case hid by Yolanda Yolanda’s destruction is now beyond excess. For the live coverage from Tacloban City‚ let’s hear it from __________________. _______________________? Extreme hunger is forcing survivors in Yolanda-stricken areas to resort to looting‚ said Filipino psychologist Dr. Bernadette Arcena on Friday. In an interview with radio dzBB host Joel Reyes Zobel‚ Arcena said‚ “Kapag kumakalam ang tiyan ng isang tao‚ makagagawa talaga siya ng paraan na hindi naman talaga niya gustong gawin.”
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was formed‚ the nobility and the king were angry with Jacques Necker‚ the Director-General of Finances‚ and they fired him. Many Parisians thought the King was going to try to shut down the National Assembly. Soon‚ Paris was filled with riots and looting. On 14 July 1789‚ the people decided to attack the Bastille prison. The Bastille contained weapons‚ as well as being a symbol of the power of the nobility and the rule of the king‚ the "Ancien Régime". By the afternoon‚ the people had broken into
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Luhnow). especially in a nation with a weak central government like Haiti. This lack of preparation and previous disasters in Haiti is noted in the article to emphasize Haiti’s security problems‚ alludes that victims will more than likely resort to looting to obtain supplies in amidst the chaos. This approach induces nations like the US to be disinterested in investing aid within a the country deemed as
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corporate excesses of the 1990s‚ prosecutors won criminal convictions against the father-and-son team of John and Timothy Rigas‚ former top executives at cable company Adelphia Communications Corp. However‚ they failed to persuade a jury that the looting involved Adelphia’s former assistant treasurer. The jury left unresolved the case against another member of the Rigas family -- Michael Rigas‚ former head of Adelphia operations -- remaining deadlocked on most of the counts against him. Because
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bandits went on to the chateau of Montferra. The chateau of Césagrès has been looted and stripped with the aid of carts; everything was taken right down to the hinges of the doors; the thieves took money and the local villagers were accomplices to the looting‚ mingling with the bandits. Troops from Lyon killed thirteen of the bandits and nineteen were taken prisoned. They will be executed for their disgraceful crimes. Letter from Estates of Dauphiné to the National Assembly‚ 31 July 1789 Source C:
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Read the following extract from reading 2.2 ‘Benin antiquities at the British Museum’ and look at Plates 3.1.14 British officers of the Benin punitive expedition with bronzes and ivories taken from the royal compound‚ Benin City‚ 1897 and 3.2.24 Display of Benin bronzes in the Sainsbury African Galleries‚ the British Museum‚ 2005 in the AA100 Illustration Book. How do the different contexts of display reflect different attitudes to the art of Benin? At the end of the 19th century‚ Africa was
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British Riots of 2011 This essay will consider the British Riots of 2011‚ relating the events specifically to the functionalist perspective of Emile Durkheim and others. It will offer definitions of key terms‚ identify key concepts and consider opposing arguments from opposing theoretical perspectives. It will apply these concepts to the 2011 Riots and argue that the killing of Mark Duggan by police was not‚ as many believed‚ the only reason behind the riots. Functionalist theory suggests society
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The Okapi Wildlife Reserve [pic] The Okapi Wildlife Reserve The Okapi Wildlife Reserve takes up about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the Northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNESCO Heritage Centre‚ 1992-2008). According to UNESCO Heritage Centre (1992-2008)‚ “ the Congo river basin‚ of which the reserve and forest are a part‚ is one of the largest drainage systems in Africa’’ (para. 1). The reserve contains endangered species of primates and birds and about 5‚000 of the estimated
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The site of Marlik is one that gives so much valuable information about a culture that lived so long ago‚ yet very few seem to know about the site and what it can tell us about a culture long gone. The site has given so much to the study of archaeology and is one of the richest excavated graveyards in Iranian history‚ and some have argued‚ the best-documented ancient cemetery in the entire Near East. (iranica) Because of its immense significance and vast documentation‚ (MET Culture) it is hard to
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They neither took up protective positions nor attempted to stop the acts of looting and destruction‚ even when asked to do so by the civilians they were there to liberate in the first place. Since the most important cultural sites stood in two small areas of the city‚ military commanders could have taken simple steps to protect these
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