a child is a person not an object of concern', was a welcome step towards children's rights and, in the future, a commissioner for children? Under the Act, parents have responsibility, not rights. Children are generally best looked after in their own homes—the levels of abuse in foster...
The Government's (OPCS) survey of the disabled population (Bone and Meltzer, 1989) suggested that there are 21,000 severely visually impaired children in Britain. For those children and their families the level of services offered by the local authority and by other agencies can mean the diffe...
Edwin died in 1916, while Charles met his end in 1989. But it's Edwin who so obviously has hidden gay feelings and can't quite act on them as he was brought up in an era where that sort of thing was most definitely repressed. But as the pair set out to solve various cases, they...
It doesn't have the strongest start, but it turns into a little magical gem of a film. It's not your typical cute romcom; you probably need to be more of a romance movie fan than a romcom enthusiast. It didn't make me feel too mushy inside, which is basically how I judge ...
Some S&Ls led to outright fraud among insiders and some of these S&Ls knew of—and allowed—such fraudulent transactions to happen. As a result of the S&L crisis, Congress passed the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), which amounted to a vast...
Hamlet, Act 1. Scene V. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Maybe there is no Heaven." Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame & Degradation in the '80's. Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937-2005)And Heaven on Earth? That's up to us, right?
However, the value of the education credit may make it preferable for the parent to forfeit their claim of the child. If the student can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's tax return (such as the parent's tax return) then the student is not eligible to claim the refundable ...
There is substantial evidence of rising prevalence of overweight and obesity and its co-morbidities among children in western-high income developed countries. In the European Union, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing fastest among Polish children. Yet, there is paucity of evidence...
It is precisely this success which calls for a heightened awareness on the part of technical communicators. The first and most important step toward 'getting our act together' is a common understanding among current technical communicators on issues such as what it is that unites them as members...
Dorschel, Andreas (1989): "What is it to Understand a Directive Speech Act?", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 67, No. 3, September 1989. Francez, Nissim and Amir Pnueli (1978): "A Proof Method for Cyclic Programs", Acta Informatica 9, 133-157.What is it to Understand a ...