... tool to easily compare to other organizations. The three areas, other than the section stated above, that I found to be the most useful were program expenses percentage, charts, and "charities performing similar types of work". The program expenses is a great snapshot of seeing how efficiently the organization is utilizing their funds. Most leading organizations boast a percentage over 75% so ... trend between 10%-20%, unless the organization is involved in public broadcasting and media which includes expensive air time, which results in a higher percentage. My opinion is that both char...

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... sold opium and heroin to help fund the war effort. The Iranian revolution of 1979 had a profound influence on the conduct of the Afghan War and the restructuring of U.S relations with political Islam. They say Iran as an Islamist regime that was both anti-communist and passionately ... nationalist. Reagan went to Saudi Arabia in an effort to match dollar-for-dollar, the funds going into the Afghan proxy. Through Saudi Arabia Reagan received the help of Osama bin Laden, a billionaire socialite and the funds he acquired from 'hob-knobbing ... continue. The intervention cost the Sovi...

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... vote, to get an education, to obtain employment, and to receive health care benefits. Now, with the liberation of Kabul along with other Afghan cities, and help from the United States, women are beginning to return to their rightful roles in society, the ones they choose for themselves. ... freedom of movement, and the right to health care. The discrimination they faced was so overwhelming that it was literally life threatening for many Afghan women. The Taliban's restrictions on women are not in line with the reality of other Muslim countries. Women are serving in high government positi...

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... , this is the life they lead every day. Since September of 1994, a political group called the Taliban has been committing acts of terrorism toward Afghan women ("The Taliban Story"). Every day, women in Afghanistan are beaten and raped by Taliban officials, in addition to being denied their basic rights (" ... that "Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses" ("The Universal Declaration"). The Taliban frequently kidnaps Afghan girls from their homes and forces them to marry Talib officials (Goodwin 300). This is clearly a violation of human...

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... to the CIA intervening, the Islamic world did not have, "an armed jihad for nearly a century." The CIA changed this by creating an Afghan jihad. The CIA even made Bin Laden the leader of this jihad. In United States camps, future jihadists were taught how to deal with explosives, ... and were taught, "deadly skills." Mamdani goes on to talk about a Los Angeles Times report that shows leaders of terrorist attacks after the Afghan War were actually veterans themselves. This of course includes Bin Laden, the leader of the jihad chosen by the United States just a short time before. In ... g...

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... PDPA, and the Soviets that backed the Democratic Party. The war lasted roughly ten years, killing tons of soldiers on both sides, and tons of Afghan civilians. Then on February 15, 1989 after much pressure from the U.S. and the United Nations, the Soviet Union pulled its last troops out of Afghanistan ... They did this under the impression that the PDPA would still be the government, but they would have to make it more suitable for the Afghan people.4 Soon after the Soviets left Afghanistan, the PDPA collapsed leaving a vacancy for leadership in the country causing more fighting in Afgh...

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... their performance. Even though they do bring in large amounts of money every year, a more than fair share of this money goes towards their favourite charities. However, compared to other major companies and owner's of different businesses, the people in sports are making significantly less. Finally, the income that they ... The supreme athletes of today's world deserve every penny they make and maybe even more. There is a large sum of athletes salaries that goes towards charities and other worthy foundations. Every year, different players from different sports give and collect millions o...

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... and Amir harshly realize they are nothing special. All of the prestige and social recognition they experience in Kabul is permanently lost when they arrive in the United States. Their Afghan identities mean nothing to anyone in America, and they are demanded to proceed knowing this is true. Out of necessity to provide for themselves, Amir and Baba stray even further ... a local flea market. Amir explains, "a ramshackle Singer sewing machine purchased for $10 might, after some bargaining, bring in $25" (137). In time, the flea market is overcome by Afghan families in similar situations a...

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... Abdul-Aziz University, both in Jeddah." It is possible to summarize some of the explanations on the causes of the 9/11 attacks. Radicalization resulting from the Afghan Jihad is a major concern. Following the Afghan war with the Soviet Union, the radicalization of Arab militants began. This led to the founding of Al Qaeda in 1988. This aimed to establish jihad in ... to believe that their kind of jihad was meant to protect Islam. Selective reading and interpretation of the Quran coupled this. In his book, Bernard Lewis argues that after the Afghan-USSR war, problems in the Middle East w...

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... Blair recently held a conference in Downing Street. "He alienated small countries, offended the Brussels bureaucracy and lent an element of farce to efforts to forge a common European strategy in the Afghan crisis (Barber 1)." President of France, Jacques Chirac, did the same thing a couple of week's prior. He held talks with Tony Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and left out quite ... a bite of European countries, but Europe still displays a "solid front in the US-led campaign against international terrorism (Barber 1)." Weaknesses are appearing due to the Afghan crisis. A ...

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... readers why maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and cultivating virtue will assist people. On the other hand, there are examples of justice given in "The Runway Trolley" and "Afghan Brothers" topic. In "The Runway Trolley" topic, the author argues about the right thing to do in different perspectives. What would you do if you were the ... ). I believe that is a strong statement. This statement gives strength to the whole book by mentioning that doing the right thing is not always easy, which is very true. In "Afghan Brothers", if the soldiers had not let the goatherds leave, 16 soldi...

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... servant, Ali. Baba, Amir's wealthy, reputable father, is a truly kind man, but his love for his two sons is often obscured by his shame for having the son of a Hazara (Afghan minority) woman and the resentment he has towards his acknowledged son for not being able to openly love his secret son. Hassan and his "father", Ali, work for ... and serve Babba. Ali is hard working, modest, and faithful to all. Amir and his father live in a nice house in Kabul, Afghanistan, with their two Hazara (Afghan minority) servants. Amir is consistently bullied for spending time with Hassan,
a Hazara, a...

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... of low-orbit satellites around the Earth to provide a worldwide two-way broadband telecommunications service. Bill Gates is also a very charitable person; he has donated more than $800 million to charities, including $200 million to the Gates Library Foundation. In 1994 he established the William H. Gates Foundation, which supports a variety of what? Of particular interest to Gates and his family. The ... child, Jennifer Katharine Gates. To this day Bill has three children and his hobbies include, playing golf and bridge and he is also an avid reader. Along with Bill's own charities, hi...

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... the poor being harshly affected by its discontinue. These are misconstrued ideas and should not be of concern once the penny is gone. The reason for this is because one, charities will simply just transfer over to the nickel. This will not impact the cost of donations. Second, Robert M. Whalpes performed a research study in which after over 200,000 transactions, the ... research analysis proved that their validities were insufficiently reasoned and thus weak. Without the further production of the one-cent, money and time that can be used that can help charities, the poor, and even advan...

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... survive, people planted gardens in vacant lots and back alleys for food. People would stand in line for hours just to get a bowl of soup from soup kitchens, but the charities could never meed the massive needs. People were forced to share food, clothing, and fuel. President Hoover was not very popular as he did little to help the people. He ... to advise and encourage the voluntary efforts of private organizations, individual industries, or local communities. He made an organization to help raise private funds for voluntary relief agencies. He believed charities and local authorities sh...

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... at least an order of magnitude) and the decision was reversed in a higher court. Standard Oil paid nothing. In the year following the 1892 decision, Rockefeller donated over $1.5 million to charities. While he had been donating money since his teenage years, this amount was three times as large as any sum he had ever donated in one year. In 1907, after ... illegal activities that continued into the 1900's, after he had made more money than he could possibly use, and when he donated a large percentage of his personal income to various charities. Rockefeller's tactics put left tens of tho...

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... , and compassion. He believes that these are the moral landmarks that guide a successful life. The third goal is that he believes that we should encourage and expand the role if charities in after- school programs. He says everyone agrees there is a problem in these empty unsupervised hours after school. But those hours should not only be filled with sports and play ... , they should include lessons in responsibility and character." He says that the federal government already funds after-school programs, but charities and faith-based organizations are prevented from participating. He says...

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... not being wiped out by hunters. (Irwin 1999) In 1991, an organization called the Michigan Sportsman Against Hunger was formed to allows deer hunters to donate their meat to local charities. This organization also funded the processing of meat collected from the controlled deer hunts in the metro parks. The deer meat was bagged and donated to local ... charities. Over 60,000 pounds of meat was donated this year from the organization. Because of the massive amounts of deer being killed each year, deer butchering is big business in ... ...

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... hard to make their voices heard, so as Christians we make sure that the elderly are alive and healthy. As Christians we support the weak, and so we also support charities that do the same. An example of this is Cafod. As a charity cafod help the poor and the sick in third world countries. As Christians we feel a need to also ... help the unfortunate and so we support theses charities by donating and offering our services at fundraising events. Christ helped the poor and the sick. Examples of this can be found in the bible, "Jesus took a blind man out ... ...

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... spoken of links between the nations making up the former Persian Empire. What I mean by this is that not only were the designs of houses virtually identical between Iranian and Afghan homes, but so too was their method of construction with their particular uses of mud and straw. I found it to be very cool how home design in Northern Iran virtually ... ...

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... . It was Baba himself who decide to raise Hassan as a Hazara, but not only Baba was responsible for his decision. Because social class is considered to be so important in Afghan society, he had no choice but to value his public image more than his own child. If there was no class structure in Afghanistan, Hassan's life would have been happier ... ...

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... source of corruption for men who they are not related to. However, they can also be the demise of a man's downfall and that is one of the reasons why an Afghan woman is not allowed to show any part of her body. Not even her eyes. They treat women poorly and think of them as weak, frail beings and therefore cannot ... ...

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... to never give up, disregarding the odds. Lastly, a lot of the glory goes to these four SEALs, as it should, but I also have an immense amount of respect for the Afghan villagers who helped save Marcus Luttrell's life. The villagers helped Marcus Luttrell did so out of duty to their 2000 year old code of honor, known as Pashtunwali. Pashtunwali requires ... ...

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... it fell after invading poor and medieval Afghanistan. The Christian West joined hands with the Muslims ( Pakistani's, Saudi's) to indirectly support the Afghani's against a world power. The resolve of the Afghan people was strong thus in the long run they caused the Soviet Union to retreat and later it collapsed. The outstanding conclusion for today is that Spain over-stretched itself ... ...

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... Division, The Support Division coordinates the operations of the headquarters staff and field agents, and The Plans division supervises all covert operations ( ). With President Reagan's support, Casey's CIA supported the Afghan rebels against Soviet incursion, armed Iranian paramilitary groups opposing Ayatollah Khomeini's rigidly religious regime and openly supported the insurgents fighting the left-wing government of Nicaragua. When the Iran-Contra ... ...

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