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- 5071: Why Did the Polls Get it Wrong in 1992?
- ... close to the real result. But they adjusted the figures as they were suspicious of the results being so far out of line with the mornings polls. The polls were not up to their normally high closeness to the actual results for one, or both, of two very broad reasons. Firstly there must have been a late swing of undecided voters to Conservative, or secondly, that the polls that were carried ... been correct at the time. But this, in itself, could not possibly have accounted for the incorrectness of the polls. The swing would have had to be in the order of 4%, which is unbelievably high. Although there were an exceptional number of 'undecideds' on the eve of the election, and it was evident from the post election recall surveys that there was a late swing towards the Tories (Crewe, 1992 ...
- 5072: Apartheid In South Africa
- ... times as much as the average black man. Coloureds earn three times as much as black while colords earn well over half of what whites earn. During Apartheid, media censorship was at an all time high. People were even banned from showing Soweto on television. It was common to see a newspaper shut down, and then start again after being halted by the government. Up until 1985, mixed marriages were banned ... the ANC with Youth League with Tambo and Walter Sisulu and eventually became National President. In 1952, he was arrested for the Defiance campaign, which blatantly broke Apartheid laws. In 1956, Mandella was charged with High Treason. He was aquitted four and a half years later. After the Sharpeville massaacre, Mandella helped form the military wing of the ANC. He went into hiding and travelled abroad before being again arrested, this ...
- 5073: The Employment Equity Act: A Short Paper Evaluating The Success of the Act.
- ... not readily available, however it has been suggested that whatever the figure was, between "1984 and 1986 their participation in the labour force had increase by 11%." Although members of visible minority groups have relatively high levels of education and relatively high participation rates, they are generally concentrated in particular occupational groups The Abella Commission found that the essence of the problem with respect to why women and the other designated groups were not reaping the full ...
- 5074: Analysis Of To An Athlete Dyin
- To An Athlete Dying Young The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows ...
- 5075: Welfare
- ... governments. During these years, states enacted programs to aid dependent children and the elderly. The criticisms of welfare ranges over a number of social and economic issues. Some people criticize welfare programs for not providing high enough benefits to eliminate poverty. Spending on welfare would have to increase greatly to eliminate poverty, and many people believe the cost is already too high. Many critics of the welfare system charge that providing a steady income to needy people encourages idleness. Actually, most welfare benefits go to elderly, blind, and disabled people and mothers with young children. But welfare ...
- 5076: ESP
- ... by feeling it. Everyone has hear of stories in witch, for example, a woman is at work and she senses an eerie feeling about her child. Moments later the telephone rings and it is the school nurse calling to inform her that her child has broken his arm. There probably have been previous times when the woman has this notion before, and there is no telephone call, but we should not ... proved that some people can predict the future through precognition, what happens to our ideas about the passage of time and the speed of light in astronomy? Perhaps everyone of us will have to start school all over again. I believe that this alESP one is frightening enough for any scientist to dismiss ESP.
- 5077: The Bush Administration's Relation With Iraq Prior to Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait: Credibility and Misperception
- ... and they desisted. The [forced?] resignation and the testimony to Congress of former Undersecretary of Commerce for Export Administration Dennis Kloske revealed that in April 1990 he recommended "at the highest levels" the reduction of high tech sales to Iraq. He himself sought to delay these exports by tying them up in red tape to compensate for the lack of such action by the Bush administration. Still during the last week ... strongly committed to supporting the individuals and collective self-defense of our friends in the gulf with whom we have a deep and long standing ties."12 This combination of mixed signals sourced in two high level American official surely did nothing to warn Hussein of imminent military response should Kuwait be attacked. The Administration took a quiet stance with respect to Ambassador Glaspie's performance in her role following the ...
- 5078: Michelangelo
- ... grief, Mary is restrained, and her expression is one of resignation. In this work, Michelangelo summarizes the sculptural innovations of his 15th-century predecessors such as Donatello, while ushering in the new monumentality of the High Renaissance style of the 16th century. Michelangelo was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi. I did not see Strazzi as complementing him. Michelangelo responds in a pessimistic tone to what should have been a complement ... Sebastiano del Piombo and Titian. In conclusion, Michelangelo (1475-1564), was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork ...
- 5079: The Quest Of A Hemingway Hero
- ... have been a free man. It is clear that Fredrick has no personal code of ethics. He is simply following through on what he is expected to do. To follow the rules and obey the high ranking officers. Later on in the story Fredrick is having dinner with the mechanics.Then all of a sudden a bomb shell explodes within yards away. The shards take out Fredrick s legs and he ... lucky. Throughout the novel an actual war scene does not come into play until book 3, when the Italian army makes its first move. Ironically the first move was a retreat. The first thing the high-ranking officers do is desert their troops so they can get to a safe distance. When Fredrick asks if he is to evacuate the patients, he is told to get the equipment first. Then if ...
- 5080: Chinese Immigration into America
- ... by many countries. Chinese came to America for a myriad of reasons. The main reason was because of the myth of the Gam Saan ("Golden Mountain.") Other reasons were due to overpopulation, poverty, hunger, flooding, high taxes, bad economy, collapsing government, and crop failure. (Takaki, page 38) James Marshall discovery of gold in California in 1848 prompted many Chinese to take a sojourn into America to get rich quick. A young ... were held in virtual slavery. They were ensnared by brokers into this system by debts, clan war prisoners, or kidnapping. (Melendy, page 13) Like the African slave trade, this method flourished over Asia and had high mortality rates due to cramped quarters and malnourishment. It was referred to as the "buying and selling of pigs." (Melendy, page 13) Hawaii made use of this practice in order to fulfill the great demand ...
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