Even before the creation of the Federal Reserve‚ banks were used by the public just as we use them today. Deposits were made into savings accounts. Loans were taken out to mortgage a home or finance a new business. Banknotes were issued and spent when the public borrowed from the banks. Borrowers spent these banknotes just as paper money is spent today. These bank notes were valued as money since they were backed by the promise that they would be exchanged on demand for either gold or silver
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Usage variations of bin Laden ’s name Because there is no universally accepted standard in the West for transliterating Arabic words and names into English‚ bin Laden ’s name is transliterated in many ways. The version often used by most English-language mass media is Osama bin Laden. Most American government agencies‚ including the FBI and CIA‚ use either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin"‚ both of which are often abbreviated to UBL. Less common renderings include "Ussamah Bin Ladin" and "Oussama
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Economic Foundations of Capitalism. Lexington: D. C. Heath Co.‚ Lexington Books‚ 1983. Pesakovic‚ Milentije. Twenty Years of Self-Management in Yugoslavia. Trans. Andelija Vujovic. Belgrade: Medunarodna Politika‚ 1970. Research Shows Estimates of Bosnian War Death Toll Were Inflated. International Herald Tribune. June 21‚ 2007. URL: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/europe/EU-GEN-Bosnia-War-Victims.php. Accessed: 12/10/07. Seibel‚ Hans Dieter and Ukandi G. Damachi. Self-Management in Yugoslavia
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aweakened the nationalism of the Serbian‚they aimed to get rid of the rule of the big powers and wanted to form a big independent Serbia. Both of them were ambitous about the Balkans‚conflicts were thus resulted in 19th century.For example‚Bosnian Crisis in 1908 and the Balkan War in 1912.Their relation worsen eventually.The Balkan War was a strong evidence to show the hostility between Austria-Hungary and Serbia before the start of the First World War.After defeating the Ottomen Empire‚the former
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an outsider. Although I moved here when I was young‚ and I am currently a U.S. citizen‚ I still fail to understand some aspects of the logic of the American people. I have merged my Bosnian culture with bits and pieces of American culture to become who I am today‚ however‚ my culture predominantly focuses on my Bosnian heritage. In all the years that I have lived here‚ I have discovered that Americans believe they are supreme. You may ask‚ “Why do they believe this?” It is because it is what they
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DISCRIMINATION ON ETHNIC GROUNDS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Introduction Many societies all over the world have had to grapple with the problem of inter-group relations. Such concepts as apartheid‚ discrimination‚ prejudice‚ pogrom‚ ethnicity‚ hatred‚ fanaticism‚ intolerance‚ war and even terrorism are terms in common use all over the world. It is manifest that many societies tend to stratify themselves based on the strength of race or tribe. Ethnic discrimination represents one of the problems
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The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose main objectives are stated to be; facilitating cooperation in international law‚ international security‚ economic development‚ social progress‚ human rights‚ and achievement of world peace. The UN delegates these responsibilities to various agencies which include 193 member states. The organization consists of six main bodies as well as several other prominent agencies. The success of the UN‚ measured given their main objectives‚ can
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Since World War II and the holocaust there has been many genocide cases‚ genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular group or nation. The holocaust was the execution of 6 million Jews during World War II. The leader of the holocaust was Hitler‚ he didn’t kill a single Jew‚ but he somehow managed to convince all the people that were working for him. During the holocaust all the Jews were forced to leave their homes. Jews were sent to concentration
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instance‚ in 1994‚ more than 500‚000 people were killed in just three months in Rwanda. The Rwandan government used the ethnic Hutu militia to kill as many Tutsis as possible‚ which was a clear case of genocide. When Bosnian Serbs launched a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s‚ the violence continued
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and foreign languages. A mother tongue is the first language or language one learns or acquires as a child. When immigrants come to a new country and learn the language of that country‚ they are learning a second language. On the other hand‚ when Bosnian-speaking students in the Bosnia and Herzegovina learn English or Latin in school they are learning a foreign language. Many theories about the learning and teaching of languages have been proposed. These theories‚ normally influenced by development
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