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    How is it that an industry generates $32 billion annually by violating human’s rights? It’s a form of modern day slavery‚ Human Trafficking effecting 21 million women/men and children globally. These innocent victims are sexually exploited‚ forced into labour work against their own will. The traffickers use threat‚ manipulative tactics to force these vulnerable victims to work for the exploiters selfish desire to earn wealth. It’s a disgrace to humanity. What would it feel like having someone else

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    Discuss the effect drugs have had on Modern International Sports Events such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games Due to the high standards‚ professionalism and interest in high profile sporting events such as the Olympics‚ the Commonwealth games and Tour De France‚ some participants would take great risks‚ both legal and illegal to try and win the event‚ without knowing the consequences and side-effects of these risks. For example‚ some of the athletes taking part in these events went as

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    1. Modern day golf was invented during the year 1457 in Scotland. South Florida golf courses came much later. 2. Golf was banned three times for years after it was invented because the Scottish government believed it interfered with military training. 3. Because every list of facts about golf needs a one‚ here is a Tiger fact: Tiger Woods has won astounding 77 PGA tournaments to date. 4. And another: Tiger Woods made his first hole-in-one at the age of eight. 5. Almost 80% of golfers will never have

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    It was grand Final day at the Wimborne sports ground my stomach was churning inside of me. I Stumbled to my hands and began to throw up in one of the shrubs in the car park. I was interrupted by dads laughing “You sissy stop begin a girl and get with your team we’ve got a grand final to win!” I replied back “Well actually dad if you remember‚ the only reason our team made it to the grand final was because of me” my dad just laughed and said “Sure‚ sure whatever you believe Aden”. The only reason

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    of all is women issues. Do you believe women are treated equally in America? My answer is no. It seems as though we have made so many strides in our history‚but discrimination never seems to go away. Women are seen as to emotional for things‚in this day and age we are seen weak because we have children and hearts and we not only judge mentally but with our hearts. I believe there is sexism in the States. Maybe women are treated equally under the law. But in the long run‚ it’s not the law that counts

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    Prison Labor: Budget Saving or Modern Day Slavery? Tracing back to the beginning of man-kind‚ there has always been crime. As man became socially strengthened‚ he developed rules and order as to how man should conduct himself in a growingly common social setting. These rules began to grow and change over time until they grew into laws. As laws became more and more widespread‚ accepted and encouraged‚ they also became hated‚ unwanted and tried. As a result of this unavoidable action of resistance

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    What makes a hero? Is it muscles? What about intelligence? In fact‚ in early Greek and Middle Eastern cultures‚ muscles and brains had nothing to do in the making of a hero. The definition of heroism means something different to everyone; however‚ the concepts of heroism differ greatly between Greek and Middle Eastern cultures and the modern idea such as the deeds one does and his or her attitude. A hero is a hero whether it be fighting a bloody battle to save all the citizens in the city or it

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    The Semenya case was not informed by a select group of knowledge structures: it was informed by areas of knowledge such as History‚ Natural Sciences‚ Ethics and Politics all of which are essential in the formation of a modern day epistemology of an individual’s identity and hence‚ their positioning in a largely dichotomous‚ gendered society. However‚ this epistemology is deeply rooted in power structures: whose voice is society conditioned to recognize as authoritative and reliable ? One position

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    Human Trafficking Human trafficking simply said is modern day slavery. This is an act that is not new‚ especially in overseas areas. It is defined as the movement of people (mostly women and children)‚ through violence‚ deception‚ and coercion for the purpose of forced labor‚ servitude‚ or slavery-like practices. It is one of the worst and most prominent international crimes. It has become popular because traffickers can make easy profits in poor and deprived regions of the world by exploitation

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    Racial Profiling: A Modern Day Epidemic Did you know that an appalling‚ unconstitutional and pernicious attack happens continuously in today’s society against innocent citizens and nobody does anything about it? This practice is called racial profiling. Mr. Bob Herbert‚ a journalist for the New York Times‚ discusses this in his article‚ “Hounding the Innocent”. This article is an insightful and informative. He informs his readers about many actual situations of innocent citizens becoming victims

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