INTERFET in East Timor East Timor (1999-2000) The deployment of the Australian-led INTERFET to East Timor in September 1999 was seen as a necessary step to establish the political stability the UNTAET administration needed to fulfil its tasks. The operation was prompted by the wave of Indonesian-backed violence that followed the East Timorese decision to opt for independence in a referendum. East Timor’s misery began in 1974-5 when Indonesia used the turmoil that accompanied the withdrawal of Portuguese
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East Indian Culture Course Number: 1409 Instructor: Melanie K. Hail February 12‚ 2013 The term culture has many definitions depending upon the type of culture that you are referring to. In this situation; culture‚ is defined as the integrated pattern of human knowledge‚ belief and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to future generations. I believe that culture of an ethnic group starts at the beginning of time before people understood that their
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project of East Harlem‚ New York‚ seeks to explore the community in relation to its landscape and demographic characteristics taking into consideration its population‚ health‚ resources‚ and its shortfalls amongst other benchmarks of the city. With these statistics and characteristics‚ it paints a clearer picture of the strengths and weakness of the community making informed needs about the community. This assessment will seek to give a vivid characteristic to the situational analysis of East Harlem
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October 2014 A New Middle East Fareed Zakaria is a writer‚ political scientist‚ and magazine and television news commentator. He was born and raised in Bombay‚ India‚ the son of a politically progressive parents were also practicing Muslim. Over the past years there have been several conflicts in the Middle East over who have dominated the nation of the Arabs. Zakaria writes this particular story to educate and persuade his readers that‚ there will never be peace in the Middle East as long as Western powers
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European Regional Economics Bulgaria - North-East region Lecturer: red. prof. dr. Ivo Lavrač Date: 9 January 2013 Name: Elena Petrova Student number: 19558190 Table of contents Page 1. Introduction 3 2. Relative description of north-east region 4 3. SWOT analysis
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back thousands of years‚ music has represented individual‚ tribes‚ countries‚ gods‚ and so much more. Depending on the type of music the association can be narrowed down to a certain location. East African music has always been known for their roles drums play in their culture. Also called Membranophones‚ the East African drums play a critical role in their society. In Kenya a plethora of membranophones are vital to their way of life. They have not been subdivided in the indices as the indices as the
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Central‚ East and South Africa (50 points total) 1. Trade and Migration Trade connects people across great distances and leads not only to _economic____________ exchange but also to __cultural___________ exchange. Language‚ religion‚ scientific ideas‚ technological innovations‚ and political theories travel along the same routes as ___Trade___________. 2. Northern and Eastern Migrations Around 2000 BCE‚ people of the upper Nile area and Southwest Asia migrated along the coast of the Red
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Mental Health in East Africa I was born and raised in a city of Kigali in Rwanda. Growing up in a war torn country was awful. However‚ it gave me opportunities to move around East Africa. This allowed me to live in 3 different countries excluding the U.S.‚ to speak 5 languages and to learn a lot about different cultures in the East African region. When I came to the U.S‚ a lot changed and one of many things I could not understand was why there are so many mental health disorders. Before I came
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The Effects of Long Distance Trade in East Africa. By Deborah of Uganda 7th May 2008 Long Distance Trade was the trade between the East African coast and other interior states of Africa in the early 19th Century. In involved movement over long distances‚ the major participants were the Swahili speaking peoples of East Africa and the Arabs. The interior people included the Nyamwezi‚ the Kamba‚ the Yao tribes. They moved in caravans of 100 to 1‚000 people. Capital was provided by the Indian
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The Causes of Unrest in the Middle East The causes of unrest in the Middle East are historical‚ religious‚ economic and geo-political. Ancient history and ancient civilizations can serve as a framework for understanding some of the existing enmity. For example‚ the Persians (Iranians) and the Babylonians (Iraqis) have been fighting for more than 3‚000 years. However‚ the current unrest in the Middle East is the result of Western ethno-centrism and colonialism (covert and overt)‚ combined with
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