that the war’s death toll had exceeded 60‚000. According to various opposition activist groups‚ between 50‚000 and 63‚735 people have been killed‚ of which about half were civilians‚ By October 2012‚ up to 28‚000 people had been reported missing‚ including civilians forcibly abducted by government troops or security forces. According to the UN‚ about 1.2 million Syrians have been displaced within the country. There were reports of widespread torture and psychological terror in state prisons. An end must
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owner of Sammy‚ the dog Emily lost after she was institutionalized as a child. Jack is torn between Emily‚ the woman he loves‚ and Amanda‚ the woman he thinks is his long lost love from childhood. The entire show is not a story about forgiveness: “Revenge is a show about retribution.” (Revenge) When Emily was little girl‚ her father David Clarke was framed for a
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or aboriginal people have coexisted with the non-native Canadian population for centuries. In fact‚ Canada was one of the first countries to develop a legal framework with the native population and since then‚ has been a leader in world discussions about native’s rights. Recently‚ however‚ Canada has been working through many pressing issues with its aboriginal people‚ such as the high percentage of people still trapped in poverty‚ those lacking in education and safe housing on reservations. These
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* INTRODUCTION The word education is defined as the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge‚ developing the powers of reasoning and judgment‚ and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life‚ it is also an art of teaching; pedagogics. Education signify the activity‚ process‚ or enterprise of educating or being educated and sometimes to signify the discipline or field of study taught in different schools of education that concerns itself with this activity
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“You will always have the poor among you‚ but you will not always have me.” (John 12:8 from the New Living Translation). Even Jesus Christ said that the poor will always live among us‚ and that poverty will always be an issue in our society. One of the stated goals of the Canadian Government was to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. It is now 2010 and this goal has still not been met. From my limited research on poverty I have come to believe that this social change will not be possible
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Committee: UNHRC Topic: Xenophobia and Racial legislations Country: Chile Southern South America has progressively advanced towards relatively greater political stability over the past years. Yet‚ some countries in Southern South America continue to face security problems and socio-economic difficulties which have affected the local integration of some 8‚800 refugees and asylum-seekers. During the commemoration of the Cartagena Declaration in Mexico‚ an action plan was adopted in which Latin
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“Weak” Tea Party Movement Curt D. Collins Bellevue University Professor Wright EN102-T301 Composition II October 13‚ 2012 The “Weak” Tea Party Movement On Feb. 19‚ 2009‚ about a month after President Barack Obama’s first day on the job‚ CNBC host Rick Santelli railed against the President’s proposed bank bailout and stimulus package on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange calling it an effort to help those who did
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restrictive and overriding free thought and will which is what Winston feels is essential to being human‚ but he is fearful of the Thought Police who patrol people ’s very thoughts and make people "disappear" into "nonpersons" if they think poorly about the Party and its leader‚ Big Brother. His job working for the Party involves falsifying history for Party purposes‚ but he is tormented by the idea that soon‚ no one will have a sense of true history‚ since the Party can change it whenever it wants
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit association of 1‚281 institutions‚ conferences‚ organizations and individuals that organize the athletic programs of many Colleges and Universities in the United States and Canada. In the 1940’s a committee of the NCAA was created to set up a list of guidelines and rules that all teams in the NCAA must follow (NCAA.org). When a team breaks a rule or does not follow the set of guidelines the NCAA can step in to deliver a punishment
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Plastic Perfection In 1956‚ Ruth Handler‚ an American businesswoman‚ was vacationing in Switzerland when she came across Bild Lilli‚ a doll that‚ unlike popular baby dolls at the time‚ had long‚ shapely legs and wore heavy makeup. Lilli‚ in fact‚ was based on a prostitute in a postwar German cartoon‚ but Handler was inspired. She bought three Lilli dolls‚ returned to California and in 1959 created the world ’s first Barbie doll (Lowen). Since her debut in 1959‚ over one billion Barbie
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