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    The National Minimum Wage Should be increased to a Living Wage. Back in 1998 Labour 's’ Tony Blair introduced the national minimum wage (NMW). It was created in aid of employers not valuing their workforce, often giving them very little wages. When it was first introduced the rate was set at £3.60 and has slowly risen to £6.70. However this is not enough to live on. It has been estimated that you need no less than £7.85 an hour, rising to £9.15 in London, to survive on. There is a clear difference

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    In this essay, the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 (OBFTC Act) will be discussed, and whether or not it replicates the existing common law crime of Breach of the Peace. The two will be contrasted; their main similarities and differences, and I will be giving my view as to why I believe the Act is irrelevant in Scots Law today. First, Breach of the Peace. This is an important public order offence in common law. Half of all recorded crime are ‘miscellaneous’

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    handbooks, scholarly articles, and journal articles discussing football hooliganism in Turkey and Italy and the hooliganism trend in the world. For example, the article: “Stereotyping among football fans in Turkey”, which is published by the middle east technical university library in Turkey is a useful and credible source that includes data from the Turkish football field and mainly about the hooliganism trend and incidents from some football fanatics in Turkey. Therefore, I use it several times in my

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    “Futball,” which is commonly called and known as soccer, is a sport that is played between two teams; each containing eleven players with a spherical ball. The main objective of the sport’s players is to make a goal by using any part of their body, excluding their arms. As we learned in class, like many sports nowadays, soccer went through many changes ever since the earliest form of soccer was played. While the game was only popular in a handful of countries back in its earliest years, soccer spread

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    for a variety of functions ranging from football and rugby matches to concerts and private events. The stadium was to have a 50-year design life, and be both functional and architecturally significant. In addition, it was essential that the stadium allowed as much daylight and ventilation to reach the pitch as possible. A main goal was to have the build achieve UEFA five-star stadium status. The project was to be funded by a combination of state (National Lottery Fund) and private investment.

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    different ways in which people differ from each other examples are appearance, ability, gender, talent ,race and many more. Equality Is to try to treat people equally by give everyone equal opportunity. A personal example is i have disability football team one of the players are not very good but i always give same time and chance as better players this shows equality. Inclusion It is about ensuring that there are no barriers that would exclude people,

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    introduced a strong system of government. During this time Scotland remained independent. Culturally speaking there were several aspects: - Middle English and NOT the Norman French had become the dominant language in all classes. - The Anglo-Saxon concept of common law NOT Roman law formed the basis of the legal system. - Wales was never settled in great numbers by Saxon or Norman, thus (Celtic) Welsh language remained strong. - Scotland gradually switched to English language and customs in the

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    lobbied in favour of and defended on behalf of the women’s football community”

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    This case study will to examine wheelchair rugby, and how Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby Limited organises play, qualifications, the specialist equipment used in the sport, as well as the development of the sport with in the UK. This is due to the author’s ability to rugby and interest in how rugby has been developed into a disability sport. Wheelchair rugby, formally known as Murderball, was developed in Canada in 1977 by quadriplegic athletes (International Wheelchair Rugby Federation, 2014).

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    for athletes, managers and coaches (IOC Factsheet, 2014). The IOC has developed both educational and training programs targeted at women in Sports to empower them to take up leadership positions within the administrative structures in the NOCs and National Sports Federations (IOCs Factsheet, 2014). Despite all these interventions and modifications, organised sports still remains the institution that perpetuates gender inequality (McDonagh and Pappano 2008:247) and a platform where inequality prospers

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