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    4.2 White Paper on Local Government According to the White Paper on Local Government, local authorities have the following responsibilities in terms of their obligation to economic development: ● Provide marketing and investment support in order to attract potential support to their locality. ● Small business support services should be providing to assist small entrepreneurs. ● To provide targeted assistance to a particular sector in the local economy that has to potential to expand. ● By supplementing

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    The counties in Texas have an odd relationship with the state government and the Texas constitution. The counties are under the state and they are required to handle duties that the state rants them. However, the counties are strongly against the involvement of the state government. Brown (2014) states that “both county officials and county residents see them as local governments and resent any state ‘interference’” (p.110). The counties are charged with the responsibilities of collecting taxes on

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    describing how some states have consolidated the county and city functions into a single entity, and my opinion on whether or not Texas would be better maintaining its several distinct types or consolidating them into a single larger entity. The commissioner’s court has several roles such as taxes, discretion in administering state programs, determine how much state funding is provided to each special area (medical, supplemental food, etc.), upkeep and new county jails, all while providing health and safety

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    establish this comparison in a short-run period of time, it will be beneficial to use the Phillip Curve. This curve can be used as a tool to represent the positive relationship between inflation and unemployment in the short-run. In order to comprehend the positive relationship between inflation and unemployment first, we must know what inflation is, how we define unemployment, and how we can use the Phillip Curve to make a functional comparison of these two variables. Moreover, it will be very beneficial

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    Everyone is the same. Everything is the same. The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce, is set in a utopian society. This community was created to bring sameness to people and leave out pain, emotion, and differentness. Ruled by “The Elders”, the members of the community are assigned to a specific job, which dwelling you live in and who you live in it with. The Elders also decide all of the rules including a ban on lying, a community curfew, and the words you use. When the leading role, Jonas (Brenton

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    The Phillips Curve Essay

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    The Phillips Curve Economists agree that unemployment and inflation are two of the major macroeconomic problems of the twentieth century. If a relationship between the two existed then this would be a major break through for the macro management of the economy. Phillips' work was empirical - started with evidence and worked towards a theory. The causation for the Phillips theory was that the level of unemployment caused the rate of change in money wages to be what it was. 'What economic

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    Martin Scorsese directed the movie Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, that came out on February 19, 2010. The movie portrays many different examples of critical theory. Having watched the movie before my analysis, when I heard of Jung’s Analytical Archetype theory I linked it with this movie almost immediately. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, developed the idea that all archetypes are universal images that come from the collective unconscious and are almost instinctive to us all. Jung’s

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    Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Phillips curve The Phillips curve history and overview The Phillips curve represents a relationship between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. The Phillips curve is named after its first exponent A.H.W. Phillips who was a classical economist who first came up with this relationship. He posited that the lower the employment rate firms are forced to source for funds so as to increase wages and be able to attract labour. This in turns leads to a rise in money

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    Identify the movie by stating its title, the year it was released, the name of the director, where the story is set, and the time period in which the story takes place. Notes: The Giver. Released in 2014 by The Weinstein Company and Directed by Phillip Noyce. Who is the protagonist and what is he or she like? Notes: His name is Jonas. He is 18 years old. Jonas is smart, he has integrity and he is hard headed. He wants to make a difference. Who or what is the antagonist and what is he, she

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    Dana Cutler Sparknotes

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    Dana Cutler is a fictional character in the Dana Cutler series of novels written by legal thriller writer Phillip Margolin. The Dana Cutler character was first introduced in Executive Privilege, the first novel of the series published in 2008. Dana Cutler is a young private detective working in Washington DC. The series begins with Dana is a successful private detective that has the strange talent of solving the most intricate of mysteries. The series opens to Cutler being hired by a powerful attorney

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