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- 631: Women In The Labour Force December 17, 1992
- ... them with excellent benefits. In Japan there is a drop in female economic activity, the reason why is it affects their marriage and the care of their only child. An observation of labour force participation rates in Canada show that female rates rose a lot between 1971 and 1981, while the male rate rose unnoticeably. The increase in the female participation rate was found in all age groups except in older women. For women aged 15 to ... rate was as almost as high as the men. But the largest increase was in the age group of 25- 44 years old, where the rate rose almost 50 percent. This meant that the participation rates of the females had become more alike with the men. Family status also influenced the female participation rate but later on during 1981 it had a more less affect than in 1971. According to ...
- 632: Geothermal Energy
- Geothermal Energy Physics 009 Professor Arns The human population is currently using up its fossil fuel supplies at staggering rates. Before long we will be forced to turn somewhere else for energy. There are many possibilities such as hydroelectric energy, nuclear energy, wind energy, solar energy and geothermal energy to name a few. Each one ... and produced changing plate boundaries. When collisions between plates occur, the crust is pushed up sometimes forming ranges of mountains. This is the way that most Midoceanic ranges were formed. Continental plates sometimes move at rates of several centimeters per year. Currently the Atlantic ocean is growing and the Pacific ocean is shrinking due to continental plate movement. In Rome people first used geothermal resources to heat public bath houses that ... is suffocating from the chemicals, and particulates that are created in the production of electricity and other commercial industries, we have no choice but to change our ways. The earth can not support the current rates of pollution. If we do not change reduce pollution the effects that are beginning to be see now will become irreversible. Using geothermal resources for other purposes such as space heating can only help ...
- 633: Romanticism
- ... can be viewed as an artistic movement, or state of mind, or both. This movement seemed to be reaction against the dominant attitudes and approaches of the eighteenth century. Unlike the eighteenth century, writers who interest in reaction, logic, and scientific observation, the Romantics stressed the examination of inner feelings, emotions and the use of imagination. This seemed to be the first element in Romanticism. It appeals to emotion rather than ... describe their story and poem about America wilderness or countryside or they depicted nature. This element that the reader can recognize clearly in the compositions of these writers above. The third element that the Romantics interest in unusual or ordinary. Furthermore, Romantics had a strong belief in democracy, a deep awareness in the past. Some writers explore the mysteries of nature, the inner self and the relationship between the nature and ... feeling of greed that states clearly in main character Tom Walker. When he knows his wife doesn t return, he just worries about the value that his wife brought with her. The story shows an interest in the unusual such as Irving describes the death of Tom s wife. Her hair, lung and her apron were hung on the tree. This folk tale story is also an important lesson that ...
- 634: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... and exploited were sold at high prices through tightknit, difficult-to-access networks. Today, those illegal pictures are available for free online, at any hour of the day. Anyone with rudimentary computer skills and an interest in the material can obtain it. Computer networks can also allow pedophiles to identify and contact potential victims without revealing their identities. Often, adult predators pretend to be children until they have gained their victims ... the businesses connecting to the Net will "make it big", it is obvious that those which don't will be left behind. But one thing is certain: The Internet is dynamic, will sustain high growth rates and will serve as the platform for international commerce well into the foreseeable future. Today the Internet is a highly effective tool for communicating, for gathering information and for cooperation between dispersed locations. There is ...
- 635: The Roots Of Communist China
- ... of the local Communist leadership to satisfy the serious economic and social grievances of the local civilians, often violently, through such means as redistribution of land at the expense of landlords and the reduction of interest rates at the expense of moneylenders. Of these base areas, or soviets, the most important was the one led by Mao Tse-tung and centered in the southeastern city of Kiangsi. Correspondingly, in return for such ...
- 636: Clash Of Civilizations
- ... very little in common (probably even less than either has in common with the West) they have cooperated on a variety of issues. As Huntington puts it In Politics a common enemy creates a common interest. This cooperation has occurred on issues such as human rights, economics, and in particular, the development of weapons of mass destruction to counter the conventional military superiority of the West. The author cites the Confucian ... Huntington points out the following examples as evidence of the moral decline of the West: 1. An increase in crime, drug use, and violence. 2. The decay of the family; i.e., increases in divorce rates, teen-age pregnancies, illegitimacy, and single-parent families. 3. A weakened work ethic coupled with an increase in personal indulgence. 4. A decrease in the levels of intellectual activity and scholarly achievement. Huntington also cites ...
- 637: In The Skin Of The Lion
- ... a man "withdrawn from the world" raised Patrick and with no mention of a mother, any siblings or school friends, we can imagine the solitude Patrick lived in. Perhaps the moths are more of an interest to Patrick (than other insects) because of his day to day living. Working around the farm during the day he might not have developed an eye for them, or had the time to stop and examine them. During the evening when chores where done and his life was quiet, the insects attracted to the light were naturally of interest to him. These strangers coming from beyond Patrick's borders. Patrick is defining his world through these experiences. As Patrick receiving very little defining knowledge from his father, he begins to set his own definitions ... travel, or what he saw. Given very little input to explain what he saw, he imagined why, what he saw was the way it was. For example, his imaginative naming of the insects and the interest in the exotics names in the atlas. When Patrick grew up, his explanation for what he saw around him could only be expressed in terms of what he knew using the physical attributes of ...
- 638: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... After his own marriage in 1850, William Whilden badgeredhis elder brother to end his bachelorhood and to settle down. In December 1854, when he was stillin Detroit and aged 30, a friend had tried to interest Charles in marrying his fiftyish, red-headed aunt. Seizing the opportunity to turn the tables on William, Charles wrote to William not to be surprised if he married the woman and took up William on ... had been gone from the South for more than a decade. He was fast approaching 40. Whilden's frequent denunciations of abolitionism in his letters were based on principle, not political expediency or financial self-interest. Apart from a nominal, undivided interest in his beloved Maumer Juno that he shared with his siblings, Charles held no slave property. Furthermore, he was more than 1,000 miles from South Carolina, with little money for travel. But Charles ...
- 639: The Four Political Parties of Canada
- ... chapter one. The Liberals explain their approach to economic policy by saying that they will focus on the five major problems facing the current Canadian economy: "lack of growth, high unemployment, high long-term real interest rates, too high levels of foreign indebtedness, and excessive government debt and deficits." (chapter1.html, 1997) In the online edition of the Red Book, the Liberals also state that the "better co-ordination of federal and ...
- 640: A Balanced Budget?
- ... Resolution Conference Agreement (BRCA), and I vote to cut 12.4. Next on the list, General Science, Space and Technology. I vote to discontinue the Space Station Program. As the report says, scientists have lost interest so why keep funding it. Another 11.2 by the wayside. The Energy issue is a complex one, but nevertheless the DOE has to go. The DOE is a bureaucracy of waste. The DOE has ... I spent 15.6 to Provide Tax Incentives for Long - Term Care Insurance. All this spending on revenues cost me 187.2 billion. My rational behind my spending, is once again in my own self interest, for if I was a Member of Congress, with all the cuts I have made, I have to give back a little. Balanced? Will the budget balance? Before the exercise began there was an 809 ... of 6 different programs. I cut 1048.7 billion from 18 different recipients of federal dollars. This amounts to a balanced budget. Total Deficit Reduction from Policy changes equaled 838.7(all amounts in billions). Interest savings amounted to 83.87. Total deficit reduction, 992.57. Add in the baseline budget deficit of 809 billion from the previous year. 113.57 remains. Policy changes totaled at 718.7. Spending changes ...
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