Music is more than just a source of entertainment for people all over the world. For many‚ many centuries music has been used for reasons other than just entertainment. Take our National Anthem…”The Star Spangled Banner” for example. It was written as a patriotic song and‚ its purpose was to evoke the countries struggles of the past‚ traditions‚ and its history. During the 1800’s when slavery was permitted the seemingly innocent spirituals‚ as the slave songs came to be known‚ were more than simple
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Market Analysis of Mobile Handsets Subsidies Fawzi Daoud‚ Heikki Hämmäinen Networking Laboratory Helsinki University of Technology P.O. Box 3000‚ FIN-02015 HUT‚ Finland {daoud@netlab.hut.fi‚ heikki.hammainen@hut.fi) Abstract Subsidies are a widespread practice to allow consumers to get their mobile handsets at deep discount‚ or even for free. Recently‚ with 3G and subsequent requirements on sophisticated and costly handsets‚ subsidies are being reconsidered both in subsidized and non-subsidized
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Hazards are anything that could cause damage to humans or buildings. Many volcanic and seismic events happen that cause hazards to humans. Often the world’s poorest people are hit the worst‚ however wealthier countries can also be adversely affected. The Kobe earthquake in Japan 1995 struck at 5.45am. Many people were asleep in bed‚ causing the hazard to be increased because the people were unaware. Although many Japanese buildings were of aseismic design‚ the roofs of their houses were designed
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Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes‚ typically in response to humanitarian crises including natural disaster and man-made disaster. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives the most lethal year in the history of humanitarianism was 2008‚ in which 122 aid workers were murdered and 260 assaulted. Those countries deemed least safe were Somalia and Afghanistan. Eg; JAPAN HAITI TSUNAMI Pakistan World Trade Centre FINANCIAL
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released on August 10‚ 2011‚ and directed by Tate Taylor. The production company was Touchstone Pictures. The main characters of the movie are Skeeter‚ Aibileen‚ Hilly‚ Minnie‚ Celia‚ Charlotte‚ Johnny‚ Constantine‚ Yule‚ and Mae. The Help took place in the early 1960’s in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer. She decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Little
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intelligent. Which one do you chose? Explain. Everyone also wants to be beautiful and intelligent because these two aspects will give them a lot of good things in life. However‚ there are the two options which are beautiful but stupid and ugly but intelligent. In my opinion‚ the second choice is the final choice I chose with the two reasons: solving the problems easily‚ coming to success fast.. In the first place‚ there are lots of things to solve. And the intelligence can help you to solve them
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THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE CHANGING WORLD Piotr Bystrek‚ IBP ¹ 12062 "WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED *to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war‚ which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind‚ and *to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights‚ in the dignity and worth of the human person‚ in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small‚ and *to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations
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Lineback Gritzner Sinhalese and Tamil separatist violence erupted. The Tamils began calling for a separate Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka‚ with Jaffna as its capital. In 1983‚ Tamil guerrillas fought government troops across the north. In 1987 with help from Indian Rebel Tamil Tigers have been fighting the forces‚ the government secured Jaffna in a Sri Lankan military for almost 25 years in major offensive. their quest for an autonomous state in the The Tamil Tigers evacuated to the deep northern region
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India is an agricultural country. Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy. The most striking characteristic of the economic life in India is the overwhelming preponderance of agriculture represented by the fact that three out of every four person in the country is devoted to agriculture. Agriculture provides practically all the food grains consumed in the country‚ and yields larger quantities of raw materials like cotton‚ jute‚ oil-seeds‚ etc. for the principal manufacturing industries.
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Pakistan.Even today agriculture is a major sector and occupies a very important place in the economy of Pakistan.It not only provides food for our growing population but is a source of raw materials for our principal industries as well as a source of foreign exchange for our government. 32% of our gross domestic products belong to this sector.It engages 53% of our employed labour .About 75% of our people are engaged directly or indirectly with this profession.A large part (about 10%) of Pakistan’s exports
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