Committee: Security Council Country: Democratic India Delegate: Rishi Birudu‚ Meridian school Topic: situation in Syria The Syrian Arab Republic is currently in a state of civil war with its multi-religious and multi-ethnic society. For a year and a half since the “Arab Spring”‚ the rebel movement has protested the restrictions on their rights and the lack of government transparency‚ while the oppressive Syrian government‚ led by Bashar al-Assad‚ is fraught with corruption and attempts to stifle
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Paper #1 – Venezuela Today After almost fourteen years in power‚ President Hugo Chavez was reelected by a million votes more against his adversary in October 2012. Armed with huge resources from oil revenues‚ bolstered by the high rates of Popularity and six years ahead of renewed mandate‚ Chávez expressed confidence in the progress of the "Bolivarian Revolution" and the establishment of so-called "Socialism of the XXI century". That confidence helped him to regain control of some basic industries
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Venezuela All That is Shiny is not Oil President Hugo Chávez Frías passed away on March 5‚ 2013 after battling an unknown type of cancer‚ thus ending fourteen years in office as president of Venezuela. In that time‚ he extended term limits that allowed him to run and win the executive post four times‚ including surviving one recall. Chávez saw himself as the leader of the “Bolivarian Revolution” and saw Venezuela as a model for “socialism for the 21st century.” Was he successful in achieving
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Well‚ I can say that his thoughts about man were wrong! The position taken in this paper is that Protagoras’ philosophical thesis on human nature is not true. In particular‚ I will argue that man is not the measure of all things or the reason for everything. The purpose of this paper is to explain the sense of man’s existence‚ and to have a clear understanding that God alone is the measure of all things. The main parts of this paper are as follows: First for explication‚ this is to strain Protagoras
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you ever ate at the UTD dining hall? Well I haven’t‚ but I heard that’s its pretty bad. So I decided to go and eat there for 5 days straight to see whats going to happen. But just after eating there for the second day I found it hard to write position paper for a wider range of dining options at UTD. The main reason is that why on earth would you eat at the same place for 5 days? Even eating at the best restraunt for 5 days would be sick. But at Utd there are many other options and variety of foods
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Engagements of developing countries in WTO and regional trading arrangements are critical to get meaningful market access for efficient utilization of their resources. Many developing economies have succeeded in becoming part of global production chains‚ which typically take advantage of the strengths of different regional economies to produce components and assemble completed products. The rise in the use of these production chains has been associated with increased foreign direct investment flows
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Do WTO Rules Create a Level Playing Field? Lessons from the Experience of Peru and Vietnam∗ Christina L. Davis Department of Politics Princeton University† ∗ The author thanks Marc Busch‚ Thomas Cottier‚ Judith Goldstein‚ Eduardo Perez Motta‚ and John Odell for comments on the paper‚ and thanks Anbinh Phan and Courtenay Dunn for valuable research assistance. The research benefited greatly from interviews with officials involved in the negotiations‚ who have not been cited by name at
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of culture‚ there are two topics and only one can be higher in certain cultures than others. The country I chose to do is the culture of Venezuela. Venezuela is very similar to the rest of the Latin American countries but has exceptional characteristics when it comes to the dimensions that Hofstede describes. The dimensions of culture that will be discussed fall into the four common ones: collectivism‚ power distance‚ masculinity and low uncertainty avoidance. Venezuela is a unique country with
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Name: Alicia Torres The Crisis in Venezuela p.16 What’s the Big Idea? After reading “The Crisis in Venezuela‚” use the graphic organizer below to record the article’s central ideas. Use the topics in the column on the left as a guide. TOPIC STATE THE CENTRAL IDEA RELATED TO THIS TOPIC ECONOMY Shortages of basic goods UNREST Lost in oil South America facing crisis GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO UNREST Insisting to changing to a dictatorship RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. U.S buys oil from
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Evolution of achievement of the WTO and the Doha rounds of trade talk. Background: The thought is the father to the deed‚ and the multilateral trading system could never have been built if it had not first been imagined. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is not the product of just one idea‚ however‚ or even one school of thought. It instead represents the confluence of‚ and sometimes the conflict between‚ three distinct areas of theory and practice. Law‚ economics and politics have each inspired
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