neighbors. Like others‚ the people do not accept the name given by the Burmese and ourselves; they do not call themselves Chins‚ and they equally flout the name of Kuki which their Assamese neighbors’ use. They call themselves Zhou or Shu and in other parts Yo or Lai.. The term Zomi‚ meaning ’Zo People ’‚ is derived form the term‚ Zo‚ the descendants of their progenitor‚ ’Zo ’". Regarding the truth of Zomi as the racial designation of the so-called Kuki-Chin people‚ U Thein Re Myint‚ a well-known
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many of the people caught up in the criminal justice system are low income‚ racial and ethnic minorities‚ often forgotten by society‚” Besides juveniles‚ what other age group is experiencing unprecedented incarceration rates? Does this surprise you? Why or why not? Another age group experiencing unprecedented incarceration rates is with very elderly people. Yes‚ it surprises me very much. I was not expecting to read that at all. I guess mainly because I figured that most elderly people would have
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this implementation youth play a vital role. Young people constitute a large part of the world’s population and young people will have to live longer with the consequences of current environmental decisions than will their elders. Future generations will also be affected by these decisions and the extent to which they have addressed concerns such as the depletion of resources‚ biodiversity loss‚ and long-lived radioactive wastes. Young people can play an active role in protecting and improving
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places who work with the that homeless people homeless in order to 9. help them decide 10. congregate. Indeed the
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After seeing the documentary called‚ “First Peoples: Africa” we can see that as a species we are still like our ancient ancestors from 200‚000 years ago. Through this film we can our ancestors use creativity to make stone tools. However‚ the weird thing is that any visual recorded language hasn’t been found amongst our ancestor until a few thousand years ago even though they did communicate in ways. When I think about what could have played a factor in this lag between humans’ developing a spoken
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circumstances are fair to mildly decent‚ one stands a greater chance in winning a rebellion than usual. Decolonization is a necessarily violent process in most cases‚ because no leader or ruler would willingly surrender what they own. And neither would the people suffer a fate that they can change by stopping such a leader or ruler. The justification of violence goes opposed to compromise‚ reaching an agreement between‚ at most
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For more than a decade people speculated and often times proved why our economy has suffered from high gas prices‚ unemployment‚ and crime rate. People need to know why there are a number of contributing factors for each of these things. Gas prices have been on the rise for a quite some time. One of those reasons is BP oil had a major catastrophic event when one of its wells blew in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20‚ 2010. When nearly 2 million gallons of Corexit were sprayed and injected into the
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Anthropology Research Assignment The Iroquois: People of the Longhouse Prepared for: Victor Gulewitsch TA: Cecibel Rodriguez ANTH*1150*02 Prepared By: Ellen Griffin Student ID: 0726506 Date: March 17‚ 2011 The Iroquois: People of the Longhouse Introduction The Iroquois are considered a branch of North American Indians‚ also known as Haudenosaunee or the “People of the Longhouse”. The Iroquois have greatly contributed to society through initiating the Iroquois confederacy also called the
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In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918‚ while hundreds of thousands had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian
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Videogames and Young People Violent video games have been sources of extreme criticism over the past decade or so. With the recent advancement in video game technology‚ games are getting more realistic and are able to expose people to new types of content that wasn’t possible at the turn of the century. While this new content seems like a step forward‚ there is plenty of evidence showing that videogames are becoming an increasing problem to youth in our society. Ultra-realistic murders‚ brutal
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