Bullets were flying everywhere as the sound of firing and explosions rang through the war zone. The smell of blood and gunpowder was fresh in the air‚ the child soldier licked the blood of his mouth and surged forward with his remaining strength‚ pulled the trigger of the grenade and flung it hard at the enemy. Yes‚ my friends‚ for more than a decade now the world has watched in dismay as hundreds of thousands of children and young teenagers have participated in nearly hundreds of these gruesome
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It is evident that the global economy has moved on from the Asian Tigers and the present and future of the global economy does in fact lie elsewhere‚ in particular India and China. The Asian Tigers are a group of countries which are the first set of NIC ’s; Taiwan‚ Singapore‚ Hong Kong and South Korea. They underwent rapid development in the 1960 ’s by encouraging TNC ’s to invest by opening up manufacturing plants by offering cheap labour and less strict pollution laws. TNC ’s also had the advantage
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"Global social and economic groupings have significant beneficial effects for their members." Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement (40) It is beneficial to us when assessing said statement to begin by considering the main reasons for the formation of social and economic groupings. First and foremost considering the 4 main types of alliances. Between Free Trade Areas and Customs Unions it is fair to say that the main goal is to restrict imports from non-member countries‚ in
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director of the Harvard Global Health Institute‚ adding that there are still "enough data points to say there’s something meaningfully different." Until this year‚ Ebola was treated in rural and remote areas of some of the poorest countries on earth (LEDCS). Through this epidemic‚ doctors are learning the quicker diagnoses‚ ready access to life-sustaining tools and drugs‚ and good infection-control practices the easier it is to cure someone that has been infected. An infected person’s vital organs shut
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The earth’s audit Question 1 The global environmental outlook report the UN produced could be seen as doom mongering too many people including me. This is due to the amount of facts produced of how us as a species is destroying the planet we live on due to our destructive methods of living. The report gives us many raw figures that certainly don’t cast a good light on the state of the world at this current time. One of the hardest facts to swallow is that 10 million plus children die every year;
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practice it‚ even more when someone has had that lifestyle since birth. On the other hand‚ culture does not fully depend on migration‚ as most of the time migration happens because of social factors. Taking El Salvador as an example‚ El Salvador‚ an LEDC that has a main export of coffee‚ has a net migration of -8.78‚ this means that 8.78 people per thousands per year are leaving the country with different destinations. El Salvador’s emigration had been decreasing in the last decade until 2009 where
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weeks without food but not even 7 days without water. Since few years‚ there has been a population boom and population in present is almost twice the population before the boom. This has caused water and food crisis in many countries‚ more importantly LEDCs. Presently‚ statistics suggests that 4/5th of African countries are facing critical water shortages along with other countries forming more than 30% of the world’s population. More than 75% of infectious diseases caused in the world are water-borne
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To what extent can preparedness and planning mitigate the effects of volcanic hazards? (40 marks) A volcanic hazard is anything that can cause a threat to human life‚ infrastructure or nature as a result of volcanic activity. There are methods to lessen the effects of volcanic hazards to a certain extent through planning and preparation. Common volcanic hazards include: Pyroclastic flows‚ Ash clouds and mudslides. Pyroclastic flows are high-density mixtures of hot‚ dry rock fragments and hot gases
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Joseph Ritchie 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami 1. Explain the causes of the 2004 boxing day Tsunami (6) A Tsunami forms when energy from an earthquake vertically jolts the seabed by several metres‚ displacing hundreds of cubic kilometres of water. Large waves begin moving through the ocean‚ away from the earthquakes epicentre. In deep water the Tsunami moves at great speeds. When it reaches shallow water near coastal areas‚ the Tsunami slows but increases in height. Before the Boxing Day Tsunami
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London is the capital of the United Kingdom. The administrative structure in Greater London consists of 32 counties (boroughs) and the City of London‚ extending over 1584 kilometers ². The population of London is around 7.5 million however throughout Greater London about 13 million people live. The GDP per capita for The UK is $36‚500. London is the richest part of Britain and yet it has the highest rates of poverty in the UK. Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria. With an estimated population of
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