After the child was born, it was placed for adoption by the mother without the applicant's knowledge or consent. The relevant provision of the Adoption Act 1952 permitted the adoption of a child born outside marriage without the consent of a natural father. The applicant applied to the Circuit Court, under the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964, to be appointed as the child's guardian, which would have enabled him to challenge the proposed adoption. ... An adoption order was made. ... The fact that Irish law permitted the secret placement of the child for adoption without the appli...

• Word Count: 1937
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The book also cites that adoption agencies are now discouraging single parents to adopt children, leaning more and more towards the traditional, nuclear family. Our textbook represents a wide variety of different assumptions on the qualities of a family. ... The book also cites that adoption agencies are now discouraging single parents to adopt children, leaning more and more towards the traditional, nuclear family. Our textbook represents a wide variety of different assumptions on the qualities of a family. ...

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Since they lived in open bush and wide savannahs, they mainly were gathers, scavengers, and small game hunters. ... Discuss the effects of settled living and the adoption of plan cultivation and animal husbandry among populations who were formerly nomadic hunter-gathers. ... Such a transition means depending more on plant cultivation (agriculture), and animal husbandry (pastoralism), which is a very significant thing since depending more on agriculture and pastoralism than on any other source of alimentation contributed the adoption of many changes in their regular lives. ... What might hav...

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Economic models show that biofuel use can result in higher crop prices, though the range of estimates in the literature is wide. ... The cap should limit emissions economy wide, covering electric power generation, natural gas, transportation, and large manufacturers. ... A stronger carbon price will kick start more growth in clean, renewable energy and will encourage adoption of greener practices. ...

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What may be said to be new is the thriving methodological innovation, the wide practical application and the apparently increasing interest in, and commitment to, public participation on the part of official and scientific communities. ... In the USA, the Jefferson Center has designed a wide range of processes (citizen juries, feedback panels, public participation workshops) that bring lay citizens into decision-making processes. (Chopyak, J. and Levesque, P., 2002) All these efforts have been supported by numerous formal principles, declarations, and conventions: Emerging from the Earth Su...

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Families over the last 50 years Increase in teen pregnancy Wider acceptance of non-traditional families: gay and lesbian headed families More single-mothers on welfare More divorce Economy has catalyzed enormous changes in family structure, from two -working parents to absentee parents; economy has a serious effect on family. ... Even for the stereotypical ideal of family this definition is idealistic family, a primary group of people-usually related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption who form a cooperative economic unit to care for any offspring (and each other) and who are committe...

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VALUES Talcott Parsons of the functionalist school of thought says that, "values provide a general conception of what is desirable and worthwhile, that they are fundamental standards of a given society and that they have a wide influence on social conduct and organization. ... Corporate citizenship (adoption of schools namely Winward Road Junior High) Sponsorships of events (Jamaica Carnival, Religious Concerts) Meal service Red carpet treatment Safety and reliability Recognition of all its passengers (Frequent Flyers, ICI's, Farmworkers etc.) ...

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In doing so they argue that the psychological basis of political conservatism can be explained by linking psychosocial motivational needs and their cognitive constructs to the adoption of politically conservative attitudes. ... In order to better understand how psychosocial needs and motivations shape cognitive constructs that lead to the adoption of a certain political ideology, it is important to first dissect the anatomy of conservative political ideology into its requisite parts and see how specific social, cognitive, and motivational needs foster an allegiance to it. ... In their compre...

• Word Count: 1764
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• Grade Level: Graduate

The Internet provides three major services to its users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). ... Usenet News is the discussion forum of the Internet, consisting of around ten thousand different 'Newsgroups' dedicated to topics ranging from Adoption to Zoophilia, with circulation in the late 1980s was estimated at 22,000,000 people worldwide. ... The World Wide Web is the resource most people refer to as "The Internet". ... With around 31.4 million readers and 1.6 million sites in January 1997, the World Wide Web is easily the largest worldwide mass communications medium...

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"It was another commodity that revolutionized the New England fur trade: wampumpeag, the strings of white and purple beads we know today as wampum" "To Europeans wampum was ideally suited to become the medium for a wider, more commercial exchange. The Indian adoption of European metal drills increased their production of wampum, making it more widely available for trade" (Cronon 95). ...

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It is vital to appreciate the culture of your organization and what drives people's behaviors before trying to implement any type of enterprise-wide change. ... This will result in slow adoption of knowledge-sharing behaviors since people don't know where to go or how to connect. ...

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Certain situations in today's society require the adoption of some rules outlined in the respectability politics (dealing with police), and failure to do so can result in even death. ... By using a wide assortment of effective rhetorical tools, Kennedy persuades readers of the power of the respectability politics. ...

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This improvement in productivity can be attributed to the adoption of more flexible labour market practices including enterprise bargaining; the range of microeconomic reform measures introduced to make markets more competitive and the increasing absorption of new technologies which has led to capital deepening in the labour force. ... The types of economy wide or macroeconomic gains include lower inflation through a system of more competitive domestic market and lower unemployment through reforms in the labour market. ...

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In state after state, progressives advocated a wide range of political, economic, and social reforms. They urged adoption of the secret ballot, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, and the direct election of senators. ...

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Its popularity is due to many factors, including its ability to run a wide variety of machines, from micros to supercomputers, and its portability -- all of which led to its adoption by many manufacturers. ...

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Cultural evolution, has been progressing rapidly, and has brought man to many major turning points in civilization, such as "the adoption of upright posture, early man's first use of tools, the development of language, culture as an adaptive strategy, food sharing, food production, social stratification, urbanization, state organization, and now industrialization. ... (Bodley p. 2) Bodley writes that man has culturally evolved in a wide variety of ways, however that evolution is a dangerous one. ...

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War can be seen as both a scourge of mankind and a central institution of global politics. Despite the terrible suffering and loss of life which wars cause they also can be seen as performing important functions for the ordering and maintenance of international society. War has been used to maintai...

• Word Count: 1946
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"Just seven years after the adoption of the first amendment, congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798. ... Although the auditorium had been rented for a wide variety of expressive activities prior to Southeastern's application, Chattanooga city officials refused Southeastern's request, citing Hair's nudity, tacit approval or drug use, sexual themes, and bad language. ...

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To Clone or Not to Clone "On a soft summer night July 5th, 1966, at 5 p.m., the most famous lamb in history entered the world. (Kolata, pg 1) "Many people wonder if this is a miracle for which we can thank God, or an ominous new way to play God ourselves."" (Duff, pg1) Now the question is do we clon...

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Executive Summary Budweiser is one of the world's most recognizable brands and is considered a staple of American spirit and holidays past times.  However, the King of Beers has recently experienced a steady and drastic decline in market share, and needs to address many issues in order to stem the...

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In summary, the development of Barrow Island would provide wide ranging, long term conservation benefits to the community, contribute to world class conservation programs while Australia would benefit from a new major competitive and more secure gas supply for the next phase of energy- intensive industry development and power generation, making Barrow Island the only acceptable location where the development can be commercially competitive. ...

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Introduction Tropical rainforests are part of the Earth's oldest and most extensive terrestrial ecosystems. They are the predominant natural vegetation in countries that are situated near the equator, where the weather is often hot and humid and rainfalls are high all year round. The ample sunlight together with the consistent warm, wet weather give plant life a conducive environment to thrive. A tropical rainforest can be characterized by its evergreen layered or stratified vegetation structure, high biodiversity with a high and usually closed canopy 30-50m above ground level and it ...

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In understanding what corporate governance is about, it would be beneficial to look into the past to observe the introduction and development and of corporate governance practices. It could be said that the practice of some form of corporate governance has been in existence from the on-set of the industrial revolution when companies were established for the production of goods. This was the age of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" which touched briefly on the social responsibility of the corporation in the eighteen century. However, it was only until the 1990's that the issues of cor...

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The direct to consumer functionality of American Well's platform permits a much wider target of customers to use their product and provides a greater opportunity at market capture.... " Barriers to Adoption "When American Well introduced its core service, it also introduced the concept of patient-doctor interaction online. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate