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    ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN SINGAPORE INTRODUCTION Singapore Electronic Industry started 50 years ago in the 1960s with its first and only TV Assembly plant in Southeast Asia. And today, Singapore Electronic Industry has become the backbone of Singapore’s economy, contributing 5.3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2013, 29% of total manufacturing output, and employed 80,000 workers, representing 19% of the total manufacturing labour force in Singapore (EDB, n.d). Due to the…

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    Essay On Unit 731

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    Shiro Ishii, the man behind the experimentations of Unit 731. Coming from a wealthy family and he was “an extremely bright young man who gained entrance to Kyoto Imperial University” (Source). He later became known as Surgeon General Shiro Ishii. The education that he had, allowed Ishii to be able to become an army medical officer, microbiologist and the director of Unit 731. His years of service ranged from 1921 to 1945. As soon as his service reached its end, Ishii decided to use his former…

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    era was the American citizen 's distrust of the government. President bush made a lot of very bad decisions, again referring to aattp.org 's article, The Top 20 Ways President George W. Bush Destroyed America, President Bush, pulling us out of the Kyoto protocol, creating false narrative that Iraq was an ally of Afghanistan, ignoring the United Nations and launched an illegal preemptive war. All of these things led to the American citizens to be very observant to governmental decisions and also…

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    Background of research problem: (讲什么是CSR) With the increasing concern about the concept of corporate social responsibility, some scholars think companies should take CSR as an opportunity, innovation and competitive advantages rather than cost (Porter and Kramer, 2006),and also some scholars argue that companies use CSR as means to deal with social environment pressure from public. (Dennis M. Patten,1991) On one hand CSR is aim to minimize the negative impact of business activities, on the other…

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    stabilize (232b), also when humans put use to these machines they do not release carbon dioxide. Other ways to conserve energy is to turn off and unplug electronic devices while not in use (232b). Moves are being made to slow down carbon emissions. “The Kyoto Protocol requires developed countries to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide by 95% every year” (232c). Once the countries restrict the carbon emissions this will reduce the greenhouse gases. A few plans are already in place to decrease…

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    will be nearly 4,000 new hydropower dams built worldwide by the year 2025. The study believes that one reason why countries are expanding usage of hydropower is due to the Rio+20 Conference, which requires countries to meet their energy needs through Kyoto-compliant, sustainable sources, one of which is hydropower. As a result, many countries in water-abundant regions, especially South America, Southeast Asia, and the Balkan Peninsula, are choosing to…

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    the Arts and Sciences in 1981. In 1982, Cage was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government, which is its highest cultural award. Cage was also recognized in Japan, when in 1989 he traveled there to accept the Kyoto Prize. Cage’s only marriage ended in divorce in 1945 and he lived the rest…

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    Organization said last year that 7 million people died annually because of exposure to polluted air. China’s air pollution and health problems are mainly caused by burning coal in factories, power plants, and the use of vehicles. Years ago in 1997, the Kyoto Agreement, which was the major industrial nations pledged to reduce their emissions of greenhouse regarding climate protection. The problem has focused on the rising rate of greenhouse gas emission resulting primarily from the burning of…

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    The Hikikomori Phenomenon

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    The hikikomori phenomenon began in 1990’s in Japan, despite of that the condition itself is not new to the society - it has existed long before the term was created, in form of hermits. Tamaki, who is seen as an expert in this area, claims that hikikomori should not be a brand for a disease but more as a condition or a state (Horiguchi, 2012). There have been several conditions of social withdrawal in the past, and these conditions have developed and can be seen as the result of Hikikomori. The…

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    Art is ag form of language that everybody can communicate and transfer information through it. It is always controversial to assign a definition to art. The definition of art may varies based on different time periods and cultures. As art grow and develop through time due to interactions between different cultures and artists its definition also changes. On this paper, we are not going to see the definition of art but we will cover how non-western arts influence western-arts and we will compare…

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