world a better place by helping people in special ways. 1. Our first individual who is making a difference is a refugee from Burma. Thousands of people flee Burma each year to escape poverty‚ oppression and civil war. Many of them choose to stay in Thailand. Cynthia Maung is a Burmese doctor who operates a small public health center near the Thai border with Burma. She is making a difference in her community by providing services that are not available to most people in this area. 2. Many
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to support a number of countries to form provisional governments in the captured regions‚ including those in Burma‚ the Philippines and Vietnam‚ and in addition‚ the Provisional Government of Azad Hind‚ presided by Bose.[5] Bose’s effort‚ however‚ was short lived; in 1945 the British army first halted and then reversed the Japanese U Go offensive‚ beginning the successful part of the Burma Campaign. Bose’s Indian National Army was driven down the Malay Peninsula‚ and surrendered with the recapture
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constitutes it was closely linked‚ for trade‚ economy‚ movement and education‚ to the adjoining areas of the East Bengal or Burma. The Khasi‚ Jaintia and Garo Hills maintained close relations with Sylhet‚ the Mizo hills with the Chittagong Hills Tracts and Tripura with Comilla‚ Noakhali and Sylhet. Parts of the Mizo Hills‚ Manipur and the Naga hills had direct links with Burma‚ where many of their ethnic kinsmen lived. The areas of the former North-East Frontier Agency (now Arunachal Pradesh) had close
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government website. | I believe that this is reliable because it is a website | Cause: The Cause of the Tsunami was because of a 9.3 earthquake. The earthquake was caused because of the collision of the Indian Plate and Burma plate. The Indian plate actually slipped under the Burma plate because of a fault line. Location: The Epicentre of the original earthquake was located in the Indian Ocean near Banda Acen in North Indonesia. Countries Affected: The Countries that were severely affected by the
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(USGS). The earthquake that shook the West of Northern Sumatra‚ Indonesia‚ as well as many other neighboring countries‚ was of a great 9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale. “At the source of the earthquake‚ the interface between the India plate and the Burma plate dips about 10 degrees to the east-northeast. The subducting plate dips more steeply at greater depths”(USGS). The quake occurred when the Earth’s crust‚ a 1‚200 km segment of the crust‚ shifted
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to support a number of countries to form provisional governments in the captured regions‚ including those in Burma‚ the Philippines and Vietnam‚ and in addition‚ the Provisional Government of Azad Hind‚ presided by Bose.[4] Bose’s effort‚ however‚ was short lived; in 1945 the British army first halted and then reversed the Japanese U Go offensive‚ beginning the successful part of the Burma Campaign. The INA was driven down the Malay Peninsula‚ and surrendered with the recapture of Singapore. It was
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George Orwell is well known‚ even though he died in 1950. He was British and an ex-cop. George Orwell is a very prominent author. He is known for a few of his books‚ written for a variety of purposes. However‚ this specific essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ is written to inform of us. He phrases this essay more as a narrative‚ which makes it not rhetorically effective. George Orwell uses great imagery and his syntax makes it simple for even high schoolers to read through his works. Orwell sent this
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Southeast Asian Languages by Xia Lee Southeast Asia‚ a term used since World War II‚ consists of the regions south of China and east of India which includes Thailand‚ Laos‚ Vietnam‚ Kampuchea (Cambodia)‚ Burma‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines and Singapore. Between these countries‚ their languages differ tremendously even though some scholars have suggested that all the different languages are related to the Indo-Pacific Family. Approximately one thousand unintelligible languages are spoken
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In your view‚ how have rhetorical techniques been used to explore the importance of courage and perseverance in two of the speeches set for study? Anwar Sadat and Aung San Suu Kyi‚ in their respective speeches “Statement to the Knesset” in 1977 and “Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women” in 1995 both explore the importance of courage and perseverance through the skillful use of rhetoric. In doing so‚ both speakers are able to build a strong ethos and establish pathos with their
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imbibing of Western education‚ ideas and values. Ethnic Minority groups forging their sense of nationhood‚ fear of/reacting against majority domination and perceived undermining of their way of life. Examples can be seen in the Karen and Shan in Burma and the Moros in Mindanao. Thai kings also emphasised the importance of ethnicity‚ which was tied in with the concepts of Kind‚ Nation and Religion. Yes/No Cultural/Religious Early nationalist movements tended to be focused on religious and cultural
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