global witness global witness China and Congo : Friends in Need A report by Global Witness on the Democratic Republic of Congo‚ March 2011 Global Witness investigates and campaigns to prevent natural resource-related conflict and corruption and associated environmental and human rights abuses. Our investigations and lobbying have played a key role in the establishment of the major international initiatives addressing these issues‚ including the Kimberley Process and the Extractive Industries
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1. Introduction In 2004 Europe’s largest airline group was formed after the European Commission had approved a merger between French Air France and Dutch KLM. A merger of this dimension certainly has major influences on the economy. This paper will give an insight on the incidents of this instance‚ the economic consequences and it will deal with the question whether the European Commission’s decision was reasonable. First of all the two firms will be introduced and an overview about the merger will
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European Technological Advances Countries have always wanted to control the most amount of land that they possibly could. It is in the nature of the people to want more and more. This obsession of wanting to control more land forged a time known as Imperialism. This could not be possible if it wasn’t for technology. Philip Curtin states in his novel‚ The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex that‚ "The pace of change in technology became more rapid than it had ever been in the past‚ and the pace
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against new players. 1 Description of railway sector in Slovakia Historically‚ the railway sector in Slovakia was organized so that all activities related to rail transport were performed by a public company which was responsible for the management and construction of railway infrastructure
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Railways in Niagara Peninsular and its impact on the region Before the arrival a railways in Niagara peninsula The major influence in the Niagara region were the canals. Notably the First Welland Canal built by William Hamilton Merritt opened in the year 1829‚ which enabled the ships to avoid the Niagara Falls. The Welland canal transformed the Niagara peninsular‚ many rural regions industrialized‚ rural areas started to transform into urban areas. There was an inflow of construction workers who
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Wind‚ Sand‚ and Stars: A Book Review American author John Green once gave some advice to an aspiring writer; “Don’t make stuff because you want money‚ it will never make you enough money. Don’t make stuff because you want to get famous because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people‚ and work hard on those gifts in the hope that those people will notice. Maybe they will notice how hard you worked and maybe they won’t… Ultimately‚ that doesn’t change anything because your responsibility
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the longest central span of any bridge in the world. Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge was constructed in 1988 after a disaster in 1955‚ where the Shiun Maru ferry( carrying children) sank in the Seto Inland Sea after colliding with another Japanese National Railways (JNR) ferry‚ killing 100 students and a total of 168 people. The
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day chemist; he was a firm believer of an eight-hour workday‚ eight hours in the morning‚ and eight in the afternoon. Aside from his amazing history as an adult Edison lived an equally exciting childhood. “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it .” These are the word that Thomas Alva Edison lived his life by. This is why he is known as the greatest inventor in America’s history. By the end of his life Edison had registered 1093 patents and had made millions from his inventions
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Germany was prepared for the war in August‚ 1914. The Schlieffen Plan was a huge plan of attack to be used in the event of a war which was announced by Count Von Schlieffen on the 31st of December‚ 1905 (9 years before the war started). The European powers (allies) heard about this plan in 1914 before the outbreak of the war. The idea was that the Germans would sweep across Holland and Belgium to the sea at Dunkirk‚ the area between forts at Verdun and the Dunkirk coast would be attacked by 35 army
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The First Industrial Revolution evolved into the Second Industrial Revolution in the transition years between 1840 and 1870‚ when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the increasing adoption of steam-powered boats‚ ships and railways‚ the large scale manufacture of machine tools and the increasing use of steam powered factories. It started in the United Kingdom‚ and spread throughout the world quickly. Almost every aspect of the world was influenced in some way. Economy is one
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