European Scientific Journal September edition vol. 8‚ No.21 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 BOKO HARAM: A 21st CENTURY CHALLENGE IN NIGERIA A. F. Ahokegh‚ PhD Department of History & Int. Studies Kogi State University‚ Anyigba Abstract Though‚ Nigeria has ever faced series of security threatening challenges‚ the one caused by the activities of the Islamist sect‚ the Boko Haram remains quite unique in all ramifications. For instance‚ the Jos crises that claimed dozens of human lives
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Justin Newhouse Period 7 2/4/12 Muckrakers of the 21st Century‚ Child Labor Despite common belief‚ child labor still exists in the United States. In some areas more than others. The government defines child labor as "work which‚ by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out‚ is likely to harm the health‚ safety or morals of children." There are companies in America that employ kids who; ● are under the required age to do jobs in dangerous environments ●
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Challenges facing the nursing profession in the 21st century. Looking ahead at some of the challenges facing the nursing profession seem pretty daunting. Nursing shortages‚ a rapidly aging population (to also include an aging nursing population)‚ short staffed hospitals are the norm these days. These are just a few examples of some of the problems facing nurses today and into the next century. With a population growing and hospital care struggling to keep up as it is‚ we have a catastrophe
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Food For All In The 21st Century By Gordon Conway Gordon Conway is president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. His expertise is in the field of agricultural ecology. This article is drawn from his most recent book. The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century (Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1998). Conway is a former contributing editor of Environment. He can be contacted at the Rockefeller Foundation‚ 420 Fifth Avenue‚ New York‚ NY 10018. For most of the
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Slide 2 William Glasser is one of the greatest educational thinkers during the 20th and 21st Century. He contends that student behavior will not improve until educators and administrators change the way they work with students. Trying to force students to learn behavior responsibly is hopeless because it is contrary to their natural inclinations. Glasser believes all human behavior is purposeful. We can not blame anyone else but ourselves for good or improper behavior. He believes that
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’’The Railway Development in Hong Kong in the 21st Century’’ Railway in Hong Kong in general means a train service for carrying people and cargo in Hong Kong Territory and also crossing the Hong Kong and Chinese border to or from Mainland. Trains were first steam hauled in the past‚ then diesel trains replaced steam trains and of course nowadays in the 21 century‚ all the trains have been electrified. According to our history railway service have been providing to Hong Kong citizens for more
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How influential is scientific management in the 21st century? 1. Scientific management was originally developed in the 1800s by an economist‚ Adam Smith. He was interested in a factory that operated and produced pins‚ and through the breaking down of tasks e.g. division of labour he increased output from 20 pins per employee per day to 4‚800 pins. However the greatest break through in scientific management came in the 1900s during the peak of the industrial revolution‚ and due to the emergence
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The article ¨ Amazon. Com Is a 21st Century Deal with the Devil ¨ is written by Amy Koss. She informs the reader that amazon is dealing with the devil. The reason the author says this is because everyone is buying items on amazon and stores are running out of business. No one would rather go to the store to get something when they can purchase the item at home and get it shipped to them also. When buying items from amazon it is usually cheaper online than at stores‚ so you can see why stores are
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of a reflection helps students to seek and understand the relation between concepts learned in the classroom and real-life incidents. In this presentation‚ we had to answer the question What do Christian denomination offer to Australian in the 21st Century? We started off with a group of three; Rose‚ Krystelle and Lisa‚ but then Lisa one of our group member she changed classes so then Krystelle and I we were the only ones left. As a group of three we allocated 3-4 questions to each group
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Corporate scandals surrounding the turn of 21st century‚ creation of The Sarbanes and Oxley Act of 2002 and its effects on business environment. The opening years of the twenty-first century were very challenging to the US economy. Not only the stock market reached one of the lowest levels since the crisis of 1930‚ but also several high profile corporate scandals shook the public trust. Insider trading‚ fraudulent financial reporting and other illegal practices caused investors to question reliability
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