... to society as less money would be spent on interdiction, enforcement, court, and prison costs. Medical use could benefit form the legalization of cannabis in Australia, as it could assist pain relief, nausea, vomiting, appetite stimulation, and neurological conditions (Smith, 2013). Marijuana is found to help relieve ... of the illicit drug may increase the amount of teens purchasing or using the drug. Fergusson and Horwood (2000) discussed that cannabis use in adolescents would lead to other use of more harmful drugs such as cocaine, also known as the "Gateway theory". They conducted ...

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... ground lamb.' The word 'concedes' implies she has given into this lifestyle and has begun to accept such ways, possibly against her will. This influence of the American world in their life they now inhabit becomes increasingly significant as the story continues, and illustrates Lahiri's effective characterisation of Ashima as she assimilates into the culture. The different 'homes' and ... Lahiri effectively presents the theme of the alienation experienced by immigrants assimilating into a new place and thus the exposure of two cultures throughout the novel, while also conveyin...

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... the workplace by the form of worker self-management known as syndicalism. Similarly, American Anarcho-communist author Eddie Conlon stresses the potential of decentralized universal healthcare as shown in revolutionary Spain based upon mutual concern without the hand of privatization and organized based through a system of communal federations from the bottom up. Extending upon anarchical structures into ... and avoidance of suffering being aloud open expression. The value of liberty must be reflected throughout all social, economic and political structures of successful anarchist civil...

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... places emphasis on the fact that although the Native Americans and English colonists viewed and interacted with the environment differently, neither one of the groups supersedes or outplays the other. In fact, each group possesses a similar goal of placing their own personal influence on an allegedly "natural " system. This common goal that each group shared would become simple to ... strategies, methods, and utilizations of resources are directly related and accredited toward cultural differences. Being that the Native Americans placed great emphasis on being one with nature and cultural...

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... states that a psychologist refrains from entering into a multiple relationship if the multiple relationship could reasonably be expected to impair the psychologist's objectivity, competence, or effectiveness in performing his or her functions as a psychologist, or otherwise risks exploitation or harm to the person with whom the professional relationship exists. Multiple relationships that would ... author, consultant, lender, debtor, etc.); providing psychological services to children of friends, colleagues, employees, or frequent social contacts. The term double professions applies to si...

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... distributing agreements (Fig 3). The allied firms seek to conduct business activities collaboratively with the view of achieving mutual benefits that are unattainable separately (Kale & Singh 2009). In the current business environment, common strategic alliances include franchising, mergers, and joint ventures. Fig 1 below gives an overview of various conceivable inter-firm collaborative relationships that ... this paper focuses on the current collaboration between alliance partners that is extendable towards different aspects of collaborative relationships. Current literature suggests ...

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... with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism, he calls into question the reader's ability to perceive their world with clarity and confidence, undermining certainty with the suggestion that experience itself is unreliable. ... of this knowledge at this most critical time renders us powerless to understand the situation-we have all the facts, but are given no direction on how to interpret them...

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... as trade promotions, consumer promotions, branding , PR and advertising. The allocation of communication budgets away from mass media and traditional advertising has obviously promoted IMC in recognition and importance for effective marketing. The emergence of IT has fundamentally affected the media practices, contributed to an extensive deregulation of markets and individualized patterns of ... function. Effective marketing departments and advertising agencies are developing pipelines of new, talented innovations, media buyers, promotions managers, database web masters, and others in o...

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... corruption that paralyzes the decision chain. The economic decisions of local governments partially logical hoarding of wealth depend on the part of local elites. The room for maneuver is limited in the region, as a whole, traditional sectors such as agriculture, oil and minerals, exploiting carried throughout the twentieth century. During the Soviet regime this was more a political than ... small or development (each republic economic sectors should have acquired a meaning only within an overall Soviet structure) . Survivors industries of the Soviet Union have little chance of recovery...

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... 4), Meursault's unconventionality is immediately shown through his laconism and refusal to act the part of the grieving son as expected by those around him. The simple sentence structure conveys brevity in matters of great emotional depth, further reflecting how Meursault's dispassionate nature extends towards his disregard for human relationships. While grief is a heavy and debilitating emotion, the convention remains that ... impose the social tags of "fiance'"" and "son"" on Meursault, he himself would not seek to initiate or sustain those ties, explaining why he continuously acts as ...

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... unity is essential for general education and specialized education services to support and complement each other, there are arguments against the integration of special education students in general education classes. Hence, recent inclusion initiatives have generated much controversial debates along with closer scrutiny of the dramatic policy shift. Advocates claim that the inclusion ... deter student improvement but instead, it is a better way to assist special students succeed. Indeed, teachers proposing inclusion assert that appropriate inclusion of special education students in gene...

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... , 1998). Past and present reasons associated with this lack of attention from researchers is evident despite recent documentation that 95% of the United States population profess a belief in God (Potts, 1998). The limited number of professional training programs available for psychologist and social scientist that address religion and spirituality contribute to the research deficit (Hill, ... and accepting with sensitivity a patient's religious beliefs has been reported to enhance therapeutic interventions and please patients" (Potts, 1998). Religious imagery and material has also been s...

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... of the President while reducing the influence of Parliament, much like the writers of the constitution for the fifth French Republic's constitution. The responsibilities of the Duma are outlined in the Russian constitution, with basic functions being responsible for adopting federal laws, constitutional amendments and federal constitutional laws. If these laws are introduced they need to be approved by ... the Federation council, federal laws are adopted by a simple majority of 226 votes, however in order to alter federal constitutional laws and constitutional amendments a 2/3 majority ...

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... semiotics"#, based his theory on a linguistic model that has been employed by most structuralists. The basic linguistic model, composed of "signifiers" and "signifieds", is an effective tool in approaching performance analytically. Saussure placed specific emphasis on the role of language as the most effective form of signification. Text, and the communication of it, is intrinsic to many ... route into decoding performance. For example, the lighting of a particular scene enhances the sense of theatricality by engaging the audience on a deeper sensory level, whilst introducing further con...

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... Harvey, 1989)). Furthermore technological improvements over the course of the 20th Century have enabled the construction of more or less authentic period materials at minimal costs allowing for the surge in eclectic designs borrowing' as it were elements from classical architecture for instance, and combining them with modern preferences and functional needs (Harvey, 1989). Examples of such designs are extremely ... imitates of the regional style while using classical forms of architecture made unique by a more modern design. Thus the Public Piazza d'Italia' is a perfect example of postmo...

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... a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Queen herself, one angle presenting a warped realm, the other a cautionary tale to his dismissive monarch. The body politic is a concept born in a platonic world of ideals, eternal and a paradigm of political leadership, magnanimity, entirely separate from the body natural, this division enabled Elizabeth to disassociate her role as Queen from her ... unruly mob. Alfred Bill states that despite the "background of forest shepherd and shepherdesses, flocks and herds" political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true pastoral" , this is hi...

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... ; p3). However, independence and sovereignty are not absolute. As a result of improved communications and transportation, the international political and economic system has become more interconnected and complex. In order to deal with this complexity, trans-national organizations - as parallel non-sovereignty structures - have emerged (i.e. Inter-Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations, the World Bank and International Monetary ... states (Held, McGrew, Glodblatt & Perration, 1999; p65). "The defence of human dignity knows no boundaries" was used as the slogan for the human right...

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... 33, which contains four rules, concerning the citizen's participation right to governance. The first one indicates that citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan have the right to participate in the government of the state's affairs directly and through their representatives, to address personally as well as to direct individual and collective appeals to public and local self-administrative ... view, the population of Kazakhstan more worries about the problems of material well-being, social order and security, rather than democratic principles and the human rights. The liberal approaches i...

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... life and economic activity – has had both a positive and negative impact on the economic development of the Vietnamese economy. Economic growth – measured by the annual rate of change in GDP - is a fundamental factor to an economy's economic development as it determines the ability for people to satisfy their material wants and thus, determining their quality of life. Since ... goods (such as petroleum and agriculture). Thus, the presence of global businesses, and the subsequent creation of new export markets, has allowed for aggregate supply to expand, fuelling economic growth in t...

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... negative, to the above listed factors from the citizenry, shifting the countries accordingly on the democratization scale. Therefore establishing the voters' discontent or satisfaction with their position in the political process of democratization. Nevertheless, the attitude of the demos towards democracy greatly depends on the quality of governmental accountability. As O'Donnell (1998) suggests, ... governmental accountability relies on both vertical which involves voters taking part in elections to voice their social demands, and horizontal accountability which involves authorized sta...

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... as to maintain effective customer relationships. Real time marketing takes place usually on the internet and via social media networks. This is becoming an increasingly popular method of marketing in hotel organizations as it enables non-stop marketing and it also greatly improves marketing effectiveness (Lovelock and Wirtz, 2011). These hotel organizations are not discarding traditional marketing altogether ... media websites on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and these websites provide all the required information to prospective and existing customers of these hotel organizations (Kotler...

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... of relatively liberal democracy. Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. Rapid industrialization developed both a moneyed bourgeoisie and an urban proletariat, and trade unions and political organizations had begun to spring up ... policies without changing basic political institutions made possible the reverse, an extreme militarization of the state without changing its structure.'12 For all this criti...

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... remarkable about Hermia's response to both her father and to Theseus is that it is impassioned but logical, convincing but calm. She protests, but is neither aggressive nor apologetic in doing so. In fact, Hermia deploys a clever and intelligent argumentative strategy to respond to the men and to maintain her own position and the right to direct her own destiny rather than ... Gertrude's actions, or those of the other female characters who have been examined here; rather, it is important to determine their significance as assertions of female agency, authority, and autonomy in a socio-hi...

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... , sky-high rates of carbon emission and inefficient consumption of energy, the textile industry has both a massive negative impact on our environment and huge potential to decrease its carbon footprint in it. In this paper I will dig into the role of the fashion/textile industry regarding climate change and the energy budget, the how's and whys of its energy use and most ... 't applied the necessary pressure the create change. Regarding the consumer aspect there is a lack of information and understanding of how clothing items are created and how cheap prices result in high costs in terms ...

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... debate, compromise, dynamics, leadership skills and managements skills. This is the form of society development and progression. The use of advanced communication technologies and information makes education unlimited in its space providing wider opportunities for both teachers and learners. Globalisation and Education Education is very closely related to the globalisation, meaning being a part of it. As a ... knowledge and skills of future generations"" (UNESCO, 2005). Since globalisation is focused on continuous development and lifelong learning, there is required constant training for ...

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