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Britain 1945-1979: The Beveridge report (a) What was the Beveridge report? (b) To what extent did World War II change Britain? (a) The keystone of Labour policy after the 1945 landside was setting up the Wefare state. This idea of comprehensive social reform, which was one of the key factors in explaining the labour landside in 1945, was not a new concept. The concept's real birth can be situated around the end of the Victorian period and first moves in western Europe towards reform

The tensile behaviour of common engineering polymers Abstract A polymer is a macromolecule made of long chains of carbon atoms. This structure gives to the polymers special properties such as rubber elasticity. This investigation focuses on the rubber elasticity of the polymers. Different common polymers are tested on a machine that stretches the polymer at different speeds. The test shows that some polymers stretch whereas others break instantly due to the tensile force. The structure of the

business euphoria, unemployment has started to increase again across the OECD. It seems that the rise in unemployment is less pronounced than was the case in previous bouts of economie weakness, and this reflects encouraging improvements in structural employment. Still, it is a stark reminder that the fight against high and persistent joblessness must remain at the top of the policy agenda. The deterioration of labour market conditions in the last couple of years could affect sorne groups more than others

business is based on the idea that if you are a company and you sell your products to poor people (people who live with less than $2.5 per day), without doing charity, you can improve your volume and therefore make profits. As we can read in the article of C.K. Prahalad and Hammond, “while individual incomes may be low, the aggregation buying power of poor communities is actually quite large”. Moreover this model can give to the firm a competitive advantage, because these markets are in the earliest stages

‘He is the quintessential designer. Heknows more than anyone what will have in our hands in five years’ The text Under study is an extract of an article puplished in the Guardian in 2007 and written by Ian sample, who talk about Jonathan Ive designed as the senior vice-president of industrial design at Apple Inc. This article explain firstly how much talent have Jonathan Ives and how he became an essential ingrédient to the mac recipe. Then, Ian sample tell that Ive and his team in designing

RETIREMENT GUIDE 2005 How the Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong BRAINSTORM  By Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb sales. Out of a million submitted manuscripts, a handful account for the bulk of book sales. One percent of the U.S. population earns close to 90 times what the bottom 20% does, and half the capitalization of the stock market (close to 10,000 companies) is in fewer than 100 corporations. In other words, we live in a world of winnertake-all extreme concentration. Similarly

Der Blaue Reiter and the Degenerate art exhibition. * * * Cover of the Blaue Reiter almanac, W. Kandinsky, 1911 Poster for the degenerate art exhibition, from Otto Freundlich, Der neue Mensch At the beginning of the XXth, Germany was one of the strongest economical, military and diplomatic powers in the world. The country wanted to expand its boundaries by the way of colonization and develop its business, and was thus very opened on the world. During this rich

analyse the factors that have been of particular importance in the borrowing of words into French. Borrowing can be defined as the attempted reproduction in one language of patterns previously found in another. In using this particular definition from Haugen we then have to make clear that borrowing is a consequence of cultural contact between two languages. I will concentrate on three main important factors, which are necessity, prestige , and bilingualism. Although I am considering the three factors

SOCIAL TOURISM AS A POTENTIAL MEASURE TO REDUCE SOCIAL EXCLUSION (For full text and references please refer to MINNAERT, L., MAITLAND, R. & MILLER, G. (2009), “Tourism and social policy – The value of social tourism”, in: “Annals of Tourism Research”, Vol. 36, nº 2, 316-334) 1. DEFINITION “Social tourism” is a term used to describe a wide variety of holiday types, destinations and target groups: social tourism initiatives can be commercial and non-commercial, governmental and

CIVILISATION GB 21/09/09 Tips for the exam Gaffe aux questions de geo des gdes villes et des régions (plus ou moins) L'examen se composera d'un texte ressemblant à ceux étudié en TD avec des questions sur différents aspects du texte. Exemple : Culture générale Vocabulaire Connaissances du C.M. Compréhension du texte The British Isles and the United Kingdom – General points A few definitions and symbols British Isles : Geographical denomination. No other purpose than geographical (not