... , hospitals and health centers are destroyed and there is a lack of doctors and nurses. Many children die, due to lack of straightforward treatment (War Child). Women and girls [suffer] sexual abuse, rape, early forced marriages and pregnancies (Kalifani, Liebling and Mwaka). I find it horrifying that so many innocent children are exploited and killed for reasons beyond their control. Children deserve to ... ...

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... review the purposes of informed consent and some factors to informed consent are the treatment setting, outline it's ethical and legal foundations, and explore some of its limitations. It satisfies any unnecessary questions and provides an assurance to the patients and others that ... in the form of goods or services. Bartering is discouraged and should be avoided according to the NASW Code of Ethics. It presents great potential for abuse, exploitation, conflict and distortion of the professional relationship and sets the stage for a malpractice suit and/or an ethical inquiry " (NASW, vol...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... existence in the area as a hegemon and dominant military power intent on acting as a police force was therefore to preclude the sort of total war that may have laid the foundations for strong states in the region consistent with Centeno's theses. Yet, there are abundant instances in which the U.S. undertook actions or campaigns in the region that tended to favor development ... , eventually removing it in favor of a military dictatorship that was strong with respect to Guatemalan society, but weak in the more meaningful sense that it was unable to lay the foundations of a strong state. T...

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... argued that the United States was compelled to assist "free peoples" in their struggles against "totalitarian regimes," because the spread of authoritarianism would "undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States." In the words of the Truman Doctrine, it became "the policy of the United States to support ... ...

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... Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people. With every means he tries to destroy the racial foundations of the people he has set out to subjugate. Just as he himself systematically ruins women and girls, he does not shrink back from pulling down the blood barriers for ... ...

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... Truman took the first steps in this direction in 1947 with the Truman Doctrine, which declared that "totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States."" This initiated the American policy of containment, which was reinforced by the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ... ...

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... of a formal alliance with Italy was necessary. He received his assurance with the signing of the Pact of Steel at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin on May 22, 1939. The foundations of this treaty were based on Articles III and V: " If one of the High Contracting Parties should become involved in warlike complications with another power, the other High Contracting Party ... ...

• Word Count: 2168
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... opinions of Marx and Engels on commodity production in a socialist state demonstrate the gravity of the revisionism the communist party leadership, under Gorbachev himself, was about to undertake. The economic foundations of perestroika were the autonomy of enterprises, production for exchange, and the direct access of enterprises to the world market through the convertibility of local money. According to Marx and ... ...

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... Soviet Communism was in crisis. An upsurge of nationalism within the Soviet republics, coupled with resentment of decades of economic scarcity and arbitrary rule, spurred a challenge both to the ideological foundations of communism and to the legitimacy of the Soviet state. By the end of 1991, the resulting political struggle had led to the collapse of the Soviet Communist Party and ... ...

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... . Jackson goes on to say "This trial represents mankind's desperate effort to apply he discipline of the law to statesmen who have used their powers of state to attack the foundations of the world's peace This Charter and this Trial, implementing the Kellogg-Briand Pact constitute another step in the same direct judicial action of a kind to ensure that those who ... ...

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... standard of trade in order for the dollar to regain its value (3). Though it may have seemed a bit late the many actions the government began to set up and the foundations laid for future programs helped to build the economy and the government known and respected world wide. This expansion and change in ideology has allowed the country to become what ... ...

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... . The European Union was originally established in 1950 to bring the six European nations of Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands closer together. The Union was to lay foundations to unite the European people, to improve living conditions and to even out the wealth between these nations. To this day the European Union has 15 members; one of which ... ...

• Word Count: 1750
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... Roman Catholic Church in Rwanda was the largest and most influential in the country, with intimate ties to the government at all levels. It never denounced the government's explicit ethnic foundations, never denounced its increasing use of violence against Tutsi, never denounced or even named the genocide, never apologized for the many clergy who aided and abetted the genocidaires, and to ... ...

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... United Nations defined a broad range of internationally accepted rights; it has also established mechanisms to promote and protect these rights and to assist governments in carrying out their responsibilities. The foundations of this law are the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in 1948. Since then, the United Nations has gradually expanded ... ...

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Today it could take decades to build bridges, roads, dams or other such needed fundamental foundations, including the planning and development stages, costing upwards of ¼ of a billion dollars (statistics of Sunshine Skyway Bridge, St. Petersburg and Bradenton, Florida, USA). However the great bridges of our nation ... ...

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... did ensure his personal power it also ensured the survival of socialism within at the roots. The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. Stalin was a master publicist and his success in portraying himself as the successor to Lenin's legacy had helped him to defeat Trotsky in the power struggle ... ...

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... why America won, and the lasting consequences of American victory. Covering what are the most influential years of the 20th century, Freedom From Fear is an exciting tale about the foundations of modern America. This book vividly captures the spirit of those 17 years of struggle that changed America forever. ...

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... . The proliferation of nuclear weapons, the rise or reemergence of other centres of economic power, and especially the massive growth in the then Soviet military strength had weakened the political foundations of the international system established at the end of World War II. Events in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere signaled that global politics were entering on a new and uncertain phase ... ...

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... lay in ruins, physically and economically, and the morale of the people was destroyed. It was from this background that the idea of the EU was born. In 1951 the foundations of what is today the EU were laid by the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux states. It has grown to become ... ...

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... Germany, the horrendous implementation of the League of Nations, and the exclusion of Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points ". One of the foremost issues with the Treaty of Versailles is the horrid abuse of Germany. By inspecting a few articles within the treaty, we see that Germany was forced to renounce all of her oversea possessions and properties in those territories (Treaty of Versailles ... of colonial German citizens, their entire armed forces, and their right to trade freely. They were also forced to agree to every Allied treaty, effectively ensuring German abuse for years to come. ...

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... people who know the actual fact - the assailants as well as the victims - have kept silence. This is partly because of the Korean culture that makes the victims of sexual abuse feel ashamed and the assaulters tacitly tolerated. Confucianism in Korea has strongly fostered this cultural aspect, though we can also find similar cultures in other parts of the world. We ... as the second offense to them. Although large participation of women's movement in this issue have helped to change the attitude of the Korean society toward the victims of sexual abuse, that culture still remains, laying ...

• Word Count: 4553
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... , was one condemned by the time and location that made it so thorny for these two cultures to co-exist. Hatsue, encouraged to marry within her heritage by family and Mrs. Shigemura, an instructor of social savvy, began to distance herself from the passionate relationship as time went on, while Ishmael, blinded by his own fanatical interpretation of true love and ... ...

• Word Count: 955
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... world can read the historical record and that we can learn from the past and hopefully not repeat it. "Creating a historical record not only helps identify the patterns of abuse and its actors, thus reinforcing a sense of accountability; it also helps ensure against the setting in of a collective amnesia and reduces the possibility for revisionism." (Kerr and Mobekk, 2007 ... ...

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... subject to broad interpretation and this caused the flimsiest instances to be sufficient to call someone an "enemy of the people". These criminals would endure the violent cycle of public abuse, interrogation, torture and deportation. Similarly in Germany, Hitler shared the same violent nature when it came to people who opposed his regime's policies. In Nazi Germany, racism was more emphasized ... ...

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... Mike Hammer " realizes that Ethel Brighton has continued to associate with the scum and perverts who comprise the Communist movement. So he strips and whips her." This overt and graphic abuse of females is acceptable only because the female was a communist, this type of brutality towards women would normally not be acceptable to the status quo. Therefore it is clear that ... ...

• Word Count: 1556
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