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Hill asserts that the Gulf war that took place between 1990 and 1991 was because of Saddam Hussein accusing Kuwait and United Arab Emirates of contributing significantly to the flooding of the world oil market.... The United States involvement in the gulf war a rapid and an.... The gulf war of 1990 served to make and unite the people of America and the military, and it helped to amend the wounds that were created by the war on Vietnam. ...
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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People all over the world were in grief when they came to know about his death.... McCandless truly deserves admiration from people around the world because it is not easy for an individual to give up on the material aspects of life and live naturally, especially in the world we live in today....
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Toyota: Origins, Evolution, and Current Prospects
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And then when the legendary Ohno Taiichi joined the company after the Second world war, his incisive engineering inputs helped transform the company into a reputable global player.... The automotive market in the world is said to be highly competitive and volatile.... has not only been the envy of the automotive industry “but also been held in high esteem as a symbol of manufacturing and leadership excellence in the business world.... The automotive market in the world is said to be highly competitive and volatile....
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The Essence of Human Nature and the Fight between Good and Evil in Nietzsche's Works
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To get a sense of the world that lies beyond good and evil, we must go back to an earlier time, even before a time when the world could be taken up as tragic.... Our thoughts can flow and change just as things in the universe flow and change, but a word, once uttered, cannot be changed because language has this tendency toward fixity, it expresses the world in terms of facts and things, which has led philosophers to think of the world as fixed rather than fluid....
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The Urban Thought of Jane Jacobs
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In the northern cities it was found that the population of African-American origin was growing in a rapid state and the most rapid movement was during the decade of the First world war and this is for numerous reasons.... he First world war provided the US to gear up sustainable production rates and thus instrumented a huge rise in the industrial sectors.... It would be like a Third world country, that whole area, if it wasn't getting transfer payments and grants of various kinds from the rest of Canada....
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Link between economic development and crime and corruption
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The first article by Plummer posted in the New Republic, explores the various links between crime and the economic growth which continues to be a highly debated issue till date.... Economic upheavals in many countries are being viewed by many experts as major triggering factors for.... ... ... However, some experts disagree with this notion as believe that such deviant behavior is not always fueled by downturns or a robust economy....
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Is PWC A True Successor To Washington Consensus
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After the outbreak of the economic chaos during 2008 and 2009, it was thought that Washington consensus has found its end (Poverty and development policy).... This was influential among the mainstream journalists, economists as well as global institutions like the IMF and the world Bank.... This was influential among the mainstream journalists, economists as well as global institutions like the IMF and the world Bank.... These institutions were the IMF, world Bank and the US treasury department....
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The Great Depression and President Roosevelts New Deal
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This happened after the war where war expenditures multiplied America's GNP that contributed to its meteoric rise after the Great Depression.... The New Deal proved to be effective as it did not only end the Great Depression but made America as the strongest economy in the world (The New Deal).... From being paupers with nothing to eat during the Great Depression to become the most affluent country in the world.... The positive effect of Great Depression and New Deal on America's lifestyle is that it taught them resilience and to value hard work to achieve anything and even to become as the strongest country in the world....
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How Words Can Change Life
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Up above the world you fly.... Now is the time for me to reflect on my future, by understanding my current identity and my understanding of my place in this world.... The author of the paper "How Words Can Change Life?... argues in a well-organized manner that he is reminded of the words, 'Now is a good time to try something new....
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Foundation of The Republic of Turkey
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In spite of this Ottoman participated in the First world war being a German ally and was defeated by the victorious forces.... In world war II Turkey joined Allied force with the purpose of becoming a United Nations member.... In 1923 Ottoman Empire, which was a 600 years old empire, collapsed after a three year long war of independence.... In 1923 Ottoman Empire, which was a 600 years old empire, collapsed after a three year long war of independence....
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Propaganda of Big Tobacco Companies
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Although people in the Western modernized world seem to be letting go of the smoking habit as it becomes more widely acknowledged that smoking carries with it significant health risks, tobacco company practices in developing worlds and in the past in the modern countries can be seen to use plenty of persuasion techniques to encourage individuals to smoke....
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Credit Cards and Buying Stuff Online
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Globalization accelerated in the post world war II era.... Because of this aid, Western Europe was able to rebuild after world war II.... The United States also encouraged globalization by encouraging and instituting exchange rates which were fixed globally during the war.... The modern era of globalization began in the 1940s, with work being redistributed around the world (Schaeffer, 2005, p.... That said, even in the 1920s, the world was interconnected, as the United States stock market crash had reverberations that were felt around the world (Wojcicka et al....
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Cultural Pluralism
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Earlier before 1914, the world of trade and business boomed until there was emergence of war among the great nations that destroyed this.... There were some wars like the American civil war that did not have much negative influence.... Throughout the world, people forget the old and traditions but the fact is that they have to struggle to survive.... A sociologist from Harvard Daniel Bell wrote that the state of the nation is too small compared to the world's big problems yet too big for the world's small problems....
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Authors Way of Illustrating the A&P Store
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The paper "Authors Way of Illustrating the A&P Store " highlights that Sammy gives up his job for reasons, which run much deeper than just astonishing a couple of girls.... The boy did not essentially want Queenie, but instead, he desired her way of life.... ... ... ... In A&P, the author illustrates the store akin to a 50's "Leave it to Beaver" sort of setting....
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The Impact of Media on the Youth
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have given the worst labels to Arabs, including, ‘“barbaric and cruel,” “treacherous”, “war-like” and “rich”' (Lester, 340).... This paper claims that media is gaining too much power in today's world and thus developing the wrong ideals and values in the young generation.... Most of the western world stereotypes the Arabs as rich terrorists with big beards and turbans.... The world Wide Web may be a bundle of opportunities but in the recent times, the problems associated with media usage among the youth is also coming to the forefront....
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Beauty and Majesty of the Natural World Need to Be Tied to a Higher or More Spiritual Force
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For most of the believers of world religions, nature is beautiful and majestic as long as its phenomena are sanctioned by some deity.... In most of such hierarchies of world religions, human beings are usually situated above the other living creatures, so that the decisions about the entire ecosystems are made, so to speak, in their ‘favour'.... The paper "Beauty and Majesty of the Natural world Need to Be Tied to a Higher or More Spiritual Force" discusses that conflicts are possible on the ground of diversity of spiritual practices....
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Rising Affluence and a Reduction in the Production of Waste Emissions within the UK
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For example, at the time of the Second world war, the United Kingdom economy was centred on manufacturing, producing many of the ammunition and weaponry in the war against Nazi Germany.... The years after the end of the war saw a continuation of the process, this time the labour was utilized for rebuilding the war ravaged country.... But in the decades since, a gradual process of neo-liberal globalization took centre stage across the world, making countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom a services-based economy....
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Title: Why the Civil Rights Movement was a struggle (1865-1965 & beyond)
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The civil rights movement started after the civil war of 1861-1865, which culminated to the end of slavery with African-Americans recognized as American citizens besides attaining the right to vote.... The civil rights movement was a social strife in pursuit of the rights of black Americans, which took place after the end of the civil war of between 1861 and 1865.... The major events in the movement include the civil war of 1861 to 1865, the bus boycott of 1955, the Lincoln memorial march of 1963 and the signing of the civil rights act of 1964 by President Johnson....
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Disease in Culture
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Different themes of disease in the cultural context can be identified and reviewed through the consideration of human behavioral aspects, theories in health science and medicine, and the perceptions and views of disease in different parts of the world.... Different themes of disease in the cultural context can be identified and reviewed through the consideration of human behavioral aspects, theories in health science and medicine and the perceptions and views of disease in different parts of the world....
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Ethics in Medical Trials
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For instance, the outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa has led to the establishment of drug trial experiment to be conducted by Oxford University Scientists.... Medical research carried out in different medical centers is challenging, especially at the commencing of the 21st century with the aftermath of both the first and Second world Wars.... Medical researches carried out in different medical centers are challenging, especially in the commencing of the 21st century with the aftermath of both the first and Second world Wars....
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Understanding the Concepts of Realized Return of the Stock
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For example the outbreak of fire in a complex is simply a probabilistic event and depends highly on chance factors.... Second factor hints on the different economic changes that are taking place in the external world and the effect of such changes on the position of the stock.... (2009), An Introduction to Accounting and Managerial Finance: A Merger of Equals, world Scientific. ... (2001), Computational finance: a scientific perspective, world Scientific. ...
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Major Theories of Human Nature
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They solve their differences through fighting and going to war.... The consequences of their rationality and irrationality can be seen and felt; organizations providing homes for street and poor children, scholarships provided to poor bright students, parents taking good care of children and ensuring they have everything they need (rational), and drug trafficking to the youth, increased corruption, grabbing land of other people, fighting others for oil regions, raping women during war (irrational) among others....
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Importance of a Human Interventionism
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umanitarian intervention for bringing democracy to other nations has become a primary focus since world war II.... Military interventions have a long history both prior to and during the Cold war, and even at the turn of the decade it was not apparent that they might no longer be undertaken in the future.... Charter), the military assault on Afghanistan constituted the first act in what was declared to be an "endless war.... Panama was left to bury its 300 fatalities, care for its 3,000 wounded men, women, and children, tend to its 18,000 homeless, and rebuild the war-torn districts of its capital city (Physicians for Human Rights, December 1990). ...
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Reflecting on Classes as a Way to Improve Ones Education
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In our contemporary world, it is clear we have a serious lack of these important principles.... We both perceived each other as more fully formed people and began to understand what sort of stimuli influenced one another's perceptions and experiences of the world....
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The Ultimate Defeat of Napoleon in France: 1812-1815
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The Ultimate Defeat of Napoleon in France: 1812-1815 (School) The Ultimate Defeat of Napoleon in France: 1812-1815Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest military commanders in history, and his campaigns have been used throughout the history of war.... During the French Revolutionary war, as noted by Wikipedia (2006), Napoleon became a successful general at the unprecedented age of 25.... He was the child of minor Corsican nobility and made himself known and popular during the war....
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Beowulf as a Good King
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As often as possible, there were war attacks on the kingdom of Beowulf.... It is not surprising that on a constant basis, enemies who also wanted to show their supremacy would wage war against Beowulf and for that matter, his kingdom.... These are all factors that made the kingdom of Beowulf a very war-filled one.... Having noted that battles and wars came to disturb the peace and growth of Beowulf's kingdom, the next question to ask the question of how Beowulf rose above all these acts of war to distinguish himself as a great king....
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Taoism: A Complete Way of Living
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If anything unnatural is done by a person, the natural balance of the world is disturbed, which brings disturbances in a day to day life.... We can mingle the ancient texts with our modern life and see world with a different perspective-i.... Lanham: world Wisdom, 2010....
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The Culture and Lifestyle of Australian Aboriginal
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Within the first few weeks of the arrival of the British, there was an outbreak of Old World epidemic diseases, such as smallpox.... he whole world was asleep.... The national instrument of the Aboriginal people is considered the yirdaki, and is said to be the world's oldest wind instrument.... The world of the First Australians....
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The Legacy of Vietnam
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Professor History January, 2012 The Legacy of Vietnam The Legacy of Vietnam written by George Herring explains the chronology of the later years of the Vietnam war and the various implications it had on the American popular behavior, global politics, and the immediate indo Chinese region.... The writer starts off with highlighting the tremendous cost of the war in terms of human lives and suffering.... The ending years were marked by increasing anti-war sentiments in the American public due to war weariness....
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To what extent is gender conflict a major theme of Aeschylus' Oresteia
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the consequences of the conflict between male and female (Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) which is expressed using a series of events and intermediate persons (the war in Troy, Casssandra – the slave of Agamemnon who stayed with him after the end of the war in Troy and so on).... 9) ‘gender can always be used as a coded sign to stand for some more abstract category in organizing a specific world view and the means to its maintenance or transformation'....
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What does Weber mean by charismatic authority How and why does he contrast it to bureaucracy
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One observer, writing from the Cold war era of the 1950s, saw charismatic leadership falling into the direction of a totalitarian kind of regime where it has become institutionalized into a bureaucratic type of government (Constas).... If a democratic leader moves its people to war without going through the official routes, this could be seen as an example of the charismatic leader, as in the case of the first President George Bush leading the country into world with Iraq....
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Incorporating for the Pledge of Allegiance in Public School
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ervices, forms and customs of patriotism were first employed in the United States between the Civil War and world war i.... The change is usually ascribed to a cold-war attempt at differentiating the United States from officially atheistic Communist countries.... At the end of the bloodiest civil war of the 19th century, the combatants left the battlefields for political, economic, and cultural arenas, where the struggle to make a nation continued with renewed intensity....
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Oil Spills in the Gulf Countries
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The biggest of these oil spills was the on that happened during the 1991 Gulf war.... Because of war and the high rate of evaporation of the water, too much drilling and extraction of oil, pollution due to spilling of oil has gone up alarmingly.... Among the causes of oil spills are war and the other is accidents.... Oil spills resulting from war have not been many but a good example was the 1991 Gulf war oil spill (Chu et al 2)....
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MHE512 Disaster Relief Module 2 SLP
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According to the Center for Research and Epidemiology of Disasters, the country actually tops the world's most disaster prone country in the period 1900-1991 with almost 8 disasters per year.... (world Bank Institute Distance Learning, 2006d) ... BACKGROUND: The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelagic nation belonging to the South East Asian region....
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Risk Management Process in Wal-Mart
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In 2010 alone, Wal-Mart had cumulative sales of $405 billion, making it a formidable retail outlet in the world (Wal-Mart, 2011a).... In 2010 alone, Wal-Mart had cumulative sales of $405 billion, making it a formidable retail outlet in the world (Wal-Mart 2011a)....
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My Own Philosophical Approach
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econdly, a lot of the disharmony, war and crime we see around us is because people are unfulfilled.... And if a country as a whole prospers due to the efforts of its citizens, it is less likely to get into a war, which can only harm its interests and drain its resources, because it already has enough prosperity on its own and does not need to encroach on another country's interests. ... Sometimes, when an economy is in recession due to natural calamities like floods, quakes or hurricanes or man-made situations like war or economic trends , it is difficult to find employment, for example in places like New Orleans post-Katrina, or in Detroit where the car industry is on a downward spiral....
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The Many Features of Chinese Nationalism
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Because of the events between the Opium War and the end of world war II, the Chinese people have developed a sense of victimization at the hands of the outside world, as well as a dream of a return to the glory of their imperialist strength.... The fact that an Internet petition consisting of over 20 million Chinese signatures opposing Japan's admission to the Security Council, combined with the huge Chinese protests concerning the use of history books in Japan that mostly ignore the Japanese atrocities in world war II, shows that there is a lot of rage in China that could be tapped and sent in irresponsible directions....
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National Literacy Strategy
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Reporter Wendy Berliner, in her Guardian article "war of Words" (2005), outlines the success of a Scottish reading program using synthetic phonics and discusses the pros and cons of the system.... Until 2002 in England, baseline testing was the method followed in education.... It was first introduced by the Government in the mid 1990s, but when it was scrutinized in 2000, it became evident that other European countries were ahead of the United Kingdom in the education field, especially in reading skills....
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Huckleberry Finn and 19th Century
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The war continued for a long time and was not resolved even until the 1950s.... n order to make some sense of the world that we find in Huckleberry Finn, it is important to understand what was happening in the nation as a whole during the time when this novel was written.... For this reason, we shall be focusing on Mark Twain's account of the life in Mississippi around 1830s to 1860s and also some records given by his contemporaries that help us understand Huckleberry's world....
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How Has Russia Been Affected by Globalization
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Introduction The 1990s saw a number of intense international changes, including the end of Cold war, and the emergence of a phenomenon termed as globalization.... These two significant international events are the subjects of most Global Political Economy (GPE) studies, debates and discussions, because, besides sharing prominence in the same period, the resulting Russian democracy out of the end of the Cold war, has been hugely affected by globalization trends. ...
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United States of America Veterans Suicide
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Well, PTSD is one of the greatest issues affecting war veterans and can be attributed to veteran suicide.... When military men go to war, they come back as different people with regards to how they perceive the world around them.... Thus, instead of condemning war veterans for committing suicide, they should help to overcome the plight that leads them to suicide in the first place....
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Role of Globalization in International Terrorism
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aracasculu writes that by targeting the United States, the al-Qaeda was waging a war against globalization considering that the United States is the leader of globalization (3).... After the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared a war on terror and invaded Iraq supposedly to stamp out the al-Qaeda.... Clearly, waging a war on a country that openly supports terrorism as proved futile considering that when ne terrorist group is crushed, another one emerges....
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In-Country Work of by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Detract from His Main Mandate
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This attitude had greatly limited the scope of UNHCR intervention in the crisis, during the beginning months of Iraq war.... During the Vietnam war a controversy erupted when UNHCR repatriated minor children by separating them from their families in order to discourage them to escape from the country and become refugees (Greenhouse, Mertz and Warren, 2002, pp.... In the Kosovo war, “65,000 refugees (had) attempted to enter Macedonia at the Blace crossing”, which was blocked by UNHCR by insisting on the “obligation of first asylum states” (Booth, 2001, pp....
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The European Union
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Since world war two, there have been nearly sixty limited war conflicts which have required intervention from one or more of the global powers and several situations have been averted altogether with the use of diplomacy and economic measures as exemplified by the workings of the European Union. ... The global reality which faces us today is a result of the developments of world affairs which took place towards the end of the cold war.... herefore, on issues such as the Iraq war and other points which can lead nations to be divided, the EU loses some of its bite because different countries within the union may have different opinions on how the matter should be dealt with....
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Terrorism as a Tactic of Warfare
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on Clausewitz's ArgumentVon Clausewitz's analysis of war is useful in analyzing terrorism, and are evident in Stewart's Analyzing Terrorism cited earlier in this discussion.... Von Clausewitz held that it was important to analyze who was conducting the war, or, in this case, the act of terrorism (French).... Identifying who is making the war helps explain the rationale....
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The U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
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Ferencz, the Chief Prosecutor of war criminals at the famous Nuremberg Trials following world war Two, condemned the hostile occupation of Iraq invasion calling it an “aggressive war” and declared that Bush, the war's architect, “should be put on trial for his war crimes” (Glantz, 2006).... Subsequent to the massive human carnage that occurred throughout the Second world war, the United Nations Charter was crafted so as to prevent this kind of action from ever occurring again....
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The Patriot - Movie Review
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During the time, some states in America had gone into war with England in order to be independent.... Having served in a war, Benjamin fully understands the implication of the war in terms of casualties and destruction.... In the bid to gain independence, the State gathering at Charleston endorses a war.... Upon the onset of war, Benjamin's hands are tied and he half-heartedly allows Benjamin to join the war....
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Regulating Unconventional Conflicts
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This paper ''Regulating Unconventional Conflicts'' tells that The world's largest and most powerful empires, from the ancient Roman and Qing empires to the modern world's British Empire, were created and maintained through war and armed conflicts.... egulating Unconventional Conflicts The world's largest and most powerful empires, from the ancient Roman and Qing empires to the modern world's British Empire, were created and maintained through war and armed conflicts....
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Way to Get Efficient Allocation of Recourses
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The paper "Way to Get Efficient Allocation of Recourses" suggests the only way to get a really efficient distribution of recourses is to combine and to use all the attractions, and favorable advantages of both market and government.... of great importance is the market's ability to self-regulation....
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Religious terrorists are modern manifestations of historical traditions of extremism
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A lot of Muslims protest that the present news media emphasis on the propagation of Islamic terrorist sects in the Middle East and other areas in the world dishonorably depicts Islam as a religion that tolerates the act of terrorism.... All around the world, there are various instances of faith-grounded and faith-stimulated persons, groups and associations....
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