In Puerto Rico‚ 3.4 million Americans are without electricity after Hurricane Maria‚ like a 50-mile wide tornado‚ virtually obliterated the island’s infrastructure. Essentials like food and water are nearly impossible to distribute‚ especially to the parts of the island that were hit the hardest. Local officials worry they may not reach everyone in time. Yet Donald Trump remained silent all weekend on the worst U.S. humanitarian crisis since Hurricane Katrina crushed New Orleans. Instead‚ the president
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The Cold War‚ a hostile rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Though the two nations fought indirectly‚ the tensions between these two former allies invited all the world’s countries to watch the events of this war closely because its outcomes could have changed the world and sent it towards a destructive future. Both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in
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There’s more damage than what happens on the skin or mind of the victim. And it never just harms them. There are 20.000 phone calls to domestic abuse hotlines per day in the US alone. Little signs are what can end up helping someone. The victim doesn’t have to be the one to make the move for the abuse to stop. It can be a friend or family. If you see abuse‚ not happening to you‚ you should help. A lot of the times‚ the victims are too fearful to reach out for help. The chance that a weapon is involved
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later in a broken down bus. One might think that McCadless died because of the wilderness. It was his own stupidity that led to his demise. However‚ when researching his story‚ Krakauer discovered that McCadless was an intelligent young man who knew what his was getting into. Jon Krakauer was Krakauer puts a tremendous amount of time in writing the book about McCadless’ life. The reasoning for this is most likely because‚ like McCadless‚ Krakauer is also an outdoorsman. Alaska‚ unlike any other state
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FINANCIAL REPRESSION AND FINANCIAL REFORM IN UGANDA Martin Brownbridge Summary The banking system in Uganda is among the weakest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its liabilities comprise less than 10 per cent of GDP‚ it is highly oligopolistic and inefficient in performing many basic banking functions‚ and the largest bank and several smaller banks are insolvent. The financial policies of the pre-reform period aimed to control banking markets‚ ostensibly for developmental and other non commercial
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increase in demand for many financial services from different financial firms. The market has responded to this soaring demand with making attractive offers and services for the customers at affordable rates. The liberalization of the economy in the 1990s has brought in new players into the field which has not only brought in some much needed fresh air to the stagnant financial sector but also competition for the same market space which was relatively unknown in the financial sector till then. Since
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First‚ an overview of financial risk ( A ) The meaning of financial risk Financial risk is the risk of financial performance of all enterprises ‚ the financial activities of enterprises in the process‚ due to a variety of unpredictable or uncontrollable factors that effect ‚ is the company’s actual return and expected return deviation occurs ‚ which may suffer economic losses possibilities. ( Two ) the characteristics of financial risk The occurrence of an enterprise financial risk characteristics
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Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust is the most notorious but most definitely not the only. Others such as the Syrian Genocide are great examples of our past being recreated‚ people were killed‚ others lost and a large portion forced to move from the comfort of their homes to live in refugee camps or to try to find their way out of the country. In the text it states “Syria has cost the lives of more
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the consequences of modernization for Japan The modernisation of Japan was an all or none matter. Either every aspect of the country had to be modernized to some extent‚ or no single aspect could be modernized. The four main aspects of Japan’s modernisation were industrialisation‚ political modernisation‚ education reform and military development. These four aspects had severe political‚ economic and social consequences on Japan. Some of the main political‚ economic and social consequences derived
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TOP 10 INCREDIBLE STORIES OF SURVIVAL While managing a decent job‚ to feed our families‚ and ourselves is the kind of survival‚ we face‚ there are tonnes of people who have managed to survive in drastic conditions where all hope seems lost. Here is an account of such incidents braved by many survivors. 1. LANSA flight 508 On 24th December 1971‚ the ill-fated LANSA flight 508 hit the ground after being caught in a thunderstorm while travelling from Lima to Iquitos with a stopover in Pucallpa. Even
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