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Political Refugees Essays and Term Papers
East-timor-conflictThe invasion of the Indonesian military on December the 7th 1975 produced an armed conflict. After the invasion followed the annexation on 17th of Juli 1976. About a third of 690,000 inhabitants died through hunger and sickness. The US-American Scientist Noam Chomsky said the Indonesian occupying ...
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Holocaust 6Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the ...
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The Need For Peace In The Middle East The quest for peace in the Middle East has been going on for decades. It all started in 1948 when Israel declared its independence and fought Arab nations to secure it. However, the Arabs were left unsatisfied while the Israelis wanted more control over land. In 1967, the �six-day war� ...
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District 9District 9 (Peter Jackson, 2009), a science ?ction ?lm produced by Peter Jackson, is a rare gem unlike the many sci-? movies which have been released in our time. The story is established via a mix of standard third person camera and documentary footage and takes place in the present - a twist from ...
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Philip Gourevitchs' Travels To Rwanda SummaryThis is a summary of Philip Gourevitchs' travels, a reporter for the New Yorker, to Rwanda shortly after the atrocity of the genocide between the Hutus and Tutsi stopped. Gourevitch collected first-hand accounts of those who actually lived through the genocide. The book goes on reporting to ...
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African CultureWhen W.E.B. Du Bois announced in his marvelous work Souls of Black Folk, that the "problem of the 20th Century is the color line . . ." immediately he set out a social and analytical paradigm that instantly recognized that the major racial problem in America was that existing between Blacks and ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, The Social Worker
As the wife of a popular United States president, Anna was born in New York City, October 11, 1884, and died November 7, 1962. She was an active worker for social causes. She was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, and was raised by her maternal grandmother after the ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, The Social Worker
As the wife of a popular United States president, Anna was born in New York City, October 11, 1884, and died November 7, 1962. She was an active worker for social causes. She was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, and was raised by her maternal grandmother after the ...
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Pre-Civil War New OrleansNew Orleans is a city in southern Louisiana, located on the Mississippi River. Most of the city is situated on the east bank, between the river and Lake Pontchartrain to the north. Because it was built on a great turn of the river, it is known as the Crescent City. New Orleans, with a population ...
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Kosovo CrisisAs this paper is being written, across the Atlantic Ocean, in Kosovo, there are missiles being fired, houses burning, and people dying. But to understand this senseless war, one must look at how it started.
As was seen in the U.S.S.R and Checkoslovakia, due to different nationalities, regions of ...
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The Atomic Bomb And Its Effects On Post-World War IIThen a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky . Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed like a sheet of sun.
John Hersey, from Hiroshima, pp.8
On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the ...
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New Orleans - Before The Civil WarNew Orleans is a city in southern Louisiana, located on the Mississippi River. Most of the city is situated on the east bank, between the river and Lake Pontchartrain to the north. Because it was built on a great turn of the river, it is known as the Crescent City. New Orleans, with a population ...
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Immigrants In 17th Century United StatesMy essay is a nation of immigrants in the United States which is about German, Irish, Jewish immigrants in the 1800�s or early 1900�s. I�m a Asian so I know about Asian immigration. But I didn�t know about Europe immigration very well. So I chose it among many topics. I know that I will find ...
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A Martyr's Victory In A Spiritual SenseBishop Francis X. Ford was a well educated, enormously gentle man, that
was kicked, beaten, insulted, and surrounded by hatred. All this because of one
mans beliefs. He was born in Brooklyn in 1892. He was the founder of the
Maryknoll Missionaries and was the first bishop of Kwantung, China. ...
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Concentration CampsConcentration camp: A camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners or refugees) are detained or confined. Those persons are usually subject to poor conditions, exposure to the elements and sometimes torture.
People usually associate the term concentration camp with the Nazi camps ...
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Distortion of HistoryIT'S INTERESTING to see how history is distorted in the act of grasping it: how it bends to fit the mind of the person who takes it in. You can investigate a historical epoch and watch as others, arriving at disparate conclusions, paint a portrait with a selection of colors chosen to fulfill their ...
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Gandhi, lived from 1869-1948 and was also known as Mahatma , was born in Porbandar, in the modern state of Gujarat, on October 2, 1869, into a Hindu family, Both his father and grandfather having been prime ministers of two adjacent and tiny states. After a modest career at school, he went to London in ...
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Green Aid in India and Zimbabwe - Conserving Whose Community?Green Aid in India and Zimbabwe - Conserving Whose Community?
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What happens when global institutions try to assist community conservation in some of the world's least industrialised areas? Among the `cutting edge' projects grant-aided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF, a World ...
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