In a sense, this misguided notion is true- but climate change is much more than "yuppies driving SUVs." ... Glacier shrinkage is occurring at a much faster rate than can be explained by natural trends [Oerlermans, 1994]. ... This will be beneficial to those countries that depend on fossil fuel exports, i.e. ... Levy [2001] reports that greenhouse gas emissions need to be slashed by more than 50% to stabilize the earth's climate; the Kyoto Protocol calls for a 5% decrease in world greenhouse gas emissions, and this meagre target is fast becoming unreachable. ... One such effect is the ...

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A lot of people at that time thought that Haig was a heartless, idiotic savage beast; but historians tried to look at things in a different perspective and realized, maybe Haig wasn't a butcher after all since the outcomes were beneficial towards to British army. ... There is no way of avoiding this but our losses in this war have been no larger than were to be expected. ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... The British generals sent waves and waves of soldiers out onto the battlefields although the more...

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A lot of people at that time thought that Haig was a heartless, idiotic savage beast; but historians tried to look at things in a different perspective and realised, maybe Haig wasn't a butcher after all since the outcomes were beneficial towards to British army. ... There is no way of avoiding this but our losses in this war have been no larger than were to be expected. ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... The British generals sent waves and waves of soldiers out onto the battlefields although the more...

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A lot of people at that time thought that Haig was a heartless, idiotic savage beast; but historians tried to look at things in a different perspective and realised, maybe Haig wasn't a butcher after all since the outcomes were beneficial towards to British army. ... There is no way of avoiding this but our losses in this war have been no larger than were to be expected. ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... The British generals sent waves and waves of soldiers out onto the battlefields although the more...

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One is remember that education is the key to success. ... Latent functions are the unintended consequences of the school system that, while not purposeful, have turned out to be beneficial for society. ... " Third is the schools permit distinctive subcultures to form, like honor societies, and voluntary groups, many of which can be beneficial for the society. ... The sophists meanwhile are more utilitarian in their outlook. ... Work in America today is different than what it was in the past. ...

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Because of the success of the field trials, New Zealand adopted the Reading Recovery Program. ... Clay and Cazden suggest that phonemic awareness is the outcome of emerging literacy rather than a prerequisite (Spiegel, 1995). ... These books provide natural language rather than a controlled vocabulary. ... Teachers provide support for the children as they read more difficult, unfamiliar text. ... However, when comparing the success rates of children in the Reading Recovery Program with other programs that keep students for years and never reach the reading level of peers, Reading Recover...

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A coach should always keep in mind the importance of winning or striving to win is never more important than athletes' well-being. When winning is kept in perspective, sport programs produce more positive results. ... Along with their successful, they need to find ways to achieve all three objectives in a beneficial manner for the team and the individual athlete. ... One is more of the dictator and commanding style, while the other is the baby-sitter and teacher style. ... Actions speak louder than words. ...

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Although currently, more recipients are working rather than relying on welfare, the question remains, has welfare reform positively benefited the poor, the very people it was intended to benefit? ... While the main objectives have been met, the reform is not a complete success. ... Because many welfare recipients may not have more than a high school education, they are forced to take low paying jobs that are traditionally geared toward people with a lower education level. ... Because caseloads have dropped by 3.3 million cases, many people in our society feel that welfare reform has been a su...

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The constant pressure placed on athletes by family, coaches and their communities, may pressure them to engage in unhealthy practices in order to appease those expectations and achieve success on the field. There are often strong beliefs in these sports that lower weight athletes perform better than their heavier peers. ... Even in the early stages of muscle atrophy, if a starving person is exercising it could put too much strain on the body's organs resulting in a possibility of organ failure. ... In fact it has been said (who said it) that many athletes have higher self-esteem than i...

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Thus, members of Mexican-American communities have shown that they are capable and ready to surmount the educational barriers necessary for their children's academic, social, and economic success. ... Bustamante indicates that with many Mexican-Americans employed in low-paying jobs, white Americans assume they have little interest in education, and thus, have no desire to achievee more competitive professional employment. ... Without their labor, things would be much more expensive."" ... Yet, many Americans speculate that the high drop-out rates and lack of Mexican-Americans...

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It is important for parents, as well as school districts, to understand the role of parents and the districts in the success of students. ... Student-led conferences are a strategy to involve parents in their student's academic success. ... "Over 30% of U.S. schools are in rural communities, yet less than 6% of research conducted in schools includes rural schools" (Hardré, Sullivan, & Crowson, 2009). ... Children growing up in impoverished homes or environments have different experiences than those who are not living in these conditions. ... As reported in the National Ce...

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There are many factors that have an effect on the success of our negotiations. ... This is in contrast with integrative bargaining in which there is a possibility of mutually beneficial results for each party. ... Expanding the pie has a greater probability of creating a long term success and allows both parties to walk away from the bargaining table content. ... The negotiating process can be even more difficult when bargaining with different cultures. ... The failure of the negotiations stems from each culture expecting the other culture to adopt their own style of negotiating. ...

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Often the success of organizations and companies has been attributed to a particular leader or the leadership style in which they operate. ... Clegg's discussion of various theorists and leadership theories included Stogdill, who found leaders more intelligent, dominant, had more self-confidence, and were more active. ... This was different than Fiedler's theory of leadership effectiveness, which concluded that since a leader's personal characteristics were stable, so was their leadership style (Clegg). ... In Leadership: the Key to Quality Outcomes, Barbara Murdoch Perra maint...

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Had he lived just a few years more, these omnipotent cells may have been able to cure his debilitating disease. ... These cells have been utilized to cure patients stricken with severe genetic disorders, and have the potential to cure many more genetic diseases. Hypothetically, stem cells could one day be used to regenerate entire organs, ameliorating the dire transplant system that currently forces people dying of kidney failure or heart disease to wait many months or even years for a transplant that they desperately need. ... Although this system of cellular identification is usually benefic...

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Too many all too human characteristics, however, interfere in this process, which makes success rare. ... An individual's motive to give another person a gift is probably the wish to maintain the relationship, which might be especially beneficial for the giver. ... It implies that people are hurt more by a loss than they are satisfied with a gain. ... It is just the same behaviour pattern as with the value of loss and gain: the negative counts more than the positive. ... The energy enterprise's name has become synonymous with failure, dishonesty, breaching of business ethics, etc....

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Well it means more and more Americans are becoming disenfranchised with the government. ... Moreover, nearly three out of four Americans had the "option of voting Libertarian on November 3 -- far more than for any other 'alternative' party." (18:1) Best-selling author of Why Americans Hate Politics and Washington Post reporter A.J. ... Government, over the span of our sententious history has taken on more and more of one thing: power. ...

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Establishing stronger welfare safety nets and better youth services that can respond more effectively to the needs of young people as they reach fruition have all been a part of the policy and practice developments of the last decade. ... And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... Ben-Shahar (2007) asserts that possessing a tangible career focus is synonymous with having hope and envisioning the achievability of one's personal success stor...

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Establishing stronger welfare safety nets and better youth services that can respond more effectively to the needs of young people as they reach fruition have all been a part of the policy and practice developments of the last decade. ... And understanding how schools and community stakeholders establish meaningful partnerships helps make sense of why it is that some career transition programs are more successful than others. ... Ben-Shahar (2007) asserts that possessing a tangible career focus is synonymous with having hope and envisioning the achievability of one's personal success stor...

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For those strong students that don't hide their sexual orientation they can come together as a group and help to educate the other students to show that they're not any different than any other student in the school. ... Males are more likely than females to experiment with same-sex partners as adolescents, but females are more likely to experiment later, often in college. ... The article's introduction is what really caught my eye "In the United States, race-perhaps more than any other sociocultural factor is the most challenging and complex to understand (Omi & Winant, 1994). ...

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But why was PSY a pariah of the Korean music industry for 11 years, until his unexpected international success in 2012? ... No one was more surprised at its spread worldwide than PSY himself. ... This is accomplished through the commodification of art, where it becomes a product for mass-production rather than a form of expression, rebellion, social critique or the advancement of cultural norms to better suit the majority instead of the elites. Adorno argues that true art is not beholden to the demands of anyone other than the creator. ... In this way, art is now used to entice the masses ...

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Because "all things of men are in motion," the only motion that can be made by a republic is either to rise in prosperity or to fall in failure (D I.6.23). Time spent not pushing the republic toward success as he sees it would be time spent ultimately pushing the republic closer to succumbing to failure. ... It would seem that to Machiavelli, justice is a duty owed to the republic more strongly than a duty owed to another person (D III.36.292). ... The loss of the fear of punishment for ambition and insolence gives "more space for men to corrupt themselves and to behave with gre...

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Dixon argues that The Good Friday Agreement had been achieved in spite of the fact that Northern Ireland appeared to be more divided in 1998 than it had been in 1989 This is true to some sense as the majority of the population was tired of the unceasing violence. ... A Repeal against the Act was carried out by Catholic Nationalists under Daniel OConnell, with little success the Home rule bills were introduced which called for the return of the Irish parliament freeing Ireland from the rule of Britain. ... Despite Catholics being the majority within counties like Tyrone, Protestants still manag...

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From this perspective it becomes clear that although race-based jury nullification has many attractive features, it must be modified to be truly beneficial. ... Additionally, there are seven Black males in prison for every one white male.3 More than half of all black males are under the supervision of the justice system in some way.4 These two factors indicate a very important trend. A high number of black males are in prison, and many more black males are in prison than white males. ... First, in 1984 almost 46% of those arrested for violent crimes were Black, while Blacks constitute only abo...

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Frustrated and bitter from numerous failures in his profession, her father often let out his anger on Emma. ... His harshness only served to make me more contrary... So due to the denial of protection under the law, more and more workers turned to unions and strikes to intersperse their demands. Chicago and New York, especially the lower East Side became centers of the more radical groups, like socialists and anarchists. One reason for the prominence of such groups in these cities was that European immigrants were much more receptive to radical doctrines than native-born workers. ...

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Most organisations which are large offer more than just one product or service for the different types of segments. ... Branded products are said to be more likely to sell more than normal own branded goods. ... The failure rate of new products is remarkably high, despite all of the research and development undertaken. ... Stage 4: Maturity This stage is more of a plateau than a curve. ... It can be introduced in more than just one way. ...

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