(Adam, 1995: 69) The Kinsey Reports (two books on human sexual behavior) reported that homosexual acts were pretty common in the 40's and 50's, which is what shed light on LGBT principles and created public awareness. ... A history of previous activism in the 1960's had radicalized the activists enough that they were ready to apply their experience to the ideology of LGBT liberation. ... Lucy Grealy writes, "sexuality is not a right which is earned or a possession that must be purchased, but a state of being accessible to all individuals. ... (Siebers, 2008: 37) If sexuality i...

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The prison now came to symbolise and monopolise all forms of punishment. ... It wasn't until the 1960's however that the transformations that took place at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries seriously became under attack (Cohen 1985, p.30). ... Advocates of decarceration denounce that most offenders can be safely controlled in the community and that this helps them acquire self-discipline and self-reliance that they lose by being in prison (Vass 1979, p.39). ... Community is desirable so should be used as a sanction for most offences (Vass 19...

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As it is proclaimed in the article 39 of the Constitution; it says that the national sovereignty it belongs to the people and that all public power comes from the people with the purpose that will benefit the people of Mexico. ... Mexico has been always characterized by being a democracy in the past years, but if we take a deeper look in it we can found that at its finest it is not completely a democracy at all. ... In the case of Mexico, when PRI was in power around the 1970's they kept in mind that it was strictly necessarily to give to every citizen the basic needs they could demand li...

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(Carroll p.39) These areas of responsibility are the minimum requirements for firms that assume responsibility. ... (Carroll p.39) If all four of these areas are accounted for in a firm, then that organization has total corporate social responsibility. ... (Carroll p.35) Now it is not just the shareholders of a firm that has the final say in a decision, but it's the stakeholders as well. ... It has however demonstrated its strength in the past with the Johnson & Johnson Tylenol epidemic of the 1980's. ... (www.chiquita.com) In the end, all the stakeholders ended up with a fair and ...

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Imagine living in a town of thirteen thousand people and being a part of an event so historic and so dangerous from the 1980's that is still being felt until today, that displaced more than one hundred and fifteen thousand people were displaced from their homes and never allowed back to the places that they've could have lived in for multiple generations. Well, that's what the people of Chernobyl, part of the old Soviet Union that is now known as Ukraine, and other surrounding areas had to go through as a result of a terrible nuclear explosion in April of 1986. ... All of the ca...

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In the 1940's Berger began painting and later taught art classes, eventually publishing numerous essays critiquing various works and espousing his personal beliefs about how artwork should be viewed (John Berger Biography 1). All of this art education gave him a unique perspective on the elitism present in his field, leading to the focus of later works. ... Berger's belief that the cultural elite are attempting to maintain the preserve erected to justify the upper class of the past is well founded in this instance. ... For example, the bird pies shown would need an oven to cook them,...

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Affirmative action was ended by the foe of affirmative action, Ward Connerly. ... The current census for all UC "s shows a drastic decline since proposition 209 went into effect. ... Women as well as minorities were affected by this proposition. ... Educational attainment translates into increase employment opportunities, women were not being well represented. ... However that has all dropped since 1997. ...

• Word Count: 1910
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Schrader points out the major influences that noir has had on cinema, as well as on his own work (Schrader, 36). ... In his move to kill Palantine, Travis tries to erase everything Palantine stands for, all that the American way represents. ... While some critics contend that in response to all these scenes "our nerves our meant to jangle in response to the recreation on screen of the urban angst we are assumed to know so well (Phillips, 512), it seems to me that Scorsese is trying to convince us this view of the city is real. ... Oblique and vertical lines, are able to disorientate the view...

• Word Count: 1980
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More recently when asked to select a single nationality in an opinion poll, 39% of Scottish people who had said they were British in 1970, had fallen to 23% in 2013. ... , 2014) Conceivably it all started as far back as 1977 when Tam Dalyell posed the "West Lothian question" and suggested that English MPs should vote on English matters that only affect England. ... It would appear that even to this day this question has not been answered and David Cameron in the 2014 referendum demanded that there should indeed be change throughout the United Kingdom "We have heard the voice of S...

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However, it was also the over-managed organization of the company itself that contributed to this degenerating stage and that therefore drove the restructuring process. ... Finally the conclusion will be drawn that both internal and external factors play a central role in a company's restructuring process. ... As figure 1 shows, the predominant version argues that throughout time all new products follow a S-shaped curve and they pass through four stages of sales growth. ... Table 1: Komatsu and Caterpillar's stock turns from 1980 to 1995 Source: Caterpillar and Komatsu Reports and Ac...

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The fight between the environment and big business has been raging since Roosevelt's presidency in the 1900's. ... In the end government controlling big business will have ultimate control. ... Currently all the funds in an oil disaster go straight to stop-loss and direct cleanup. ... Sitting in between every continent the finger is pointed at all. The general theme of this problem is "lay it off and let the next generation figure it out" well they have. ...

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