The rate of diseases that people contract are higher in Africa then Canada as well. ... The organization for Economic Cooperation and Development had opened a door to a united free world to assist the economical and social development of the less developed area, the third world. ... For widespread poverty and chaos lead to collapse of political and social structures and could eventually lead the advance of chaos into weak and unstable areas. ... The main objective of foreign assistance, as of many other tools of foreign policy is to produce a political and economic environment in which Canada ...

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The practice of outsourcing, for the purposes of this paper, can be defined as when a company contracts out a business function to a third party located in another country, usually in the developing world. ... Outsourcing companies may be given access to a wide range of confidential company information and employee/customer personal information, such as financial data, medical data, payroll and benefits information, social security numbers and purchasing histories. ... They are based on personal opinion (patriotism), and case studies of poor contract management. ... In regards to poor managem...

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In other words, those being tortured are not unaware of the potential to be tortured, yet had still agreed to those unwritten contracts of nature when engaging in whatever activity had them detained. ... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's governments need to consider, because they have signed a social contract with their respective citizenry, a contract which stipulated that those citizens will support the state and occasionally give their lives for the state if and only if the states does everything in its power to protect them. ...

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In other words, those being tortured are not unaware of the potential to be tortured, yet had still agreed to those unwritten contracts of nature when engaging in whatever activity had them detained. ... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's governments need to consider, because they have signed a social contract with their respective citizenry, a contract which stipulated that those citizens will support the state and occasionally give their lives for the state if and only if the states does everything in its power to protect them. ...

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I believe that affirmative action is necessary when a qualified person loses an opportunity to advance socially, politically or economically due to race, gender, or socioeconomic status. ... In this case a black woman was renewed her teaching contract while a white teacher was not. ... If the white teacher had her contract renewed would it be fair to say that it was because she was white? ... The review found that the programs have been successful in meeting the government's goal of increasing the percentage of minorities and women receiving federal contracts., (Washington Post 7/95, A...

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Specifically, AA is a series of social policies and statutes that regulate activities and laws with the primary intent to achieve equity and increase opportunity for all. ... As a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act, Johnson issued EO 11246, which required expansion of job opportunities for minorities in government contracting firms. This order also established the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC) a division of the Department of labor, which was chartered to administer the order. ... Also in 1971, Nixon, under EO 11625 direct federal agencies to develop comprehensive plans and progra...

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Both in sexual behavior and in all other areas of behavior, teenagers strive to attain social acceptance by their peers, which is common at the stage in which teenagers are. ... This motivation for acceptance within a social group can be a very strong driving force that pushes teenagers to start having sex as the notion of "since everyone is doing it" has been instilled in their heads. ... Teenagers have higher rates of contracting gonorrhea than do sexually active adult men and women. ... Currently, an estimated 15% of adolescents have contracted an STD. Such rates are likely underestimated, ...

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However, in 399 BCE, Socrates argued that civil disobedience is never appropriate, and was so convinced that his philosophy, or social contract theory, was completely justified that he chose a to die rather than to live in order to become an example for others who would be faced with the same situation. ... Socrates states that after establishing his own implicit contract with the government he believes in the validity of the decision made by the courts. ... In analyzing the differences between civil disobedience and lawbreaking preparing ourselves perhaps for a day when we are called upon in...

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John Locke's "Second Treatise- and his idea of the "social contract- was a major influence upon the construction of the constitution. ... The framers applied Locke's social contract, which guaranteed a human's inalienable rights to formation of the constitution. ...

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After gaining independence, our founding fathers created an extremely unique, and revolutionary government in order to set up a social contract between America and its people. ... The anti-federalists flat out did not want anything to do with this new social contract that the founding fathers were drafting up because they felt it gave up all individual rights of citizens, so they compromised with the federalists in order to form the current Bill of Rights. ...

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Another inconvenient truth is the social structure that allows people to purchase and own firearms. ... Not much has been done to resolve this social problem. ... I believe allowing these will open doors to more complex social problems. ... Last week, Kobe Bryant signed a contract with the major league basketball team Lakers based in L.A. His contracted amount is at 4.5 million over the next 2 years. ...

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As she matures, the brokenhearted child Martha transforms into a promiscuous man-hating In social situations, she regards men with a rebuking sarcasm, as seen in her claim that men put women on a pedestal "in order to look up [their] skirts- (48). ... Contracts bind the actors to PitCo, and Martha enforces every rule contained therein. ... Martha even tells off the King when he has issues with the clause of his contract concerning his conduct towards women, because he is "King- only by "contract and permission- (193). ...

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Also, a study sponsored by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs showed that from 1974-80, federal contractors who adopted affirmative action goals "added female officials and managers at twice the rate of non-contractors. ... International studies have shown that "a group's low ethnic status or position in a social structure" directly correlates to a group's significantly lower performance on standardized tests. ... These studies suggest that standardized test scores are unintentionally biased against Americans who suffer a lower position in the U.S. soci...

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For the Native Americans to break free of their nomadic ways they needed to cultivate a stable food source. With hunger and sickness nipping at their feet, brought on by the lifestyle they were living, they needed to do so quickly. The Native Americans were putting themselves in great risk if they w...

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" A lagging economy has local government and private prisons in rural areas vying for a contract to house immigrant detainees (Barry 28). ... " These private contract prisons are not regulated by prison rules so adding women and children make abuse likely. ... He told them he was a citizen and presented his state identification care, his social security card, and his birth certificate from a Houston hospital. ...

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Divorce in Muslim American Marriages Divorce is permitted under Islam but there are strong social and religious prescriptions against it. ... A woman may seek a divorce from her husband based on his abrogation of the marital contract. The Islamic marriage contract is equivalent to a prenuptial agreement and can be adjudicated in a court of law. ...

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The aims of the Knights of Labor included the following: An eight-hour work day, termination of child labor, and termination of the convict contract labor system. ... In state after state, progressives advocated a wide range of political, economic, and social reforms. ... Although Roosevelt supported the progressive drive for regulation of corporations and for social welfare legislation, Congress remained adamantly against it. ... Most of the social welfare measures advocated by progressives had to wait the New Deal years for passage. ... The Populists engaged in a social analysis of contempo...

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Hobbes and Locke provide the answers to this question in the form of a social contract. ... The constitution owes its legitimacy to the Declaration of Independence, which all but quotes Locke's views of the social contract. ...

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The rule was of having social conservatism with a strong belief in economic development. ... The third belief was organization and effeiciency, social order was a mean of using intelligents as a guide for social and economic gain. ... This law was carried on by a new contract that solidfied its meaning of not allowing Chinese immigrants of being citizens. ... The Populist Party was the result of a movement that begun with the Granger movement, which was, in fact, a social movement. ... Both the Grange and the Alliance endorsed social and educa...

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In the U.S. political liberalism has been a strategy to prevent social conflict. ... Hirschman a influential economist states, "the discipline became professionally narrower at precisely the moment when the problem of development demanded broader, more political, and social insights. ... The fact that it overlooks anything that isn't related to economics and people are reduced to isolated creatures of the marketplace, devoid of history, cultural traditions, political opinions and social relationships beyond simple market exchanges. "The creation of this neoliberal system entailed much des...

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The country is now the world's largest laboratory for economic, social and political experimentation. ... The Chinese place high value on etiquette and insist on proper manners in social gatherings. ... So, when traveling to China brush up on social gathering etiquette and informal also, and attempt to be able to divide the two. ... Think about it in this aspect, I have been assigned to travel to China next week and do a contract for an ongoing merger ...

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Furthermore, James Piazza mentions how globalization has undermined the political left in the countries of the developed world when he states "the social democratic and socialist parties in the West have become increasingly conservative in economic issue areas such as the regulation of workplace practices, redistributive taxation, and expansion or maintenance of the welfare state". Moreover, as Herbert Kitschelt contends, "the changes that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s in the social, economic and cultural structures of the advanced capitalist countries demanded that the social...

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Steps had now been taken to ensure legal equality, but equal opportunity and true social equality were only theories and not facts. ... As president, he drastically cut the budgets of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ...

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Adoption has a significant legal, emotional, psychological and social consequences for everyone involved. ... Public child welfare agencies oversee such adoptions, although they may contract with private adoption agencies to perform some adoption functions (Adoption USA). ... The reasoning of this is due to the fact that the goal of any state social services department is to bring back birth parents and reunify a child with his or her biological parents (American Adoptions). ...

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However, the 1950's were also an era of great conflict, as people realized that the freedom that they so painstakingly fought for has only been attained by a privileged few, that freedom was nothing but a speech made by masters who broke off their chains but not the ridicule and shame that comes with it; that even with them freed from their contracts, they are as bound to it, still, as though they have never been freed from the first place. ... Society has branded them as the inferior race for quite a long time, marked them with social disgrace and humility for scores of years, that even...

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