...relations between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America. As one of the oldest Asian partners and closest strategic major non-NATO allies of the United States, the Philippines has consistently been the most pro-American nation in the world, with 90% of Filipinos viewing the U.S. and 91% viewing Americans favorably in 2002, and 90% of Filipinos viewing U.S. influence positively in 2011. Pursuant to the 1947 Military Bases Agreement, the United States maintained and operated major facilities at Clark Air Base until November 1991, and at Subic Bay Naval Complex and several small subsidiary installations in the Philippines until November 1992. In July 1991, negotiators from the two countries reached agreement on a draft treaty providing for the clean-up and turnover of Clark to the Philippine government in 1992, and for the lease of Subic Bay Naval Base by the U.S. for 10 years. By 1991, operations at Clark had already been scaled back because of the end of the Cold War, with the last combat aircraft leaving in 1990, before the base was heavily damaged by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. On September 16, 1991, the Philippine Senate rejected the bases treaty by a slim margin, and despite further efforts to salvage the situation, the two sides could not reach an agreement. As a result, the Philippine Government informed the U.S. on December 6, 1991, that it would have one year to complete withdrawal. That withdrawal went smoothly and was completed ahead of...
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...was breathless and ragged, and his words stopped my heart. "Susan—this is an emergency! Call me back immediately!" The level of pain in his voice could mean only one thing: Something had happened to one of our sons. In the seconds that passed as I picked up the phone and dialed our house, panic swelled within me; it felt as though millions of tiny needles were pricking my skin. My heart pounded in my ears. My hands began shaking. I tried to orient myself. One of my boys was at school and the other was at work. It was the lunch hour. Had there been a car accident? When my husband picked up the phone, he shouted, "Listen to the television!"—then held out the receiver so I could hear. I couldn't understand the words being broadcast, but the fact that whatever had happened was big enough to be on TV filled me with terror. Were we at war? Was our country under nuclear attack? "What's happening?" I shrieked. He came back on the line and poured out what he'd just learned during a distraught call from a close friend of our 17-year-old son, Dylan: There was some kind of shooting at the high school…gunmen in black trenchcoats were firing at people…the friend knew all the kids who wore trenchcoats, and all were accounted for except Dylan and his friend Eric…and Dylan and Eric hadn't been in class that morning…and no one knew where they were. My husband had told himself that if he found the coat, Dylan couldn't be involved. He'd torn the...
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...After watching the movie and two articles like and , I feel very depressed and mad. I feel very quite shocked for the human crazy killing. When slaughter happens, the bullet is cold and machetes are cold, but hands hold handles and guns, which are blood boiling. However, the bodies are weak trembling, which come to the bullet and machetes. I can not help but want to ask why slaughter will happen? According the movie and the two articles, I find three main fuses that may cause the three holocausts, including historical racial problems, historical religion problems and totalitarian. As a modern man, I can not image the scene that tens of thousands of people are killed in these slaughters, and even can not find some reasonable reasons to explain why these killers are so cold and bloody that a lot of women and children are killed by them? Suddenly, I realize that I can not to find some right word s to describe these crazy killers’ behavior, just think they lose human nature at that moment, even can not compare with wild animals. All human history is just from wild animals to human nature, which is a developing history from barbarity to civilization. But in the process, the moment that human nature is veiled often present. In the moment that human beings have highly civilized, but the holocaust appears again and again, which is worthy of all people to ponder! One two three do not cry, history is the silent tell and defense, which also is the miserable...
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...Discussion 1 Zenith Taskin 211350345 In the first four chapters of his seminal book “The City in History”, Lewis Mumford demonstrates and outlines various vital issues that intertwine to explain the beginnings of the city and its various institutions, behaviors and social norms that exist within. The three key issues that are the most striking are the reason for the existence of cities aside from animal needs, the dominance of women in Neolithic culture and finally, the developing role of the Paleolithic hunter. Although Mumford dissects each of these issues in isolation, he ultimately demonstrates how they all come together to become part of the earliest of cities. Before cities came into existence, Mumford explains how “there was the hamlet and the shrine and the village: before the village, the camp, the cache, the cave and the cairn” (Lewis Mumford, 1961, 5). Mumford further observes ...
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...-The Power of Ignorance- An argument on whether we should build the third runway Aviation industry, for the sake of urban development, undoubtedly holds the key of prosperity. Hong Kong International Airport is an irreplaceable facility contributing a potential net worth of more than HK$80 billion dollars a year with its working capacity to serve 50.9 million passengers with 4.1 million tons of cargo per day according to the Airport authority financial report (2012, p.4), has gained a well-known reputation over the globe. The expansion of the Airport is recently proposed as a must because of the ever-increasing popularity and frequent flows of passengers. However, such a large-scale construction is never a simple calculation with simply subtracting construction costs from the projected revenues. We should take environmental and social costs into account. There is indeed another ideal solution, which costs us less in sacrificing various aspects- the cooperation with Macau government. To open up another runway or cooperate with our long-lasting partner is the critical issue that I am going to discuss respective pros and cons attached. With strong emphasis on the correlation between the expansion of the Airport and Hong Kong economic development by the supporters, it appears that constructing the third runway has no ground to object. The lecture held by Mr. Howard Eng Kiu-chor, the Executive Director of the Airport Operation further convinced Hong Kong citizens to vote for...
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...Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been chosen by the ‘young Australian women association’ to deliver a speech. I’ll be talking to you about the poem ‘orb spider’ by Judith Beveridge, and the film ‘not without my daughter’ directed by Brian Gilbert and produced by Harry J Ufland, through a variety of techniques these composers have represented women in many ways, and I’ll be talking about it to all of you present here today. The poem ‘orb spider’ by Judith Beveridge, she connects her own feelings through watching the spider, usually spiders are associated with being scary/hairy etc. The spider goes about being un-noticed, like many mothers and emphasising the importance of every day female energy, in reminding us of the balance sense of order in the world. “I saw her, pegging out her web” the metaphoric or symbolic representation, she refers to the spiders to every day representation of women like pegging out the washing, “this as pressed flowers in the bleaching light”, the simile used as pressing flowers in a relation to women’s everyday life by ironing or pressing the clothes or by organising meals. “She taught me to love the smallest transit”. The poet has learnt from the spider to love and appreciate the small things in life. As we can see in this poem the domestic settings (housewife duties) portrays the stereotype of representation of women as housewives in our society today. Over the centuries or since the beginning of time, women have been oppressed and...
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...and religious site looking for a trust worthy person and I decided to contact you. I am Mrs. Kavita Mazumdar of Auditing and accounting section staff in Royal bank of Scotland Barakhamba road branch New Delhi, during my investigation and auditing I came across many inactive accounts but there is a particular account that has not been noticed by the previous/past auditors the account has been dormant without any claim of the fund. I write to solicit for your support and assistance to carry out this deal in my bank that will benefit us. Lying in one of the many inactive accounts is the sum of 5,508,609.00 INR (Five Crore fifty Lakhs eight thousand Six Hundred and Nine India rupees only) belonging to a foreign customer (Mr.Chowalert Jitjamnong) who was a gas consultant here in India, he happened to be deceased during a vacation trip with his wife (Mrs .Siriphut Jitjamnong) and the only child (Chawit Jitjamnong) on board One-Two-Go Orient-Thai Airlines flight OG269 Phuket Airport plane crash of Monday, 17th September 2007 from Bangkok to Phuket. Info of this crash was on the news which we have tried to notify his relatives but to no avail, see link below for more detailed information: http://www.korat-info.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18 & t=1496#p6452 Unfortunately, he has no family member in India or Over-sea who are aware of the existence of the funds,...
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...Raymond Williams argues that ‘Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language’ (1983: 87). With reference to at least one of the key readings other than the extracts from Williams that you’ve studied in weeks 1-5, discuss (1) why Williams argues this and (2) some of the different ways in which culture has been defined. Culture is one of the most difficult words to define as there are so many modern and traditional meanings that come across as being the ‘true’ definition. Williams said that it is because ‘it is now used in important concepts in intellectual disciplines and systems of thought’, however a more modern way of putting this is that it is part of spiritual development and a way of life. Arnold describes culture as a ‘study of perfection’, which, if you look at the dictionary definition of culture, applies to it; ‘Noun: The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively’, referring to high culture. High culture, as Leavis put it is ‘the use of such language’, meaning the appreciation of finer living. Finer living means people who visit the theatre, art galleries, drink fine wines; are socially higher than the majority of society who most of the time cannot afford to live like that, they would swap the theatre for a cinema, the art gallery for ‘Madame Tussards’ and the wine bar for a nightclub. Such definition of the word culture makes it seem like a class division; something that Shakespeare picked...
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...AN ASSIGNMENT IN CREATIVE THINKING Illustrate a quote, saying, phrase, or rhyme which everyone is familiar with. Show many methods (15) to communicate the message. After exploring the different methods, make a final design that is creative, unusual, and unique. WHAT EXACTLY IS CREATIVE THINKING? Creative thinking is a process for practical, creative resolution of a problem (your problem is to illustrate a quote). Unlike analytical (logical) thinking, creative thinking is a process based around the “building up” of ideas. Creative thinking requires the ability to combine understanding, creativity and reasonableness. FOLLOW THIS set OF procedures USED BY Creative thinkers: DEFINE: Decide what problem you are trying to solve. Decide on who the audience is. Establish a glossary of terms. RESEARCH: Collect examples of other attempts do the same job. IDEATE: Generate as many ideas as possible. Do not judge or debate ideas. PROTOTYPE: Begin production of the project. Combine, expand, and refine ideas. Create multiple drafts. CHOOSE: Choose the most powerful ideas. Review the objective. What is the difference between make and design? What is the difference between make and design? Make is the process of creating something and making it into your own, or putting something together to make it a whole. Design is the act of creating or designing something to show the look or function of a building, garment or other object before it is built or made. Make...
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...you reject with a three year cut-off period for recapturing the initial cash outflow? Assume that the cash flows are equally distributed over the year for Payback Period calculations. |Projects |A |B |C |D | |Cost |$10,000 |$25,000 |$45,000 |$100,000 | |Cash Flow Year One |$4,000 |$2,000 |$10,000 |$40,000 | |Cash Flow Year Two |$4,000 |$8,000 |$15,000 |$30,000 | |Cash Flow Year Three |$4,000 |$14,000 |$20,000 |$20,000 | |Cash Flow Year Four |$4,000 |$20,000 |$20,000 |$10,000 | |Cash Flow year Five |$4,000 |$26,000 |$15,000 |$0 | |Cash Flow Year Six |$4,000 |$32,000 |$10,000 |$0 | Solution Project A: Year One: -$10,000 + $4,000 = $6,000 left to recover Year Two: -$6,000 + $4,000 = $2,000 left to recover Year Three: -$2,000 + $4,000 = fully recovered Year Three: $2,000 / $4,000 =...
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...Leech • Alan Bradnam • Shirley Hughes • Terence Kuch • Fr. Seamus Mulholland • John Eberts • Gordon Kennedy • Justin Woods • Neil Munro • John Dudley • Samuel Thorpe • Jürgen Lawrenz Fellowship Award • Tony Fahey • Martin Jenkins • Peter Jones • George Brooks • Samuel Michaelides • Mike Finch • Rachel Browne • Jürgen Lawrenz back [pic] Paul Meakin: Associate Award Essay One Heidegger, Dasein and the quest for authentic Being-in-the-world Essay Two 'I am Condemned to be free': Sartre, Freedom and Bad faith Essay Three 'Hell is other people': Sartre and being-for-others Essay Four Generating a meaningful existence: A Nietzschean based interpretation back [pic] Mary Jennings: Associate Award Essay One Doubt, certainty and knowledge in Descartes and Merleau-Ponty Essay Two Justice and the Other in Levinas Totality and Infinity Essay Three Heidegger's Dasein...
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