Comfort women were women and girls forced into a prostitution corps created by the Empire of Japan.[1] The name "comfort women" is a translation of a Japanese name ianfu (慰安婦).[2][3] Ianfu is a euphemism for shōfu (娼婦) whose meaning is "prostitute(s)".[4] The earliest reporting on the issue in South Korea stated it was not a voluntary force‚[5] and since 1989 a number of women have come forward testifying they were kidnapped by Imperial Japanese soldiers. Historians such as Lee Yeong-Hun[6] and
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“There is no such thing as Natural Good.” Discuss how far you agree. Many say that natural law means observable law relating to natural experience and also a body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct. There is believed to be two main meanings to natural law‚ one by St. Thomas Aquinas‚ and another by Aristotle. However Aquinas based his theory on the theory of Aristotle. Aristotle believed that what is a natural good can be found through our experience‚ and our
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A natural disaster is the happening of a dangerous hazardous event‚ which can cause damages for the societies (Petrucci‚ 2012). Floods are one of the most common natural disasters over the world and they have occasional devastating influences in developed as well as developing countries (Ahern‚ 2005). Recently the floods increasingly happen over the world in general and specially in Australia. For example‚ a sequence of floods in Queensland in early December 2010 did happen and led to a damage of
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beliefs of people very different from myself. I could see simple truths become evident not only in things explained by tradition‚ science‚ or logic‚ but also by means that could not be explained. I had begun my journey of living by faith. As I try to develop my knowledge of the world around me I incorporate my spiritual understanding of things with the things of this world. There are certain things that “speak” to my heart‚ which I have come to understand as a spiritual witness of
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Life changed forever for the mainly Hakka community of Bukit Merah after Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) began operations there in July 1982 to extract yttrium‚ a rare earth‚ from monazite. Within a few years‚ the villagers began noticing physical defects in their newborns‚ and at least eight leukaemia cases were confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases‚ turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia
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Natural Disaster and the Retail Business Owner Natural Disaster and the Business Owner People make difficult decisions in business everyday. People that make these decisions have to stand by them. The situation in this assignment‚ speaking of hurricane Katrina‚ I have mixed feelings on the business owner Brian decision. From a person on the outside looking in perspective‚ I felt he was wrong for raising the prices of the hotel rooms. But in reality‚ I had to put myself in the shoes of
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The current generation of young people is less politically active. Do you agree? The current economic crisis in most of the western world‚ coupled with the alarmist views of global warming and its doomed consequences‚ has put forward‚ once more‚ the question as to whether or not the current generation is less politically active than previous generations. The current generation of young people is less politically active if is compared to previous generations; however this is beginning to change
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How Do You Get People To Like You Be polite. Be yourself. That way‚ people like you for who you are. Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong or conceited‚ to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time berating ourselves for our negative qualities‚ thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However‚ a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can hinder our efforts to make friends with other people. How can we have the confidence to make
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Thesis Mel Gibson’s Braveheart is routinely named in polls of film critics as the worst movie ever to have won the Academy Award for best picture‚ and it is easy to see why. The acting in the film ranges from the blandly unmemorable to the mortifying. Negligible as Scottish history‚ but it is undeniably a political film. Gibson clearly did not intend to venture into a political debate—the film is structurally and visually standard Hollywood fare‚ a costume drama of the sort normally considered
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How far do you agree that the failure of Italian revolutionaries in the years 1820–49 was primarily due to a lack of popular support? I agree that the revolutions that occurred in the years 1820-49 were due to a lack of popular support. Other factors could be the strength of the Austria army‚ how there was no leader‚ a lack of unity and no foreign support. The revolutions failed due to the lack of popular/mass support. The revolutions in Modena‚ Parma and the Papal States had all been unsuccessful
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