1992

For women, fashion is a display of national character and patriotism and was used as a tool for resistance. At the beginning of the war, women were not seen as foot soldiers of the resistance. These German soldier they weren’t used to seeing women as peers on the battlefield. These women could inconspicuously transport information, leaflets, and anything the resistance needed, much easier than her male counterpart could. Normally women in movies are represented as heroines and motivators for the…

The Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992) witnessed horrendous human rights violations that dismantled the physical and social fabric of Salvadoran society, leaving more than 75,000 dead and more than a one million as refugees. Fought between the authoritarian Salvadoran government and the guerilla Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), the twelve year bloody civil war came to an end with both parties signing the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992, with the assistance of international actors, most…

Perlasca was made an Honorary Citizen of Israel. Also in 1990 He received a medal of remembrance from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Unfortually Perlasca passed away from a heart attack on August 15th 1992. He passed in his own house in Padua, Italy. (Hellenstien, 1992) Giorgio is a good representation that you don’t need to be a strong fighter to be able to make a difference. If you have the right mind set you can do anything. He wasn’t big or strong, just willing to help.…

following scores: 34 on Extraversion, 28 on Agreeableness, 40 on Consciousness, 18 on Neuroticism and 23 on Openness. The first factor is Extraversion. Extraverts are often recalled as being more active, energetic and full of life (Costa & McCrae, 1992). They want to be the centre of attention and seek the interest of others (Ashton, Lee, & Paunonen, 1999). Based on Briggs feedback test, I had a score of 34 which is relatively high and makes me a more energetic person who doesn’t want to stay…

sitting at home, watching a calm New York Mets baseball game on TV. Suddenly you realize there is a massive wall of water near your neighborhood. Then, you turn and look then all you see is glass flying everywhere. Hurricane Andrew was the time in August 1992, when a tropical wave near Africa, moved to the Atlantic Ocean. Then, the winds reached hurricane levels. The state of Florida wasn’t prepared for Hurricane Andrew, the disaster created many problems and caused mass devastation. Before…

There are three main causes for the Westray disaster. The mine was very hazardous, but they still reopened it in 1991. Then in 1992 the mine exploded. The first cause was not enough training for the miners or management. Second cause was not enough stone dusting at the Westray mine. Third cause was the miners were too intimidated to come forward about the dangers and the provincial inspectors weren't willing to act. For these reasons it made it very unsafe for the men to be working in the mine.…

Venezuela writes “Well, you have to beat them to the punch, do what everyone tries to do: sabotage the machinery, throw sand in its gears, get to the bottom of the problem so as to stop it.” (Venezuela, 1992). Each of these phrases is a colorful way of telling the reader that Juan plans to get a job in the censorship division just to find the letter that he had written in order to ensure that Mariana was safe. This figurative language was also effective…

The environment pollution monitoring using mussels was established in North America coastline and estuarine. It’s followed by other countries like Australia, Japan, France, Taiwan, India, and Mediterranean (Goldberg, 1975) in (Widdows and Donkin, 1992). The environmental tolerance ability, abundance, population stability, contaminant metabolism ability and living behavior are the advantages of using mussels in pollution monitoring (Widdows and Donkin,…

Fresch and Aileen Wheaton (1992), the research demonstrated that allowing students to explore and discover the similarities or differences on their own by either categorizing the words or providing a generalization about what they discovered increased students’ knowledge of how letters and sounds work together. In Fresch and Wheaton’s study, “the children were empowered through their experimentation and growing understanding of the English language.” (Fresch, & Wheaton,1992). The results…

The degree to which one personally identifies with one's cultural identities and the value one places on them vary across cultural groups and across members within cultural groups (Cox, 1993; Thomas, 1993; Ely, 1995; Ragins, 1997). Moreover, a person may vary in the degree to which he or she identifies with, values, or expresses a particular cultural identity at any given time, depending on the salience and meaning of that identity in the context within which he or she is operating (Ely, 1995;…