Doctors Without Borders‚ also known as MSF (Medecins sans frontieres)‚ is a multinational humanitarian organization that focuses on giving medical aid to those suffering from injuries during war‚ natural disasters‚ and those suffering from diseases. Its mission is "to deliver aid to victims of armed conflict‚ epidemics‚ and natural and manmade disasters‚ and to others who lack healthcare due to social or geographical isolation." MSF has had operations in about 70 countries in 2015. In addition‚ MSF
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On behalf of the City of Long Beach‚ I write deeply concerned about a Border Adjustment Tax and urge that you oppose this potential burden on imports and trade overall. Such a tax would disincentive imports and skew the market in favor of exporters‚ which would have a negative effect on the current business and growth of Long Beach’s local seaport. The Port of Long Beach is one of the world’s busiest seaports and the second-busiest port in the United States. It supports over a million jobs nationally
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Agent of Change I believe that Doctors without Borders should win the first annual Agent of change award because their goal was to provide emergency medical aid‚ no matter where it is needed or who needs it. In 1971‚ a small group of doctors in Paris formed this organization. This was the beginning of Medecins Sans Frontieres‚ (MSF) or‚ in English‚ Doctors Without Borders. The idea that MSF had is that all people have the right to medical care‚ regardless of race‚ religion‚ or nationality while
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5-204-270 Revised April 15‚ 2005 ARTUR RAVIV AND TIMOTHY THOMPSON Bed Bath & Beyond: The Capital Structure Decision “Bed Bath & Beyond’s earnings report could have been called Bed Bath & Brag‚” according to the New Jersey newspaper The Record in April 2004.1 However‚ Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) had the performance to back up its boastfulness. Since going public in 1992‚ the home goods retailer‚ based in Union‚ New Jersey‚ had never missed an earnings estimate. For fiscal year 2003 (ending
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ST BONAVENTURE COLLEGE (2010) Subject: Ethics Name: Sakala Sidney Topic: what is Grisez and Shaw up to in the book Beyond the New Morality? INTRODUCTION Germin Grisez and Shaw bring to our attention an ethical outlook in their work “Beyond the New Morality”. The work is basically Aristotelian and touches on the most important aspects of our day to day life and experiences. Like Aristotle Grisez and Shaw present their ethical theories in wide view; they do not confine the ethical issues as a
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Kim Silva Professor Rusnock History of Medicine 14 September 2012 Mountains Beyond Mountains "Beyond mountains‚ there are mountains." The Haitians use this term to express when an obstacle has been overcome‚ the next one follows almost immediately afterwards. In life‚ this usually seems to be the case. Many people’s solution to a complication is to surrender to it. Paul Farmer is an exception to this. He is a man that has persevered through life‚ battling his own problems‚ while drastically
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NETWORK BORDER PATROL PREVENTING CONGESTION COLLAPSE A PROJECT REPORT Submitted by N. SWAMINATHAN (41501104094) A. THENAPPAN (41501104122) in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING in COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING S.R.M. ENGINEERING COLLEGE‚ KATTANKULATHUR-603 203‚ KANCHEEPURAM DISTRICT. ANNA UNIVERSITY : CHENNAI - 600 025 MAY 2005 1 BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE Certified that this project report "NETWORK BORDER PATROL PREVENTING CONGESTION
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“Borders” and “Double Happiness” Nowadays‚ many cultures are disappearing and many encounter it. In “Borders”‚ by Thomas King and the movie “Double Happiness”‚ the mother and father‚ respectively‚ try to maintain their cultural identity through out their generations. Only one of the parents succeeded. It is the mother. Both made a lot of efforts but the mother made the right choices. She was able to bring her daughter back home although the father lost his daughter. There is a big contrast between
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Education Without Borders Superintendent Tom Boasberg has put Denver Public Schools (DPS) on the fast track to be the first school district in the nation to hire fully qualified‚ previously undocumented immigrants to teach in classrooms. Boasberg’s trailblazing decision to hire undocumented educators under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative will bring a much desired wealth of diversity into Denver’s multicultural classrooms. This progressive course of action will positively
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Budgeting and beyond budgeting Introduction With the economic rapid develop recently‚ more and more companies pay attention to the cost budgeting‚ some people think that this is a good and efficient way to operate the company‚ it will take more benefit for them. However‚ some people believe that it is a inefficient method‚ it will waste long time and capital to do‚ and bring the little profit. This essay wills analysis this issue from the different parts. The first part‚ it will talk about the
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