APWH CURRENT EVENT SUMMARIES 1. Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists : In the past year‚ Myanmar has faced an outbreak in hatred aimed towards the Muslim population within the country. Monks that are influential to the Buddhist-dominant country are inciting violence among all age groups within the state. A main leader in the campaign against Muslims‚ called 969‚ is an ex-prisoner of war‚ Ashin Wirathu‚ is causing ethnic and religious strife with his violence inciting sermons. Ashin‚ using
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member of the Congress Party‚ was responsible for the Constitution established in 1950. India and Nehru were facing several social problems‚ such as the traditional caste system‚ religious minorities and ethnicity issues‚ gender inequality‚ political extremism and local languages. His aim was to create a welfare state‚ in order to raise the standard of living people in India‚ but he believed that India could improve socially only through economic development. There were many economic problems like unemployment
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The 1850’s were one of a chaotic time in American history. The North and the South were fighting over the slavery issues such as its legality‚ and the south’s economic dependency on it. The North viewed slavery as immoral and unconstitutional‚ but the South wanted slavery to stay because it was the South’s right to do so. Africans were long viewed by other people as the lowest beings‚ as property; therefore‚ in their favor the constitution justified slavery‚ William Lloyd Garrison even went as far
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the provincial events in her town‚ Maycomb County in Southern Alabama. Harper Lee classifies the types of provincialism in three major parts such as; distrust of others who are different‚ evidence of different levels of society and finally racial intolerance. Firstly‚ Harper Lee uses the general attitude of Maycomb people towards some persons who they think are untrustworthy; to show a face of provincialism. The first example is the town’s perception of Miss Maudie‚ an old lady whose hobby is to look
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The Enlightenment Period evolved during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a period of scientific revolution in which reason‚ the scientific method and progress were superimposed on the intellectual and cultural movement. According to Enlightenment thinkers‚ people‚ and nature should be subjected to reason. Application of the scientific method was one way to determine which traditions needed to be discarded to ensure that human societies and nature progressed. The purpose of this
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society or a part of it for political ends is generally termed as Terrorism. It is an organized and systematic use of violence to achieve an end. Many times words like terrorism‚ insurgency‚ civil war‚ revolution‚ guerilla war‚ intimidation and extremism are often used interchangeably. Though they differ in kind and meaning‚ one thing is fundamental to all - the word violence. Second of all‚ terrorists resort to various ways to accomplish these goals like planting crude home-made bombs‚ hand-grenades
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EYMP 3 Promote children’s welfare and well being in the early years 1.1) Explain the welfare requirements & guidance of the EYFS. The statutory welfare requirements were set up to help guide childcare staff in what is expected of them as part of their role. There are five welfare requirements which Ofsted will check are being met. Safeguarding and Promoting Children’s Welfare This section covers a lot of the day-to-day activities which that you will be involved in‚ for example‚ food and drink
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Yet‚ for Scout‚ morality becomes not only a principle‚ but also a necessity in order for her to survive in the prejudiced society of Maycomb County. It is solely the essence of ethics that causes her to frown upon the injustices brought about by intolerance. Thus‚ Scout’s maturity towards understanding the vitality of morality allows her to become a noble individual in an unjust social order. Scout’s innocence is solely a consequence of her age and prevents her from truly understanding the complexities
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In back drop of previous crisis to what extent meeting the crisis demand? Availability cost? Comparison theoretically to what extent it had achieved? Energy sector issues and development continue to severely constrain Pakistan’s economy in 2012-2013. Against the backdrop of a sharp increase in the international price of oil in 2009‚ which put enormous upward pressure on the cost structure in the power generation and transport sector‚ in particular‚ large domestic supply shortages of electricity
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Case Analysis: Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform‚ Enduring Stability (A) (HBS Case 9-709-042) Question #1: How has the global oil system impacted the development of Saudi Arabia? | Saudi Arabia has taken major strides towards economic reform in the past few decades‚ and this is largely caused by its increase in revenues from oil. Saudi Arabia is the largest producer of crude oil in the world. It contains a quarter of the world’s known oil reserves‚ and its state-run company‚ Aramco‚ is the highest
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