5 Life Style I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community‚ and as long as I live‚ it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)‚ the Irish literary Critic‚ Playwright and Essayist A life is what is given to us; a lifestyle is what is given by us. A lifestyle goes through a life cycle. As we grow‚ we go through our life‚ we travel through a series of institutional communities: first our family‚ then our school and university‚ then workplace‚ then
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Jennifer Serrano Mrs. Altstiel World Literature June 6‚ 2018 The Holodomor: the Famine-Genocide Introduction The thought of being hungry is painful‚ but imagine what it’s like starving to death. It is estimated that over 7 million people died in Ukraine during the Holodomor‚ which was a man-made famine that began in 1932 (Babcock). Although it was clearly a genocide against Ukrainians‚ many people‚ especially Russians‚ still disagree that it is. They refuse to accept that Joseph Stalin‚ an admired
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Why are some countries called developing countries‚ and some developed countries? Why are some countries called developing countries‚ and some developed countries? In this essay I’m going to talk about this question. Since this is a very wide subject I could talk about only a single country or a single issue‚ but I will try to discuss about the whole aggregate. Some of the main points are starvation‚ education‚ child labor‚ safety and human rights. These issues are very different in developed and
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‘Nazification’ of government‚ police and the courts The country was divided into 42 Gaus‚ each with a Nazi Gauleiter with the power to make laws. Each street and block of flats had a Blockleiter who reported ‘grumblers’ to the police; the Nazis successfully encouraged the idea of Volksgemeinschaft (national community). German people enthusiastically reported troublemakers to the Gestapo. April 1934: ‘People’s Courts’ were set up with Nazi judges who gave the ‘right’ verdict. The police were
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Environmental Disasters For the purpose of this article an environmental disaster is defined as a specific event caused by human activity that results in a seriously negative effect on the environment. Sometimes a natural disaster can become an environmental disaster‚ but that is a topic to be discussed elsewhere. In most cases environmental disasters are caused by human error‚ accident‚ lack of foresight‚ corner cutting during industrial processes‚ greed‚ or by simple incompetence. In other
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deaths caused by the accident vary. The TORCH Report written by over a hundred experts from the World Health Organization‚ the International Atomic Energy agency‚ United Nations Developmental Program‚ other UN bodies‚ also government officials from Belarus‚ Russia and Ukraine estimates a massive 300 000 – 600 000 deaths.3 Greenpeace reports 200 000 deaths.4 According to the World Health Organization radiation doses to the cleanup workers in one
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RESEARCH PAPER: SPORTS WOMEN’S SOCCER Women’s soccer has been greatly undermined through the years. When one talks of football‚ the men’s version quickly comes to mind and the female version seems non-existent to football lovers worldwide. Regarded as the lesser version of the men’s game‚ it is rarely mentioned or watched and very little hype arises when a women’s football tournament is ongoing. There may be many reasons for such low recognition of the women’s game‚ most notable of which include
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of despair‚ and often some type of mental disorder is present in the person who commits suicide. Suicide has become a serious issue in the world‚ more so in the developed nations. Suicide rates are highest in the Baltic states‚ such as Lithuania‚ Belarus‚ and Russia. The suicide rate in the US is half that in Russia (30‚000 compared to 60‚000). Since the time Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451‚ the suicide rate in the US has nearly tripled. Almost 11‚600 people took their own lives in 1950 (Suicide Rates
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Youth Speech delivered by Barbara Streibl and Fatih Oezcan‚ Ban All Nukes generation Ambassador Cabactulan‚ distinguished delegates‚ ladies and gentlemen Today at this historic NPT conference more youth are present than ever before. We came from all over the world to this year’s Review Conference with a great notion of hope. This is a message we want to spread and gain momentum. We believe it is crucial that this positive and enthusiastic atmosphere will be maintained and transformed into a positive
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Reason One: The entire world would be more secure if the planet were free of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the only type of weapon in existence that have the capacity to annihilate the human species and countless other species. The very existence of nuclear weapons leaves open the possibility that a nuclear exchange might take place. This could happen intentionally‚ inadvertently (as in the Cuban Missile Crisis when the U.S. and USSR almost blundered into nuclear war)‚ or by an accidental
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