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    Equal Pay Act

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    Sandi Treml, and Irene Wallin—became burnt out on making almost 300 dollars for each week not as much as their male partners. They were likewise anticipated that would work additional time without pay. The issue reached a crucial stage in April 1977, when the ladies were advised to prepare a youthful male worker who had been procured at a superior wage and would in the long run…

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    Texas Prison Overcrowding

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    The article, Prison Overcrowding and Disciplinary Problems: An Analysis of the Texas Prison System by Sheldon Ekland-olson, Dennis Barrick, and Lawrence Cohen looks at prison overcrowding along with disciplinary rates. They discuss how state and federal prisons have experienced rapid population growth and the failure of expanding facilities has caused overcrowding. This has caused strain to develop on the medical, education, recreational, vocational, and nutritional service aspect of the prison…

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    Beginning with the 1977-78 school year, the Mid-Valley School District rented the former St. Patrick’s School in Olyphant. That school year, it was used as an elementary school for students who would have attended classes at the building in Olyphant that was condemned. This building was only big enough to accommodate the kindergarten through fourth grade students from Olyphant. Students from Olyphant in fifth and sixth grades continued to attend classes at the former junior high school. The…

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    over people, this study is focused on the Ford Motor Company and their vehicle the Pinto. In 1968, Lee Iacocca president of Ford Motor Company was under the gun to develop a sub-compact car to compete with foreign car manufacturer Volkswagen (Dowie, 1977). To get the vehicle ready to sell quickly, he ordered that production chop their timetable down. “The normal time span from conception to production of a new car model is about 43 months. The Pinto schedule was set at just under…

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    Solubility Research Paper

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    Solubility Phosphates are not very water-soluble, thereby creating a limiting potential for plant-growth in marine ecosystems. This explains its encompassing effect on the surface of affected water system, as observed in the Watershed Nature Centre. In addition, this can be observed from the site as less quantity of phosphorus get dissolved in running water compared to the amount that eventually gets into the water column. Temperature: The water surface gets heated up by sunlight, increasing…

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    Food Stamp Act Analysis

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    According to (Dean Jolliffee, 1977) in 1977 Food Stamp Act expresses that "all together to advance the general welfare, it is the arrangement of Congress to protect the wellbeing what's more, prosperity of the Nation's populace by raising levels of nourishment among low-salary family units. Since Food Stamp were invented several individuals and household members, reduce less work in the workforce has surveyed the adequacy of nourishment stamps as an arrangement instrument to advance the general…

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    In 1968-1977, he worked in the office just to keep the indian culture maintained. Following the year of 1969, the Canadian Parliament introduced a policy paper that was called a “White Paper.” The White Canadians didn’t want to agree terms with the First Nations…

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    Socialization of Girls Girls are guided to become what their society deems as acceptable and not necessarily what they want to become (Currie, Kelly, & Pomerantz, 2007, p. 32). This is done through social structures, which are the rules of society and how they govern the culture (Ridgeway & Correll, 2004, p. 511). Gender norms fall under the purview of social structures and the normative gender beliefs serve as a framework for behavior and self-evaluations (Ridgeway & Correll, 2004, p. 512).…

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    Chickadees

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    atricapillus) henceforth chickadee, which weigh in at around 11g and have a high surface-area to volume ratio lose heat very quickly and must have a higher than normal rate of metabolic heat production to overcome this small size (Grossman and West 1977). However, chickadees have adaptations to survive extreme cold: overnight they reduce their body temperature (Tb) in response to the winter ambient temperature (Ta) resulting in…

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    Michel Foucault's Analysis

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    upon all individuals to create “docile bodies” that are obedient and self-regulating (Foucault 1977, p. 138). Power is no longer operated by a higher authority or sovereign, but rather it is internalised in the individual. The self becomes “subjected, used, transformed, and improved”, which in effect makes individuals more productive, and hence a disciplined regulated society is established (Foucault 1977, p. 136). His account on power has prompted many negative criticisms. Fraser (1981, p. 286)…

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