demonstrated extreme single-mindedness as they focused on the achievement of law and order under their interpretation of the Sharia law. Their only aim was to create the world’s purest Islamic state; we could see this through the way the Afghan people were treated, the strict laws imposed on women and the way “corrupting influences” (television, music and films) were banned. While the Taliban was governing Afghanistan, many laws were created that controlled all aspects of women’s public and private
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capabilities that social media offers, instead of pushing masses of meaningless content in front of consumers. As users become more involved in brand conversations, they do not want to be talked at but rather engaged with. Native advertising offers these capabilities and when it is done well, the benefits far outweigh the costs. All in all, it is a new form of brand promotion that can have an extremely positive impact on marketing goals. Native advertising is a form of paid media where the ad experience
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International migration is a global phenomenon which has been intensified over the past few years. The United States of America, like many Western and Middle East countries has become one of the major destinations of immigrants. African countries hold the upper hand among the immigrant source of America. The great collection of immigrants include refugees, people came for higher education, those in diplomatic services, skilled labors, athletes, efficient scientists and physicians. What are the factors
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eastern Africa: a call to action. ICRAF Working Paper – no. 1. Nairobi: World Agroforestry Centre. Published by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme United Nations Avenue PO Box 30677 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 7224 000, via USA +1 650 833 6645 Fax: +254 20 7224 001, via USA +1 650 833 6646 Email: b.jama@cgiar.org Internet: www.worldagroforestry.org © World Agroforestry Centre 2005 ICRAF Working Paper no. 1 Photos: World Agroforestry Centre Staff
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ort- Conservation of the Black Rhino. Native to eastern and central Africa, including places such as Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, the black rhinoceros is classified as critically endangered, with one subspecies, the western Black Rhinoceros, declared extinct by the IUCN in 2011. For an extensive period of the twentieth century, the continental black rhinoceros was one of the most numerous of all the species of rhino. The severity of this issue is proven by the figures that have been
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The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of
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PUBLIC COMPARED TO PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES. The public and private Universities in my own unbiased views differ in quite a number of weigh though we can never measure the quantity of knowledge dispatched by each plus being bright is an individual and not the school. One of the advantages with public universities is that students who qualify to go to these institutions get to pay a subsidized fee since the government pays for them some amount. With this in mind, it is obvious that high school candidates
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Irene Ingunjiri Strathmore University Hong Kong Polytechnic University This paper is aimed at exploring African children’s attitudinal reactions to television advertisements . A total of 65 children from four African countries – Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda – participated in 12 focus group discussions on the subject matter . Findings suggest that they like television advertising in relation to its entertainment features – especially when the messages feature children characters, cartoons, music
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ANNUAL REPORT 2010 TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL IS THE GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATION LEADING THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION. THROUGH MORE THAN 90 CHAPTERS WORLDWIDE AND AN INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT IN BERLIN, WE RAISE AWARENESS OF THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION AND WORK WITH PARTNERS IN GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO TACKLE IT. www.transparency.org WE ARE A GLOBAL MOVEMENT SHARING ONE VISION A WORLD IN WHICH GOVERNMENT, POLITICS
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The use of batteries in the modern days has become an essential need for a wide range of electrical devices and products that are globally used. Batteries are convenient sources being used from household applications such as toys, remote controls, torch lights to large industrial operations. Not only batteries supply convenient power sources, it has a significant role as a back-up power in critical needs such as in hospitals, airports and military undertakings. Batteries come in different size and
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