha on 8 August 2013. After having obtained the assent of the President of India on 29 August 2013‚ it has now become the much awaited Companies Act‚ 2013 (2013 Act). An attempt has been made to reduce
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2. Indian economic scenario 3. Economic scenario post independence and need for the MRTP act 4. Trigger cause 5. MRTP act 1969 6. Decline of monopolies and restrictive trade practices (MRTP) act 1969 7. Competition act * Anti competition agreement * Abuse of dominance * Regulation of combination * Competition advocacy 8. The competition committee of India 9. European competition act 10. Case study: Tata – Corus deal Jet – Sahara deal Tata Motors - Jlr 11. Conclusion
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government. The constitution was signed in September of 1787 by delegates at the constitutional convention in Philadelphia. During that time in Philadelphia the delegates worked to form a stronger federal government. They wanted three branches which are executive‚ legislature‚ and judicial with a system of checks and balances. It wanted to make sure no single branch had too much power. There has been a total amount of 27 constitutional amendments. Americas first constitution was ratified in 1781. The constitution
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and social problems and strategies to combat future economic depressions. The New Deal succeeded in addressing and resolving many problems but‚ despite the efforts of those involved‚ it did not succeed in eradicating all the problems caused‚ thus‚ it was not a complete success. Certain problems were not met and ultimately many problems continued unresolved for many years after. The success and failure of theses strategies can be seen by looking at three main areas‚ Herbert Hoover’s role in alleviating
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could not be said for foreign countries. Jafar Panahi‚ an radical Iranian filmmaker‚ has received much criticism for his liberal portrayals of Iranian society‚ such as in the movie “Offside”‚ where a group of women disguise themselves as men‚ in order to attend a football match and are caught and arrested. In addition‚ “The Year My Parents Went On Vacation” by Brazilian filmmaker Cao Hamburger‚ is an auto-biography which clearly depicts how instable the Brazilian government was during his childhood
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1787 the US Constitution was signed by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. This document was used to establish America’s government‚ fundamental laws‚ and basic rights for US citizens. Due to America’s recent win against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War they needed to establish a new constitution. The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution written for the Americas. The Articles of Confederation were established when the US was only a few states each
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Great Britain. This led to a war‚ known as the American Revolution. It was a long fight for freedom that lasted eight years. However‚ a little bit over a year into the war‚ the Continental Congress appointed five men to draft a formal statement that will later become known as The Declaration of Independence. These five men were Thomas Jefferson‚ John Adams‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ Roger Sherman‚ and Robert Livingston. Even though this was a joint committee of five men‚ Thomas Jefferson mainly wrote most of
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This agreement was called the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was signed at the Versailles palace near Paris in 1919. The treaty was very strict forcing the Germans to have four areas of Germany given to the surrounding countries. The Germans were allowed no more than 100 000 men and no tanks‚ no airforce and only 6 submarines. The Rhineland and some of the surrounding area was demilitarised and no armed German was allowed into this area. The Allies even constricted
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