Slide 1.) Ladies and Gentleman‚ today you will learn about a horrible event unfolding in Syria today. Slide 2.) Today there is an issue facing the Arab nations of the Middle East. Slide 3.) In December of 2010‚ Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire‚ an act known as self-immolation‚ in protest of the confiscation of his merchandise by the government. This merchandise was his only means of income. In the middle of traffic on a busy street‚ he lit himself on fire in front of the governor’s office
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matter of post-conflict recovery. Although the clips were completely heart-wrenching‚ we need to ask ourselves what the facts are. Since December 2009‚ there have been 2400 reported abductions in surrounding places such as north-eastern Congo‚ South Sudan‚ and the Central African Republic. Thus‚ yes‚ the LRA is still active. On a smaller scale‚ yes‚ but people are still being abducted and killed throughout Africa. Are we going to dismiss this issue as one of the past‚ and let the LRA carry on like
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The Current State and Future of Al Qaeda United States President Barack Obama announced on May 1‚ 2011 that “Osama bin Laden‚ the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world‚ was killed in a firefight with the United States forces in Pakistan.” The death of Osama bin Laden is certainly a major blow to the Al Qaeda terrorist network causing many of its leaders to go underground. Yet‚ the threat of Al Qaeda still exists and many
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GLOBAL PEACE INDEX 2014 MEASURING PEACE AND ASSESSING COUNTRY RISK QUANTIFYING PEACE AND ITS BENEFITS The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent‚ non-partisan‚ non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive‚ achievable‚ and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. IEP achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing metrics for measuring peace; and uncovering the relationships between
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A Long Walk to Water is a creative non-fiction story about the life of one of the Lost Boys from South Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War; whose name is Salva. His journey wasn’t the easiest in fact he was at risk for dying at any given second. There were multiple factors contributing to his survival‚ his uncle‚ determination‚ and physical resources. Salva’s uncle was one of the main factors. He gave Salva the will to go on so he doesn’t lose sight of what’s important. Traveling across the
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neighbors gave this nickname to them‚ and it means “the people of the lightning”; they should be called the Bashi Bushongo (or the sons of Bushongo). It is a small country composed of tribes from different parts of Africa. It’s leaders come from Sudan and are known as the Bambala‚ the western people come from the Upper Congo‚ and the south is a separate branch of the Baluba from around Lake Nyassa. This melting pot of ethnicity gives rise to a related diversity of principles. The Bambala elder
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Al-Qaeda operated in Sudan in the early 1990s as host of the Islamist regimes of Omar al Bashir and Hassan al Turabi . However‚ the organisation soon set its sights on war-torn Somalia when it learnt that American troops were going to be deployed into it in order to restore
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Genocides are very tragic events where a certain group of people is being discriminated‚ segregated‚ displaced‚ and even killed for who they are or what they believe in‚ by a superior group. One of the most infamous ones is the Holocaust. Since that was a while ago‚ not too many people know that genocide is still happening. In the beginning of the 21st century‚ a new act of extermination came into play and still continues today. ¨The killings began in 2003‚ as the first genocide of the 21st century
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Coursework Header Sheet 133169-7 Course Coursework Tutor RESE1031: PPD3 - Thematic Independent St Essay Two N Stair Course School/Level Assessment Weight Submission Deadline BU/UG 50.00% 05/03/2008 Please ensure that you select the header sheet for your tutor. Please be aware this course has a no tolerance attitude towards plagiarism. Coursework is receipted on the understanding that it is the student ’s own work and that it has not‚ in whole or part‚ been presented elsewhere for
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Bryan Ramirez Mrs. Burton English 10 Honors 25 March 2012 Extermination in Genocide All genocides that have occurred in human history include various stages that are usually present; however‚ extermination‚ the 7th stage of genocide‚ is one that is present in all genocides. From the Armenian genocide and Darfur genocide‚ to the Rwandan and Jewish genocides‚ extermination is ever present in all of these. Extermination is explained to be mass killings of people‚ which
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