Today such customs are fairly widespread in parts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America: in former times it occurred also in Europe. ... Poverty, religion, tradition, and conflict make the rate of child marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa similar to that in South Asia In many tribal systems a man pays a bride price to the girl's family in order to marry her. ... In South Africa the law provides for respecting the marriage practices of traditional marriages, whereby a person might be married as young as 12 for females and 14 for males. ... South Asia has the highest prevalence of...

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After, human evolution originated in Africa, they started move out of Africa to populate the entire globe. ... Thousands of years ago there was a dramatic climate change in Africa continent. ... Scientists believe that a small group of people left Africa and took few generations to migrate all the way from Africa to populate North America. ... In other words, scientists believed that all humans are children of Africa because they could track DNA from today people back from DNA of human remains found in people from Africa. ... Additional evidence of the first inhabitants of North America came ...

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During the antebellum years Northerners spouted ideas of anti slavery and chastised the South because of it. ... In actuality Northerners did help African Americans achieve freedom but did not "do away with" slavery. ... Cotton culture moved rapidly from the Tidewater states on the East coast through much of the lower South to the delta region of the Mississippi and eventually to Texas. Sugarcane, another labor -intensive crop, also contributed to slavery's extension in the south. ... The northerners opposed slavery's extension to the west but accepted its existence in the Sou...

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In the former category are the United States, the nations of Western Europe and some of the nations of Southeast Asia; among the latter will be China, Eastern Europe, South Asia and the African countries. ... In reading "the Rise of the Virtual State the author predicts very bright futures for South-east Asia as well as Japan, however, the future for the United States is very bleak indeed. Currently the United States is the leader in the ideal virtual state, while Japan and South-east Asia are virtual states in progress. ... Japan and South-east Asia from a careful, but, brief examination o...

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In South Africa, one of the first surveys undertaken in this area was done by the East London Daily Despatch newspaper in 1989. ... In a country like South Africa, which has the highest rape prevalence in the world and where battery of women is wide spread, it is not surprising that the rate of sexual harassment is very high, ranging from 35% to 76% of women surveyed. ...

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The Australians advanced from the south coast and succeeded in stopping their advance and eventually driving them back and off the island of Papua New Guinea. ... The first was ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States) which was formed in 1951 and the second was SEATO (South-East Asia Treaty Organization) which was formed in 1954. ... This was when the allies moved in to stop it because they believed it would spread all through South-East Asia to Australia. ... An example of this was the peacekeeping force Australia sent to East Timor when they wanted to become independent from Indonesia, ...

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This phenomenon is called interdependency; and an example of interdependency would be when East Asian countries faced the Asian Financial Crisis altogether beginning in 1997, making the situations even worse because all the neighboring countries were economically suffering. ... Globalization in South Korea can be a challenge. ... South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... Graph of South Korea's annual export from 1971 to 2007. ... Many nations, especially in...

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Americans observed as well that they had been laggards in the colonial race for territory; European nations scavenged over Africa while Russia, Japan, and Germany ardently struggled for cessions of China. ... It also, maybe most importantly, finally unified the North and South, of which collectively helped liberate Cuba. ... They viewed that the Filipinos wanted freedom, and by annexing the country, would be against the Declaration of Independence and plunge America into an unfavorable Far East politically and militarily. ... Hawaii was even then a springboard to the Far East, and enabling ...

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Female circumcision, the partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia, has been practiced for centuries in parts of Africa, generally, as one element of a rite of passage preparing young girls for womanhood and marriage. ... With more than 30,000 Africans entering the United States in the last decade, American clinicians are challenged with meeting African women's health needs, as they are barraged with a debate about the ethics and politics of circumcision. ... As African communities and advocates grapple with how to stop this practice, circumcised women need clinicians...

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The Jacksonian belief, "New Democracy", promoted suffrage for all white males, but no benefits of individual liberties were given to women or Native, African Americans. Jackson did not have a motive of making peace with the East Mississippi Indians. ... In 1835, the South Carolina legislative requested for information about abolition, held by non-slave holding states, be subdued or illegal as stated in the Acts and Resolutions. South Carolina warned Congress that they would prevent any mail from entering the state, if continued, material regarding abolition (Doc F). ... The rights of...

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Nations and tribes that settled in the plains developed a horse riding culture, while the nations and tribes that settled in the North East and Southeast developed fishing cultures. ... Whole races have been enslaved during a point or another such as African Americans and the Irish Americans. ... Depending on how you look at it, the atrocities they have endured may or may not be worse that others such as the African American Slavery. ... What if African Americans requested for their own territory in the USA? ...

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Many early efforts to organize workers in the United States saw their initiation in the state of Pennsylvania. As early as the 1790's, shoemakers in Philadelphia joined to maintain a price structure and resist cheaper competition. In the 1820's, a Mechanics Union was formed that attempted to unite t...

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I. Introduction The concept of "failed states " has long occupied a considerable place in international security and has been a topic of discussion and arguments (Call 2008). Although this concept has existed for decades, until the historical attacks of September 11th did it come to prominence and s...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens must overcome a number of problems before it can be effectively achieved. Although a political transformation to a westernized style of democracy may never be fully accomplishable because of the differing culture and social norms, Iraqi citizens still must strive for their government to conquer the...

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Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by the removal or forcing out from the womb of a fetus or embryo before it is able to survive on its own. surgical methods appear to have a lower risk of side effects. Abortion in the developed world has a long history of being among the safest procedures in medicine when allowed by local law. Uncomplicated abortions do not cause either long term mental health or physical problems. Unsafe abortions, however, result in approximately 47,000 maternal deaths and 5 million hospital admissions per year globally. An estimated 44 million abortions are performed glob...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States his...

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