Summary: The authors generally define the welfare state by the use of organized power through politics and administration (state responsibility) in securing basic (minimum) welfare for its citizens via some form of modification of the play of market forces. According to these scholars, the welfare state emerged largely as a result of the development of modern political economy (and modern political power struggles and conflicts) and industrialism. Three distinct typologies of the welfare state have
squatter settlements as being the illegal occupation of land as well as the erection of housing that violates existing laws where occupants do not have legal rights to live in a certain place. This is a short summary of the different policy interventions measures used by governments to respond to squatter settlements. It will also look at which policies are used in South Africa and the extent of their success in addressing the problem of squatter settlements. Squatter settlements fall under unconventional
Rhetorical Knowledge Focus on Purpose Purpose is the reason for which we write for. I learned that the purpose is very important when writing. Each paper I wrote for this course had a distinct purpose. While writing my food memoir, my purpose was to share a meaningful food experience in life with my audience. For the rhetorical analysis project, I had a purpose of analyzing rhetorically by identifying the audience, purpose, genre, rhetorical appeals of the invitation letter that
Research Article Critique Knight, C., & Gitterman, A. (2014, January). Group Work with Bereaved Individuals: The Power of Mutual Aid. National Association of Social Workers, 59(1), 5-12 Article Summary Introduction: Across the course of a normal life-span, it seems inevitable that an individual will endure loss through the death of a loved one. This experience is fraught with an array of difficult emotions, questions and anxieties that are challenging to resolve. This study looked at group work
study a combination of primary and secondary data were used. The sample size was 63. This population of 63 is subdivided into 4 segments; residents and non-residents walk-in customers; tour operators and corporate market. 3.2 Research Questions Three questions have been formulated for the research: (1). What are the major factors that influence consumer behaviour when choosing the activities? (2). Is there any difference in consumer behaviour in relation with demographic features? (3) Is there
Courtney Killed Kurt. On Friday, April 8th in 1994, the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, was found lying dead with a Remington Model 11 20-gauge shotgun across his chest. He had reportedly been dead for three days. The case was not seen as suspicious and the initial case was concluded as a suicide and closed by Seattle Police Department. Since the death of the Nirvana front man in 1994, there has been several people that have dedicated their lives to prove that Kurt Cobain did not
In the rise of the digital era, information finds its way to people seamlessly. Information, in the past often only available to those seeking for it, could now be retrieved effortlessly as they are shared by various people in the cyber world, mostly through social media. In this situation, the public needs to have the conscious to filter between legit news and hoax by themselves. According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the word hoax refers to a plan to trick one into believing or accepting as
Leadership is complicated, demanding There are three fundamental axioms about leadership to become more effective: 1. Leadership is situational – situational sensing – mixture of sensory and cognitive abilities; Effective leaders pick up important situational signals which requires very good judgment and situational awareness Authentic leaders have good, sometimes excellent, situation-sensing capabilities, they ask a lot of questions. It also develop with experience The leader will always be influenced
efit of this technique is that a person fearing of not being believed will respond to all questions or alternatives, not any particular option as in case of a deceptive subject. Also even if a person guesses the answer believes it to be correct, he can be distinguished through “mock test”. The limitation of this technique is that not every time, the information is available to the examiner about such so called concealed information. Also, this format is less useful in case of the employment screening
WORK CITED INFORMATION: St. John Mandel, Emily. Station Eleven. New York: Vintage Books, 2014. PLOT SUMMARY AND THEME OF THE NOVEL: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is set in both pre-apocalyptic and post- apocalyptic times, following the lives of multiple characters after the Georgia Flu wipes out most of humankind. The book follows the story of Arthur Leander, his first wife, a photographer who tried to save his life, a woman who acted alongside him as a child, a group known as the Traveling