Each nation may send not more than five representatives to each session. ... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the (North)Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. ... NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April 2009. ... In April 1951, Allied Command Europe and its headquarters (SHAPE) were established; later, four subordinate headquarters were added in No...

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Kent Stat's expanding student enrollment from five thousand in 1954 to over twenty-one thousand by 1966, and the construction of more dormitories signalled Kent's transformation from a commuter and teacher's college to a residential and academically comprehensive institution. ... In April, President White described the Kent Committee's Organizers as publicity-seeking martyrs and argued that the goals "are distasteful to the overwhelming majority of us. ... As at many Campuses across the country, the announcement by President Nixon late thursday night, April 30, that America...

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"On 14 April, 1818 the Congress passed an Act which reorganized the staff departments of the Army. ... Joseph Lovell, appointed Surgeon General of the United States Army in April 1818"(Chu,66), which was the first person to hold 6 this position in the new organization. ...

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Glendening was quoted in the USA Today as saying, "I continue to believe that there are certain crimes that are so brutal and so vile that they call for society to impose the ultimate punishment, however, reasonable questions have been raised in Maryland and across the country about the application of the death penalty." These events, along with what was going on in Illinois at the time sent a shockwave across the nation, questioning whether capital punishment was really the right thing for the United States. ... Many believe that the momentum swung in favor of abolition on April 15th, 20...

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In the middle of April in 1803, shortly before Monroe's arrival, the French asked Livingston if the United States was interested in purchasing all of Louisiana Territory. ... On April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the Louisiana Purchase agreement was made, the first state to be carved from the Louisiana Territory was admitted into the Union as the 18th U.S. state. ... The Lawn and the Rotunda have served as models of inspiration for similar designs of "centralized green areas" at universities across the United States. ... Jefferson took great pains to recruit the most highly qualifi...

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This was partly due to Lenin's April thesis, great speeches and targeted slogans such as "Peace, Bread and Land!... In the April Theses of 1917 he drafted a strategy for the party to seize power. ... Just after the revolution Lenin immediately began organising similar take-overs across Russia, by the end of October only a handful of regions remained loyal to the provisional government. ... A precursor to Stalin's five year plans, Lenin is famously quoted in saying "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country....

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After the opening Battles of Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, the colonials had engaged the British in what was commonly known as the Battle of Bunker Hill. ... Yet Knox proved to be one of the most ingenious and intrepid among Washington's force, bringing cannons from the captured Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York across many miles and in terrible weather to the battle at Boston. ... In a blinding blizzard, Washington managed to move his troops across the Delaware River at night on December 25. In forty-five minutes after the attack began, Washington's troops had surrounded ...

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An increasing number of international brands across formats shall foray into India to leverage the potential. Keen competition is driving international brands to adopt 'made for India' models leading to higher acceptance and thus increased share from around 18% in 2011 to 25% over the next five years [8]. ... The apparel and textiles sector has witnessed a spurt in investment during the last five years. The industry (including dyed and printed) attracted foreign direct investments (FDI) worth Rs 5,674.45 Crore (US$ 1.04 billion) during April 2000 to February 2013. ...

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Television Violence Myth Twelve teenagers and one teacher were shot to death and eighteen others were wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. ... News of the Columbine massacre flashed across newspapers and television stations across the world. ... Recent studies have shown that the average American child spends approximately four to five hours a day hypnotized in television programs full of violent content (Hepburn 244). ... The study found seventy-five percent of the programs monitored shows no punishment of the perpetrators for example, the famous cartoo...

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MSU College of Education Portable Computer Technology Award Technologically proficient teachers are in great demand and many schools have begun to look for teacher candidates who can use technology appropriately for teaching. Michigan State University's College of Education is committed to prepa...

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According to Savoia (2014), there have been twenty-four first responder suicides from April 2014 to October 2014. ... It is unknown why police services across Canada are not fighting the 'code of silence' and mandating annual counseling for police officers. ...

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Human rights are "rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled". Proponents of the concept usually assert that everyone is endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being human. Human rights are thus conceived in a Universalist and egalitarian fashion. Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities, as justified moral norms or natural rights supported by strong reasons, or as legal rights either at a national level or within international law.1 As a student studying International Relations, I'm terribly attracted on the approach that N.G.Os stri...

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There is so much talk about getting tough on criminals or about developing community policing, with the lack of understanding of why crimes are happening. The policies are conceptual motivated by the crimes taken place, and some of the programs are useful when put into effect. Community Policing Community policing is in a place to help police officers solve crimes, this method can become misunderstanding or not fit well if not totally the implemented correctly. Community policing seems to offer the best talks and conceptualization, and provides a promise for better future. But there is risk ...

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"Humility" comes across clearly when he says "I do not have a single disciple," even though there were many followers who looked upon him as a teacher. ... Nichiren harshly condemned all other types of Buddhism and in his first sermon on April 28, 1253 when he criticized the popular form of Buddhism, the Pure Land sect. ...

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