The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) waged war against the government of Sri Lanka for 33 years. Being a minority group in a nation that has a long history of Western colonization‚ prompted the LTTE to lash out against the Sinhalese majority in the years following the country’s independence in 1948. Throughout the 1970s‚ the group began using acts of violence‚ while undergoing a couple of name changes‚ until 1976 when the group formally became the LTTE. Shortly after their establishment‚ the
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Joseph Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist‚ born at St. Léonard‚ in the department of Haute Vienne‚ on the 6th of December 1778. He was the elder son of Antoine Gay‚ procureur du roi and judge at Pont-de-Noblac‚ who assumed the name Lussac from a small property he had in the neighborhood of St. Léonard. Young Gay-Lussac received his early education at home under the direction of the abbé Bourdieux and other masters‚ and in 1794 was sent to Paris to prepare for the École Polytechnique‚ into
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LGBT Consumers: Is the Gay Market Worth the Hype and if so How Best to Reach As a gay man who began the journey of self-identifying as such in 1993‚ I have observed over the past two decades a seismic shift in how the marketplace approaches gay consumers. At first blush‚ given the historical marginalization of homosexuals‚ I ask myself what makes the gay market (the preferred term used by the marketing industry to reference what call LGBT or GLBT representing Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and Transgendered)
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SUSTENANCE CONCEPT AND EXECUTION OF BANGLADESHI FORCE IN LIBERATION WAR Strategic Concept for Sustenance 1. Pakistani Forces. Pakistan’s broad sustenance concept was dependence on external help. On 28 April 1971‚ Henry Kissinger‚ the Foreign Secretary of the USA submitted the strategic estimate to President Nixon where he highlighted three options. The last option included an effort to help West Pakistan by economic‚ food and military assistance‚ which was approved by the president and that
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Women’s Liberation Movement in India. What relevance do the complaints and demands of the Women’s Liberation Movements have in India. Certainly ours is a patriarchal society in which male supermacy is a fact of life accepted by both sexes from earliest childhood. Yet the lost of Indian women has not always been subservient. In the pre -Aryan days women enjoyed far more freedom than today’s young girls. The society was matriarchal and they owned property. The Aryans‚ even after coming to India
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The rise of Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) came about by a man named Yasser Arafat who was born in Cairo in1929 and died in 2004. The name was presumed by Mohammed al Husseini‚ Yasser created the PLO and Fatah and merged them together in 1964 and ran a terrorist campaign against Israel. Yasser included other terrorist in the Cuban training camps and made promise to connect with them in international revolution. To some it appeared that Arafat’s organization could be measured
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unremarkable. They raided a gay bar. But that night‚ the patrons did something that would change history. They fought back. In the 1950s and 1960s‚ very few establishments welcomed openly gay people‚ and those that did were often bars‚ although bar owners and managers were rarely gay themselves. The Stonewall Inn‚ at the time‚ was owned by the Mafia. It catered to an assortment of patrons‚ but it was known for being popular with the poorest and most marginalized people in the gay community: drag queens
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Bounded Liberation of the ’Captives’ Given the inherently scripted nature of call centre work that CSRs carry out under high surveillance and under very stringently monitored environment‚ Callcom propagates a work context characterized by fun. This is a deliberate attempt by the organization to counter the monotonous nature of work tasks. As on employee Punita working as a CSR for 2 years puts it‚ "the whole idea is to create an open and a play feel to the atmosphere. The idea is to just loosen
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Jeremy Partin I. Title Page II. Thesis Page III. Introduction Liberation theology in Latin America was first introduced in the late 1960’s‚ although it became famous after the writing of Gustavo Gutierrez. The roots of liberation theology can be traced back to Europe because Catholic priests were sent there to go to school. It was there where they became radicalized and sent back to Latin America. This radicalization led many to start thinking differently‚ including Gutierrez. He and others
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