Many small businesses, especially in United States, do not offer paid maternity leave benefits mainly because they cannot afford it. ... For instance, if one of the possible candidates for your small business is a male in his 40s and the other is a just married female, which one would you hire? ... If the employer is required to pay for the parental leave, it may represent a threat to the short and long term sustainability of medium and small sized businesses. ... When such mandatory paid leave policies are in place, many small and medium sized businesses hesitate to start hiring, especially f...

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Once again the camera zooms in on the small box, suggesting its importance. ... The scene takes place during the time that the Holocaust was taking place. ... The girl is holding a small white unicorn and she hands it to the boy. ... They have equal importance which is why I chose to place both values on the same second tier. ... He felt responsible for keeping it safe which is demonstrated when he tried to hide the unicorn from the officers by placing it behind his back. ...

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He joined a small group, which called themselves the Nazis. ... They did whatever the man with the blue eyes and small mustache wanted them to do. ... Dresses, suits, jackets, went into one place, shoes in another. ... The camps were not places to live. They were places to die. ...

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The age breakdown looks something like this: 0-14 years: 15.4% 15-64 years: 67.6% 65 years and over: 17% With a 8.99/1000 birthrate and a 10.36/1000 deathrate (Cia.gov, 2002), only the small amount of foreign-born immigrants that come to Germany each year are keeping the population growth rate in the positive. ... A small minority also belongs to other small Christian denominations. There are about 3 million Muslims living in Germany and a small Jewish community of about 100,000. ... They do not like foreigners, and only a very small portion (9%) of their population is foreign born, and ...

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The conditions in Germany at this time existed to enable such a revolution to take place. ... This act became known as the Beer Hall Putsch and took place on November 8th 1923. ... - Throughout the mid 1920s, they were a small but radical party. ...

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Another example of SS humor was the placing of a ceremonial curtain from a synagogue across the door to the gas chambers. ... Although gas was the best method, shootings still took place. ... The SS would kill them with a shot through the base of the skull from their silenced small-bore rifle...

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When Hitler rose to power, he blamed the Jews for the economic inflation that took place following WWI. ... Some of the experiences Wiesel describes include burning pits of babies and adults, babies being tossed up in the air and used as target practice with machine guns, people killing each other over small scraps of food, children being hung, and more (Wiesel). ... The book is a very accurate description of some of the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust. ... For the sake of humanity, we must remember the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust so that we know ultimatel...

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Another example is how the background or set is constructed and appears, which help give a film a definite time and place. ... The size suggest how congested the future will be and how some people could live, work, and die all in the same place without ever leaving. ... Inside of this room we see very bland colors, as well as many small rooms which contain small tables, the only very noticeable piece in the room is the giant chairs that have "Tyrell Corp." printed on them, which show how the companies have ownership over everything. ... This makes it obvious that the light outside is artifi...

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The Cheka enforced the revolution and made sure that no counter- revolutionary action could take place "counter-revolutionaries were "to be shot on the spot . ... A Terror more similar to that of Russia took place in China in 1949 after the Communist victory. " "High on the list of priorities" of the new communist government was the punishment of Tchiang and other war criminals (McAleavy 1972 32)" (O"Kane 1991 196) this is similar to the event in Cuba 1959. However summary executions then took place for people accused of infringing the new law after that executions ...

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Usually, the decision takes place in the executive level, and thereafter, the responsible HR personnel is instructed to either enquire or check the already expressed willingness of their employees for an expatriation. ... Because one of the main reasons for early repatriation is caused by a spouse or other family member's inability to adjust, international corporations as well as smaller firms or institutions often have an extensive company policy and coaching system, so that spouses are also considered at an earlier stage in the decision-making process. ... The expat was employed in the ...

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When the Bauhaus was closed many of the architects that were associated with it left Germany and went to other places where it may be more accepted such as the United States (12). ... The school was small and it was very difficult to get into, only about 1250 attended the school but only about one hundred of them were there at a time. ... The place where it the school originally was had not been cleared yet from military storage. ...

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Being forced to accept the blame for the war as a whole (clause 231 – the War Guilt Clause), which in turn provided a justification for the allied forces to put in place the requirement that £6.6 billion in reparations need to be paid to them as a payment for all war damages. ... The National Socialist party saw themselves gaining support from white-collar middle class, the lower middle class, small merchants, clerks, craftsmen, civil servants, farmers and professionals who were ruined as a result of inflation. ... He was setting up new laws in order to make Germany a more pleasura...

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Although he still did go to places to do some symphonies he did write his last four symphonies in Vienna. At his death from a feverish illness he was buried in Vienna with a small ceremony and an unmarked grave. ... Carl Schurz Carl Schurz was born on March 2, 1869, in a small town called Liblar, on the Rhine River. ...

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This is not much different in the U.S except for one small side note, if you are going to have children in America you need to be married. ... Even in the deep-south places where everything was closed on Sundays has changed to a regular business day. ...

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Finally, Czechoslovakia received the Hultschin district from Germany; and Memel, a small territory in East Prussia along the Baltic Sea, was ultimately given to the Lithuanians.1 In addition to the loss of land, reparations had to be paid to the Allies by Germany. ... The Nazi Party also encouraged smaller political parties to join them in order to make it the most popular party. ... One way the United States tried to stay neutral was by examining how they got into World War I in the first place, they did...

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The symbolism of colors relates the novel to our society as our world is a colourful place, and by reinforcing the symbol throughout the novel Zusak has continually expressed humanity on a colour spectrum of life and death and how that is relative to mortality. ... The reader can relate to this hope in an inanimate object because as humans we often place importance and meaning into an object, creating our own symbols just as characters such as Max and Hans do with the accordion. ... Death states about Liesel "One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. ...

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It is difficult to act ethically in an unethical environment, and this goes as well for environments that simply place private interests above the public interest. ... Even community leaders who seek to save those who depend on their leadership are put in the position of putting their personal interest, or at least the interest of their family or small community, ahead of the public interest. ... If more people simply just stand up and fight for a wrong doing, or if someone would stand up for the wife being beaten, the world would be a better place. ...

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The Butcher's Tale - Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town by Helmut Walser Smith tells the story of anti-Semitism in the small eastern German town of Konitz in 1900. ... An actual riot took place where the mayor had to call in the Army. ... The Jewish question was "What is the proper place for Jews in the German society?...

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During the time the Holocaust took place there were bystanders and those who rescued. ... It took place from 1933 to 1945. ... In total their number is statistically small, rescuers were all colossal people. ...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20,1889. This was the beginning with horrible plans for power and control of other people. Some of the things that Hitler did throughout his life were very cruel things; first of all, he was a man who loved war and fighting. Second, he was in ...

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After unification in 1871, German nationalism developed a chauvinistic character with the emergence of groups such as the Pan-German league, which campaigned for closer ties with German speaking Austria and for a German empire, Germany's "place in the sun." ... This is why nationalism is only aggressive and expansionist to an small extent....

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Adolph Hitler had many ideas of democracy and overall politics. His philosophy is widely studied. He was a very intelligent and bright man. His concept of race, culture, and war are very interesting. He defends his ideas very strongly. Hitler did not agree with democracy and how it worked. Hitle...

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sole heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, may have lit the fuse of The Great War, but the domino effect that would follow had been in place for some time prior. ... Moreover, each of these countries also maintained commitments to smaller, weaker neighbors throughout Europe. ...

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In order to be able to place the three countries on the comparative democratization scale accordingly, the expectations of democratization have to be established. ... Turning our focus to the Czech Republic, a lot of evidence is pointing towards a trend of weakened governmental accountability in the last years as some major corruption scandals took place in 2013. ...

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As Hitler and the Nazi's power rose in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after World War I, we begin to see how this happened and compare it to the concepts of Democracy which we live by today. We can explore how Democracy had failed in Nazi, Germany and relate it to the events, which surround...

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