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Human Rights Abuses Campbell Soup
1,756 words
... leges and universities and one member
independent state college fund. These awards mark
the AT&T Foundation's second consecutive year of
support through this program, with a total of $
494, 000 in contributions now reaching 48 colleges
in 11 states. According to the BSR Education
Fund's Global Business Responsibility Resource
Center, research shows that a company's role in
its community is a factor in increasing
profitability, promoting company image, reducing
costs and elevating employee mo...
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Person To Person Virtual Communities
802 words
In William Mitchells essay, he makes the
distinction between virtual communities and
site-specific communities. He describes what these
cities are about and how they will benefit people.
To me what makes these communities different is,
virtual communities are communities in the web in
which people that dont share the same interests
can come together and talk. As of Site-specific
communities, these are also communities in which
people that share the same interests but more
towards a members only ...
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Economic And Political Multinational Corporations
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Christian Base Communities Confront the
Neo-Liberal Project Juan Manuel Hurtado is a
member of the theological commission of the
Christian Base Communities of Mexico. This article
appeared in Spanish in the July 1992 edition of
Estudios Ecumenicos. After the fall of the
socialist bloc and its opening to the market
economy, it would appear that the only valid
economic and political model of society left to
the world is capitalism. Neo-liberalism (the
present model of capitalism) grows stronger ev...
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Social Organization Related Homicides
646 words
Feeling alienated by fellow classmates, two
students at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO
who referred to themselves as the Trench Coat
Mafia went on a rampant killing spree which took
the lives of themselves, twelve other students and
one teacher (Obmascik 1). This incident caused an
immediate plea for more socially responsible
communities, assuming that greater moral values
would curb the likelihood of these
argument-related homicides. This relies on the
notion that greater social organiz...
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Ecology The Study Of Plans Animals And Environment
1,134 words
Ecology is the scientific study of the
interrelationships of plants, animals, and the
environment. In recent years, the word has
sometimes been misused as a synonym for
environment. The principles of ecology are useful
in many aspects of the related fields of
conservation, wildlife management, forestry,
agriculture, and pollution control. The word
ecology (Greek, oikos, "house, " and logos, "study
of") is generally believed to have been coined by
Ernst HAECKEL, who used and defined it in 1869.
T...
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Commercialism Invading Communities In Economic Growth
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In many growing communities across the nation they
are worried about the big developers coming in and
making the town into a commercial hellhole. Many
are concerned with the economic, social, and
wildlife tolls that suburban sprawl will take on
the community. A well-known solution to this urban
sprawling is smart growth. Smart growth
distinguishes the diversity between expansion and
the quality of life. Smart growth recognizes the
community, but still lets some expansion in
through the door. Sma...
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Medium Sized Airline Industry
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... Southwest, regardless of the size of the
community served. In addition, the established
airlines' transition to hub-and-spoke systems
following deregulation has increased competition
at many airports serving small- and medium-sized
communities. By bringing passengers from multiple
origins (the spokes) to a common point (the hub)
and placing them on new flights to their ultimate
destinations, these systems provide for more
frequent flights and more travel options than did
the direct "point to...
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Community Development And Empowerment
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Community development and community empowerment
The present research will concentrate on the
discussion of the questions and problems of the
community development and community empowerment,
based on the case study of the Chinese farmers.
The aim of the work is to distinguish the main
postulates and strategies of the community
empowerment, the barriers for their development
and the role of community in its own development.
The aspect of the community development and the
question of the participat...
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One Child Policy One Of The Major
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China s One-Child Policy: An Economic Perspective
on Governmental Control In 1979, China implemented
a one-child per family policy in order to address
the issue of unchecked population growth for a
country with limited resources. Because China is
one of the most densely populated countries in the
world, concern for the issue of overpopulation and
the capacity of the Chinese government to address
the needs of such an overwhelming population
directed the impetus for the implementation of the
polic...
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Internet Service Providers Developing Countries
4,757 words
Communications Technology: Global Information
Infrastructure Essay, Research Communications
Technology: Global Information Infrastructure
Introduction We are in the midst of a global
information revolution driven by the convergence
and proliferation of information and communication
technologies. The telecommunications sector is
changing at warp speed, driven by technological
innovation that results in new equipment and
services, and also by new entrants and alliances
between companies with exper...
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Virtual Communities Easily Accessible
752 words
Communicating Community 2000 Community 2000
Communicating in the 20 th century is no problem.
There are various ways to get in touch with
someone. In fact, it seems as if a new way of
communicating comes up every year, and each new
way makes the last one seem obsolete. People can
communicate by mail, telephone, facsimile,
electronic mail, chat rooms, and conference
programs such as AOL 61666; instant messenger
and internet relay chat. Some ways are quick; some
are not. Some ways are cheap; som...
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Law Enforcement Officers Quality Of Life
3,372 words
Community policing has emerged since the 1970 s as
an increasingly important strategy for controlling
and preventing crime and enhancing community
safety. It is both a philosophy and an
organizational strategy that allows the police and
the community to work closely together in creative
ways to solve the problems of crime, drugs, fear
of crime, physical and social disorder,
neighborhood decay, and the overall quality of
life in the community. Community policing is
difficult to define. Although i...
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Womens Roles Third World
1,830 words
Critiques of Development Development practices
became the instrument to organize the
post-colonial, backwards societies, thereby
devaluing non-western non-Western systems of
knowledge, cultures, and social arrangements
(Braidotti 21). This idea, presented by Rosi
Braidotti, is the dominant view of the development
practices that have gone on in the Third World.
Feminists and anthropologists criticize these
government programs for disregarding pre-existing
communities and hierarchies as well as de...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Criminal Justice System
2,954 words
Use federal tax dollars to fund these therapeutic
communities in prisons. I feel that if we teach
these prisoners some self-control and alternative
lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering
the prisons once they get out. I am also going to
describe some of today? s programs that have
proven to be very effective. Gottfredson and
Hirschi developed the general theory of crime. It
According to their theory, the criminal act and
the criminal offender are separate concepts. The
criminal act is ...
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Individual Or Group Development Of An Individual
1,273 words
Everyday, seven-year-old Juan Santiago leaves his
small, dirty apartment for his walk to school. On
the way through his predominantly African-American
and Hispanic neighborhood he passes a toxic waste
site and later, a landfill. On the other side of
town, young Kelly Johnson leaves her large,
comfortable house on her way to her bus stop. On
her way through her predominantly White
neighborhood she passes a few oak trees and some
shrubbery. What is wrong with this picture?
Environmentalism is defi...
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Culturally Integrated Society Cultural Diversity
3,760 words
Essay Immigration Multiculturalism in Canada Essay
written by Unknown Canada has long been called The
Mosaic, due to the fact that it is made up of a
varied mix of races, cultures and ethnicities. As
more and more immigrants come to Canada searching
for a better life, the population naturally
becomes more diverse. This has, in turn, spun a
great debate over multiculturalism. Some of the
issues under fire are the political states
policies concerning multiculturalism, the
attitudes of Canadians ar...
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One Can Easily Factors That Affect
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Social Factors Affecting Inner City Poverty
Poverty has stricken the country with thousands of
inner city families facing dilemmas that
contribute to their inability to reach a higher
economic social status. Each year, the U. S.
Department of Health and Human Services issues
updates for the U. S. Federal Poverty Measure.
These updates report thresholds that determine
eligibility for particular federal programs, and
also is used to set an income measure which allows
the National Census Bureau to ...
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Puerto Ricans Puerto Rico
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The Status Debate: An Example Of Nationalist The
Status Debate: An Example Of Nationalist Politics
For Puerto Ricans Puerto Rico and its people have
endured a long history filled with colonialism and
ambiguous rule. It is a nation whose citizens have
endured years of imperial rule, enslavement and
forced dependence on other countries for its
existence. It is a nation which has changed
drastically from the days when Tainoes were the
exclusive inhabitants of the island.
Unfortunately, Puerto Rico ...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Japanese Americans
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Population redistributions based on ethnicity have
defused intense rivalries in the recent past, and
could be a solution to the internal ethnic crises
for nations such as the former Yugoslavia.
Currently described by the media as ethnic
cleansing, Population redistributions have been
the focus of much controversy throughout U. S. and
world history. To those affected, Population
redistributions can be economically and
emotionally devastating. It can also lead to
enormous tragedies causing thousan...
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One Can Easily Factors That Affect
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Social Factors Affecting Inner City Poverty
Poverty has stricken the country with thousands of
inner city families facing dilemmas that
contribute to their inability to reach a higher
economic social status. Each year, the U. S.
Department of Health and Human Services issues
updates for the U. S. Federal Poverty Measure.
These updates report thresholds that determine
eligibility for particular federal programs, and
also is used to set an income measure which allows
the National Census Bureau to ...
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