Acronyms HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus TRIPS Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights WTO World Trade Organization WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization Key terms Life-Saving drugs are the drugs that are widely accepted by the scientific community curing or reducing the effects of illnesses that if left untreated would result in death of the patient. HIV‚ Tumors‚ and Leukemia are some examples of lives threatening diseases. Compulsory licensing: When a government
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Ophelia: Saving the selves of adolescent girls Introduction “I encourage girls to search within themselves for their deepest values and beliefs. Once they have discovered their own true selves‚ I encourage them to trust that self as the source of meaning and direction in their lives” Mary Pipher‚ Ph.D. Clinical psychologist Mary Pipher has brought widespread attention to the loss of true-self‚ experienced by adolescent girls in her critically acclaimed book‚ Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves
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all the industries. The power consumption by the indusrtial lighting varies between 2% to 10% of the total power depending on the type of industry. Innovation and continuous improvement in the field of lighting‚ has given rise to tremendous energy saving opportunities in this area. The simplest and the most widely used form of controlling a lighting installation is "On-Off" switch. In the electrical lighting system in our community‚ especially in the various households and the street lighting system
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“Saving Private Ryan” Analyse the methods use to make the opening battle sequence of “Saving Private Ryan” both shocking and realistic and say how effective you find it as an introduction to the film “Saving Private Ryan” is a war film directed by the well-known Jewish director Steven Spielberg and was released on September 11th 1998. It was a joint production with Paramount and DreamWorks pictures. The film won in total 5 Academy Awards (Oscars) including best director in 1999. This is most likely
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The book Saving Capitalism‚ written by Robert B. Reich‚ explains the current economic situation‚ theory’s behind worker’s and voter’s moral‚ and ways to make the American economy work for the many and not the few. Reich examines the effect of corporate influence on the economy. Large corporations tilting the market in a way that would benefit the top and not much else. The old protections which limit the influence of money in government have been undone. Landmark cases which served to limit the amount
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Saving Endangered Languages- Saving Our Diversity Oliver Wendell Holmes said “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” It implies all the languages in this planet play an important role in formation of diversity and cultural identity. Starting with simple grunts and moans‚ for a thousand years‚ the human species has developed a sophisticated language of gestures combined with spoken language. Today‚ along with many advantages that globalization has
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happening. It is urgent that action is taken against Governments holding and creating these weapons. As citizens of the world. Our lives are at risk when these devices are apart of our reality. In the article “Ban Nuclear Weapons; Saving Money and Saving the World” by Alan Robock he states that if 2 counties were to have a nuclear war‚ “it would only take about 50 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs” to create climate change never before seen in recorded human history. There are some 2‚000 nuclear
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field can cost more than 20‚000 dollars a year” (10). See look how much money Schools can save without sports‚ with all that extra money schools can buy whatever they need. Cutting sports have saved schools thousands of dollars and helped schools with saving money.
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In the novel Saving Sky by Diane Stanley‚ a thirteen-year-old named Sky Brightman lives in a world of war‚ terrorism‚ and unfair prejudice. She is remarkably unaffected by it all‚ until her friend Kareem is in danger. His family is taken to deportation centers because of their Middle Eastern background‚ and Kareem is the next target. He must seek refuge with Sky’s family. Although both Kareem and Sky know the world can be dark and unfair‚ Sky tends to be more of an optimist while Kareem is a realist
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towards women even though they know nothing about the religion or Muslim culture. They only address it from an outsiders perspective and not from the perspective of Muslim women. Lila Abu- Lughod discusses this issue in her book Do Muslim Women Need Saving?. In the introduction chapter Zaynab‚ a friend of Abu- Lughod from southern Egypt‚ does a good job of summarizing what Western women should really be concerned about ( Abu-Lughod‚ pg. 1). When Abu- Lughod mentions her research and how Western women
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