Sri Lanka

From Beaumont, Texas to beacon of hope! For Tanai Benard the Texas night sky was filled with bright shining lights, and she wanted to be one of them. She and her three children have become media darlings and beacons of light that have shined from Texas, to the Middle East, all the way back to our nations capital. Not only for women learning their worth, but for anyone that needs to borrow her courage, strength, and personal power. She chose fearlessness over comfort, adventure over familiarity…

December 26th, 2004 marks the day a 9.1-9.3 magnitude earthquake triggered arguably the deadliest tsunami of the twenty-first century. The 1,300 km fault zone spawned a wave reaching fifty meters in height and five meters inland. Fourteen countries worldwide lost an estimated 230,000 people [Geist et al., 2015] and a devastating ten billion dollars to the colossal Indian Ocean swell. The devastation kick started efforts to create better technology and innovations so that when the next disaster…

Central Bank should henceforth limit its intervention and allow more exchange rate flexibility. Flexibility in the exchange rate, which has appreciated substantially in real terms over the past two years, is also an essential component in ensuring Sri Lanka’s export competitiveness. [pic] Source: Asian Development…

Neveen Bashiti 3/19/2017 Regional Geography of the World Chapter 8A & 8B Summary The South Asian Realm South Asia may be the most diverse realm in the world. Mountains, deserts, and the Indian Ocean are some the features that mark this realm. Another feature of this realm is the great rivers, especially the Ganges that has for many years supported the clustered population in this realm. India was the birthplace of major religions that impacted this realm. Religions like Hinduism and Buddhism…

Liberation Tamil Tiger of Elam (LTTE) have utilized against the Sri Lankan government to advance their goal of becoming a state, a tactic which has been unsuccessful because the government of Sri Lanka has preferred to prosecute the war instead of succeeding to the Tamil Tigers (Pape, 2003: 352). According to the United Nations, this conflict lead to a death toll of nearly 100,000 since the beginning of the war in 1982. Hence, the Sri Lankan Civil War was costly not only for the Tamil Tigers,…

China: China is a major source , transit , and destination country for the trafficking of men , women , and children. 600,000 Chinese migrant workers travel overseas , many of whom are in engaged in the trafficking of human beings . In China Prostitution and forced labor happen within and beyond its borders . Because of the large number of population , traffickers exploit the cheap labor there ,lure poor people ,and traffic them . Cambodia : The United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human…

Nowadays, there are many problems that people are encountering. One of these problems is human trafficking. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, human trafficking is an organized criminal activity in which beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited. What would be the effect of human trafficking? Human trafficking results to prostitution, forced labor, and street crime. All of these are being controlled by a human trafficker. Human trafficking results to prostitution.…

humanely slaughtered by a a butcher certified by a rabbi to kill animals for food as prescribed by Jewish law. The butcher performs a deep slice on the throat of the animal which then causes the animal to become unconscious quickly killing the animal. (Sri Lanka) Before the death however the animals are still treated the same as if they were on any large mass production farm. Just because the animals are put to their deaths quicker by a matter of minutes doesn’t change the fact that the animals…

They talked numbers. A hundred thousand dead, two hundred thousand, a quarter of a million” (Deraniyagala 38). She had not even ever heard of a tsunami until it destroyed many parts of Sri Lanka. The tsunami killed a plethora of people and destroyed numerous buildings and plants, too, which is demonstrated in the quotation, “But I saw then the poppled trees everywhere, I could make those out, trees on the ground with their roots sticking…

The traditional view of men being dependent on the church for guidance or the state deciding what was right was challenged with Kant's idea of freedom of thought and freedom of religious ideas. Kant defined enlightenment as man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Men could be fully autonomous and in charge of their own life without the church becoming involved as was required before the Enlightenment. Therefore, the traditional views of maturity violated the ideas of the Enlightenment…