May 2013 Election: Manual System or Automated Election System Introduction Elections have played an integral role in the development of one’s country. Essentially‚ an election is a procedure by which members of communities and/or organizations choose persons to hold an office. It is a technique of rendering authority and/or creating representative bodies. Elections are often linked to the idea of democratic representation. Therefore‚ an election is a device for filling an office or posts through choices
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Korea has constantly been a battleground for conflicting ideologies and nations‚ the most prominent of all was the division of the Peninsula into half. Right from the beginning‚ Korea was under China’s sphere of influence. When the Japanese became greedy for more resources and land‚ its first target was Korea since it was the closest to Japan. They then gained control of Korea after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895. Thereafter defeating Russian 1904‚ who wanted Korea to defend its interest in
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“Teaching the Vietnam War makes one realize how the shape of a narrative determines‚ and is determined by‚ its content”. The Vietnam War was one of America’s most controversial wars. Many of its aspects are still plagued with great uncertainty. Those aspects of the Vietnam War are argued and debated about‚ they were argued during the time of the war and the arguing has continued. The Vietnam War was indeed a time of confusion. Why did the war start? What was the United States’ real reason for getting
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Names for the war Further information: Terminology of the Vietnam War Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina‚ this particular conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others.[56] In Vietnamese‚ the war is generally known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War Against America)
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WORLD ECONOMY South-South cooperation and development Introduction Basically speaking‚ the biggest bottleneck in the development world economy is the unbalanced development of developing countries. Over long time‚ the unequal distribution of resource wealth and resource result in the vicious cycle of developing countries. Thus‚ accelerating economic and social development of developing countries is the important way to achieve prosperity of the world. South-South cooperation is now playing
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Conflict To what extent can it be argued that by the 1960s‚ Diem’s rule of South Vietnam had been successful?? By the 1960s Diem’s rule of South Vietnam was not successful. His policies were deeply unpopular‚ his regime was corrupt and based on a system of brutality‚ and nearly every sector of society opposed him. However‚ Diem was clearly successful in consolidating his rule and providing early stability to the regime when he first came to power in 1954. Ultimately‚ Diem was a failure as his
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Notice for Scholars This monograph was originally published as the September 1972 issue of Southeast Asian Perspectives‚ a publication of the American Friends of Vietnam‚ an organization which was formed in 1955 and prior to its demise two decades later included on its board such diverse figures as Senators John F. Kennedy and Mike Mansfield‚ Socialist Party Chairman Norman Thomas‚ and Journalist Robert Shaplen. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Please note that in formatting
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say that not a single war has ever been justified. To understand if war is justified‚ we must look at the motives for going to war. These motives can be nearly anything. In the past wars were often fought for personal gain‚ or to reclaim what they thought was theirs. Take for example the crusades. The crusades were a series of nine wars spanning over 200 years and claiming 200‚000 lives. They were fought in an attempt to reclaim the holy land from people that had every right they did to have it
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that creating this New World(America) need cheap labor and a way to build up their economy. This lead to the enslavement of the Africans. Although this tyrannic practice was enforced in the Imperialist’s mother countries‚ they still felt the need to enforced the Indenture Servant system. The definition of an Indentured Servant was a person who signed and is bound by a debt to work for another for a specific amount of time in exchange for compensation. In the early 1600’s‚ the majority of Indentured
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The main reasons why TRNC had not acquired the right to self-determination begins with the violations of international law and ends with the losing of hope for the re-unification of the island. First of all‚ there have been violations made by Turkey‚ which has led to the lost right of self-determination. The primary reason that the TRNC can not be perceived‚ is the fundamental outcome of Turkey’s unlawful invasion and occupation of the northern part of the island under control‚ that violated the
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