... accounts or through access to their personal information. Everything from ATM pin codes to social security numbers is up for grabs with these criminals. The attacks are both passive and active in nature. They can be the access to credit card and bank card information through the use of receivers extracting coded information out of the wallets of persons walking down ... experienced in the other more public aspects of societies. For example a racist group cannot just openly have an office or area without either experiencing rejection from the state or suffering active opposition from the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... together and take their place as a world power. In order to accomplish these goals, Islamic radicals have mainly used terrorism as their main instrument of persuasion. The largest and most active terrorist organizations are those which are state funded. These organizations act as both an overt and covert way of spreading the sponsor countries ideologies. The U.S. Secretary of State has designated ... either by engaging in terrorist activity themselves or by providing arms, training, safe haven, diplomatic facilities, financial backing, logistic and/or support to terrorists.Iran is one o...

• Word Count: 2689
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... hostilities (during the war years the number of American troops did not exceed one million, and the population at that time was approximately 110 million people), and also the most active and significant maintenance of industrial and financial basis of the fight against fascism contributed to the extraordinary growth of economic power of America. During World War II for the US ... ...

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... be noted, none of the five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council is a party to the Convention. Furthermore, many of the States where private military and security companies are active, in addition of the United Kingdom and the United States of America, such as Canada, Colombia, Denmark, El Salvador, Israel or South Africa have not ratified the Convention either. The ... ...

• Word Count: 9871
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... and well being of Israel, and prevent regional conflicts while at the same time supporting friendly nations. Many U.S. Ambassador's feel that their work is made easier if there is an active influence and peace with strong U.S. involvement. The progress in the peace process strengthens governments in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and others which are friendly to the U.S. and it helps to ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... would give Africa a voice on the Council for the fist time, and also be the first time a predominantly Islamic country has been represented. It also has a history of being generally active and cooperative in regional trouble spots and world security affairs, such as its on-going assistance to British troops in Sierra Leone to end the raging civil war there. With ... ...

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... to the accusation of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were member's f the Communist Party. They were later, convicted, and sentenced to death oh April 5, 1951. Many of those convicted were active in the State Department, the FBI, and the NSA. By this time, immense fear "had settled on much of the country "not only the fear of communist infiltration but ... ...

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... become big supporters of a New World church. Among those leading the way is the United Religions Initiative, or U.R.I. Introduced in 1995 by San Francisco Episcopal bishop William Swing, the U.R.I. is active in nearly 60 countries worldwide and 33 states in the United States. The U.R.I. envisions itself as the future religious arm and spiritual partner of the United Nations. "I think the initial ... ...

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... of survivors and the first-hand accounts of international humanitarian workers in Rwanda at the time, denial of the genocide persists. Deniers include Hutu Power advocates, many of them still active in western countries, as well as lawyers and investigators working for Hutu clients at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Denying the Rwandan genocide is the equivalent of denying the ... ...

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... relationship between Syria and Lebanon is Israel and their occupation of the Golan Heights along with their never-ending war with the Palestinians in the south of Lebanon. Syria was active in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war in which the Israelis took control of the Golan Heights and the city of Quneitra. This land is still hotly contested today by the ... ...

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... ECOSOC of the UN "carries out studies and reports, calls international conferences, prepares draft conventions, and sets up commissions to accomplish its aims."" There are several commissions that are very active and effective in accomplishing their goals; the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations ... ...

• Word Count: 2668
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... by the USSR, kept strict control over other countries in the pact. Considering that, in the late 1990's it was too costly to keep a hulking colossus like the Warsaw Pact active, also bearing in mind that the Soviet "empire" was falling to pieces, it came as a little surprise that in 1991 the few remaining members of the pact decided to dissolve ... ...

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