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    75 of 1997 (ii) (a) Employment Equity Act (b) No. 55 of 1998 (iii) (a) Skills Development Act (b) No. 97 of 1998 3.2) The details that you must give when referring to legal textbooks are: • Title • Author • Date of Publication (year) • Place of Publication (1) R. Midgley, M. Loubser, A. Mukleibir, D. Perumal, L. Niesing; The Laws of Delict in South Africa (2nd ed.); 2012: OUP Southern Africa . (2) J.M. Burchell; Principles of Delict: 1993: Juta Publishers . (3) T.J. Scott, D…

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    the people from their indentured servitude was not the only monumental task that Moses had to accomplish, he also had to lead them to the promise land. After the plagues occurred, Pharaoh insisted that the Israelites leave and Moses then had to coordinate the movements of 1.2 million individuals, who had lived in one place for 430 years, through the Sinai Peninsula (Exodus 12: 31-42 NIW). This surely took some logistical planning…

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    Every year in the United States, 40,000 babies born have a congenital heart defect, making it the most common congenital anomaly in the United States, and that statistic is only increasing (CDC 2018). 40,000 may not seem like a lot, but that’s 40,000 children affected by a defect that strays them from living a normal childhood and the likeability of living a long and healthy life. Additionally, this affects the parents as well, who are now wary of whether or not their child will surpass their…

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    For a copious aggregate of years, historians have attempted to determine why individuals took part in the American Civil War. Furthermore, numerous experts have conjectured on why it necessitated a bloody skirmish to overhaul a nation that had previously been fragmented due to the diverse ideologies of the North and the South. In his novel What They Fought For, James M. McPherson avows that even though the soldiers of both sides originated from the same motherland, it was their disparate…

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    murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The prevalence and seriousness of violent crimes have fluctuated over time according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, however they continue to plague our society. Statistics show a small decline in many violent crimes, e.g. domestic violence, sexual assault, hate crimes, violent crimes at school, etc. but this may be due to non reporting and other factors. Violent crimes are complex and must…

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    Under the guise of melting pots and diverse communities exist the many complications of racism and troubled pasts. Whether indigenous peoples try to immerse into mainstream cultures or remain independent of assimilation, it is often the case where their history is littered with examples of racism and various forms of impositions regarding colonial powers. The poems “The Loika” and “Make Me Human or Give Me Death” are examples of indigenous literature which speaks to the emotions of these often…

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    issue of Native Americans not acquiring diseases like the Europeans it come from domesticated animals. The Europeans were more advance in domesticating animals than the Native Americans were. So that large amounts of the plagues that the European had come from. The Native Americans had no such animals around therefore touching and coming in contact with sick animals was not known to them thus making Native Americans more susceptible to the diseases.…

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    The term “stress” is commonly thrown around and used to describe a negative feeling, but it is important to note that many activities/occupations require some degree of stress. Goals and dreams are transformed into reality through the sphere of stress, as people realize that coming face to face with what is considered difficult is what allows them to live a healthy and active life. Stress is needed on a day-to-day basis, but what occurs many a times is a person’s inability to handle the great…

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    All inhabitants of earth suffered a wide spread epidemic known as narcisexualvapitism. A nocuous virus that loomed all over the world like a tarantula hugging a ping pong ball was the cause of the extinction of the human race. It's important to realize that it was not like Ebola, influenza, rotavirus, the myopic TRNTB cult or the four horsemen of the apocalypse while auguring which horse befits which horsemen. The inane seed was planted by the ever-increasing platitudinous in the early 21st…

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    Second Edition ed. New York: Routledge. Soja, E. W., 1980. The Socio-Spatial Dialectic. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 70(2), pp. 207-225. Swanson, M. W., 1977. The Sanitation Syndrome: Bubonic Plague and Urban Native Policy in the Cape Colony, 1900-1909. The Journal of African History, 18(3), pp. 387-410. Williams, J. J., 2000. South Africa: Urban Transformation. Cities, 17(3), pp.…

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