... researching about this section and searching for articles in the newspaper, I thought this type of unemployment was one of the most fearful and saddest from the other categories. There is an economical cycle. First the economy prospers and all demands increase but as the recession period arrives, everything turns into disaster. Companies cut back on employees, others employees are given notices ... , or then laid-off. Learning about this category created a spark inside of me and I decided to find articles. This past year, the economy of Canada as well as other countries have been sufferi...

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How to Improve China's International Trade? Since the open-door policy and the economic reform in 1979, China's economy has been developing rapidly. And the international trade also comes to a new era. In 1978, the total value of foreign trade of China is about $20.6 billion, about $ 70 billion in 1985, $280.9 billion in 1995,and $509.8 billion in 2001. According to the ... the trade need outside it. 4. The weak competitive ability of our exporting products is the fundamental factor which restrains the continuous development of China's export. The competitive ability refers to not only the co...

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... Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started america and allies had very reliable Intel that said he ... stuff real cheap with the embargo in place their the only ones getting stuff. but now we're going to war with Iraq they are having all these peace marches saying we will only start wwIII. look how wwII was started ignorence, we let hitler build up and then kept our heads in the dirt then he ......

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... Adolf Hitler came into power because of the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act granted the government the right to decree laws for the following four years. The Enabling Act gave the regime free rein to pursue its politics through terror and compulsion. In addition, the Enabling Act also gave the regime full ... power over the government states. Also, the boycott of all the Jewish owned stores helped Hitler in his gain of power. They used these powers to destroy the other political parties. Hitler claimed the German people only needed one party. Hitler violated a few things while he was in p...

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... plays a large role in knowledge. All opinions are based off of experience. If a persons opinion is correct, he or she is on the track to knowledge and acquiring that knowledge for life. Plato distinguishes between two levels of awareness: opinion and knowledge. Claims about the physical or visible world, including both ... opinions are well founded; some are not. These opinions are founded through experience. If a man or woman were to view a video on abortion or some other topic, he or she would gain an opinion about it. The experience could be viewing the video or perhaps even dealing ...

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... matter of time before Iraq develops nuclear technology. It is reported that Iraq has terrorist connections and if Iraq gains nuclear technology, who is to say that he wont provide those terrorist groups with a nuclear weapon. War, and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will free the ... he has been committing massive crimes against humanity. As mentioned before, biological weapons are being tested on Iraqi prisoners, and mass genocides have occurred. According to the article "The Iraq Decision- On Mr. Hussein's orders the Iraqi army "Gasses whole villages ands massacres tens of th...

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... January 1997, and was reappointed in January 2001. His career highlights have been a mission to ensure transfer to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1998, brokering an agreement between Libya and the UN's security council concerning responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in 1999 and he organised an international response to the crisis in East Timor in the same year. In 2000, he secured the certification ... of Israel's withdrawal from the Lebanon and he made, and has continued to make, strong efforts to encourage peaceful negotiations between Israel and Palestinian hard - liners. For over...

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... and abused physically and emotionally. Thousands of Iraqis are being killed for what reason? Going to war against Iraq is only not justified, but it would be pointless. Why go to war with a country that does not pose a present danger of mass destruction, and because the country has an unruly leader? Why take their oil from them? Don't you realize that if we ... go to war, it will cost billions of dollars, dollars we could spend on resources that are ... choice and it would be very wasteful, spend it on things that will make a difference in our world. Going to war against Iraq will caus...

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An Inexorable War The fate of the world is in jeopardy. With every new day the threat of global terrorism grows larger. For far too long now the United States has stood by and watched as Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein openly defy the order to disarm. Attempts at a ... a matter of time before Iraq develops nuclear technology. It is reported that Iraq has terrorist connections and if Iraq gains nuclear technology, who is to say that he wont provide those terrorist groups with a nuclear weapon. War, and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will free the people ... he has been committing ...

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... countries. Own prayer and thoughts go out to all who have put there lives on the line to protect our country. We salute you. As a citizen of America, the question many have asked, "What is honors obligation?" Honor's obligation is to make the people of this country say, "I am proud to be an American." That we would be honored to stand on, and be apart of ... This great nation. With that comes a crucial responsibility that we, as Americans, be willing to take at any moment. This may involve serving for our country over ... we are living in a nation of democracy. The love of family is al...

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... rise on fears and perceptions, not just on supply and demand. If the 1991 war were to repeat itself and Saddam were to burn the oil fields again, there could be major effects on the national oil supply. There is a great deal of uncertainty as to how high the prices may rise. The price has already gone up with the talk of war and ... American's life. Even if you are going just to work and back, gasoline is still used. In the United States, there are an estimated 360 million gallons of gasoline used daily. When you consider that there are about 100 million households in America, this aver...

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HOW IS THE WAR REPRESENTED IN THE NEWS MEDIA? The media, whether it is the printed news or seen on television is saturated with news of the war with Iraq. But is this information fed to us, legitimate or does it have hidden biases not understood by the common reading public? The news shown to the ... American public is biased in many ways. The war in Iraq is represented in one perspective - which is the American viewpoint. The damage to artillery, the injuries, the casualties are all American. What about the Iraqi people, the poor defenseless victims in this war? They are hardly ... certain b...

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"Journalists Are Assigned to Accompany U.S. Troops" I found an article on the New York Times website today that I thought had something to do with what we have been talking about. Before our Huntington's presentations we talked about how we thought the news showing the Gulf War on television may have been part of the reason that some of the other Muslim countries who originally sided with ... eventually became neutral and the U.S. feared if the war went on much longer they would eventually go against us. Well today I read an article that explains the role of journalism in the war that is comi...

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... people over and it is categorized by the way it is established and maintained. There are two major ways an empire is acquired; the first is called "hegemony-. If an empire is brought forth by hegemony, the subjects willingly accept the new leadership. This is done peacefully and ... of force. The conquered are usually better off with the new form of government, which is why they accept. The other way of acquiring an empire is the use of force, which is called "dominance-. If a empire forms using this technique, the subjects have been forcefully overthrown ... Palestine, all of Armenia,...

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Prompt: Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. What Happened to Unity? We watched the towers burn. We looked on in horror as countless people made the decision to jump to their deaths. We stood up proudly to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. We realized how trivial our common worries were. But now, two years later, I fear we have ... forgotten. We no longer stand together proudly for the Pledge. We have lost the feeling of overwhelming national pride. We have returned to our old ways. September 11th ... the corner of the room, tear...

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... times. "The open-ended Gulf of Tonkin resolution - which is very similar to the President's newly proposed Iraq resolution -- allowed the 'Commander-in-Chief' to expand a small, regionalized police action in South Asia into the Vietnam War, an engagement that cost more than 50,000 American lives," said Timothy Edgar, an ACLU Legislative Counsel . The War in Iraq strongly resembles the Gulf of Tonkin ... there are no specific objectives, there is no way for our military to accomplish anything worthwhile. Besides having no real military strategy, we also do not have an apparent enemy. Thi...

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... a cell until the date of his set death. In the novel "The Crucible", justice does end up being served to Abigail, although not in the way she wanted it to go, as she was lieing about Mrs. Proctor being a witch. Abigail had an affair with John proctor when she was hired for help in the Proctor household, Abigail wanted Mrs. Proctor out of ... he knew that whatever they had America will have more of it and will do whatever is necessary to make sure there is no other country that can defeat them. So this was Bush's way in, to find an excuse to attack the people of Iraq to try make them fle...

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... , one thing commonly happens. They rush into it. They follow their gut and with an adrenaline rush, run into a situation blind and deaf. When George Bush diverted his attention to sad dam in order to bring recognition to the U.S, he definitely dug himself into a ditch. To occupy a country is a hazardous task. It involves detailed planning. You must consider the culture and the different faiths and ... leader, and his beliefs in running the system. What is that leader doing to help the country? And if he is not helping the country. What exactly is he doing wrong? And how can one change it...

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... British and French rolled out a map and divided up the empire into Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. To form Iraq, Britain squeezed together three mutually hostile regions: Kurdish tribal lands: the Sunni Muslim region around Baghdad, and the Shia south. The result was an unstable, chaotic country. Iraq became a British colony and soon Faisal was placed on the throne in Baghdad in ... led a coup and overthrew King Faisal II. Qasim declared Iraq a republic. He created an alliance with the Soviet Union and the Iraqi communists to defeat the Kurds. Qasim shunned Egypt's Nasser who wanted...

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... stockpiles of plutonium, for verification. The framework of the treaty was negotiated in conjunction with ex-president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. This treaty was an outright defiance to skeptics who said the Clinton administration was gullible, warning that North Korea was stalling while it built more nuclear weapons. Regardless of spectators and opinionates, the path of peace was ... diplomatic options for a peaceful solution and we must develop a strategy for stabilizing the region. The president's proposed resolution of war to Congress to me shows a disregard of ...

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... had shown, joined the series of mass candlelight rally to protest against the Americans - this eventually contributed in spreading anti-American sentiment in Korea. However, it turned out to be that Mr. Bush never came to apologize to Korean citizens for the wrongdoing. How foolish was it for us to actually expect such a powerful country to be considerate to this tiny, powerless country? In this regard, ... Korea should think smart and dispatch troops to Iraq because Korea, willing or not, is heavily reliant on ... would end up in a fiasco. Furthermore, imagine how would it be like if t...

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... ARTICLE TWO The second article "Nine Children Killed in air strike on Taliban suspect" reports the issue of terrorism showing what the US has done to innocent Iraqi people. The US has killed scores of innocent civilians since the start of the war in October 2001. The headline is extremely aggressive ... create a binary opposition through the contrast of the terrorists and the US. Article 1 shows terrorism from the view of the US and how bad Osama Bin Laden is. The other voice heard is that of the US causing unnecessary death and destruction in Iraq. There are a ... in the article is rea...

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How the Government lives Your Life. The people of George Orwell's 1984 did not live their own lives and neither do we. The government is living more and more ... in today's society they have this, however the reality is that we are constantly monitored; we are monitored continuously in different locations throughout the day, from your local shop to an ATM machine and even in your own home. Though this constant monitoring is not quite as large scale as the novel 1984, our society is heading towards that direction. ... product. This form of privacy invasion may also be used by the government t...

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... in the right context. When I know the facts, I"m more likely to support what you are pitching me. That's all war rhetoric is, the speaker is pitching an idea to the crowd. The government normally believes in going to fight a war or stopping communism in another country and it's their duty to get the majority to agree with them. This is why these speeches are so important ... said they didn't have any. With the possibility of these weapons in the hands of someone such as Saddam Hussein, it made a very good emotional appeal. We have an image of Saddam Hussein; to me, he is the typical "en...

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... advise will be no different from Washington's viewpoint. So, it is the one representative of Kofi Annan that would make the board "international". According to the proposal, the oil revenues are to be disbursed by an Authority comprising the US and the British forces and the "administration." It is unclear if this administration is the Iraqi interim administration or the US administration ... , Mujahideen e Khalq (notwithstanding the later US use of these Mujahideen as a sword of Damocles against Iran), and SAIRI's above decision to participate in national administration with the coaliti...

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