Robert Edelmann said, "Frustration with IT should be taken seriously as a modern malaise it is affecting both our work and our home lives to the extent that computer rage is now much more prolific than road rage- (CXO Media Inc. 2000). ... Train operators such as GNER have recognised this new phenomenon and created a "Quiet Coach- which is essentially a mobile phone free zone. ... Failing technology, such as dropping calls, poor reception, is a cause of stress, particularly for business people. ... A side effect of this problem is the requirement for both partners to work to afford a basic ...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. ... It is estimated that between 25 and 30 million people, were taken from their homes and sold into a life of slavery. ... Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had don...

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The rise of recorded music together with more stringent copyright protection laws facilitated the development of the music business in capitalist society and more specifically the centralization of the American music publishing business and songwriters in an area of New York known as Tin Pan Alley in the late-nineteenth century. ... The organization of the popular music business entails a number of major and independent labels. ... Richard Peterson (1976) proposes a production of culture perspective in his analysis of the development and organization of the music business during the postwar pe...

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This can be difficult because man is born free, but everywhere in chains' (- Jean-Jaques Rousseau). ... Liberalism believes that each person should be free to act as they wish, it also believes that each individual deserves respect no matter of race, religion, sexual preference, or social status. ... Women couldn't posses land, clothing, run a business, sign documents, even the children were the property of the husband. ... Girls were educated in a variety of informal ways from factory schools for factory workers to home teaching from parents to fee-paying schools run by older wo...

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However, educators, government, and businesses are making it more difficult for non-qualified people to get jobs despite evidence that alternatives to qualifications not only work, but are more cost-effective than additional years spent in further education. ...

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Other important characters include Getafix, the all-knowing druid who is the sole person on earth who can make the magic potion; Cacofonix, the tone deaf bard; Vitalstatistix, the village chieftain; and Dogmatix, Obelix's dog who follows Asterix and Obelix wherever they go. 2.4 The Plot As we have seen the basis for the plot is that Asterix and Obelix live in the last remaining free village in Gaul. ...

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