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    REMARKS BY LARRY SAMPLER‚ ASSISTANT TO THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN‚ AT THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Monday‚ February 10‚ 2014 Afghanistan Development Goals 2014 and Beyond [As Delivered] Good afternoon and thank you for allowing me to speak today here at the New America Foundation.  I would again like to thank Anne-Marie Slaughter and Peter Bergen for having us here today. I am thrilled that Ambassador Samad was chosen to moderate what I hope will be an interesting and lively

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    Question: Assess the aftermath and impact that the first Opium War had on China Essay: The First Opium War fought between Britain and China from 1839-1842 was a clash between two vastly different cultures‚ one struggling to control trade rights‚ and the other desperate to limit the impact of foreign trade upon the local population. The war changed the way China acted towards its foreign counterparts‚ exposed the weaknesses of the Chinese feudal system and forcefully opened-up China to the rest

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    Afghanistan Afghanistan is a country that is in the Middle East. In this essay‚ the reader will learn about the differences of Afghanistan and the U.S. Some contrasts are clothing‚ families‚ courtesies‚ and food‚ etc. “Women aren’t allowed to dine alone without a man‚”(pg.4) In my essay you will find men have a lot more rights than women do. First‚ the People. People in Afghanistan are known as Afghans. The official language is Dari and Persian. “The primary loyalty in their family(kin group‚ clan

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    The British empire‚ a powerful‚ technologically advanced civilization‚ came against the Chinese empire‚ whose semi-isolationist policy was hindering British profit. The Opium Wars were dramatic conflicts in China that resulted in greatly increased freedom of foreign trade and the legalization of opium. Before the First Opium War‚ foreign trade proceeded only under strict Chinese regulations. Foreigners were only allowed to trade at Canton‚ and only between October and May. While they were at Canton

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    United States Interventions Issue #1 United States Troops in afghanistan Source: Greg Bruno‚ The War in Afghanistan Just after the September 11th‚ 2001‚ attacks on American soil that took down the World Trade Center‚ America was already planning how to take down the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden‚ the one who planned the attacks. We discovered his location in Afghanistan only months later‚ and the thought of an invasion was on everyone’s minds. The United States led multiple offensives

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    and 7B. Today I will be talking about how gender can change your identity in a male dominated country such as Afghanistan and how education‚ or the rather‚ the lack of it can affect your identity. Identity means how you think of yourself‚ who you are‚ your personality and what others think of you. It is also how you act based on your identity. In the text Parvana‚ which is set in Afghanistan‚ the women are discriminated against. The taliban think of them as weak‚useless and not worthy to be seen‚ as

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    Women’s rights in Afghanistan continue to follow an unpredictable path‚ which raises women’s hopes for a better life and more opportunities‚ and then bitterly extinguishes them. When the brutal Taliban fell‚ and their unfair rules and regulations came to a holt‚ a new beginning for women flourished through almost every crack and cranny of the country. “I remember the mounting enthusiasm for women’s rights...It was a bright and hopeful time. The issue of women’s rights was still fresh‚ not only in

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    I remember the annual summer vacation trips my family had to Afghanistan when I was a child. I could recall holding my mom’s hand while I walked around the bazaars wondering why so many women had thrown blue bed sheets on themselves in this humid weather. I asked my mom and she just laughed and told me it was a fashion statement. When I was older‚ I learned it was a burka and these women wore it in order to prevent the arousal of men. They oppressed themselves in fear of a distortion of Islam. I

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    National Institute of Technology Calicut Department of Mechanical Engineering PRODUCTION PLANNING (AGGREGATE PLANNING) § § § § Concerned with the overall operations of an organisation over a specified time horizon Determines the efficient way of responding (allocating resources) to market conditions Effectively allocate system capacity (plant‚ equipment‚ and manpower) over designated period A good production plan should Ø be consistent with organisational policy Ø meet demand requirements Ø

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    Production-possibility frontier In economics‚ a production-possibility frontier (PPF) or “transformation curve” is a graph that shows the different quantities of two goods that an economy (or agent) could efficiently produce with limited productive resources. Points along the curve describe the trade-off between the two goods‚ that is‚ the opportunity cost. Opportunity cost here measures how much an additional unit of one good costs in units forgone of the other good. The curve illustrates that

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