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The Olympics have been riddled with political protests and violence ever since their creation in 1898. Consistent racial, political, and religious protests occur at the games and hinder the competition. The United States has even gone as far as boycotting the 1980 games in Moscow. In 1984 the Soviet Union boycotted the games in LA. In the 1972 Munich games 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and slaughtered just because of their religion. In the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games Tommie Smith and…

1.2 World Gourmet Summit (WGS) WGS began in 1997 after a chance meeting between Peter Knipp, head of Peter Knipp Holdings Pte. Ltd (PKH), and Dr Tan Chin Nam, the then Chief Executive of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). The reason Peter Knipp launched WGS was to showcase Singapore’s culinary diversity. They planned a tourism oriented programme that would not only showcase Singapore’s food, wine and service to the world, but it would bring the world’s gastronomy to Singapore (Chaney & Ryan,…

In her youth, Tarsila “grew up on the family fazenda [mansion on a large and prosperous farm] and attended colégios [secondary schools] in Santana, São Paulo, and Barcelona.” Far from spending her formative years in a favela, this artist lived in a comfortable, rural environment, and attended upper-class academies in Brazil and Europe. Therefore, audiences should not assume she painted Carnaval and Operários because…

to how the law affect the way business operate and customers behave. The main legal factors that will affect Marriott’s future business are the emergence of status services such as Airbnb. Authorities in various cities New York, New Orleans and Barcelona have been accused of Airbnb and its host for violation of zone laws, regulatory and health and safety regulation. In the United States, Marriott also faces the possibility of minimum wage increase of $15 per hour in some recommendations. That…

There wasn’t enough money for the Murillo family, and with three children, there needed to be a solution, and soon. The bills were piling up just before Linda Murillo began her first year in high school, so her parents had to think of a good way to make some money. Murillo would soon be breaking away from her small hometown of Riverside, California to attend college and her younger brother, Erick would soon follow after that. When her parents sat under the dusky yellow light in their dining room…

The electric vehicle is no longer something exotic and futuristic to become a present need. The massive purchase of cars in emerging economies imposes a solution to avoid the irreversible deterioration of atmosphere , and the rising oil price, dwindling We Aboca an economy totally unsustainable. It is time to change the supplier by the plug. The figures are staggering. Today there are nearly one million cars circulating in the world, and in less than 40 years, the fleet will have doubled .…

Introduction There has been a dramatic shift, within the last couple of decades, on how women perceive their body. Unfortunately this shift has been significantly negative in nature. Women in today’s society are more dissatisfied with their bodies than ever before. The main culprit, which has driven this downward trend, is mass media. Mass media is very much a double-edged sword. On one hand, it has increased global connectivity and has allowed for the perpetuation of information in a very…

Art deco’s elements are applied in the modern popular architecture and furniture The World War 1 is occurred between the Art Nouveau and the Art Deco. Both of two movements affected by the World War 1. They are two different style. The big difference of them is Art Nouveau is asymmetric while Art Deco is geometric. Both of two movements has affected our architecture and furniture, but for the effectiveness of the modern popular architecture and furniture, the role of Art Deco is bigger than Art…

Throughout history there has been many important individuals who have made an impact on our society, and influenced Christians around the world. Ignatius of Loyola was a man who made significant contributions by developing a systematic program for “The conquest of self, and the regulation of one’s life,” for service to the Catholic Church (Spielvogel, 281). He was gravely wounded while serving in the Spanish military fighting against the French. While slowly recuperating, Ignatius of Loyola…

The Zika virus is quickly becoming a major problem for today’s society with the main problem being that scientists do not know why the virus is beginning to transmit so quickly. This study consists of research gathered the internet and peer reviewed journals produced by scientists. It was hypothesized that the increase in transmission is because of tourists traveling to sporting events in South America. Information was collected and observed and the findings supported the fact that climate…