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geared towards helping disadvantaged people everywhere. The Canadian Red Cross does most of its work in areas of poverty, natural disaster, armed conflict, and humanitarian crisis. Some countries that they have helped include Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, South Sudan and many more. An example of a time when the Canadian Red Cross responded to an emergency is in 2014, when one of the most deadly epidemics spread across West…

Span Tower Spreads its Banner Over the Sky. Span Tower, the proud flagship brand name of Span Engineering (Pvt) Ltd, has provided comfortable, luxurious and affordable apartments complexes to its clienetel for over a decade. The company has 12 completed projects under its wings and several projects under construction. Span Tower 19, located at Number 209, Quarry Road, Dehiwala, is one such upcoming project. The foundation laying ceremony for the apartment complex was held on the 14th of July…

Excessive Home Dominance Now, we will take into account how much home dominance has downplayed Test cricket. Now, it has become the story of every other series. We will start with Ashes, the most compelling series of the lot in the whites. If we exclude the exceptional English triumph on Aussie soil in 2010/11, the script seems to be pre-written. In the last seven Ashes series, six has been triumphed by the hosting nation. If we talk about India and Australia, there fierce rivalry saw new highs…

Director-General of Ghana Health service tasked health workers in the country by saying "You must wake up to the realization that one maternal death is a calamity and allow the system and standards to work so we can achieve heights countries such as Sweden and Sri Lanka have reached recording no maternal death." He said this when he was delivering a speech at 9th Annual General Conference of Medical Superintendents' Group (MSG) at Ho on October 20th…

Community Development: South Asian Immigrants in Victoria, BC The term ‘social’ can convey different meanings to an extroverted individual and an introverted person. Their individual traits may determine what sort of activities they desire and are capable of participating in. Similarly, community and community development can embody various significances for each person or group. An umpteen number of pointedly different communities comprise the globe. Each of these communities can have diverse…

maintained his theory that capitalism was in hand with freedom and democracy while countries implementing his policies were all military dictatorships. From 1990 through 2004, Friedman’s strategies were also implemented in Argentina, Poland, and Sri Lanka, all poor countries. But in 2008, the elites were able to impose the shock doctrine in the richest countries of the world such as Italy, Germany, and…

Alex Lin Alex Lin, a teen activist, was born in Rhode Island in 1994. Now at the age of 23, he works alongside his friends to stop e-waste and help refurbish old electronics. As a matter of fact, all the blue whales combined don’t weigh as much as 1 year's worth of E-waste. He has done many things to help this issue, and once stated how he thinks of what he does as “a lifestyle.” Alex Lin started after learning what e-waste was. Now he helps get rid of E-waste. How it Started In 2004,…

always more wealthy than the South. Trade by ship was soon incorporated and they began trading donkey and camels safely across the land. This was a wealthy time for south India. Pearl divers were also collecting pearls and selling them off the shore of Sri…

Suicide attacks have become a modality of terrorism of increasing application among extremist groups. During the last three decades this phenomenon has emerged in many countries around the world, including Lebanon, Israel, Sri Lanka, Iraq, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, etc. Some of the many questions asked about these terrorist attacks are; “Why do they do it? What motivates them? What do they gain out of it?…

nosed lizard Ceratophora tennentii affect the attraction females have for males? Introduction The name of my species is Ceratophora tennentii more commonly known as the leaf nosed lizard. This is a lizard that lives in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. Ceratophora tennentii are characterized by the shape and relative size of their noses as well as their bright colors. The nose of this lizard is referred to as a rostrum. The rostrum is not used as a weapon, rather a symbol of distinction. This…