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    Hotel Rwanda is a film directed by Terry George, released 2004, that is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina; the manager of Mille Collines who during the Rwandan genocide, used his establishment to hide 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees. The film follows Paul, played by Don Cheadle, as his world is flipped upside overnight when Hutu militias started their mass genocide on the Tutsi Rwandans. He is able to protect his family, neighbors, and hundreds of other refugees and help them make it to…

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    Abhimanyu Rajshekar (Block F) Context: Theatre of the Absurd has its roots set in the avant-garde experiments in art in the 1920’s-1930’s. It was strongly influenced by the horrors of World War Two, where the impermanence of values and morality, validity of conventions and the meaninglessness of human life and its social conventions were questioned. These beliefs were stimulated by the constant threat of nuclear annihilation in Europe in 1945, and played an important role in its rise in Europe.…

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    Paul Rusesabagina, author of An Ordinary Man, sheltered and saved the lives of over twelve hundred would-have-been victims. The following quotes are important pertaining to the plot of the story and the challenges that the author faced. “We are a nation that loves to take people into our homes. I suppose our values are very much like the Bedouin of the Middle East, for whom sheltering and defending strangers is not just a nice thing to do but a spiritual imperative” (Rusesabagina 12). “A sad…

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    making the planet safer from any kind of harm occurring due to any tourist activities. Sustainability refers to the ability of sustaining the environment by not being harmful to environment and its resources. On the other hand, tourism comprises all the activities of an individual or a group of individuals while moving from the place other than its usual environment and staying there for a period of not more than a year. Higher incomes, leisure time and faster ways of communication and travel…

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    At present, Chinese NGOs are involved in many fields of work related to social development. According to a report by Professor Wang Ming of Tsinghua University, we can see that NGOs are active mainly in: social services (45%), survey and research (43%), industrial associations’ and societies’ work (40%), legal counseling and service (25%), policy consulting (22%) and poverty reduction (21%). 2.2 Hong Kong Hong Kong is on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta on the southeastern…

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    Realism Vs Realism Essay

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    a dilemma about security that goes with interstate politics. Alliances, balances of power, and choices in policy between war and compromise have remained similar over the millennia" Since Thucydides era; before the existence of many ideas like nations and politics the struggle for survival was for example, fulfill a ceaseless hungriness by killing other animals to survive. However, ever since the civilization has developed the hunger for conquer more land and also take advantage of the…

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    Question 15 Critically discuss five (5) functions of World Trade Organization (WTO). 1.0 Introduction World Trade Oranization or WTO started from 1948. Before the named of WTO publish, all the trade used GATT in 1986 until 1993. GATT stand for General Agreement Tariffs and Trades. After that, all the members of GATT also sign on agreement of Uruguay in April 1994 at Morocco to publish the new named in the organization is WTO. WTO is The WTO is an organization that was established by an…

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    in few selected areas, training the farmers and find the suitable crop or a variety for production. Many of them who took up farming where not real farmers but took up farming as a profession. Now Thaba came up with another programme called Food grain self sufficiency programme (FSSP) where the government do an agreement with the land owners to cultivate crops using machinery in their lands and share the profits. But FSSP also had the same fate as machinery needed more money and remained a…

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    Reaction to Bloody Sunday Civil Rights are the basic human rights that the citizens possess of social and political freedom and equality and are often considered the pillars of society and culture. In her article, Hierarchies of Discrimination: The Political, Legal and Social Prioritisation of the Equality Agenda in Northern Ireland, Angela Hegarty defines the Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which states, “all persons are equal before the law and…

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    (Clapham, 2015) An acceptable school environment is not only about the absence of violence and material conditions, but also about ensuring children are able to receive the help they need to learn and to succeed. (Clapham, 2015) The fourth aspect of the right to education is the concept of adaptability…

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