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- 6351: The Currency Crisis In Thailand And Its Effects
- ... Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's top economic advisor, Daim Zainuddin, to order banks not to deny loans to profitable companies that need financial help. Indonesia August 1997 Private company debt turned out to be extremely high as firms failed to repay their dollar debts, banks faced a cash crisis. This led to a credit crunch, which then crippled the economy. The banks had to reschedule their debts. As the economy slumped ... economy has created a crisis of confidence not only for national investors but those throughout the region. South Korea experienced the effects of the currency crisis when private company debt turned out to be extremely high. As firms failed to repay their dollars debts, banks faced a currency crisis. South Korea announced emergency measures to try to prevent bad debts from overwhelming the banking system. November of 1997 was the collapse ...
- 6352: Gangs
- ... or her throat. There's others that involve rituals and sacrifices. Teenage gang members are linked to conventional barrio life is obvious. In fact, much of the members' time is spent with the "family", at school, under the eyes of neighbors who are decidedly "square," and, sometimes, with conventional friends or dates. This linkage is usually overlooked in researchers' preoccupation with the life of the gang during the hours that it ... slang term, originally coined by gangs, specifies a youth who isn't in a gang, but who likes to "hang around" gang members wherever they meet and go. Shopping malls, homes, parties, locations near a school, music shops, etc. are typical locales for "hanging." "Hanging out" can act as a magnet for gang (sometimes called "peewees") or at-risk youths who are new to a neighborhood. "Tagging" is one form of ...
- 6353: Differences Between Bureaucrat
- ... examination system. Positions in government were filled through the examination system, and people who passed were called the literati. When one held this title of literati, you were considered intelligent and were considered to have high status (TA session, Oct. 28, 97). "They were a group of smart guys with a good education." (Steve, TA session, Oct. 28, 97). This of course deprived the hereditary aristocracy of power 'they had enjoyed ... we come to Heian Japan (794-1156), and aristocratic society, and radically different from that of the bureaucratic society of the Tang in China. An aristocrat can be defined by the following: someone who has high status in power due to their family background: independent of government and emperor because of their independent power base in form of land holdings and their inheritance. The aristocracy, not the imperial power, dominated the ...
- 6354: All The Presidents Men
- ... break in had occurred late the previous night. The authorities had arrested five, of the five in custody, four of them were Cuban-American Miami citizens. They were found to be in the possession of high-tech surveillance and communication devices, along with hundreds of dollars, mostly in $100 bills, in sequential order. They also discovered address books, one of which included a telephone number for Howard E. Hunt, a member ... times today, you see journalists that obviously are motivated by fame, wealth, or politics. Many people would have written those articles simply to go down in the history books or in order to bring down high up officials for personal gain, but this aspect was not present in the book. Although you have to take into the consideration that Woodward and Bernstein wrote it themselves, it still seems to hold true ...
- 6355: Bless Me Ultima
- ... Red, Father Byrnes, Cico, Florence, Gabriel, Lupito, Narcisco, Ms Maestas, Samuel. The vitamin kid is one of Antonios friends and is the fastest runner in Guadalupe and constantly races Antonio across the bridge to school every morning. Red is a friend of Antonio and receives criticism from the other boys because he is a protestant. Father Byrnes is a priest and gives catechism lessons to Antonio and his friends. He ... a pagan god it opens up a window as to what the history of the people was and leads him into questioning ideology. The bridge is symbolic because Antonio always crossed it to go to school it represents him growing up and crossing different paths and phases in his life. 9) The protagonist character Antonio tells the point of view. He is telling the story as it happened to him. The ...
- 6356: Being Young
- ... to buy these clothes? Will he or she be excluded from the gang? Some schools in various countries have tried to solve this problem. They have introduced a rule that allows pupils to go at school only if they are dressed in a specific school-uniform. But many students don't like these uniforms. They want to decide for themselves how to dress. During the last years it has become more usual for parents to divorce. Some people think that ...
- 6357: Racism
- ... who are discriminated against in understanding that they are not what person's say they are. From birth to about age twelve, children collect information about their world. They learn from many ways including their school, family, neighbours, friends, and the community. They also get information from books, movies, television, and other media. From this information they gain beliefs, attitudes, and opinions. (An opinion is a belief that is stronger than ... particular ethnic group is likely to get these results in a confrontation: pain, anger, shame, hostility, guilt and embarrassment. Students admitted that they had used racial slurs when angered. I have noticed in our own school, that the students tell racial jokes and used ethnic names but they say that they don't mean what they say it's just for humour's sake. Race hatred often leads to violence. People ...
- 6358: Implementing Employee Assistance Programs
- ... professional human services and personnel people, on either a contractual or employment basis, to meet the needs of troubled employees" (4). EAPs are needed so that the work environment is safe and productivity is as high as possible. This benefits the employees as well as the employers. The process of creating and implementing EAPs will be discussed. It is important to define who the troubled employee is, how the EAPs are ... money. If Sharon is having problems with child care or home responsibilities, her work performance may be significantly affected. Studies show that this type of stress on a woman in the workforce contribute to the high rate of alcoholism among working women (Myers 7). It is suspected that this stress contributes to higher rates of drug use as well. Also on the list of troubles are gambling, legal problems, violence and ...
- 6359: Canadas Shame
- ... that other products can be used in place of sealskins and pelts but still the slaughter continues. There is also the claim that seals are contributing to the depletion of the cod stock due to high fish consumption. The validity of the above accusation is easily measured. With the collapse of the Canadian cod stock, it would be natural to expect the seal population to plummet, if in fact they were ... because under Canadian law, these mammals are legally considered to be fish! Perhaps that is why our government thinks so little about slaughtering these animals. Perhaps that is why the quotas have been set so high and why both the Government of Canada and the Government of Newfoundland are now providing subsidies to entice more fishermen and sport hunters to kill seals. The Government of Canada is gambling that the public ...
- 6360: John A. MacDonald
- John A. MacDonald John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada in the years 1820 with his parents when he was five years old. He was educated at Midland District Grammar School and John Cruickshank School in Kingston, Ontario. John A. McDonald was married in 1843 to Isabelle Clark and had two sons but one died when he was a small baby. His first wife died in 1856 and he remarried ...
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