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    Clea Koff Case Study

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    I chose to write my bio-sketch on Clea Koff, she is a forensic anthropologist and author who worked for the United Nations as well as for the Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the tribal for the formal Yugoslavia. She was born in 1972 in London, England to Msindo Mwinyipembe and David Koff. Her father was American and Jewish, and her mother was Tanzanian. Both of her parents were documentary filmmakers who were focused on many issues such as human rights and traveled the world for their work;…

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    We have cast aside the primitive mentality of medicine and have taken on the modern mindset, where we can create 3-D printers that grow human organs and oversee surgeries conducted by nanobots. Despite our advancements in technology, debates about vaccinations for children have occurred since their inception in the early eighteenth century. Many citizens accepted vaccines unquestioningly after the horrors of World War II, but people have since forgotten the frightening effects of diseases.…

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    description)? What other countries/areas were the internees from? (3 marks) You would typically find an internee that is from Ukraine that was male, unmarried, poor and unemployed. Within these camps there were also people from countries such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Poland, Turkey, Romania and Russia. 3. What were the extra powers granted to Robert Borden when the War Measures Act was invoked on August 22, 1914? (1 mark) Robert Borden was granted extra powers…

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    Social Ramifications of World War I 1. Women would awaken to their true potential due to World War I. During the war, women were needed to do factory jobs, farm work, and other local jobs. When the war was over, they lost these jobs to the returning veterans. I truly believe that women saw their abilities to operate like any man and this led to an increase in the Women's rights movement that would follow the war. 2. The people of Europe started World War I with the idea of war…

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    Milosevic attempted to expand Serbian holdings throughout other regions of Yugoslavia. If Milosevic had let Croatia and Slovenia secede peacefully, then he could have prevented both the violent, incoming civil war and genocide. He also ignored officials within his own government who campaigned on the “transformation of Yugoslavia into a confederation,”(Allcock, 2). Milosevic, if he gave Croatia and Slovenia slightly more autonomy, could have eased the existing racial tensions in Yugoslavia. The…

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    homes today. Also Why I choose to write my paper on him. Hope you enjoy this information about Nikola Tesla. Tesla was born on July 10th, 1856, in a small town called Smiljan in the Austria-Hungary border province of the modern day Republic of Croatia. His father was a priest and his mother was as illiterate housewife but a very talented woman. Nikola always gave his mother the credit for being the source of his inventiveness.…

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    pursuits consumed him, drove him into isolation, and ultimately to madness. Nikola Tesla, who was a visionary thinker with an aptitude for mathematics, came into this world on July 10th, 1856 at the stroke of midnight, during a lightning storm, in Croatia. He spent the majority of his childhood on an isolated country farm. Because Nikola, who was often deeply lost in his own imagination, found it difficult to interact with people, he surrounded himself instead with the animals…

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    During the late 1800’s, a significantly large amount of inventors, engineers and futurists emerged. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His passion for electrical engineer was instigated by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who built him numerous gadgets while he was growing up. While Tesla has attending the University of Prague in Graz, Austria, he became acquainted with the Gramme dynamo, which was used as an add-on generator in manufacturing and farming machinery. Tesla took…

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    I am John; the youngest son of Blas and Kathleen Matic- impoverished young couple that migrated from Yugoslavia to make a new life in Australia. I have tried to compile a story of their life-their hopes, their fears their successes and their happiness. Much of the story has been compiled from my memory of talks with Mum and Dad, discussions with my elder sister Teresa and older brother Joseph. Unfortunately the amazing story of their life did not rate much importance to me until the last few…

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    The Radio and its Inventor Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika which was part of an Austo-Hungarian empire in a region of Croatia. He came from a very intelligent family. His father Milutin Tesla was a Serbian orthodox priest and his mother was also an inventor. His mother made household appliances in her own right. He studied at Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873. He also went to two different colleges named the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of…

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