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    Keeping, and the Americans, is the organizations financial situation. It has been forced to begin a lengthy restructuring to make it more cost effective due to the lack of funds it is encountering. In a recent UN report entitled, “Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform” the UN officials began to address this problem. The report outlined the course which will be taken in order to balance the budget. Since the organization itself is completely reliant upon the money it receives…

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    Women In Sports

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    concept of supply and demand, media supplies the news that is demanded and cuts down on unwanted and less exciting articles or clips. The mass population, especially millennials, are straying away from important affairs in both their immediate and global community and fixate their minds on the fame and fortune. They only care about what the rich and famous do, in such manner that if they act upon the same path, they will become rich and famous. The lack of concern for these controversies thus,…

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    What would you do if your country wasn’t powerful enough to defend yourself, your family, and your friends? Would you leave or fight back? The United Nation peacekeepers make it so you wouldn’t have to do either. The United Nations was established right after World War II originally made up of fifty countries and now is a coalition of one hundred ninety three countries throughout the world that came together to help change and protect the world. In order to protect the world they created an…

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    The Millennium Development Goals were established by the United Nations to pursue pertinent issues that will contribute to the better good of the human race. The first goal of the Millennium Development Goals states the attempt to eradicate hunger and egregious poverty all over the world. In 2009, there were an estimated number of 1.023 billion people all over the globe that suffered from hunger. Developing countries are still making this dilemma a priority. An investment in agriculture could…

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    profile bodies such as United Nations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund, while others are less known but still play key roles in particular fields. By providing a framework for cooperative problem-solving among states, international organisations have modified traditional power politics without threatening the emergence of a global or regional super state. Additionally, the world’s leading international organisation is the United Nations. It has…

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    But because “the United States has not signed the Convention means that it can not provide levels of leadership international, which it is capable of providing, in this important area,” as of 2011 (Fiorvanti and Brassard). The agreement to grant children their rights was…

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    Burma Case Study

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    A problem for the effectiveness of policy in Burma is the lack of the role of the countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Thailand and other members of ASEAN are large investors in Burma, and therefore have no interest in sanctioning their economic partner (Green, & Mitchell, 2007). Thailand has said that it believes sanctions are the wrong policy toward Burma and that it would not participate in sanctions (Tansubhapol, 2009). The currently uninvolved countries…

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    Third World Countries Need Our Help Imagine our country is in great devastation, and there is barely any water for the majority of us due to the current global warming crisis. Our country is undeveloped and not a single person watching chooses to take concern over our dying nation. How would we feel? We would be scared and anxious about the near future. Unfortunately, this is how many third world countries feel today. Currently, they may not be at their highest points of development, but they…

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    Individuals have used terrorism used for centuries as a weapon of change. Terrorism has even altered the English language, the Hashhashin’s in the 11th century lead to the creation of the word assassin and the Roman’s use of decimation changed the meaning from killing one in ten to massacring all involved, most do not even know the original meaning. Nationalist and ethnic groups, in most cases having exhausted all other options, looked to terrorism to enact political change and acquire freedoms…

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    Also, India encounters difficulties in opening bank accounts and in growth of mobile banking, but closer to global average in borrowing from formal institutions. Hence, the need for opening of more bricks and mortars branches was felt. (Sharma & Kukreja, 2013) The financial inclusion has picked up in India in the last decade, but it is far from adequate, considering…

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