The human rights movement in Canada
Executive Summary: Canada has become a multicultural, multi religious and multiracial society. The growing ethnic diversity of Canadians includes a large number of non-white Canadians called visible minorities. They consist of non-white groups such as: Chinese, Black, Indo-Pakistani, Arabs, Filipinos, Japanese, South-East Asians, Korean and Oceanic. The presence of such visible minority is a factor endowment for discrimination, which includes all practices that treat people differently because of their sex, race, or national origin. Many programs have been implemented in Canada in order to control discrimination and to compensate victims of discrimination, notably affirmative action. Affirmative action attempts to reach diversity through artificial means. Many people think that those programs also improve the quality of the Canadian work force. However, it has been proven in this paper that affirmative action does not improve the quality of our workforce. Although those programs bring some advantages, the disadvantages are even more important. Just to name a few, affirmative action promotes the unqualified, increases social inequity, and creates reverse discrimination. Discrimination: Over the years, discrimination which includes all practices that treat people differently because of their sex, race, or national origin has acquired a negative meaning such as, racial or
Community-based tourism
Community Based Tourism and Sustainable Tourism Development The promotion of community-based tourism has recently been discussed as a valuable method in achieving sustainable tourism development. Its benefits are easily recognized as facilitating improvements in local communities while reducing the negative social, economic, and environmental consequences of tourism development. However, community-based tourism alone cannot necessarily lead to sustainability in a given area; only with the cooperation of the local stakeholders and with the presence of organizational and/or behavioural conditions in the community. (Matarrita-Cascantea, Brennan, and Luloff, 2010:735) This essay will examine the different tools used for monitoring and evaluating sustainability as it pertains to community-based tourism, and its effectiveness and limitations. A focus will be placed on the guiding principles, which include community control and empowerment, natural and cultural sustainability, and economic sustainability. (TIES, 2005) Before examining the methods used in evaluating sustainability, a definition of sustainability must be offered. According to the Berlin Declaration on Biological Diversity and Sustainable Tourism, "Tourism should be developed in a way so that it bene?ts the local communities, strengthens the local economy, employs local workforce and wherever ecologically
Operations Management
PART 1 NEW Walk Museum and Art Gallery * Layout an Flow New Walk Museum and Art Gallery is located in the heart of Leicester City. Its 10 minutes walk and 5 minutes drive from the Leicester train station. There are no regular buses which run from station to the museum but council arrange for special tour buses in the summer, from station to the different touring spots, which includes New Walk museum as well. The museum was established in 1840.It is basically located in one large Victorian style building, close to Leicester University, but is equipped with some modern ad cons. It has got the car park facility also, which can accommodate up to 25 cars. On normal days it attracts on average around 200 people per day. But the number touches to 1000 during peak seasons, which is most of the time in holidays. The entry to the museum is free. Although it has got different range of galleries and the management has given them numbers as well. But for the sake of simplicity, we will mention the main galleries (which are then actually divided to the sub galleries or kind of sub-section) and give them our own numbering to them to give a clear picture and to avoid any ambiguity. On entrance, it has got a Reception on the right hand side (inside the building). Right next to it, are the stairs which will take you to the first floor Art Gallery. Passing the reception you enter to main
"It's All in Your Mind": Candyman and the Myth of the Black Male Rapist
David S. Neale Lewis Gordon AA 10 August 2, 1999 "It's All in Your Mind": Candyman and the Myth of the Black Male Rapist The movie Candyman1 resuscitates the age-old myth of the black male rapist. According to Angela Davis2, the historical pretext of the black male rapist was created in order to justify the gruesome practice of lynching blacks3. As Davis explains, it became "necessary" to avenge black men's assaults on white womanhood4. In Candyman, the title character is the black rapist; he uses a hook for a hand-turned-phallus to rip white women5 apart "from their groin to their gullet"-nothing other than a rape-murder. However, given the fictitious nature of the myth, its presence in the film immediately raises questions about the validity of Helen's experiences with the legendary hook-wielding black man. As I will show, Helen may have participated in what Don Belton calls the "scapegoating of the black male body"6 in order to soothe her guilty conscience about the crimes she likely committed. Thus, by deploying the character of Helen in this manner, the film does no more than recycle harmful stereotypes about, and incite our contemporary society's fears of, black men. To explain the connection between the myth of the black male rapist and the observation of its deployment in Candyman, I first want to provide some background about it. In Women, Race & Class,
Criminal Law Omissions. In the English legal system there is generally no liability for an omission to act, the English legal system does not have a good Samaritan rule neither is there no duty of easy rescue.
In the English legal system there is generally no liability for an omission to act, the English legal system does not have a 'good Samaritan rule' neither is there 'no duty of easy rescue'. Fitzjames Stephen gave a classical example of 'A seeing B drowning and is able to save him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing so in order that B may be drowned, A will have committed no offence.'1 This example clearly shows that there is no positive duty for B to act, even though B holding his hand out may have saved A's life. This is a controversial issue as the law allows one to watch a person drown without them being prosecuted for any offence. However in some European countries this is different such as in France and Germany where there is a duty of easy rescue and failure to do so will amount to a criminal offence2. As I have earlier said generally there is no liability for failing to act, however there are six exceptions and if a person fails to act then they will be committing a criminal law offence, there is a vast amount of case law in this field which will be used to illustrate the exceptions to an omission. The first exception I will discuss is a special relationship, this is where the law will require an individual to act where there is a special relationship, it is generally recognised the more closer the relationship the more likely the law will impose a duty.
Discuss the relevance of the concept of the rule of law to current constitutional arrangements in the UK
"In the mouth of British Constitutional Lawyer, the term "rule of law" seems to mean primary a corpus of basic principles and values, which together lend some stability and coherence to the legal order". (TRS Allan). In the light of the quote above, I am going to discuss the relevance of the concept of the rule of law to current constitutional arrangements in the UK. I will be looking at the current constitution in the UK, the doctrine of the rule of law and the relevance of the doctrine in the operation of state power. The UK is said to have an "unwritten constitution", because it has no single codified documentary constitution. However most of the constitution does exist in the written form of treaties, statutes and court judgements. Due to the absence of a formal written constitution in the UK, there is no positive statement of the basic principles governing state actions and no guidelines that could be used to assess the legitimacy of government action. Lawyers and politicians have used the concept of the rule of law in order to provide such a measure.1 The rule of law is capable of being interpreted differently by different people. It is a recognised principle of the English constitution, which is frequently used to signify a notion of "law and order". At it's broadest it is a framework that constrains arbitrary use of power. The concept of the rule of law dates
Critically evaluate the current methods employed in the Sex Offender Treatment Programmes (SOTP). Include in your answer an overview of their theoretical foundations
Student Number - 485030 Word Count - 2250 Critically evaluate the current methods employed in the Sex Offender Treatment Programmes (SOTP). Include in your answer an overview of their theoretical foundations Sexual offenders are complex individuals for the Criminal Justice System (CJS) to effectively deal with. The offences committed by these individuals are recognized as serious and harmful to both their victims and the general public. Crown Prosecution Service (2010) stated the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (the Act) came into force on the 1 May 2004. It repealed almost all of the existing statute law in relation to sexual offences. The purpose of the Act was to strengthen and modernise the law on sexual offences, whilst improving preventative measures and the protection of individuals from sexual offenders. The handling of these offenders is often made more complicated for the government and criminal justice system as notorious cases are more often than not never far from the fierce view of the media. The way in which sex offenders are portrayed by the media is as lonely, predatory sociopaths who are in many ways extremely different to the rest of society, shown by headlines such as ‘Pervert in motor with girl and boy’ (The Sun, 2012) and ‘Judge lets new perv walk free’ (Pyatt, 2008). This
Was the Fall of the Roman Republic inevitable?
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Explain and justify some of the key decisions you made in planning a week(TM)s learning in English
English Assignment - Explain and justify some of the key decisions you made in planning a week's learning in English. A unit of work should assist a teacher in gradually progressing their pupil's skills and understanding. It must also consider and cater for the needs of all their pupils. When planning my unit of work (See Appendix A) I needed to create a resource that is an effective teaching tool and a fun, enjoyable unit of work that both the pupils and I will benefit from. I believe that I have achieved this, and to justify my work fully I must consider what makes a good unit of work. Firstly, it is essential that any unit of work links specifically to the National Curriculum and Primary Framework objectives. The National Curriculum categorises English into three main attainment targets, reading, writing, and speaking/listening. To ensure that my unit of work effectively incorporated all of the three targets, I have worked in line with the Primary framework strands and designed lessons to ensure that the pupils reach set objectives. I understand that the strands of the framework can often interlink and it is possible to cover a number of strands and objectives within one lesson. I have strategically planned my lessons to give pupils the capability to achieve a variety of objectives in each lesson. For example during the concluding lesson to the topic the children will
The National Health Service (NHS) has undergone rapid changes in the last few years. Most Hospitals have adopted IT solutions as Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems instead of paper-based patient record.
. Introduction The National Health Service (NHS) has undergone rapid changes in the last few years. Most Hospitals have adopted IT solutions as Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems instead of paper-based patient record. Their diffusion is frequently pushed by a vision of considerable time and cost savings, of increased quality of health work, and of a seamless integration with the existing local systems. On the other hand, the high complexities of the technology and possibly not adequate implementation strategies have led to failures. The degree of complexity and heterogeneity of this technology resembles the one of an Information Infrastructure. According to this framework, the EPR is an enabling, shared, open, heterogeneous socio-technical network built on an installed base. An infrastructural interpretation of the EPR implies its understanding as layers on an already existing installed base of technologies, processes, people, standards and knowledge. In this view the implementation process is considered to be more than simply changes in work practices and routines, which are required when shifting from a paper-based record to an electronic solution. 2. Theoretical Framework 2.1 Electronic Patient Record An electronic patient record (EPR) system is a set of clinical information systems designed to store detailed, longitudinal information about patients nonredundantly
