Ho Chi Minh City Background Ho Chi Minh city‚ formerly known as Saigon‚ has a population of 7.163 million. It is the most populous city in Vietnam‚ and located on Saigon River‚ north of Mekong River Delta. It was once under the French Colonial Rule‚ and was transformed into a major port city and metropolitan centre. Large scale rural-urban migration took place during the Vietnam war‚ with the percentage of population residing in Ho Chi Minh city increasing from 4 percent in 1950 to nearly 6 percent
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passers-by that they had killed a soldier to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British military. After few minutes armed police officers arrived and wounded the both men who charged at the police. The political and Muslim leaders from the United Kingdom and from all over the world condemned this attack. The work of security agency MI5 and counterterrorist commands and programs is being discussed. After the large numbers of anti-Muslim attacks were reported across the United Kingdom‚ articles that
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The source of conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages. The conflict between Christians and Muslim can be still observed in various parts of the world. One could think that there has always been hostility between Christians and Muslims since the younger religion‚ Islam came into existence in the 7th century and started to spread. Another very common opinion is that the religions themselves – Christianity and Islam are the source of this conflict. Even though both these opinions
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villains as the current cultural fear and official enemy of the United States. This trend changed after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center‚ Hollywood has often refused to use Muslims as villains‚ even though Muslim terrorists became the United States’ cultural enemy due to their responsibility for the attacks. This can best be explained by Americans’ change in attitudes about what is considered politically correct. In referring to the portrayal
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Ho Chi Minh was a revolutionary leader that played a huge role in the Vietnam war. His strong will and organizational genius were tools that helped him and his people fend off from foreign forces that were considered enemies. He obtained victories in many battles throughout his time. During the first Indochina war‚ he was victorious against the French forces after he claimed independence from them for his country. He was relentless and never gave the French a break. With the superior firepower the
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Islamic Traditions The Muslim concept of worship is very broad. Muslims consider everything they do in this life according to Allah ’s will‚ an act of worship. Worship of Allah is foremost in a Muslim ’s mind all the time. There are also five formal acts of worship which help strengthen a Muslim ’s faith and obedience that are referred to as the Five Pillars of Islam. The first of the five pillars is the testimony of faith called Shahadah. The statement is "Ashadu alla ilaha illa Allah‚ as
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Contribution of Muslim Scholars to the Development Of Economics as a Science By Talha Waqar Generally‚ Western historians of ideas trace the beginnings of intellectual history from the Greco-Roman period‚ which ended around 300 BC‚ and then focus on the Renaissance (13th-16th century AD). The history of scientific‚ social and cultural thought during the period 300 BC to 12th century AD is either glossed over or ignored altogether. This presumed gap in the history of ideas is called "History’s Black
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21 May 2013 Muslims and Globalization: Eat‚ Pray and Change for Betterment When it comes to a topic about Muslims‚ the Westerner’s bigotry views always fixed on the origin of the Muslims and they believe that the Muslims had been and will always be outsiders. This subject is widely spoken in the context of immigrants. Ironically‚ in a recent protest for anti-immigration held in Arizona‚ a native American blasted the group of the protestors for their prejudicial view of going against the immigration
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To determine whether the New York Times depiction of Islam and Muslims did not change after the September 11 terrorist attacks‚ the measures of central tendency and the measures of dispersion could be used. The measures of central tendency are simply a statistic used to present data in the form of averages. The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic mean‚ the median and the mode. The measures of dispersion tell you how widely spread out or scattered these values are. The range
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The Unique Aesthetics of Allan Poe’s Horror Tales Abstract: My study is aiming at an approach to Poe’s horror tales dealing with his unique aesthetics. The paper is devoted to give a detailed analysis of some of Poe’s most famous horror tales in three aspects: Gothic Writing Style‚ Vivid Psychological Description‚ and Death of Beauty. Keyword: Aesthetics‚ Gothicism‚ Psychology‚ Death of Beauty Chapter One Introduction of Poe’s Aesthetics Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) has been held among the greatest
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