1. Intoduction Spratly Islands is made up of over a 100 islands‚ shoals and reefs. The land area is less than 5 square kilometers right at the center of West Philippine Sea. So why do regional players such China‚ Taiwan‚ Vietnam‚ Malaysia‚ Brunei and the Philippines squabbling over it? And what is the interest of the United States of America in the issue? The simple answer is the potential for oil and natural gasoline in the area. The more complex geopolitical answer is power projection.
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Solomon Islands: Where to now? Waku is the pijin English name for the increasingly diverse local Asian community of the Solomon Islands. They have played a large role in the economy for several decades and more recently some have become involved in politics. Some Asians have participated in corruption which helped destabilise the Government in the decades leading up 1998 when the ‘crisis years’ began. During the crisis years (1998-2003) some Waku elements prospered through duty remissions
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List of Implications for the Future The following paper is a summary of three specific videos with key highlights on how they relate to education as well as a summary of global society and its affects. The videos were definitely learning tools with many viewpoints of the digital era and education. “State of the Village Report” from Miniature-earth.com This video took on the concept of if the world consisted of only 100 people with the same make-up of the characteristics we have today. This “miniature
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Treasure Island In the very first sentence of the novel‚ Jim tells us that he is recounting the story of Treasure Island because Squire Trelawney‚ Dr. Livesey‚ and other gentlemen have asked him to write it down. Stevenson’s choice of Jim as a narrator is noteworthy and unexpected‚ since the adult men have greater life experience‚ education‚ and verbal skills than this young boy has‚ and would seem to be able to bring more perspective to the narrative
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List of Keywords ¶ These words have special meaning in PHP. Some of them represent things which look like functions‚ some look like constants‚ and so on - but they’re not‚ really: they are language constructs. You cannot use any of the following words as constants‚ class names‚ function or method names. Using them as variable names is generally OK‚ but could lead to confusion. PHP Keywords __halt_compiler() abstract and array() as break callable (as of PHP 5.4) case catch class clone const continue
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subject cannot have. Two of the best Holocaust films‚ in the opinion of this reviewer‚ are Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and Heinz Schirk’s The Wannsee Conference. This essay’s purpose is to review Schindler’s List but I would like to use The Wannsee Protocol‚ a vastly different kind of film‚ as a kind of foil to set off the cinematic techniques used in Schindler’s List. Spielberg’s film is something that might be called a panoramic view of the Holocaust. In it we see how the lives of thousands
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The Bucket List The Bucket List is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. First of all i want to give some information about the film. Carter Chambers (Freeman) and billionaire hospital magnate Edward Cole (Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Carter and Edward seem to find common ground as they have intellectual personalities. Carter begins writing a "bucket
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local acquaintances‚ Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney. Excited‚ they recognize it as a map for a huge treasure that the infamous pirate Captain Flint has buried on a distant island. Trelawney immediately starts planning an expedition. Naïve in his negotiations to outfit his ship‚ the Hispaniola‚ Trelawney is tricked into hiring one of Flint’s former mates‚ Long John Silver‚ and many of Flint’s crew. Only the captain‚ Smollett‚ is trustworthy. The ship sets sail for Treasure Island with nothing amiss
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is 24 years after India got independence and today Dubai surpasses the western world in terms of development. The UAE is a small nation (Area-83‚600 km2) that is only around twice the size of Kerala. To its north lies Persian Gulf (The Ocean). It shares it’s boundary with Saudi Arabia to the west and south‚ Oman to the East and Qatar to the northwest. [pic] Fig 1.1 Map of UAE 1.2 THE NEED FOR THE ISLANDS Dubai’s booming economy was built on revenues from the oil industry after oil was discovered
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Select a scenario from the list. 1. As a partner in a new business‚ one of your roles is to review information technology tools available to assist you in a certain aspect of your business (e.g.‚ marketing‚ accounting‚ sales‚ quality assurance). Evaluate technologies that have emerged within the last five years and consider their potential impact on your business. Determine whether or not you will adopt any of these technologies. 2. As a member of the human resources department in a manufacturing
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