This synopsis briefly explains the challenges faced by African countries with emerging oil and gas industries in bringing widespread economic advancement to their countries. Although‚ on the surface‚ the challenges appear straightforward‚ in essence they often prove to be very taxing and intractable. They are closely interrelated and‚ regrettably‚ have lingering consequences‚ which have come to be known as the ’resource curse’. At core the task facing these countries is how to ensure that the investment
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basically consist of similar topics that can be obtain in todays’ newspapers. Although‚ the papers contained less pages and the local political news was limited‚ articles by revolutionary propagandist influenced public opinion in American colonies. Nevertheless‚ these articles reflected the conditions‚ and position between the American Colonies and Britain. People were influenced to take sides for American Colonies Independence (PBS). Newspapers today consist of divisions. For example‚ there are National
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Identity Crisis Hanif Kureishi’s short story “My Son the Fanatic” is an exquisite piece about a Pakistani father-son relationship and their conflicting ideas regarding their identity. Set in London‚ the story follows Parvez‚ a hardworking taxi driver that emigrated from his native country to London‚ England twenty years prior in hopes of providing a better life for him and his family. Parvez finds it easy to assimilate to western culture by drinking alcohol and eating “pork pies”. His son Ali‚ however
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1988 Judicial Crisis In 1988‚on the ground of misconduct‚ Tun Salleh Abas by then Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad was brought before a tribunal and this tribunal was chaired by Tun Hamid Omar. Due to the constitutionality of the tribunal‚ Tun Salleh Abas filed a suit in the High Court of Kuala Lumpur and while proceeding‚ interim stay against the tribunal was applied by Tun Salleh Abas until July 4‚ 1988 but the request then denied. Later‚however‚ an interlocutory order was granted to Tun
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Environmental crisis in Florida Environmental crisis in developing world where growing populations poverty‚ uncontrollable ecosystems is a potential thread dispowered citizens by modernizations. Some of us still today believe that researchers are exaggerated‚ and environmental changes is a complex‚ and some still wonders about about how far our assumption will take us. Some just sit‚ and wonders how short have we fallen of the eco-revolution what is remains to be done how will we really be able
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this devotion and is remarkably similar to the panics over education crises that have occurred throughout U.S. history. Unfortunately‚ almost all of the politicians and so-called education “expert” rushing forward to solve this latest education crisis seem to have forgotten the simplest facts about the early history of American education‚ which enabled this country to produce far more than its share of the world’s most creative thinkers. A hundred years ago‚ eight and a half per cent of American
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Title: The Marriage Crisis In today world‚ marriage is no longer a long lasting commitment as it was established in the first century. People’s view of marriage tends to be a financial affair than to be a divine commitment in which husband and wife should stick together until death. Unfortunately‚ a storm of another nature is wreaking havoc on the foundation and structure of the age-old institution of marriage. One aspect of that trend is that the futures mates may not be ready to assume their
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Pre-September 2008: The AIG Crisis Over the years‚ AIG built upon its premier global franchises in life and general insurance by expanding into a range of financial services businesses. One of these‚ created in 1987‚ was AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIGFP)‚ a company that engaged as principal in a wide variety of financial transactions for a global client base. In 1998‚ AIGFP began to sell credit default swaps to other financial institutions to protect against the default of certain securities
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Iran hostage crisis The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two US citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4‚ 1979 to January 20‚ 1981‚ after a group of Islamic students and militants took over the Embassy of the United States in support of the Iranian Revolution. Sixty-six Americans were taken captive when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4‚ 1979‚ including three who were at the Iranian Foreign Ministry
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The Regency Crisis was a political battle that was pushed in the background due to the French Revolution‚ about the health of King George III‚ who was believed to have gone insane putting the British Government and Monarchy in a major tailspin. However‚ this so-called crisis lasted only three months‚ but within that time two political parties were duking it out‚ George III and his son‚ George IV fought for the throne‚ and Parliament was in an all-out war to keep the country from having a civil war
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