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Crimes Against Humanity Sierra Leone
1,419 words... e. With President Kabbah back at the head of government, many people faced criminal charges of collaborating with the coup. A former government minister and nine others were sentenced to death for collaborating with the bloody 1997 coup. The sentences pronounced in the High Court by Judge Bankole Rashid brought to 27 the number of civilians condemned to death by hanging in connection with the May 1997 coup and its aftermath. (9, p. 1) Veteran politician Nancy Steele, 75, and two other women ...
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North Atlantic Treaty Nuclear Arms
1,136 wordsAs the second World War was coming to an end, the representatives of some fifty nations met in San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter in an attempt to unify many countries. The date was June 26 1946, and the countries that signed the charter did so to put themselves in a better position if any conflict were to arise in the future. During the time the charter was drawn and the treaty was signed, April 4 1949, ten countries who had signed the charter were in need of more protection that ...
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Saddam Hussein Ground War
351 wordsThe Persian Gulf war was launched on January 6, 1991, after international diplomatic efforts and sanctions had failed to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, which was illegally invaded on August 2, 1990, by the january 15 th deadline set by the united nations. The 31 -nation military moved against Iraq, commanded by U. S. general H. Norman Schwarzkopf, included forces from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Britain, Syria, and France. Japan, Germany, and others aided the war effort financia...
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Human Beings United Nations
1,618 wordsThe needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich. " Pope John Paul II, Toronto, Canada, 1984. Poverty is an immense problem that is found all over the globe. It comes in many forms and in areas in numerous countries. Poverty, in a dictionary, means the state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts. Even though this is true in most countries, in some other countries they dont need what we want. Poverty is not always lacking in materials but in happ...
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Election Of 1860 Political Parties
1,489 wordsSome might say that Gen. George Washington was a prophet to the U. S. He made predictions and gave us warnings about politics in the future. He warned us about: remaining true to the union, staying away from political parties, work against sectional hostilities, and not to form any permanent foreign alliances. Washington even predicted what would happen in these circumstances. He was right about sectional hostilities breaking up the union and remaining true to the union. The civil war was a big ...
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System Of Government Hitler Began
1,203 wordsThroughout time, there have been many forms of governments who have successfully and unsuccessfully ruled it's people. One type of government that has been tried and still is in use in many parts of the world involves the oppressive and tyrannical rule of it's citizens. Many people today do not know and appreciate the value of our Republic government and the freedoms we wield. I intend to further expand your knowledge and exemplify why the effects and high costs of an aristocratic, oppressive, t...
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Uncle Toms Cabin Advances In Technology
1,625 wordsIn the six hundred years that have passed since Johannes Gutenberg first was first credited with inventing movable type, periodical literature has become a multi-billion dollar conglomerate that rivals no other. While some may argue that it was actually the eleventh century Chinese publisher Pi Ching that devised such a system, it is no doubt that advances in technology are responsible for the growth of magazines, and in many cases, magazines are in part accountable for the growth of society. Mo...
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World War Ii Six Day War
1,153 wordsJewish History Jews Judaism Hebrew The Jews are a people with a multitude of dilemmas. From the Israelite tribes to the prosperous modern day Israel, bigotry towards the Jews has been greatly evident. The Jewish race has acted as Escape Goat for many crisis throughout history including the black plaque which swept across Europe in the 14 th century. The establishment of Israel was a great incident was something the Jewish people were striving to obtain for generations. This, however, led to four...
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President Of The United States Armed Forces
1,105 wordsIs the United States Giving too Much to the United Nations? Does it seem like whenever the United Nations (UN) sends peacekeepers to a region that the United States (US) bears the majority of the debt and load of troops? Does it seem that we are the only country supply material and " doing it all? " Is the US the worlds police department? No we arent. The US is doing its job when the UN asks for assistance when a country needs peacekeepers in a time of transition, redevelopment, or ser...
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Uncle Tom Advances In Technology
1,653 wordsIn the six hundred years that have passed since Johannes Gutenberg first was first credited with inventing? movable type? , periodical literature has become a multi-billion dollar conglomerate that rivals no other. While some may argue that it was actually the eleventh century Chinese publisher Pi Ching that devised such a system, it is no doubt that advances in technology are responsible for the growth of magazines, and in many cases, magazines are in part accountable for the growth of society....
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Latin America El Salvador
1,703 wordsDue to the incredible amounts of human rights violations committed by graduates of the School of the Americas as a direct effect of their training funded by U. S. tax dollars, the School of the Americas must be closed down. The school is a cold war dinosaur that needs to be brought to the attention of the American taxpaying public. The people of our nation need to be aware that every time they get a paycheck, they are contributing to the oppression and killing of the indigenous peoples of Latin ...
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Worlds Population Square Feet
911 wordsOctober 12, 1999 Overpopulation Overpopulation October 12, 1999 marks the day when the worlds population supposedly reached six billion. Many humanitarians and ecologists worry that soon the planets population will become too big for our food production and resources to support. With the current population growth rate, the total population in the year 2050 is estimated to be between 7. 3 and 10. 7 billion (Kluger, The Big Crunch 47). Soon the Congress of the United States will vote on whether to...
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South Africa General Assembly
473 wordsSouth Africa to Ask for International Gem Certification The New York Times reported on November 30, 2000 that South Africa plans to ask all nations on Friday to back an international certification system for gems. Ambassador Dumisana Kumalo of South Africa will introduce a resolution in the 189 -member General Assembly of the United Nations to get universal approval of the certification system. He is concerned not only because diamonds are fueling civil wars among other Africans, but also that a...
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Six Day War Egypt And Israel
2,652 wordsThe six-day, Arab-Israeli War of 1967, was an important event in modern Middle East history. This paper will analyze the causes of this definitive event which include: military and diplomatic encounters, terrorist attacks against Israel, blockades of Israel s ports by Arabs, and most importantly the impact of Russian/Communist and Western policies and participation in the region. The Israeli s had had a strong victory against the Arab states in 1956, and this had strengthened their self-assuranc...
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Cold War South Korea
560 wordsPost WWII the cold war began and many problems came about. U. S. officials, concerned over Soviet pressures against Iran and Turkey, interpreted a 1946 speech by Stalin as declaring ideological war against the West. In 1947 the president proposed the Truman Doctrine, which had two objectives: to send U. S. aid to anticommunist forces in Greece and Turkey, and to create a public consensus so Americ 8 ans would be willing to fight the cold war. He achieved both goals. That same year, journalist Wa...
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Warm Springs Georgia Commander In Chief
1,754 wordsFranklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his education. At a young age, he became interested in birds. For his eleventh birthday, he asked his parents for a gun to began a collection of all the birds that were native to Dutchess County. By the time he entered college, he had collected and identified about 300 different kinds of birds. Today, h...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt World War Ii
1,889 wordsFranklin Delano Roosevelt, who lived from 1882 to 1945, was the 32 nd President of United States (Electric Library). Roosevelt became the president in March 1933 at the depth of the Great Depression, was re-elected for an unprecedented three more terms, and died in office in April 1945. He died less than a month before the surrender of Germany in World War II (Electric Library). Despite an attack of poliomyelitis, which paralyzed his legs in 1921, he was a charismatic optimist whose confidence h...
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South East Asia World War Ii
1,982 wordsDuring World War II New Zealand greatly depended upon Britain and her Royal Navy to provide New Zealand with security and protection throughout the Pacific region. But after a while New Zealand and Australia as neighbouring countries began to provide their own defence for the Pacific. So when Britain began to build Naval Bases in Singapore, both Australia and New Zealand contributed to its cost. Also the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Navy were established in order to prov...
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Abuse And Neglect Warning Signs
1,134 wordsProtection From Abuse and Neglect I have recently been elected in a new statewide project in Minnesota to create and provide leadership in a small scale voluntary association for children. The focus of the small scale association is based on the United Nations General Assembly that adopted a Convention on the rights of the Child. It is a program to provide information and knowledge on the substantive right for Protection from abuse and neglect designed specifically for children. The right states...
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Civil Disobedience Terrorist Actions
926 wordsLeon Tolstoy once said: kill one, intimidate one thousand (Wolf, 14). The common denominator of the I. R. A. , the Rate Send International Brigade (France), the Baader-Meinhoff (Germany), and the Symbionese Liberation Army (S. L. A) is that they are all political groups that use terror and violence to achieve their goals. Terrorism at the global level can be divided into two sub-categories: international terrorism and transnational terrorism. International terrorism is terrorism that is carried ...
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