From Beatings to Tweets‚ Racism on the Rise in Greece The population of Greece is 11 million. Of this 11 million‚ 1 million are immigrants‚ many of which are illegal. There has been a recent uprising of violent attacks of racism due to the increasing number of immigrants in Greece. A party known as the “Golden Dawn” has been behind many of these attacks. They were also said to be behind a tweet prejudicially referring to the African immigrants of Greece. Forwarding this tweet‚ triple
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“Is The War On Terrorism A War?” The Global War on Terrorism is a military campaign that began shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. First used by George W. Bush‚ the phrase ‘war on terror’ has become to be conceptualized as a term used to signify ‘global military‚ political‚ lawful‚ and conceptual struggle targeting both organizations designated as terrorists and regimes accused of supporting them.” The war on terror main focus has been with Islamist militants and Al-Qaeda
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Current Affairs Inflation is the increase of rates of goods and services. This can affect the cupcake business in a negative way as the customers may not buy a lot of products as the prices for other stuff have increased as well. This will conclude in our business not making enough profit as we may need‚ which means that we will not be able to pay taxes and wages to the employees. This may also end up with our business not earning enough to pay suppliers. In order to prevent inflation affecting
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Current Event Summary: Senate Democrats drop reforms from an aid package set for Ukraine on Tuesday. The funds would have increased the Ukraine loan package while ratifying changes that only the United States has opposed. President Obama proposed those changes to European allies whom have agreed‚ but won’t be providing as much money as he proposed to the cause. “The governance changes would raise the borrowing limit of countries like Ukraine at the multilateral lending institution‚ while giving
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Vs the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a mountainous land-locked country‚ which is one of the central Asian countries. In addition‚ it is an Islamic country that Islam religion has played a significant role in governing it. In Afghanistan Many governments had been changed in past several decades. For instance‚ the Kingdom of Amanullah Khan‚ the Kingdom of Mohammad Nadir Shah‚ Mohammad Zahir Shah‚ The Communist Regimes‚ the Islamic State of Afghanistan‚ Taliban Regime‚ Interim Government
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Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq for over 30 years who made a “promising‚ oil-rich nation”(MacFarquhar) into a war-filled‚ police state. After growing up fatherless and in a poor village‚ he found violence to be a quick solution to his problems. In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq due to various threats and conflicts the two nations had run into. Was the United States justified in invading Iraq? Some might say that Iraq should deal with their own problems and not have another nation come
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Current Events # 2 There are many events today that connect with world history events from way back. For example there is a huge controversy with the Navy Yard shooter that relates to the Bill of Rights. But‚ first what happened at the Washington Navy Yard? At 8:15 A.M.‚ 34 years old Aaron Alexis who was a computer technician for a private Navy contractor killed 12 people and wounded four others in the Sept. 16 rampage as he fired a sawedoff Remington 870 Express shotgun‚ into which he had etched several statements
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APWH CURRENT EVENT SUMMARIES 1. Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists : In the past year‚ Myanmar has faced an outbreak in hatred aimed towards the Muslim population within the country. Monks that are influential to the Buddhist-dominant country are inciting violence among all age groups within the state. A main leader in the campaign against Muslims‚ called 969‚ is an ex-prisoner of war‚ Ashin Wirathu‚ is causing ethnic and religious strife with his violence inciting sermons. Ashin‚ using
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Understand the main legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. 1.1 Current legislation made for safeguarding children and young people are; Children act 1989. The main aims of the Act are: • To bring together private and public law in one framework; • To achieve a better balance between protecting children and enabling parents to challenge state intervention; • To encourage greater partnership between statutory authorities and parents;
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Religious Challenges to Constructing a Democratic Iraq Table of Contents Abstract 3 The challenge of establishing a democracy in Iraq 3 History of Iraq 3 History of Islam 4 Tenets of Islam 6 History of democracy 7 Christianity and democracy 8 Tenets of democracy 9 Islamic thought vs. the keystones of a democracy 10 Can democracy take hold in an Islamic Iraq? 10 Conclusion 11 References 13 Abstract Islam
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