WHAT IS THE YAKUZA? The yakuza are basically the Japanese mafia. However‚ traditional yakuza are very different to the mafia in other countries due to how the organisations themselves are not actually illegal. They are regulated and monitored. The biggest yakuza syndicates have huge office headquarters‚ the addresses of which are listed on the National Police Agency website. The top bosses even have business cards with corporate logos. Yakuza are very different to ordinary mafia in the way they
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“Kak Em‚ there is one place called Terrapuri that you must visit because I know you like architecture so much‚” a friend told me when we discussed about places that we had and have not been and of course‚ I was surely enticed. One day‚ I was invited to join Gaya Travel team to stay at Terrapuri. I jumped at the opportunity and said yes. My family and I travelled by car to Kampung Mangkuk‚ Pantai Penarik‚ where Terrapuri is situated. Upon reaching the place‚ the gate was closed. But silly me‚ I
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Education Brain Science Ruth Fremson/The New York Times LAST month‚ two kindergarten classes at the Blue School were hard at work doing what many kindergartners do: drawing. One group pursued a variation on the self-portrait. “That’s me thinking about my brain‚” one 5-year-old-girl said of her picture. Down the hall‚ children with oil pastels in hand were illustrating their emotions‚ mapping where they started and where they ended. For one girl‚ sadness ended at home with a yummy drink and her teddy
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Cabinet Shuffle: Too Little‚ Too Late Much waited changes turn out to be little more than an excuse to reward crony BJ Nottage for his party-switching antics. Prime Minister Perry Christie last evening announced several adjustments to his cabinet in addition to giving a ministerial position to Senator BJ Nottage. Dr Nottage‚ the former leader of the Coalition for Democratic Reform‚ rejoined the Progressive Liberal Party at the PLP convention last year. He will now replace Senator Dr Marcus Bethel
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Children Pageants Should Be Banned “This can lead to eating disorders and poor self-esteem” (Overington‚ 13). Children in beauty pageants get judged on their outward appearance and get received or rejected. Children shouldn’t be allowed to compete in beauty pageants. Not only are pageants expensive‚ they make the children grow up too fast and the participants have poor self-esteem at the end of the day. Children beauty pageants are expensive. Participation in a single competition can top $3‚000 (Laura
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think people join beauty pageants? What is the purpose? They cause stress and by the end of it‚ heartbreak. Everybody that competes in them just looks like a plastic barbie doll. At the end of the day‚ contestants start feeling like one also. Most of the time they step on people’s self esteem and make them feel worthless‚ even the ones for children‚ possibly for the rest of their life. Beauty pageants should no longer persist in America due to its outcome on most beauty pageant contestants and their
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beauty pageants? This article answers that question by describing Achievement By Proxy Disorder‚ or ABPD‚ and how parental motivation changes from wanting to see their child succeed on their own to demanding their child to win competitions for the parents’ satisfaction. The article also answers the question as to how parents of pageant contestants treat their children through interviews with pageant parents and observations of reality tv shows by Martina Cartwright. Child Beauty Pageants May Be
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you would find in a glitz pageant. Glitz pageants are defined as a different type of pageant that use makeup‚ spray tanning and a great deal of glitter‚ jewels on the dresses. They use “cupcake dresses”‚ which are short dresses made of several layers of fabric with several embellishments. These are usually custom-made.(Winning through Pageantry). These types of pageants are featured on the show Toddlers and Tiaras. They show what happens in the preparation for a pageant. They show their practice
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only “wow” factor about me. One event‚ or shall I say sport‚ changed that all‚ though. A sport that many people shy away from is the one I embrace with open arms. I am talking about the sport of powerlifting. I was introduced to powerlifting the summer before my freshman year by my cousin who was going to be a junior. She had participated in the sport since her freshman year‚ and she was trying to convince me to go along the same path. She mentioned how there were only about six girls who were
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CONFESSIONS Hello everyone‚ my name’s Linh Giang and the last trend about which I’m talking is “Confession”. As you know‚ the emergence of social networking involves many tendency going with it. When adhering to Vietnam‚ Facebook has brought up trend with Q & A tool‚ immediately followed by mass trends such as changing new interface‚ " tilt " head avatar trend‚ trend avatar with applications iMadeFace ... All of this trends have been made the Facebook become more attractive and exciting to become
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