In Puerto Rico‚ 3.4 million Americans are without electricity after Hurricane Maria‚ like a 50-mile wide tornado‚ virtually obliterated the island’s infrastructure. Essentials like food and water are nearly impossible to distribute‚ especially to the parts of the island that were hit the hardest. Local officials worry they may not reach everyone in time. Yet Donald Trump remained silent all weekend on the worst U.S. humanitarian crisis since Hurricane Katrina crushed New Orleans. Instead‚ the president
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The Cold War‚ a hostile rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Though the two nations fought indirectly‚ the tensions between these two former allies invited all the world’s countries to watch the events of this war closely because its outcomes could have changed the world and sent it towards a destructive future. Both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in
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Modernization refers to the processes and ideas which give rise to the evolution of newer and more refined concepts and thoughts. It brings changes to the perspective from which people see things and causes them to re-evaluate their beliefs. Modernization in Europe was characterized by expansions in trade and industry‚ urbanization; which contributed to the development of new thoughts and thinking processes‚ the rise of new questions and the need for answers and finally‚ the idea of centralization
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Shirley Lozano Prof. Fonts ENC 1101-1 16 March 2011 Fast Food and Obesity Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. What causes obesity is when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. For many people this boils down to eating too much and exercising too little. On the other hand‚ there are many factors that play a role in obesity such as age‚ gender‚ genetics‚ physical activity
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TOP 10 INCREDIBLE STORIES OF SURVIVAL While managing a decent job‚ to feed our families‚ and ourselves is the kind of survival‚ we face‚ there are tonnes of people who have managed to survive in drastic conditions where all hope seems lost. Here is an account of such incidents braved by many survivors. 1. LANSA flight 508 On 24th December 1971‚ the ill-fated LANSA flight 508 hit the ground after being caught in a thunderstorm while travelling from Lima to Iquitos with a stopover in Pucallpa. Even
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Different cultures treat the prospects of dissolution of marriage differently. In Roman Catholicism marriage is treated to be sacrosanct and not to be allowed to be terminated easily. In the Muslim religion it is not considered to be so rigid; if the union is not a happy one‚ it is better to terminate. But termination is often unilateral‚ the option being vested with the husband who can pronounce irrevocably the dissolution of the marriage by mere repetition of a particular word three times. No doubt
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(Spring 2013) The Controversy of the Modernization of Japan (late 1800s-early 1900s) During the Meiji era‚ Japan underwent a major change from functioning and running under the system Tokugawa shogunate to the modern era. The Meiji era brought about changes that affected Japan’s social‚ economic‚ political‚ military and foreign relations policies. Drawing upon influences from Europe and America‚ many Japanese people embraced modernization as an attempt to be able to stand up in their
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“MEIJI ERA’s (1868-1912) IMPORTANCE IN JAPANESE MODERNIZATION.” Japan is a country that has never been colonised and was never colonised during the colonial period. It was governed by the Emperors‚ Shoguns‚ Daimyos and the Samurais through the feudal structure of governance with the Emperor as the head of the hierarchy. It maintained its isolationist policy and never opened-up to the outside world for centuries and was in a stagnant stage in terms of development. However‚ in the 19th Century it dumped
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There’s more damage than what happens on the skin or mind of the victim. And it never just harms them. There are 20.000 phone calls to domestic abuse hotlines per day in the US alone. Little signs are what can end up helping someone. The victim doesn’t have to be the one to make the move for the abuse to stop. It can be a friend or family. If you see abuse‚ not happening to you‚ you should help. A lot of the times‚ the victims are too fearful to reach out for help. The chance that a weapon is involved
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Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust is the most notorious but most definitely not the only. Others such as the Syrian Genocide are great examples of our past being recreated‚ people were killed‚ others lost and a large portion forced to move from the comfort of their homes to live in refugee camps or to try to find their way out of the country. In the text it states “Syria has cost the lives of more
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