Should America Switch to the Metric System? Out of all 195 countries in the world a mere 3 of them are currently using the US customary system of measurement as its official measurement system. These three remaining countries are the US‚ Liberia (which was founded by the US)‚ and Myanmar(which is drifting toward converting to the metric system) meaning that if the US were to switch to the metric system it would finally be on the same base as the other 99% of the world. America should swi
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not the few dozen countries on the map‚ but hundreds or thousands of different tribes and ethnic groups. That the arbitrary straight lines drawn by the colonizing powers are of little importance to those who live there whether it be in Ivory Coast‚ Liberia‚ Pakistan or Afghanistan. Massive population movements between the respective countries easily show this to be exceptionally true in countries with large third-world
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English Name French Name Local Name Region A 1. Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanestan South-Central Asia 2. Albania Albanie Shqiperia Southern Europe 3. Algeria Algérie Al Jaza’ir Northern Africa 4. American Samoa Samoa Américaines American Samoa Polynesia‚ Oceania 5. Andorra Andorre Andorra Southern Europe 6. Angola Angola Angola Central Africa 7. Anguilla Anguilla Anguilla Leeward Islands‚ Caribbean 8. Antarctica Antarctique
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Preface The charts and explanatory text in this section provide definitive‚ irrefutable evidence that market timing is often perfect to the day for periods covering many decades! This statement is equally correct when market time is measured in increments‚ and timing. These are very strong assertions‚ or to put it in the vernacular‚ this is pretty "scary stuff"‚ but also very exciting! Nevertheless‚ as will be demonstrated‚ the Economics‚ the facts‚ cannot be ignored
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Gender Based Violence Around the world‚ violence against women is an everyday occurrence. Up to 70 percent of women experience violence in their lifetime. In Columbia‚ one woman is reportedly killed by her partner or former partner every six days. In the Congo‚ 1‚100 rapes are reported each month. In China‚ there have been over 250 million births that have been prevented between the years of 1980 and 2000. Over 140 million women and girls worldwide have been affected by the consequences of female
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Ethics and Social Justice Issues within the United Nations Abstract Equity and social justice issues have become a global challenge that the world over is confronted with. It has got to a point that even international efforts and systems put in place have become overwhelmed with theories than realities. The United Nations which has purposely been formed to address human rights and social justice issues has in itself been bedeviled with gross inequalities and injustices. Attempt is made to show
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Leone flag) (Howard‚ James L. Flag of Sierra Leone. Digital image. Flagpedia.net. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013) Sierra Leone. A small country‚ smaller than South Carolina in the U.S‚ it’s located along the Western side of Africa between Guinea and Liberia and besides the North Atlantic Ocean. Sierra Leone is ran by a president‚ who is both chief of state and of the government. Whoever is elected president; will serve to a maximum of “5-year terms” () The current president is Ernest Bai Karma‚ who’s
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lattes when just down the road there are people who can’t afford to eat” (St. John 61.)) By reaching out to the town where their boys are from. Clarkston was the name of the town‚ a small town made up of refugees from all over: Burundi‚ Congo‚ Sudan ‚ Liberia ‚ Bosnia ‚ Afghanistan ‚ and Iraq. She asks the town people if they could help her raise the money needed for the teams necessities. But the town was uncertain at first. Because when moved to the town most of everyone had nothing more but the clothes
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and forced to drugs and be brainwashed so they stay attached to the rebel army group or the government. They lose their family‚ childhood and forced to handle guns. Imagine if that was you. In some parts of the world such as some parts of Africa‚ Liberia there is a tremendous dispute over should child soldiers be given amnesty. In the first body paragraph‚ child soldiers should be given amnesty because they are forced to fight and handle guns. So they can fight other
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doctors with a suitcase and a dream.” Now it is the largest nongovernmental organization for emergency medical relief. It has offices in twenty countries and has provided medical help in eighty-five countries‚ including Rwanda‚ Chechnya‚ Kosovo‚ Liberia‚ Afghanistan‚ and Iraq. MSF sends teams not only to locations that are in the spotlight but also to places where forgotten wars continue to cause suffering. Because so much of MSF’s work is done in dangerous locations‚ it requires great bravery to
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