World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. It is also the Food Engineer day. The World Food Day theme for 2009 is "Achieving food security in times of crisis". Origins World Food Day (WFD) was established by FAO’s Member Countries at the Organization’s 20th General Conference in November 1979. The Hungarian Delegation‚ led by the former Hungarian Minister
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International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is celebrated. This date has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 49/114‚ to commemorate the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. | This commemoration around the world offers an opportunity to focus attention and action at the global‚ regional and national levels on the protection of the ozone layer. All Member States are invited to devote this special day to promotion
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I argue that World War I and World War II ended in peace attempts‚ however the ending of World War I focused on putting blame on other countries‚ whereas World War II aimed its efforts towards lasting peace. The ending of World War I encouraged blame and continued imperialism‚ which lead to depression and unresolved issues. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles was the single most important peace treaty between Germany and Allied Powers‚ which ultimately ended the Great War. This treaty required Germany
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Earth Day is an annual event‚ celebrated on the 22 of April‚ on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970‚ and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network‚ and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year. Earth Day is the perfect time to think outside the box. What are the consequences of our choices? What products are better for the earth? What should we avoid? Just as you might suspect‚ there’s more to saving
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the word ’coherer’‚ coined by Lodge‚ was used in the English-speaking world for Hertzian wave receivers or detectors. The Electrician readily commented on Bose’s coherer. (December 1895). The Englishman (18 January 1896) quoted from the Electrician and commented as follows:”Should Professor Bose succeed in perfecting and patenting his ‘Coherer’‚ we may in time see the whole system of coast lighting throughout the navigable world revolutionised by a Bengali scientist working single handed in our Presidency
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Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour 1. Do you believe the Mallards’ marriage was a loveless one? How would you describe the marriage‚ given what the story tells you? Kate Chopin opens the story describing the scene to be one of epic emotion and made me believe that Mrs. Mallard was a woman madly in love with her husband; however as the story progresses the storyline changes. When Mrs. Mallard received the news of her husband and sat in the room alone and began whispering the words “Freedom” over
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World Environment Day (WED) World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Commemorated on 5 June each year‚ WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The agenda for WED is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable
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How was the Indian culture ended Many years ago‚ in America‚ there lived only Indians. Then the Americans came in and slowly‚ with peace contracts‚ pushed them in the reservations where they were allowed to do anything they wish including culture like the ghost dance. Now that they were pushed into the reservations‚ we would think that they had a good life. They had land‚ buffalos‚ and much more. Suddenly‚ the Americans somehow found a way to cause the Native Americans way of life to end. In this
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A Talk on World Environment Day Good morning to our beloved principal ‚ Mr Yap Chong Guan ‚ dear teachers and students of Chung Hua Middle School No.1 . Thank you for giving me this opportunity to say a few words on this auspicious day. I would like to focus on the importance of rainforests and why we must save them. We all know that Malaysia has the oldest rainforest in the world ‚ but do we really understand what rainforests do? Rainforests safeguard our existence
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Dean Fortin January 3‚ 2013 English 203 Diagnostic Essay 203 Diagnostic Essay If I was given one hundred days and unlimited resources to change the world‚ the one cause I would take on would be the well-being of children and teenagers because I believe that is what truly changes the world. Children are the future of the world and if they are set into bad environments from when they are young and as they continue to grow older‚ that is the only way of life they know and leaves them with no options
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