It assumed a society composed of white nuclear families, headed by a wage-earning father with a job for life and a mother at home looking after the children. ... Lewis, G. (1998) "Coming apart at the Seams": "The Crisis of the Welfare State in Hughes, G, and Lewis, G. ... It was viewed as being about more than providing health care. It commanded great prestige and public respect and symbolised social citizenship and all that was good about being British. ... In the political settlement the doctors were given a high degree of autonomous power in decision-making about need ...

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Much of African American literature is realistic in nature, meaning that it tends to be about their personal experiences, especially the later works; therefore, readers are able to experience firsthand the struggles that African American people faced on a daily basis. ... African Americans are faced with the challenge of identifying themselves with not only their African home land and traditions but also with their American upbringing (Ndi and Ndeh 2013). ... Much like these other indigenous people, African American's culture was stripped away from them as they were stripped away from ...

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Therefore, one yearns to search for their identity' inside the complicated labyrinth of myth and truth about them. To introduce different ways of seeing and helping people understand better about the complex mystery that surrounds them "prostitutes. ... Because, they have rarely been raised with the appropriate skills, and they are faced with the additional burden of managing the home and the family as well as doing paid work simultaneously (Sleightholme and I. ... This quote explains more than it seems to. ...

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This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."... (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. ... "Hemingway believed that good writing springs from knowledge that the author should write about things which he really knows"." (Morgan 5) Hemingway would always insist on writing about what he knew and refused to exagger...

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Their ideological and socialization functions are continually being defined and perfected in developing countries as one of the indispensable factors in the mobilization of general population for programs of national development'(Chimutengwende, quoted in Ziegler and Asante, 1992, p41). ...

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Why was I hearing jokes about Tonya Harding on "The David Letterman" and "Tonight" shows? Why were my friends at school talking so much about the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, a skater we knew little about - and most had never heard of. ... This of course includes values and beliefs about gender. ... As Thomas herself says, "Once you get labeled athletic, with big triples, it's hard to get unlabeled" (quoted in Rounds, 1994). ... It's an entire career coming to fruition or failure, where everything you've done before counts at least as much as everything you do on the day you actu...

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The Sagas of Icelanders have also been known, rather imprecisely, as Icelandic Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, for instance, the number translated in The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, 1997). Collectively, they cover events running from the mid ninth century to the mid eleventh and located in all inhabited parts of Iceland (and some uninhabited), though saga-writing flourished above all in the West and North. I...

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Byran labels the resulting movies "the noble-grunt film," as generic narratives that feature "the gradual deterioration of order, the disintegration of idealism, the breakdown of character, the alienation from those at home, and finally, the loss of all sensibility save the will to survive." ... Unfortunately, movies are a poor source for learning about the war, as most films fail to meet the basic requirements of truth, balance, and reality. However, a film can be an excellent movie in spite of its use of myths and inaccuracies about the war and the soldiers. ... After coming to the realiza...

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Wakatsuki ultimately failed in the attempt to carry out his emperor's wishes and the Japanese military continued on its campaign throughout China which eventually pleaded to the League of Nations for intervention who then voted 42-1 against Japan with the only vote coming from Japan supporting the action. ...

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It was if I Macy knew when deciding to open her book with the quote from Roy that I would be in need of hearing these words for I was in need of not only hope but guidance. ... This lense is also good for lending a false sense of certainty, for example if one is fighting in the name of his or her God which is happening more today than one mind can even conceptualize, he or she feels as if they will ultimately win due because their cause is in the name of the greatest good they know, their own God, William Irwin Thompson has called this kind of certainty and self-righteousness that goes with ...

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Quoted from (Boyd, 2002) he cites (Hyman 2001) stating that the term social partnership originated in the German language, first characterising the collective actors in industrial relations as Sozialpartner and then specifying a broader concept of Sozialpartnerschaft . ... The journal article of (Roche, 2007) spoke about the widely attributed success of Social partnership on influencing performance in the Irish economy from the 1990s however it also spoke about the contrasting failure of centralized tripartite pay bargaining in Ireland during the 1970s. ... A clerical Officer was questioned...

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However, there is not much curiosity about exactly how these two genres have become such important genres in literature. ... The readers' fear also intertwined with their hope and anxiety: the two emotions that aroused in the anticipation of what's coming next in the novel. ... He also quoted "whenever he spoke of his house he always said "we ", and spoke almost in the plural, like a king speaking " (Stoker 137). ... Once again, the "evil in disguise " monster reminds the readers of human fear towards their oblivious about the future. ... After bringing Jean home from the market, Fat...

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The Greek historian Arrian describes the drunken events leading up to the murder of Cleitus at the hands of Alexander III: "When some of them, again trying to please Alexander, suggested without any justification that the achievements of Philip were neither great nor wonderful, Cleitus was no longer able to restrain himself, showing respect for what Philip had achieved, but belittling Alexander and all he had done; he was now very drunk and he reproached Alexander a great deal, because after all his life had been saved by Cleitus himself, during the cavalry battle at the Granicus against the...

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY During one of his two combat tours in Vietnam, Federal Express CEO Frederick Smith got a quick lesson in survival from a crusty Marine sergeant. "Lieutenant," the sergeant told Smith, "there's only three things you gotta remember: shoot, move, and communicate."(Fortune, Nov. 1997) Some thirty plus years later, and at the helm of one the shipping industry's largest competitors, Smith has utilized that same tactical advice in the business world. His maneuvering of FedEx has incorporated an aggressive shooting strategy as the company has emerged ...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralp...

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Violence against the person was 37.8 per 1000 population compared with 11.4 nationally; In 1998 only 11 of the 488 schools with more than 35 per cent of pupils on free school meals attained the national average level of GCSE passes; During 1999, 26 per cent more people died from coronary heart disease in the 20 per cent most deprived Health Authorities than in the country as a whole; 43 per cent of all housing in the 10 per cent most deprived wards is not in a decent state, compared with 29 per cent elsewhere, and 19 per cent of all homes in the 10 per cent most deprived wards are in areas suf...

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