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    Cauvery River Issue

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    ------------------------------------------------- Kaveri River water dispute Kaveri river flows in South Karnataka and then to Tamil Nadu. The sharing of waters of the river Kaveri has been the source of a serious conflict between the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The genesis of this conflict‚ rests in two controversial agreements—one signed in 1892 and another in 1924—between the erstwhile Madras Presidency and Princely State of Mysore. The 802 km Kaveri river [1] has 32‚000 sq km basin area in Karnataka

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    Rest in Peace Essay

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    suicide But then i got that without her it would be the same i wake up everyday frightened & saying her name looking beside me seeing if she ’s gone away or still beside me breathing she lays to feel that your only one might have gone is like a stab that won ’t heal hearing her calling me & appeal She ...is my mother whom i consider my father ‚my brother & even my lover she had an uneasily cured disease it ’s not a cough or a sneeze it ’s a distruction in all her body cells

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    Steven Herrick’s work of “By the river” displays a bildungsroman novel in which harry goes on a journey through life‚ facing love and loss. Steven Herrick’s verse novel “By the River” is very successful in conveying the significant ideas about human nature. He uses key themes such as grief‚ environmental influence and coming of age to explore these ideas. To convey the themes Herrick uses multiple techniques such as imagery‚ repetition‚ personification and positive and negative influence throughout

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    A Separate Peace Theme

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    In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ friendship is a major theme. This idea is expressed through the relationship between two Gene and Finny. As narrator‚ Gene does not always correctly understand or trust his friend‚ and this becomes an important part of the plot in displaying the joys and tragedies that can accompany a friendship. Friendship as a theme is used throughout the book in weaving the plot and giving it a nice twist. In the story‚ Gene and Finny share a complex friendship.

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    Nobel Peace Leymah

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    NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER Gadeikytė Giedrė CST 200 Introduction to Conflict Studies 16.04.2012 Leymah Roberta Gbowee Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist‚ who was born in 1972 of February 1st‚ responsible for leading a women ’s peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. When Leymah finished the school and was planning to study medicine‚ when the country began a protracted civil war. She was living with her parents and two of her three sisters in

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    confusion in the Kashmiri society is affecting the children’s innocent minds. Children naturally absorb the spirit of violence in the atmosphere and will soon grow to be the next generation of perpetuators of violence. Therefore the need to nurture peace in the hearts of children has arisen as urgent issues to be addressed. Education is narrowing down into the teaching of certain subject matters necessary only for passing examinations. Due to such subject- centered and examination-oriented learning

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    Peace through Service

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    PEACE THROUGH SERVICE Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the absence of violence and freedom from fear. Commonly understood by us as presence of positive and respectful culture. Service on other hand is an activity performed by an a group for benefit of individual or a group .Though both of them are quite different individually‚ but are quite interrelated as peace can be attained by service to underprivileged only .Service is rendered to those people who are socially disadvantaged‚ poor

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    Islam a Religion of Peace

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    uncontrollably violent. So‚ you have a knee-jerk reaction‚ purely defensive and purely self-protective and blurt out that you are a “peaceful religion.” And you are absolutely and one hundred percent right in saying that. For‚ Islam is all about peace and truth and justice and kindness and compassion. But that is not what your accusers and tormenters are saying. They are pointing to all the violence that is going on in different parts of the Muslim world‚ violence in which Muslims are involved

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    River Ecology Lab

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    Bio 1 River Ecology Lab Report Ecology is the study of relationships between organisms and their environment which includes both physical and biological factors. Humans have a major influence on ecosystems and this is very important in the waterways of California. The American River has been influenced greatly by humans by mining for gold‚ pollution through humans themselves‚ and an immense amount of other things (Becker 1992). We tested the growth of bacteria in the water of the American

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    1984 War Is Peace

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    1984 essay. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." This is the slogan of the Ministry of Truth‚ a branch of the totalitarian government in post-war London. The figurehead of this government is Big Brother‚ who employs a vast army of informers called the Thought Police who watch and listen to every citizen at all times through a device called a telescreen for the least signs of criminal deviation or unorthodox thoughts. This novel‚ like Orwell’s earlier work Animal Farm and

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