demonstrators were killed across the country.[1] Some among the protestors responded to force with force and formed the Free Syrian Army at the end of July whose organisation was enhanced by defections from the Syrian army.[2] Peace attempts have failed[3] and the country is now involved in a full scale civil war between rebel groups, that want to overthrow the government as inspired by the other Arab spring revolutions, and Assad's government. The civil war is compounded by the fault lines that run
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The period of 1953-1961 is widely considered to be one of a thaw in Cold War tensions between the two global superpowers of the USA and USSR. The death of Josef Stalin in 1953 and the election of Dwight Eisenhower – serving two terms in this period - brought a change in leadership in both nations and with that, an inevitable change in policies. Confrontation in this period did not necessarily only apply to direct military intervention, with both sides talking pugnaciously towards one another, making
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IMAGE CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES Erik Sass has been covering the events leading up to World War I exactly 100 years after they happened. But today he's here to discuss some inventions of The Great War. 1. TANKS In 1914, the “war of movement” expected by most European generals settled down into an unexpected, and seemingly unwinnable, war of trenches. With machine guns reinforcing massed rifle fire from the defending trenches, attackers were mowed down by the thousands before they could even get
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Men In War Name University 1. Introduction All recruited rookie conscripts can be generally divided into two categories. Neither religious, nor political affiliations are the criterions. The future soldiers are automatically divided into two groups. The first group, are those who want to go to the war, and the second, are those conscripts who detest the idea of landing on the enemy’s territory, taking a rifle, and joining the combat zone, eliminating the enemy soldiers. The reasons for
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Korea (Jasper, Para. 2). This hostile act led to what is now known as the Korean War. The outcome of this bloody war resulted in the deaths of over 4 million civilians and soldiers. The implications of this tragic event 65 years later is very prominent in the Korean Peninsula. North Korea is perhaps one of the most isolated countries in the modern 21st century unlike its counterpart South Korea, which is one of the worlds most industrial nations. The two sides are infamously separated by the demilitarized
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“HOW TOPROMOTE PEACE” |Peace Education | http://missmakanani.blogspot.com/2007/07/50-ways-to-promote-peace.html 1. Make friends with someone of another race, ethnicity, age, ability, or sexual orientation. Appreciating and embracing diversity helps to promote peace.
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Trivia • • • • • • Second Longest Epic of the World “What’s not in Bharata, is not in Bharata” “A Buffet of Ideologies.” Written around 3000 BC. “Harappan” Culture. Urban Way of life. Narrated thrice : – – – “Jaya” by Vyasa to Ganesha “Bharata” by Vaishampayan to Janamejaya “Mahabharata” by Suta/Sauti to the Rishis at Naimisharanya. Astronomy: Existence of Uranus(Shweta) and Neptune(Ksharaka). Geography. Lands as far as Cambodia(Kamboja), Kazakhistan and/or Scandinavia(Uttarakuru), Mathematics:
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of the military. Also, the introduction of computers allows for a much faster training speed. * Computer Simulations There are many reasons why simulations were a perfect fit for the military, the most obvious of which is training. Training for war is a dangerous business. It is also expensive, seeing as many people need to be trained to operate many millions of dollars worth of machinery. Simulations of real life situations, and real machinery, offers the military a safer and more cost effective
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World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. I am a Veteran coming back from World War 1.Although I lost my right leg I still am alive and doing just like I was when I went to the war.When I first went into the war I was born in Alabama but since my mom found a job in Florida so we moved it was a hard time.So anyway when I went we had to lots of training to defeat the allied powers one of the things we did was crawl under barbed wire things
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INTRODUCTION Since the end of cold war, the world has been in a constant flux of changes, resulting into serious security risks. These risks range from border disputes to ethno-religious conflicts, most of which are likely to cause regional and global destabilization. In today’s unipolar world no single or group of states has the capacity to counter balance by themselves and therefore, the world is looking more towards United Nations (UN) for establishing World peace. The Collective power to shape
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