...EAP2-Cristian Inocente-Reassignment 1- 11/05/2015 Workforce gender gap index: a comparison between India and Canada. In today’s world, the gender gap is a subject that is taking relevance in many countries. Economists in over the world are thinking whether the workforce gender gap becomes disappear in India, this country would be able to increase his gross domestic product (GDP) in 60 % and at the same time, get a better quality of life. However, nowadays statistics reflexes a long way to get it. On one hand, it is true that India has improved her economy, being included in the BRICS group, but on the other hand, India is quite far to get workforce gender parity in his country yet. It is shown in the gender gap index made by the Work Economic...
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...Changes and Immigration 12-14 c) Technology of the 1930s 15 d) Life in the 1930s 16 e) On-To-Ottawa and Social Unrest 17 f) Social Assistance Programs 18 g) Then and Now Review Lesson 19-21 h) Then and Now Round Table Assignment 22-23 Appendix A: Round Table Discussion Handout 24 Rubric for Round Table Discussion and other Assessment ideas 25-28 Topic Organizer 29-31 Speech Planner 32 Design Process Statement Our group initially decided to work together because each of us was specifically interested in developing lessons for Grade 10 Canadian History – Academic. Some of us wanted to develop our understanding of the curriculum itself, while others wanted to focus on working with students of this age. After reviewing the curriculum of the course, we discussed how the course should be organized. For some aspects of the curriculum, we felt a traditional chronological organization would be beneficial. For other portions, it seemed as if thematic units would serve our students better. In the end, we decided to work with a hybrid of the two models, which contained both chronological units and thematic units. Our group...
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...Rising Cost of Health Care April Scoles Instructor LeJarnaro Barnes March 9, 2014 The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world. It dates all the way back to World War II. The United States and Canada do not even compare to each other, in health care, like they once did. The problem lies within the major stakeholders of the health care system, and what they are willing to change to make it less expensive for patients. This paper will discuss the history, compare and contrast United States health care system to Canada, how the stake holders’ role affect these rising costs and it will discuss recommendations suggested by the authors of “Redefining Health Care.” First, we should discuss the major problem of our health care system. This happens to be the price. According to an article written in 2010, 17% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was spent on health care. It is supposed to increase by 18% by the year 2018 (Crissy, Larimer, Furnas, Spencer, 2010). What is Gross Domestic Product, you ask? Well, it is defined as “the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and capital within a nation’s border during a given period of time” (English Dictionary online). This more or less means that the cost of health care is rising, and the coverage is declining. The out-of-pocket expenses are too much for patients to pay. This in turn makes patients choose to drop their coverage, because it is too expensive, in the first place. If the...
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...The American Dream is the idea that each and every single individual has an equal opportunity to achieve success through determination and hard work. America has long been seen as a place where anyone, despite his or her circumstances, can thrive in society as long as he or she puts in enough hard work. However, some now argue that equality is diminishing and being replaced by inequality. In “American Dream? Or Mirage?”, by Michael Kraus, Shai Davidai, and A. David Nussbaum, and “It’s Now the Canadian Dream”, by Nicholas Kristof, the authors discuss the concept of the American dream in very different ways. The authors of “American Dream? Or mirage?” explain and analyze why most Americans are unconcerned with the economic inequality in the...
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...© 2010 Pearson Education Canada Will the Canadian economy weaken through the next year and shrink, or will it remain strong and expand? To assess the state of the economy and to make big decisions about business expansion, firms use forecasts of GDP. What exactly is GDP? How do we use GDP to tell us whether our economy is in a recession or how rapidly our economy is expanding? How do we take the effects of inflation out of GDP to reveal the growth rate of our economic well-being? And how to we compare economic well-being across countries? © 2010 Pearson Education Canada Gross Domestic Product GDP Defined GDP or gross domestic product is the market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given time period. This definition has four parts: Market value Final goods and services Produced within a country In a given time period © 2010 Pearson Education Canada Gross Domestic Product Market Value GDP is a market value—goods and services are valued at their market prices. To add apples and oranges, computers and popcorn, we add the market values so we have a total value of output in dollars. © 2010 Pearson Education Canada Gross Domestic Product Final Goods and Services GDP is the value of the final goods and services produced. A final good (or service) is an item bought by its final user during a specified time period. A final good contrasts with an intermediate good, which is an item that is produced by one firm...
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...The industry and organization’s products and services I am doing my internship in Tender Care Rehab Center. It’s situated in very convenient location of Mississauga. Tender care is a multispecialty physiotherapy center starts from acupuncture, chiropractor, massage therapy and physiotherapy. It includes electrotherapy department (TENS, Ultrasound, Contrast bath) and exercise therapy department (Treadmill, Bike, CPM and dumbbell, pulley). Clinic also deals with orthotics and prosthesis. Tender care also provide free transportation service for their physically disable patients. The clinic treats the patients like orthopaedic, neurological, geriatrics and paediatrics, burns cases. Tender care mostly deals with the motor vehicle accident cases that include multiple fractures. Our supervisor Mrs. Saloni bookseller is registered physiotherapist. She has finished her graduation from India. She has come to Canada before 4 years and she has fulfilled the requirement to practice physiotherapy in Canada. She manages this clinic from last 2 years. Best thing about her is she always takes each case uniquely and provides the best rehabilitation programme for the same. She always challenge the patients to effort more which gives the quick results. There are two assistants who manage all the documentation work regarding to the insurance and appointments for the massage therapy and acupuncture. Provide a detailed description of your job, including responsibilities, role with...
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...flint knapping process. The process of creating chipped stone tools such as knife blades, scrapers, arrowheads, and spear points. A small group of flint Knappers carries this tradition today by striking these rocks with harder rocks to create exact shapes and edges. 3. Why was obsidian considered so valuable among these ancient civilizations? How is this different from why gems, like diamonds are different, today? It was valuable because it was widely traded during the Stone Age, dating back 10,000 years. They have been found at scattered sites from Greece to Canada there were traces. This is different because we can artificially produce diamonds to feed the demand where as the obsidian could not be man made and reproduced. 4. The article states that many of the ancient cutting tools found in Alberta, Canada were actually made from obsidian that formed in Wyoming. What does this tell you? This tells us that the people who used the Obsidian had traveled with their sharp obsidian object similar nomadic people. Part 2: Metamorphic Rocks, Part 1 1. Define “Parent Rock”. Preexisting rocks that help to create a metamorphic rock 2. What process will result in a metamorphic rock? The process involves pressure, heat, and moisture. It’s called Metamorphism 3. What effects does pressure have on the formation of a metamorphic rock? Pressure has an effect on the weight of overlying rock, and the deformation of chemical composition. 4. What effects does...
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...to pass effective environmental legislation? Would you change anything about the division of powers between the federal and provincial/territorial governments in order to improve the design and implementation of environmental policy in Canada? Is environmental policy superior in the United States (can we learn any lessons from their approach including things to avoid)? Can you find any examples of successful provincial/federal cooperation on environmental policy implementation in Canada? Finally, do you think that we are in for a new era of environmental policy cooperation with the election of a new government this fall? Post 1: Hi Kristen, In addition to your extensive research on the comparison of both the US and Canada’s differences in environmental policy, I have done some research myself and have read an interesting article that discusses lessons from America for environmental law enforcement in Canada. The textbook has done a great job synthesizing information and giving an overview of environmental policies in both countries, but the journal critically assesses government efforts and outlines key policy differences. This journal first discusses jurisdictional differences in regards to environmental law in the US and Canada stemming from their...
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...TIM HORTON’S AND ITS ENCOURAGEMENT OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE Tim Horton’s, the name that pops up during work breaks, school breaks, the name that has surrounded every corner of the city in Canada and the name that you expect to see on the cup everyone is holding when drinking coffee, but does Tim Horton’s apply to everyone? Does everyone value its service or is it only given appreciated by some? Tim Horton’s was opened in 1984 and was open only to serve coffee and donuts, to some of us, that seems like a great big deal because now Tim Hortons offers a wide range of products to consume in, it has changed from being that small corner coffee shop to a break time lunch location. The city of Toronto for example is surrounded by many different coffee places at every corner of the city, franchises like Starbucks, McDonalds, Timothy’s coffee and Second Cup are only some of the popular coffee places of today’s generation but the question is, do they target the same general consumer population or do they target different groups, and the answer is yes, they are all targeted towards different social classes indirectly. When was the last time that one saw an individual experiencing homelessness was drinking a Christmas drink from Starbucks or eating a gourmet brownie from Second Cup, well the answer is hardly, unfortunately many other franchises such as the ones listed before don’t serve all cliental, meaning, their prices...
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...1. What was the Rockefeller Report? Why was it important? Richard Nixon sent the New York Governor, Nelson Rockefeller, to talk with Latin American leaders and give recommendations to the US policy. Rockefeller reported that the US and Latin American were becoming more distant and suggested that the US show more tolerance for authoritarian rule in Latin America. This is significant because it left the Nixon administration with two options to maintain bilateral relations with Latin America. He could either give more economic aid or assist the authoritarian governments. 2. Why did the US oppose Allende's democratically elected government? How responsible was the US for its overthrow? Allende sought to improve the living standards of his nation by decreasing the influence of large land owners and US multinational corporations. As a result, the US copper mining companies and the International Telephone and Telegraph feared that they would lose more under his power. Also, Nixon feared that if Chile...
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...Comparison and Contrasts of the United States and Canadian Health Care Systems Devry University HSM 310 Comparison and Contrasts of the United States and Canadian Health Care Systems Canada In the 1960’s, Canada reformed its system providing a universal single payer health care system which covers all services provided by physicians and hospitals it is mostly free at point of use and has most services provided by private entities. Single payer health care is the financing of costs of delivering universal health care for an entire population through a single insurance pool. The government took over full funding of both physician and hospital services, setting minor physician fees and hospital budgets. Everyone is covered at all times. United States of America For the past 8 decades, the U.S. has run its country on a private health care system where the individual pays for their choice of health care. Depending on the coverage of the health care amounts to the cost. In the U.S, government funding for health care is limited to Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers senior citizens, the very poor, disabled people, veterans and their families and children. The United States is the only country in the developing world that does not have a fundamentally public tax-supported health care system. The National healthcare debate is one that has been a continuing arguing point for the last decade. The goal is...
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... the American health care system can best be described as a patchwork of public and private programs (such as employer-based coverage). A mixture of public programs and private programs is common among nations that essentially cover all residents, but the American system is unique — and often uniquely inefficient in economic terms. Keywords Accessibility; Adverse Selection; HMO (Health Maintenance Organization); Medicaid; Medicare; Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (Part D); Managed Care; "Play or Pay" State Health Care Tax Policies; Rationing Health Care; Single-Payer Health Care System; CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program); Socialized Medicine; Two-Tiered Health Care System; VA (United States Department of Veterans Affairs) The US Health Care System Social Issues Overview Health Care Systems The medical business defies the normal laws of economics in at least three important ways: * Government-run programs are often cheaper, more administratively efficient, and even of superior quality than privately-run programs at the national level. * Medical insurance functions poorly by market principles unless potential policy holders most in need of health insurance are either denied coverage or are denied the right to redeem policies — both of which result in high administrative costs;. * Improved medical technology results in higher rather than lower operating costs — unlike the corresponding relationship in most other businesses. Other factors in the inefficiency...
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...heart by-pass surgery, cancer therapy, eye surgery, organ transplantation. 2. Plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery. 3. Health spas, weight loss exercise centers, hot springs and holistic treatment including wellness therapies. Different countries have become preferred destination in each of these segments for medical tourist. India is a preferred destination for heart, orthopedic, eye and neurosurgeries. Eye surgery kidney dialysis and organ transplantation are among the most common treatments sought by medical tourist in Thailand and according to the Health Ministry, in 2004 the country attracted 600,000 medical tourists, who generated 20 billion baht in revenue. As a result, Asia’s medical tourism industry could generate over US$4.4 billion a year by 2012, with India, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea the top destinations. Tourist arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Malaysia alone totalled 29,606 in 2005, an increase of almost 40 per cent from the figure in 2004.Tourists from the UAE, did not require visas to enter Malaysia and were permitted to stay in the country up to three months. 2. Factors influencing Medical Tourism: a. Exorbitant costs of...
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...US, UK, and Canada employ one-tier board model, but the Netherlands, Germany, and several other European countries allow a two-tier board model. This distinction is of interest to this research as its focus is on the European market, and its board model, which could prove to be a key factor influencing the investment performance. Under a unitary board structure, boards are comprised of executive and non-executive directors. In contrast, under a dual board structure, boards are divided into management board and supervisory board. The management board solely contains executives and is led by CEOs. The supervisory board consists of wider directors, responsible for oversight of managers and led by the chairman. It is difficult to decide which model is better or worse as they both possess their strengthens and their limitations. A one-tier board is criticized for the efficiency in monitoring CEOs’ decision-making, but a two-tier board is disputed for the separation of board meeting, presumably leading to problems in cooperation between boards. Additionally, the existing literature referring to the impact of board model on firm performance or investment performance is limited. As such it will be added it as a measurement for board characteristics in this study. Millet-Reyes and Zhao (2010) compare the influence of one-tier and two-tier board on firm performance. They measure firm performance...
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