became an epidemic in the early 1900’s in countries that had relatively high standards of living‚ but has been eliminated from the Western Hemisphere. Smallpox plagued many populations for thousands of years‚ however the last known case occurred in Somalia in 1977. The question in hand could be that with all the diseases that the vaccinations fight against we haven’t seen any cases or instances of them effecting our lives or children for many decades what exactly is the purpose to keep fighting against
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On this day‚ Michael Hannah was first introduced to the audience by a baker center member who briefed the audience about some biography and academic background of Michael Hannah‚ after which he was given the podium to take over from there. Michael Hannah first started his presentation on the “Rise of ISIS and their capabilities and what role should the United States play. Michael Hannah went on further and lamented on the invasion of Iraqi and he said “We still underestimate the 2003 invasion of
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Small Pox Small pox‚ which was once the most feared disease known by mankind started out in the days of Christopher Columbus. The disease set out to change the lives of the people in the worse way. It became known as an epidemic disease that ended up killing hundreds of people. Small pox started out in Hispaniola and because of no cure‚ it traveled to the island of Puerto Rico‚ and then Cuba. It was only a matter of time until it spread to the mainland‚ somewhere in America. In the Middle
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A slum‚ as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat‚ is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing‚ squalor‚ and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations‚ the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005.[1] However‚ due to rising population‚ and the rise especially in urban populations‚ the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums[2]
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CHALLENGES OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL AND PROPOSE TACTICAL MEASURES TO OVERCOME THESE CRISES Introduction i) The United Nations The United Nations is an international organization instituted with a visionary goal and objective of promoting world peace‚ security‚ and cooperation under the terms of the Charter‚ signed by member countries. Established in 1945 by 51 founding states‚ the institution has its headquarters at New York City. The focal point of the organization is focus on affairs of the
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Data has shown that out of the 192 countries in the United Nations that the only countries that still allows juvenile offenders to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole is the United States and Somalia (Yun‚ 2011). Soon the U. S. will be alone in on having this ability because Somalia has implicated that they will soon adapt to the CRC. The United States delegation has said to the United Nations that they will only use the sentence of life imprisonment without parole for only particular
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CHAPTER ONE Failed States‚ Collapsed States‚ Weak States: Causes and Indicators ROBERT I. ROTBERG Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy‚ and the very nature of the particular nation-state itself becomes illegitimate in the eyes and in the hearts of a growing plurality of its citizens. The rise and fall of nation-states is not new‚ but in a modern era when
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Child labour From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The first general laws against child labour‚ the Factory Acts‚ were passed in Britain in the first half of the 19th century. Children younger than nine were not allowed to work and the work day of youth under the age of 18 was limited to twelve hours.[1] Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries
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be the most likely responses Americans say about the Middle Eastern people. Besides the belief that the Middle East is all about Arabs and Muslims‚ the Middle East includes non-Arab countries too. Countries that are non-Arab include Iran‚ Israel‚ Somalia‚ and the Comoro Islands. Also‚ the Middle East includes non- Muslim counties such as Lebanon and Israel. The American’s view that Middle Eastern people are only Muslim is really not true. One should feel sorry for the Americans who think that the
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act (1974) * Children’s act – Every Child Matters (2004) * Freedom of Information act (2000) (4.2) Describe how each one promotes pupil wellbeing and achievement The UNCRC of 1989 was signed by all countries apart from the USA and Somalia and entitles children to forty rights. This promotes pupil wellbeing as it states they have the ‘right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health’ (article 24) and promotes achievement as it states that all children are entitled
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