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Internationally agreed definition for a child soldier: “Any person below 18 year of age who is, or who has been, recruited or used by an armed forced or armed group in any capacity, including but not limited to children, boys and girls, used as fighters, cooks, porters, messengers, spies or for sexual purposes…” Paris Principals and Guidelines on Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups, 2007. Tens of thousands of children under the age of 18 continue to serve government forces…

Since human societies have been made in appropriate environments, they normally want to make more welfare for themselves. One of the important natural causes that affects human welfare and by the way it changes, the easement conditions will change is the climate alteration which is shown by great climate and also by fine climate. Mankind has different reactions to these changes too. But the meaning of human welfare conditions is situations that are proper at least for 80% of individuals when our…

Introduction Our existence can be metaphorically illustrated with the creation of a painting. The painter begins with one stroke of the brush. Each movement will construct systems and subsystems that are elaborately woven together to formulate a picture of ourselves. Consequently, a misguided stroke may alter an exceptional piece of art, and turn it into a catastrophe. Regrettably, this metaphor unveils the misfortune that can occur in the lives of numerous individuals. Comparatively, like the…

Tea has been a long time traveler, conquering the world one county at a time, and is known for being one of the healthiest beverages. For over 700 years people have started, as well as ended their day with a nice hot cup of tea; reaping the benefits of its herbal medicinal properties. Did you know that during the time of the Han Dynasty in China, between 202 BC and 220 AD, tea was extremely hard to come by and was only able to be drank by the rich and people from Royal families? It wasn’t until…

further allowed European powers to take control of the market (Zurayk 40). This did not happen in the Arab world alone. Indeed, Lappe argues that colonial powers have also forced production of cash crops meant for exportation in Ghana, Gambia, Java, Sri Lanka, and the West Indies. Sometimes this involved taking hold of land so it could not be used to grow food crops (Lappe…

Gulf States are among the richest and most powerful countries in the world, hence the largest guest worker program in the world, this program receives people from other countries, most of them found in South East Asia such as the Philippines and Sri Lanka among others. Most of these workers come in as maids, cooks, or nannies, but everything comes at a price in which most the GCC countries have the Kafala System where an immigrant can enter the guest worker program but they need a sponsor just…

Buddhism began in Nepal, India in 5th century B.C.E by Siddhartha Goutama (the Buddha). The Buddha would teach people who followed him about the truth of life and the compassion for suffering or the way in which to led your life. His doctrines included the four noble truths and the eightfold path. His first noble truth is that life is suffering, the second is suffering is caused by craving for things to be what they are not, the third is that suffering has an end and the fourth offers the means…

MARS – COMPETITOR ANALYSIS OVERVIEW – • Mars Chocolate bar was first manufactured in England 1932 and was advertised for being as a trade made with Cadbury chocolate couverture. • The Mars bar made a $33 billion dollar revenue last year making its most profitable year in their history. • It came out in Canada with all of its limited edition flavours due to high standards of chocolate bars in Canada. It was known as a candy bar and not a chocolate bar. • Since 2006 all of the…

wheat, rice, clarified butter, sesame oil, cotton cloth, and honey from India. Other ports in India traded spices, ivory, cotton cloth, agate, and carnelian for wine, copper, tin, lead, coral, topaz, clothing, gold, and silver. The current island of Sri Lanka produced pearls, stones, and tortoise shells. Chryse also exported tortoise-shell. China traded silk on the sea routes as well as the overland routes. Bananas and yams also made their way to mainland Africa through Indonesians colonizing…

Ibn Battuta’s travels and their impact on history In 1325, after the Crusades, a young Moroccan Muslim called Ibn Battuta, set out on the necessary pilgrimage to Makka. It was to become an odyssey from one unknown world to another. Shams Al-Din Abou Abdallah Muhammed Ibn Abdallah Ibn Muhammed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Yusuf Al-Alawati Al-Tanji Ibn Battuta Ibn Hamid Al-Ghazi (Ibn Battuta) was born in Tangier in the north of Morocco in 1304, during the ruling time of the…