...establishment of a Department of Peace and Non-Violence. The legislation covered a myriad of topics relating to peace and non-violence, but for the purpose of this essay only the area of international relations will be examined. “We are in a new millennium, and the time has come to review the age-old challenges with new thinking wherein we can conceive pf peace as not simply the absence of violence, but the active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of the human awareness, of respect, trust, and integrity; wherein we all may tap the infinite capabilities of humanity to transform consciousness and conditions which impel or compel violence at a personal, group, or national level toward developing a new understanding of, and a commitment to, compassion and love, in order to create a “shining city on a hill”, a light of which is the light of nations”.[1] The Department of Peace and Nonviolence would consist of a Secretary who would be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. The department would be staffed by six Assistant Secretaries and one General Counsel who would also be appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate. For the purpose of this essay three roles will be examined; that of the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary of International Peace Activities, and the Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament. Again the legislation covers myriad of topics relating to peace and non-violence only those duties relating to the development...
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...About Gabriela's Women's Party Gabriela Women’s Party is a sectoral party dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of marginalized and under-represented Filipino women through participation in the country’s electoral system and organs of governance. It is a sectoral party composed of women 18 years and above, having varied occupations, education, interests, ethnic origin, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation. Gabriela Women’s Party seeks to harness the potential, initiative, skills, and leadership of marginalized women towards empowerment, justice, and equality. Her Story Women’s role in Philippine society has been shaped, by and large, by the Filipina’s demand for social justice, equality, freedom and democracy. That yearning and her consequent struggle have had a long and glorious, albeit invisible, history. Almost 400 years after she led a regional revolt against Spanish colonizers, Gabriela Silang remains a model, a beacon, and an icon to women of the Philippines. She was the seminal Filipina, leading long after her death her sisters to the struggle against social inequities and foreign domination. In 1984, fuelled by the resistance against the Marcos dictatorship and an overwhelming need for significant economic and political change in the archipelago, women from all walks of life – worker, peasant, urban poor, indigenous, middle class, artist, religious – banded together to set up a national women’s coalition. They took the name of the 18th...
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...[pic] Worldwide, more than 60 million women aged 20–24 were married before they reached the age of 18. The extent of child marriage varies substantially between countries, but about half of the girls who are affected live in South Asia. Child marriage is a violation of child rights, compromising the development of girls and often resulting in premature pregnancy and social isolation. Child marriage is becoming less common overall, but the pace of change is slow. In 34 of the 55 countries with comparable data from two recent surveys, there has been no significant change in the percentage of women aged 20–24 married by 18 – and only 5 countries experienced a decrease of more than 10 per cent. Questions Introduction: Child marriage refers to any marriage of a child younger than 18 years old (18 is the recognised age of adulthood according to the Article 1 of the Convention on the Right of the Child. While child marriage affects both sexes, girls are disproportionately affected as they are the majority of the victims. Their overall development is compromised, leaving them socially isolated with little education, skills and opportunities for employment and self-realisation. This leaves child brides more vulnerable to poverty, a consequence of child marriage as well as a cause Child marriage is now widely recognised as a violation of children's rights, a direct form of discrimination against the girl child who as a result of the practice is often deprived of her basic...
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...Mairead Corrigan was born on January 27, 1944, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her father, Andrew Corrigan, was a window cleaning temporary worker while her mother was a housewife (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Corrigan went to a Catholic schools however at the age of fourteen she needed to drop out since her family could not bear the cost of her educational (Nobelprize.org). At the age of 16 Corrigan accepted a position as a secretary, she worked as a secretary for the following two decades (Encyclopedia of World Biography). For a year she went to a business college, Miss Gordon's Business School. Eventually Corrigan worked her way up in the secretarial field, and by the mid-1970s she had gotten a position as a classified secretary to an overseeing chief...
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...Hezbollah Nathan Buuck Homeland Security 320 Intelligence and Homeland Security Professor Robert Mead 21 December, 2014 Hezbollah is an extremist Shi’a Islamic international terrorist organization based in Lebanon. Hezbollah’s literally translates to “Party of God”. Hezbollah emerged in 1982 in response to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Lebanon had been in the midst of a civil war since 1975 and the violence was beginning to spill over into Israel. Israel maintains the claim that Iran created Hezbollah, however Prime Minister Ehud Barak claimed that “When we entered Lebanon, there was no Hezbollah… It was our presence there that created Hezbollah." In 1983 Hezbollah conducted its largest and most successful attack to that point; suicide attacks against the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut. Following those attacks, Western forces left Lebanon due to the outcry of citizens because of the media coverage, this event would teach Hezbollah the importance of media in an asymmetric war. In 1985, Hezbollah issued its manifesto. The manifesto states “Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease-fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated." For the next 15 years, Hezbollah continued...
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...Junior High Grades 6-8 Protocol for Natural Disaster: Tornado Tyson Lee March 3, 2013 Information about the Protocol Living in Mississippi, there are many tornadoes that hit this area. Mississippi has on average, 29 tornadoes per year. One of nature’s most violent acts is a tornado. Tornadoes can cause enough devastation to tear through a neighborhood and demolish it and they can cause fatalities. At times, a tornado can develop so quickly that advance warning can be too little too late. When preparing for a tornado, schools need to be aware of tornado watches and warnings. The National Weather Service issues a warning when conditions are favorable for the development of a tornado and a warning is issued when a tornado has been detected. In the school, there should be someone that will be monitoring the weather radio for potential bad weather. There should also be a plan and provisions set in the school for during school hours, after school hours, and any school related activities. During school hours, there need to be a procedure for relaying this information to all faculty, staff, and students. In order to make sure that all faculty, staff, and students are prepared, in the event of a real tornado, is to have a severe weather safety plan in effect where everyone can take cover within a minute. It is important to do this with regular tornado drills. This allows for all persons to be prepared in the event of a real tornado. The evacuation...
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...ruled out importing cars to meet domestic demand and reiterated its commitment to its Manesar facility in the backdrop of persistent rumours that Maruti would shut down the facility once their plant in Gujarat was complete. In a statement, the company said the violence broke out in the evening when a worker beat up a supervisor on the shop floor. However, the employees union said "objectionable remarks" by the supervisor against an employee triggered the violence. Workers at the plant turned violent, attacking and injuring executives and managers in the office premises. At least 40 managers and executives are injured, and have been rushed to hospital. The attackers also set fire to property and damaged facilities. The sequence of events began in the morning with a worker beating up a supervisor on the shop floor. The workers' union prevented the management from taking disciplinary action against the worker. Maruti management claimed it tried to resolve the issue politely as members of the senior management met the union. During the talks, the workers allegedly attacked the members of the senior management, executives and managers. 9595856859-rh This version was contested by the union. Sarabjeet Singh, general secretary of the Maruit Suzuki Workers' Union (MSWU), said, "The supervisor made objectionable remark against a permanent worker, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste category. When we opposed it, they misbehaved with us and suspended the worker". "There is tension prevailing...
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...support not only among Guatemalan elites, but from transnational Evangelical networks and the Reagan administration, the dictator’s tenure is widely regarded as the most dangerous time in the protracted 35-year civil war. While a plethora of historians have studied the extent of the violence during Ríos Montt’s reign – the pressing question in the historiography is how Ríos Montt’s professed Pentecostal piety played a role in his administration. Among the myriad academics who have examined this question, David Stoll, Lauren Turek, and Patricia Harms illuminate the relationship between Ríos Montt’s...
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...The Tuskegee Airmen were essential to the complete integration of the United States armed forces. Although the Tuskegee Airmen were not the first black service members to distinguishably serve their country, they were able to do so during a time of progression in the black community and turmoil in the world. The Tuskegee Airmen represented the diverse and deeply patriotic African American population on an international front. After World War I, several studies were conducted, in reference to the role that African Americans played in the military. The results were biases and based in prejudice and stereotypes of the past. “The study concluded that black men were cowards, poor technicians and fighters, lacking initiative and resourcefulness. The study also stated that the Negro was a subspecies of the human population.” The study also reported that the average brain of a black man only weighed thirty-five ounces compared to the forty-five ounces of an average white man. These test results provided more than enough evidence for military leaders that the military need to continue its practice of segregation. With World War II quickly advancing on the heels of America, the War College was commissioned to do another study into the role of blacks in the military. This study did not differ very much from the previous report, but it did suggest that more blacks be allowed to join the Army. Despite the need for more soldiers, this did not change the positions that blacks were given...
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...WORKPLACE VIOLENCE On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 54-year-old Myles Meyers walked into DaimlerChrysler’s Toledo, Ohio, assembly plant holding a double-barrel shotgun under his coat. Myers, a Jeep repairman, approached Yiesha Martin, a 27-year-old stock supervisor, and stated his intensions. He was there to murder three supervisors: Mike Toney, 45, Roy Thacker, 50, and Carrie Woggerman, 24. Afterward, he said, he would turn the gun on himself. “I was shaking and I started to cry” said Martin. Meyers told her not to cry and to page Tony. Although he was usually eating lunch at his desk around this time, Tony was busy dealing with a problem on the production line. On Martin’s secretary attempt, Toney responded. Thacker, however, was the first of Meyer’s intended victims to approach the former employee. When Thacker asked Meyers why he was at the office, “[Meyers] turned from the partition and just shot him,” Martin recalled. “I just saw the shells go. He reloaded in front of me”. Martin ran, grabbling a radio in the process. As he ran away, calling into her radio for help, she heard another gunshot. Mike Toney had just arrived and was now the second victim. Carrie Woggerman was able to flee after the first shot, but Paul Medlen, 41, while attempting to come to the aid of Toney, was shot in the chest by Meyers just before Meyers turned the gun on himself, taking his own life. Of the three employees shot by Meyers, two survived. Unfortunately, Thacker died from his...
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...Minutes of the meeting of the Lavington Residents Association that duly convened, constituted and held at the Common Hall on the 17th day April of 2014 Present: all directors and members of the association and represents of the Lavington neighbourhood. (Give a list of names) There were four items agenda at this meeting, and were resolved as follows: 1. Against family’s violence Family’s violence is a serious social problem and has been excited in our community. Our association is responsible to help our residents to prevent and solve this problem, firstly, members of the association should assist our residents who have such problems in the peaceful and sane way, secondly, if the situation of a family’s violence is wost, we should assist them to report to police. 2. Prevent alcoholic issue Alcoholic issue is also a terrible social problem, it is historical and stubborn. Recently, more and more young people have alcoholic issue, the association should be intensely concerned with our community’s young people, give them assistance of training normal and correct personal hobbies, and encourage them to participate in some beneficial activities,such as playing sports, playing music and learning art and so on. Therefore, we will build a community centre in the next 6 months. 3. Set up a foundation of helping single mothers and their children The aim of a solution to the difficult situation of the single mother families in our community, they urgently need lots of financial...
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...In July 2010, home secretary Theresa May heralded the end of the anti-social behaviour order (ASBO). She claimed that an ASBO order is responsible for putting “too many young people on the conveyor belt to prison.” According to the Centre for Social Justice, a report on street gangs called ‘Dying to belong’ argued: “Over the past decade, British society has seen an increase in gang culture and its associated violence. In addition, the composition of gang culture has shifted: gang members are getting younger, geographical territory is transcending drug territory and violence is increasingly chaotic.” The report went on to say that the “police in London and Strathclyde have each identified 171 and 170 gangs respectively.” The Metropolitan Police Service have also identified that the majority of gang members are between 12 and 25. The proposed new injunction would enable a court to impose a range of restrictions: • Not entering a specified place, for example, the neighbourhood that the gang regards as its territory. • Not being with named members of a gang, Gangs are able to intimidate people because they operate in significant numbers. Being alone, gang members are much less able to threaten or commit violence. • Not wearing particular items of clothing such as gang colours or balaclavas which prevent identification. Under the Policing and Crime Act 2009, police and local authorities now have the power to apply to their local county court for...
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...In Thomas C. Foster’s Chapter 11 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, “...More Than it’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence,”compares violence in literature to violence in the real world. Violence in literature can mean a lot of things and be a lot of things like “symbolic, thematic, biblical, Shakespearean, Romantic, allegorical, transcendent,” etc. while violence in the real world is exactly as it sounds, aggressive and mean (Foster 95). Joseph Conrad killed off his characters by having them kill each other, but all for absurd reasons. Mr. Jones kills Lena because he has a very strong hatred of women, regarding them as “wriggling vipers” of “horror” (Conrad 64, 65). He also shoots Ricardo, his secretary, because he wants the money that is nonexistent to himself. Wang, Heyst’s servant, kills Pedro, Mr. Jones’ slave,...
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