IT’S RARE for one discrete historical event occurring over a few days to have an impact that persists for decades. Israel’s 1967 Six Day War--from June 5 to June 10‚ 40 years ago this week--is just such an event. Though perhaps not immediately apparent at the time‚ the war’s aftermath cast a huge shadow over the Middle East and the world. During the war‚ Israel’s high-tech military routed the forces of Jordan‚ Egypt and Syria‚ and began the occupations of the West Bank‚ Gaza‚ the Golan Heights and
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Buy Nothing Day Buy Nothing Day is an day of protest that was founded in Canada in 1992 where people are asked to purchase no goods as a way to attempt to increase awareness of excessive consumerism and its environmental and ethical consequences. Over the last 22 years it has been held annually in many nations and activist groups are continuing to try to convince more and more countries to pledge their participate. A Buy Nothing Day‚ although based in good motives‚ is extreme and should not be
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Mini presentation: Saint Patrick’s Day General Description: Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated every year on March 17th. The other name is St. Paddy’s day‚ not St. Patty’s Day! In Ireland‚ Saint Patrick’s Day is a national holiday. Nowadays‚ it is an international holiday. Origins/ History: Saint Patrick is a patron saint of Ireland. He was born in the year 385 and died on March 17th‚ around the year 460. Saint Patrick has an adventurous life: He was captured by pirates at the age of 16.
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Daddy day care Charlie Hinton is a hardworking father whose wife Kim has just gone back to work as a lawyer. They enroll their child‚ Ben‚ in Chapman Academy‚ a very academic pre-school headed by Miss Harridan. Soon after‚ Charlie is laid off. In need of money‚ he opens up a day care center‚ Daddy Day Care‚ with the help of his best friend Phil Ryerson. At first‚ the local moms are suspicious of menwanting to work with children (mainly because they think they are homosexual or child molesters).
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SAINT PATRICK’S DAY INTRODUCTION The Irish culture has been significatly shaped by Christianity which arrived in Ireland in 5th century A.D. with the preachings of Saint Patrick. The Saint is said to have travelled all over the country spreading the word of Christ. It was at the hill of Tara‚ a mound in country Meath (considered the religious capital of Eire in ancient times) where he picked a three-leaf clover or shamrock to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity. He made such an impression
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Sandra Day O’Connor Perhaps no other jurist could have come to the Supreme Court under greater expectations. When President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor in 1981 to be the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court‚ he did soto keep a campaign promise. O’Connor’s nomination was quick to draw criticism from both the political people left and right. Conservatives put down her lack of federal judicial experience and claimed that she didn’t have any constitutional knowledge. They considered
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World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. It is also the Food Engineer day. The World Food Day theme for 2009 is "Achieving food security in times of crisis". Origins World Food Day (WFD) was established by FAO’s Member Countries at the Organization’s 20th General Conference in November 1979. The Hungarian Delegation‚ led by the former Hungarian Minister
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“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” takes place at a resort hotel in Florida in 1948. The story initially begins with Muriel who is talking to her mother about Seymour‚ her husband to whom she has been married to for about five years. The two discuss Seymour’s peculiar behavior and Muriel’s mother is worried that Seymour isn’t mentally stable. Muriel insists Seymour is fine and doesn’t seem to take the issue seriously. Meanwhile‚ Seymour is down at the beach and spends time with a little girl named
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My Best Day Ever It seems to me that birthday celebrations’ become less interesting as time passes. There are no more party hats‚ balloons‚ cake‚ ice cream‚ and the joyful sound of “Happy Birthday.” I guess that’s why we hold all the good memories inside our heart‚ so whenever there’s a bad issue that may come up‚ we can reminisce on the past. In fact‚ birthday celebrations in my family were rare because my grandmother was raising eight children in a three bedroom house by herself‚ and she
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta‚[1] born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛs ˈɡɔɲdʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]) and commonly known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)‚ was an ethnic Albanian‚ Indian Roman Catholic nun. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto‚ an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months’ training in Dublin she was sent to India
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