INTERFET in East Timor East Timor (1999-2000) The deployment of the Australian-led INTERFET to East Timor in September 1999 was seen as a necessary step to establish the political stability the UNTAET administration needed to fulfil its tasks. The operation was prompted by the wave of Indonesian-backed violence that followed the East Timorese decision to opt for independence in a referendum. East Timor’s misery began in 1974-5 when Indonesia used the turmoil that accompanied the withdrawal of Portuguese
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East Indian Culture Course Number: 1409 Instructor: Melanie K. Hail February 12‚ 2013 The term culture has many definitions depending upon the type of culture that you are referring to. In this situation; culture‚ is defined as the integrated pattern of human knowledge‚ belief and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to future generations. I believe that culture of an ethnic group starts at the beginning of time before people understood that their
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project of East Harlem‚ New York‚ seeks to explore the community in relation to its landscape and demographic characteristics taking into consideration its population‚ health‚ resources‚ and its shortfalls amongst other benchmarks of the city. With these statistics and characteristics‚ it paints a clearer picture of the strengths and weakness of the community making informed needs about the community. This assessment will seek to give a vivid characteristic to the situational analysis of East Harlem
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A movie based on true events of the 1968 East L.A walkouts where students were treated unequally. Just by watching the beginning and seeing the struggles of these students who were not even allowed to speak in their native language to each other in front of teachers or staff. Punishments that were displayed in the movie were the locking of bathrooms during lunch‚ speaking Spanish‚ janitorial work‚ and even prevent those students that are average from being able to go to college. Paula was displayed
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October 2014 A New Middle East Fareed Zakaria is a writer‚ political scientist‚ and magazine and television news commentator. He was born and raised in Bombay‚ India‚ the son of a politically progressive parents were also practicing Muslim. Over the past years there have been several conflicts in the Middle East over who have dominated the nation of the Arabs. Zakaria writes this particular story to educate and persuade his readers that‚ there will never be peace in the Middle East as long as Western powers
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“Can there be peace in the Middle East?” To ask the question of whether there can be peace in the Middle East is an interesting and quite personal question. The question‚ to me has always been a resounding YES‚ as I myself live there and for me there is no option but to answer yes in answer. This particular question though‚ runs deeper than a mere comment‚ and answer it in such a short time‚ we must first look at the problems in general. Oil ! That is what the modern Middle Eastern geopolitics
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Middle East and Their Rights Women of the Middle East have experienced the abuse of women’s rights. Middle Eastern women’s rights have been abused in different ways. They are looked down as the inferior to men in the Middle East. They are becoming stronger and rising up to equality to men. People involved in particular situations may have different opinions on rights of Middle Eastern women. Women are human; therefore no human rights should be restricted from them. In the Middle East‚ women’s
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European Regional Economics Bulgaria - North-East region Lecturer: red. prof. dr. Ivo Lavrač Date: 9 January 2013 Name: Elena Petrova Student number: 19558190 Table of contents Page 1. Introduction 3 2. Relative description of north-east region 4 3. SWOT analysis
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back thousands of years‚ music has represented individual‚ tribes‚ countries‚ gods‚ and so much more. Depending on the type of music the association can be narrowed down to a certain location. East African music has always been known for their roles drums play in their culture. Also called Membranophones‚ the East African drums play a critical role in their society. In Kenya a plethora of membranophones are vital to their way of life. They have not been subdivided in the indices as the indices as the
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Malaysia Look East Policy Background The Look East Policy (LEP) is announced by former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on the 8th February 1982 during the 5th Joint Annual Conference of MAJECA/JAMECA in Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur. The policy was essentially an attempt to encourage the Malaysian to change their traditional perspectives of Western countries as role models and instead look towards the East. The underlying assumption was that Malaysia had much to learn from the experiences
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