A Passage To Africa. (Narrative Article‚ Literary Analysis) A Passage To Africa is a moving‚ touching account of what George Alagiah felt and experienced in a small town in Africa‚ and the beauty and intensity of emotion lies‚ not only in the message behind it‚ but also in every word of every sentence in this article. The title itself is significant. The noun ‘Passage’ is ambiguous; of course the obvious meaning would be that the following is an extract‚ a piece of writing. But it could also be
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Yahaya Ahmad and financial crisis. Hence‚ AirAsia was heavily indebted. In 2001‚ Tony Fernandes’s company‚Tune Air Sdn Bhd bought this airline from DRB-Hicom with estimation of RM 40 million debts. There are many continuous transformations that Air Asia makes in order to become outstanding‚ to accomplish its strategic mission and vision and maintain sustainability in the industry. Using the catchy and effective slogan of "Now everyone can fly"‚ AirAsia became the first successful low cost and ticket-less
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The Geopolitics of South Asia From Early Empires to the Nuclear Age Graham P. Chapman Centre for Advanced Study‚ Oslo‚ Norway Professor Emeritus of Geography‚ Lancaster University‚ UK From Chapter 14 The Greater Game The New Security Agenda The United Nations Development Programme in 1997 outlined the seven areas of new security; economic‚ nutritional‚ health‚ environmental‚ personal‚ community and political. Since then the more crystallised term ‘New Security Agenda’ has been pushing
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aggressive European imperialism that took place in the 1880’s. In 1884 Africa was divided up among European nations‚ only two African countries remained independent. One may question‚ what the driving force behind this European imperialism was. Although technology‚ political and cultural causes were factors in the Europeans imperializing Africa‚ ultimately the primary reason for imperialism was economic benefit due to the fact that Africa had vast resources. Throughout the late 1700’s to the mid-1800’s
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* * * * * “Asia’s Challenge 2020” What is the most important challenge facing Asia over the next decade? Why? What should be done about it? Unhealthy development: a lack of values education and personal generosity CHIM Chamroeun Do we really have enough will to come together and cope with challenges? Let us have a look at this metaphor of our body which consists of trillions of cells. “A main purpose of a cell is to organize. Cells hold a variety of pieces and each cell has a different
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Introduction After world war II‚ Western Europe started to rebuild its economies. For this they need labour‚ which they drawn from less developed countries. Since then the volume of international migration has grown and change in characteristic. There are two phases‚ first phase was from 1945 to early 1970s and 2nd phase from 1970s to late twenty and early twenty first century (Castle and Miller‚ 2009 p.96). Neoclassical theory explain the causes of migration and its main focus is on economic
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Colonialism in the Austral Realm To go back and colonize Australia again things would turn out differently. The first record of Europeans arriving on Australia’s waters was around 1606 then 54 more European ships arrived between 1606 and 1770‚ destruction and illnesses seemed to follow. Redoing that colonization would result in less people being killed from disease‚ starvation and just plain cruelty‚ animal life and vegetation would be prosperous‚ along with a vibrant culture. With starting from
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Deforestation of South-East Asia The effects deforestation is having on south-east Asia are dizzying. Rapid development since the siege of Khe-Sanh in Vietnam (1968) and surrounding nations of the Mekong region has caused widespread destruction of their forests. Many of these areas are switching trees for coffee bushes‚ threatening the extraordinary biodiversity that holds around 1‚700 different species. These trees are cut down for the furniture export market. Also‚ forests are being wiped out
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Three general patterns of settlements can be commonly identified throughout the regions of Southeast Asia‚ depending on how well each country or area in the country are developed. The patterns of settlements show how buildings are arranged in the settlements. The three types of settlement patterns are: 1. Clustered Clustered settlements are formulated by buildings being grouped together in a compact area due to rural conditions that resources such as water and electricity can be shared Some countries
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War II‚ women in Southeast Asia were having an average of more than five children each‚ and there was a widespread of a “population explosion” in the region. Similar to other parts of the world‚ the baby boom trend also existed in this region as Southeast Asia countries are also slowly recovering from the results of the war and momentum is gaining for independence and economic development. Today‚ however‚ birth rates are reversed‚ especially in developed countries in Asia such as Singapore‚ Taiwan
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