for human rights abuses including rape‚ forced labour and murder during the building of the Yadana gas pipeline project in Burma. "This is a landmark decision‚" said Richard L. Herz‚ an attorney with the non-profit group EarthRights International (ERI)‚ co-counsel in the lawsuit. "In recognising that corporations that aid and abet egregious human rights abuses can be held accountable‚ the Ninth Circuit has affirmed that U.S. corporations cannot violate international human rights with impunity." The
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A brief history of Judo Judo is an exciting unarmed combat sport that originated in the Orient as a means of self-defence which has since grown into an international competitive sport. Judo developed out of ju-juitsu‚ a form of unarmed combat beleived to have been introduced into Japan by a Chinese monk‚ Chen Yuan-ping in the early seventeenth century. Various ju-juitsu schools developed and young samuri were instructed in the art. This was in the days of chivalry among Japanese knights. Samuri
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I am Athena. I am the goddess of reason‚ arts and literature‚ wisdom‚ courage‚ inspiration‚ civilization‚ law and justice‚ strategic warfare‚ mathematics‚ strength‚ and skill. The greeks represent me with an owl because of the wisdom an owl possess. I personally do not like being thought of as a fat feathered bird‚ but I have learned to deal with it. I am the daughter of Zeus. My birth is very unique because I did not have a mother. Instead‚ I sprang fully grown and clad in armour from Zeus’ forehead
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be a princess who shares this room. Maybe it’s Snow White‚ Sleeping Beauty‚ or the Little Mermaid Ariel? For their images adorn the walls‚ bedding‚ and curtains of a little girl. Quickly‚ he sees hanging above her Disney Princess Castle the name‚ “Eris Sofia.” The nightstand next to her bed has a mock makeup/jewelry case‚ and the drawer is ajar and he can see bows and bracelets to match. It doesn’t take long for him to discover the cause of this beautiful discord. Amongst costumes‚ hot wheels
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Who is to Blame? The Trojan War; one of the longest and most remembered war in the history of Greek mythology. Millions of people died‚ families were broken and a few people were to blame for this. In the novel The Firebrand‚ by Marion Zimmer Bradly‚ a Trojan princess‚ by name of Kassandra‚ has been given the gift of foresight. She foresees the Greek ships on the waters of Troy approximately twenty years before they are there. It was then that she met Apollo and was claimed as his. She goes
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1. As a trend setter and harbinger of the movement‚ Madhusudan Das organised the first multifacet cooperative enterprise of the country "The Cuttack Cooperative Store" as early as 1898. 2. The Cuttack Co-operative Store came into existence on 11th June‚ 1898 with Madhusudan Das as the honorary secretary and Jankinath Bose‚ the father of Netajee Subash Chandra Bose as the treasurer. 3. To save the poor cultivators from the exploitation of the money-lenders‚ the Co-operative Movement started in
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Sun= cantaloupe Earth = ball pen Jupiter= finger tip Pluto= dust * Today we know Solar system has: 1 star‚ 8 planets‚ 5 dwarf planets‚ 139+ moons‚ countless small solar system bodies * A major lesson from all this is that the solar system is almost entirely made of nearly empty space * All planets orbit the sun in the same direction (counter-clockwise) * Most rotate in the same direction * Venus rotates backward * Uranus rotates on its side (equator perpendicular to equator)
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Abstract Quality of Customer Service becomes critical for company’s success on the market. If planed properly‚ incentive pay plans may increase customer service representatives’ interest to providing better service to the customer. Specifics of Customer Service brings its difficulties to setting standards for quantity and quality measuring of the Customer Service productivity‚ as basics of incentive pay determination. Customer Service definition and role in the business. Customer Service topic
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various parts of Igbo land. The Nri and Aguleri people are in the territory of the Umueri clan who trace their lineages back to the patriarchal king-figure Eri. Archaeological evidence suggests that Nri hegemony in Igbo land may go back as far as the 9th century‚ and royal burials have been unearthed dating to at least the 10th century. Eri‚ the god-like founder of Nri‚ is believed to have settled the region around 948 with other related Igbo cultures following after in the 13th
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space that astronomers cannot see. Hubble helped solve this problem. It uses the WFC3 to see dark matter. The space telescope has also discovered Pluto’s moons‚ Nix and Hydra. Another discovery was Eris‚ a dwarf planet. With this discovery‚ scientists realized that there might be more planets like Eris out in the Kuiper Belt. Hubble Space Telescope has taken many pictures of gamma ray bursts. Gamma ray bursts are giant explosions in space. This explosion sends out more energy than what our sun will
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