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U S Embassy U S State
1,401 wordsA civil war that has raged for seven years in the small West African country of Sierra Leone has turned increasingly brutal. (1, p. 1) Rebels are mutilating civilians without much response from the international community. A strong Nigerian contingency has tried to suppress the rebellion, but the rebels continue to cause major trouble in Sierra Leone. The rebels overthrew President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. However, President Kabbah returned to office on March 10, 1998 to face the task of restoring or...
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World War Ii U S Army
1,266 wordsGeneral Douglas MacArthur was born on Jan. 26, 1880 at Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas. He died April 5, 1964 in Washington, D. C. He was the general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War. MacArthur was the third son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr. , later the army's senior ranking officer, and Mary Hardy MacArthur, an ambitious woman ...
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Plastic Surgery Guinea Pigs
1,422 wordsI have chosen to do my biographical assignment on Dr. Ross Tilley. I became interested in him when I heard about him at the summer camp I worked at this year. He used to own the property of Camp Hollyburn until he sold the property to my boss' father, Ted Yard Sr. Before camp started we had to learn about the camp, and his name came up repeatedly, My boss talked about how he used to bring war burn victims up to the camp to discuss their struggle with being burned and to get away from the busynes...
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Papua New Guinea Body Piercing
1,260 words... women have. Men have beards, women have none. What kind of person would she be without People? She would not be a woman at all. "The plug of wood in the lips, which became little by little a disk, and then a real plaque, was in some manner a sign of possession of the husband of the Djinja woman. It is the man who is to marry her, and very often him alone who operates, transfixing the lips of the young girl with a blade of straw forms the first sign of the deformation to which she will be sub...
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000 Years Ago Papua New Guinea
1,657 wordsOceania is a collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas. A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japan archipelago. The most popular usage delimits Oceania further by eliminating Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines, because the peoples and cultures of those islands are more closely related historically to the Asian mainl...
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World War Ii Labour Movement
1,585 wordsRunning head: THE ROLE OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE CAMPAIGN FOR DECOLONIZATION IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA The Role of the Labour Movement in the Campaign for Decolonization in French West Africa July 21, 2008 The Role of the Labour Movement in the Campaign for De colonisation in French West Africa Introduction It is very difficult to consider the campaign for de colonisation in French West Africa with no mentioning the role of labour movement. The victory of independent movement over colonial rules...
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Industrial Pollution And Monitoring On The Gulf Coast
1,028 wordsIndustrial Pollution and Monitoring on the Gulf Coast The Industrial Pollution and Monitoring on the Gulf Coast has raised heated debates in the society. The society has divided in two groups: one group supports monitoring and the other seems to be against it. Those who stand for privatization believe that this is the way out of the current situation. But there is the whole range of objections of those who dont support the intention to monitor the existing situation: There even exists an opinion...
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University Of Michigan Guinea Pigs
1,455 wordsEbola Virus You think you have a case of the flu coming on. Nothing a few good nights' rest won't cure, you think. The next morning, your head throbs. Your skin aches. You feel feverish, and your chest hurts. You can't get out of bed. In the new few days, your fever skyrockets. You are disoriented and delirious. You throw up and notice the vomit is laced with blood. Next, you feel a liquid trickle out of your ears. With horror, you realize that it's more blood. Soon blood is seeping from your no...
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Animal Rights Activists Ethical Treatment Of Animals
1,943 wordsArgument Research Paper Animal experimentation has been practiced for centuries to further our knowledge of the workings of the human body and to find cures for diseases (Chang 1998, p. 1). There is much contention in regard to animal testing despite its longtime practice in the United States and beyond, however, and both sides have compelling arguments to support their beliefs. Is animal testing truly a valuable tool in advancing medical research? Or is animal experimentation inhumane and archa...
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Papua New Guinea 000 Years Ago
1,648 wordsAlmost two hundred years ago the colonists and the missionaries have started the process of Papua New Guineas globalization. They brought them civilization with all its charms and mistakes. They brought the Papuans (people living in Papua New Guinea) the true God and His religion Christianity. How did these people, the Papuans, accept it? And what was the influence it made on them? To answer all these questions we must understand all Papua New Guineas cultures because there are many of them. The...
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Papua New Guinea Indigenous Population
1,666 words... in the Duke of York group. Central to Tolai culture is the Tumbuan society, personified by a large tapa mask with circular eyes painted on the front topped by a black and white feather. This sacred Tolai Tumbuan masks arrive for a boy's initiation ceremony Traditional Malangan house display showing their masks, friezes, and sculptures. The man in front wearing a blue lava-lava is the "Rate" or ceremonial leader for this clan culture. A man wearing tapa cloth mask represents an important fema...
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Outlook On Life Plays A Major Role
1,074 wordsEntrapment A bell jar is a bell shaped container or cover made of glass. In this book Esther finds herself, throughout the book, constantly in and out of the bell jar. When the jar is closed she is not sure of who she truly is. She can t find her identity but when the jar is suspended over her head, and she can breathe, then she has a better outlook on life. Her perception also plays a major role. In certain situations you find that her perception of the situations entraps her in the jar. And on...
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Papua New Guinea Cultural Relativism
4,896 wordsSOCIOLOGY 1301 CULTURE Remember back to when I defined society for you. A society consists of people who live in a specific geographic area and who interact with one another more than they do with other individuals. They have interacted and lived together long enough that they have created a way of life that is unique to that group. What do I mean by way of life? way of life: they have interacted together over long enough period of time to have agreed upon sound symbols to label everything in th...
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Southern United States Plants And Animals
2,223 wordsIntroduction The plant Salvinia modest, generally known as Giant Salvinia or Kariba weed, is a free floating pterophyta indigenous to south-east brazil (Julien et. al 1987). Today plants and animals are shipped, sometimes accidentally, all over the globe to zoos, botanical gardens, and for commercial and agricultural purposes. A small minority of? alien? plants, or introduced, species become ecological as well as economic disasters. Although they may have been innocuous in their native region, t...
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Make Them Feel Plays A Major Role
3,039 wordsMany attempts have been made around the world at reforming current legal systems in search of a better one. As the amount of crime rises worldwide, people are constantly on the lookout for new and improved ways to fight it, and prevent it. Three such attempts involving attempts to change legal systems have been discussed the last half of this course. The change from the system put in place when a country was under colonization, as in Kilamanjaro, and Papa New Guinea. An attempt to revert to the ...
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