The League of Nations could stop small wars and improved some people’s lives. But it could not defend the Treaty of Versailles‚ get disarmament‚ or stop powerful countries. It stopped some wars – e.g. it arbitrated between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands (1921) and stopped the invasion of Bulgaria by Greece (1925). In 1928‚ the League arranged the Kellogg-Briand Pact‚ which outlawed war. The League also took 400‚000 Prisoners of War home and set up refugee camps. The
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Aalto-Hochhaus is a 22-floor high-rise apartment building in Bremen‚ Germany‚ designed by Alvar Aalto. It is approximately 60 meters tall and was completed in 1962. Finlandia Hall is a concert hall with a congress wing in Helsinki‚ Finland. The work began in 1967 and was completed in 1971.Alvar Aalto was commissioned by the city of Helsinki to design a concert and congress building‚ the first constructed part of a great central city plan. Aalto University aims to create a new science and arts community
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In Thomas Nagel’s essay titled “The Objective Basis of Morality”‚ Nagel claims that “[t]he basis of morality is a belief that good and harm to particular people (or animals) is good or bad not just from their point of view‚ but from a more general point of view‚ which every thinking person can understand” (Nagel 124). When applying this theory to the immorality of the price of higher education‚ it can be argued that making college so expensive is immoral because any thinking person can see it is
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applications of statistics are: helpful in predicting diseases‚ beneficial in business and useful in predicting weather. Figure 1: Predicted future numbers of newly diagnosed cases of diabetes in Finland (The Lancet‚ 2008) Figure 1: Predicted future numbers of newly diagnosed cases of diabetes in Finland (The Lancet‚ 2008) Statistics‚ being helpful in predicting certain diseases‚ is one of the major application of statistics. Statistics are used all over the world in one form or the other. They
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1. Problem Originated from a grain-milling company in Finland‚ the 57-year-old Rasio Group developed a substantial export business which accounted for 39% of its sales by 1996. Its main products including margarine‚ pasta and other food products were manufactured‚ sold locally and exported. In 1995‚ a blockbuster product Benecol‚ cholesterol-lowering margarine‚ attracted the interest of food processors and supermarket groups throughout the world and fueled a surge of investor interest. Stanol ester
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Countries with Lowest HIV/AIDS Infection Rates When the first incidences of what is now known as the AIDS virus was reported back in the early 1980’s‚ not much was known about the illness. With even health care professionals baffled at the sudden appearance of this mystery disease‚ naturally‚ hysteria ensued. As such‚ many misconceptions surrounding the nature and origins of the virus spread. By the mid-80’s‚ the disease had been identified as AIDS or acquired immune deficiency syndrome‚ and HIV
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out. These events consisted of The Aaland Isalnds dispute in 1921 when Sweden and Finland both claimed the islands and were both willing to fight for this land yet when the League got involved they were able to come to a decision that the land was to be awarded to Finland. Both of the countries accepted what the League had decided and the problem was settled. The reason this was a success was that Sweden and Finland were both able to accept the decision that had been made. Essentially they stopped
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Top 5 Rank in Globalization based on Jerry Harris Video Globalization is one of the biggest issue that happened in the world. There are many definition that came up lately about what is globalization. Here I am has been watched the video by Jerry Harris talking about the concept of the globalization. And in this summarize I want to expanding about the globalization that already came up into my mind after watching the video. Jerry Harris‚ 73 years in publication‚ in any languages. Coming from
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they were big and noisy and exciting. When he was a boy of ten‚ he liked trains. Now he was a man of fifty‚ and he still liked trains. So he was a happy man on the night of the 14th of September. He was on the night train from Helsinki to Oulu in Finland‚ and he had ten hours in front of him. ’I’ve got a book and my newspaper‚’ he thought. ’And there’s a good restaurant on the train. And then I’ve got two weeks’ holiday with my Finnish friends in Oulu.’ There weren’t many people on the train
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William Glanz Professor Wald Eng. 111 October 27‚ 2012 Creativity in Our Schools Sir Ken Robinson’s lecture “Schools Kill Creativity‚” on why schools should change is extremely interesting. He mixed humor into his speeches which enabled him to keep the audience interested in what he was saying. Although he stated truths about our current educational system‚ Robinson does not give any concrete ways to approach the change within our system. How can we bring education into the 21st century? It’s
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