... the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of or war." Paragraph two of Article 47 states the criteria or requirements in the definition to be considered a mercenary. Motivation, the desire for private gain is one of the determining criteria in the definition of a mercenary: "is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the ... desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of ... and to concerted act of violence aimed at committing a coup ...

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... toward Islam, anti-Muslim sentiment is an important issue for society to address globally. Anti-Muslim hate crimes have incrementally increased; these vicious attacks have an ample spectrum, anything from street harassment to murder - with the most recent and devastating atrocity being the murder of 3 college Muslim students, by a crazed terrorist homegrown in the USA. In modern USA, Islamophobia is cultivated ... ...

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... sole pole position by failing to provide the defence and security expected of it. This is in theory due to the decline of perceived threats to the United States, and a desire to lighten the burden of its global defence commitments. Hegemony in this instance is not merely affected by changes in material capabilities, but a decline in United States "internationalism" will impact ... that the distrustful nature of states will prevent proficient collaboration. Continuing on these fundamental postulations, states will prefer global unipolarity and regional multipolarity, over regional unipol...

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... where walking and bicycling are encouraged and accepted as legitimate forms of transportation. Characteristic of these efforts is the reintroduction of bicycle lanes and sidewalks to the streetscapes, complete with street furniture, landscaping, pedestrian-scaled lighting, and other features making the public right-of-way more inviting for people to travel by bicycle or on foot. The transportation planning and engineering ... ...

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... affect the length of a child's attention span during early development. Shots on prime time television change on an average of every 7 seconds, whereas children's educational TV shows (for example, Sesame Street) change shots every 12 seconds on average. Programs such as MTV or Much Music change shots every 3 seconds on average. This quick-cut editing provides constantly changing stimulation, which can ... ...

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... States of America. Over recent years there has even been a complete detachment from the concept of hard work being rewarded as the get rich quick' cliché has launched the desire for professional laziness with maximum benefits, seen in the late 1990's rash of .com' businesses. It seems the idea of working for your money has been sacrificed itself in favour ... population, and the vast number of religions practised at this time. But due to an increased sense of belonging within the increasing proportion of American born citizens, there was a common desire for unity in moral code and dail...

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... hasn't been effective why is it easier to prevent IED's in America whereas in Afghanistan or Iraq we are having much more trouble. A young man named Sami OSmakac who purchased a car bomb, multiple guns including automatic rifles from an undercover FBI agent who was posing as an Al Qaeda operative was going to attack the Tampa bay but was thwarted because ... ...

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... disseminated in the open air by using off-the- shelf devices such as industrial sprayers or other types of aerosol-producing devices. These could be mounted on an airplane, boat, car, or other moving vehicle, or even placed in a stationary position. An alternative method would be to disseminate the agent in an enclosed space where it could more efficiently infect or ... ...

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... attention towards whether or not they think economic development has been strong enough to erase the term "considerable period" from their general statement. In addition, studies have shown that US car sales declined, depressing industrial production as well as retail sales during the month of October - something to be taken into consideration when decisions are being made. The article that I chose ... ...

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... to diversity training, point to gaps in the literature, and provide suggestions for future research. They also included exemplars in each section, so if readers feel this is a design they desire, they have a complete illustration and citations of studies investigating this plan along with characteristics of a particular design element. Diversity training has been regularly established in both educational and workplace settings ... ...

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... one legislature of the empire. Latin America requested a government similar to that of Britain and the US, containing two chambers, the Representative and the Senate. The biggest difference was their desire to have the Senate remain hereditary, and have one Republican Magistrate who was subject to the legislative body, the senate, and the people and responsible for overseeing the system. Haiti ... ...

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... outside the American government found its way to Italy. Firstly, a "friendship train- gathered gifts from American citizens and distributed them to Italians throughout Italy with message of Americans expressing their desire for a democratic Italy backing the gesture. Furthermore, $50,000 in American funds was distributed to anti-communist labor organizations in Italy from the Italian-American Labor Council in an effort ... ...

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... inevitable. According to the survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, "the most common reasons that parents give for home schooling their children are moral or religious reasons, a desire for high educational achievement, dissatisfaction with public schools' instructional program, and concerns about school environment, including safety, drugs, and peer pressure-(Bielick, Chandler & Broughman, 2001, 10). In light of the ... ...

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... slavery, the Jacksonians were determined, on both practical and ideological grounds, to keep the issue out of national affairs. Few mainstream Jacksonians had moral qualms about black enslavement or any desire to meddle with it where it existed. More important, they believed that the mounting antislavery agitation would distract attention from the artificial inequalities among white men and upset the party ... ...

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... of the population. It is important as well to observe how military power, which is seen as the ultimate source of power has helped to turn power towards one actor desire, but at the same time, it has probed repeatedly how totalitarian power destroys the nature and purpose of power itself. Therefore, as long as the international community does not recognize ... ...

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... choice between life and death, 99 percent of all prisoners under sentence of death prefers life in prison." This statistic proves nothing but the fact that man has an innate desire for survival. Those who where asked the question had already committed the crime and thus it did not reflect the sentiment of those who may be considering a crime. Also, people ... ...

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