persons and impacted over 30 lakh people in 1‚700 villages in the state‚ has forced the Nitish Kumar government to realise that the impact of the Kosi’s change of course would have been much less if officials of the traditional flood belt of the state were posted there. Yes‚ experience counts a lot during disasters‚ but India can’t afford to adopt unscientific disaster management modules to minimise impacts of repeated natural calamities. For a couple of days‚ flood victims in Bihar had no clue what
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Why So Many Foreigners Join Jihadists? Wang Zixuan 201201228 Mon 13:30 The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is a jihadist group based on al-Qaeda in Iraq‚ formed in April 2013. It has become one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Syria and Iraq. Its leader is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi‚ who joined the rebellion that erupted in Iraq after the US-led invasion in 2003. Its original aim was to establish a caliphate in the Sunni-majority regions of
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“Why is the Holocaust Memorial Day so Important?” Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year. It’s a time for us to pause to remember the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed during the Holocaust‚ Nazi persecution and in other genocides in Cambodia‚ Bosnia‚ Rwanda and Darfur. HMD (holocaust memorial day) has taken place in the UK since 2001. HMDT (holocaust memorial day trust) was established in 2004 in May and during its existence the number
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Women were not treated as equals with men before the second half of the eighteenth century. They had to marry‚ obey their husbands and have children‚ only receiving little education. In the eyes of the law they had little power and men were their superiors. For example‚ once they were married‚ everything they owned belonged to their husband‚ this meant that if they separated the women would be left with nothing‚ not even her children‚ as they too‚ belonged solely to the husband. Around 1850‚ the
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Corps‚ since they were worried that the Germans would launch an attack which would put a gap between the V Corps and VII Corps. That would not be good because the Germans would have a good position to out flank both corps. Another reason why it was good to capture Carentan was “Carentan loomed next on the list of vital Allied objectives. Its seizure would provide the link necessary to coordinate the assault forces on Utah and Omaha Beaches. If Germans retained the town‚ Allied power would be divided
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management and owners to level to workers and improve the work environment for better production. Critical theorists attempt to educate about the ways in which organizational structures become so unjust. They are interested in the exercise of power in all forms and at all levels‚ and the way in which power manifests itself completely. Critical theorists help us understand that certain patterns of behavior develop within organized settings. These ideologies create deep structures within organizations
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Why respect is so important in today’s society and what exactly is respect? Respect is a combination of appreciation‚ admiration as well as recognition of a person being worth something‚ or having earned a position because of their achievements. It could feel at times vague to some people‚ but most people understand and act with respect. In our modern world respect is sometimes confused with fear. For instance‚ Gangs‚ they kill and they fight to earn respect from others but what they actually receive
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At almost any given moment during the day‚ you can turn on your television and find a reality TV show on somewhere. Why are reality TV shows so big today? There are a couple of reasons. First‚ fame and fortune are very appealing features. They can lure everyday people out of their boring lives with offers of money and appreciation by television viewers. Reality TV shows have gone from exposing personal lives‚ for example keeping up with the Kardashians‚ to almost anything imaginable. There are reality
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streaming/DVD rental service that has asserted its supremacy among tech giants such as Rogers and Bell for its ability to provide an abundance of television shows and movies while offering a price making Netflix‚ incompetitable. Yet the question is‚ why is Netflix so popular? Unlike its competitors such as Shomi and VibePlus‚ Netflix provides content from both in and outside of the US‚ thus able to attract viewers of all ethnicities‚ whether it’d be Mexican‚ Korean or British‚ Netflix
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Study note 1)women The reason why the Women were upset after the war is because they were only given some of the rights that the men had. Plus the women were working so hard‚ taking men’s jobs so that the production keeps going‚ and they were still treated like they weren’t people Veterans They thought that they would come back and have a job and all the gifts that the government would give them like the money that they were supposed get but didn’t. Plus they came back hoping that the
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