Before diving into the pros and cons of home schooling, one must first grasp the basic concept as well as the reasoning behind the huge influx of the home schooling population. Home schooling can simply be defined as parents educating their children in non-traditional environments, such as in the home or the surrounding community, rather than utilizing the free public education system. ... Aside from technological resources, the community surrounding the home can provide an outlet into the wide world of learning. ... Supporters of home schooling are baffled by the negative assumption that soc...

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Not only is Asia the birthplace of Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Shinto, Sikhism, Confucianism and Jainism, the continent is also home to the largest Muslim population in the world, as well as significant numbers of Christians and Jews. ... The church becomes a place where they can selectively assimilate into American society while simultaneously preserving Chinese values and culture. ... In Asia, these various forms of spirituality and faith help Asian Americans to deal with the upheavals of immigration, adapting to a new country, and other difficult personal and social transformations by pro...

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Terrorists, for instance, can learn from the Internet a wide variety of details about targets such as transportation facilities, nuclear power plants, public buildings, airports, and ports, and even about counterterrorism measures.They use the Internet to collect intelligence on those targets, especially critical economic nodes, and modern software enables them to study structural weaknesses in facilities as well as predict the cascading failure effect of attacking certain systems. ... Bombmaking information is literally at the fingertips of anyone with access to a home computer equipped wi...

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By the time, many US citizens expect to see the results of the campaign in Iraq, and have the 130,000 US troops back home. ... After September 11th terrorist attacks, the US government can not deny the vulnerability it has against terrorist attacks. ... In fact, freedom should not have a price tag since this right can not denied to any individual in the world as inversely done by China, Cuba, some North African and Middle Eastern Countries whose government suppress their citizens to arbitrary and illegal laws which are highly banned in Western Societies, for example, Cuban citizens are not all...

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Everything is unstable and now scientists can only predict various outcomes, one prediction that according to the California Department of Conservation Division of mines and geology will occur in the next 20 to 50 years is an earthquake magnitude 7.5 or greater and has been given the name, "The Big One". ... Glenn Pomeroy, the head of the California Earthquake Authority reported that, "90% of the homes in California have no protection for earthquakes.... Start implementing safety measures; estimating how much time it would take for water, power, and food to reach the community a...

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With the relations that each country is making with one another consequently comes the military alliance between countries in which they can be both advantageous and detrimental. ... When a country is in an alliance with another it can provide them with mutual protection, sharing of resources and strength in political power. ... " From this we can really see that the exchange of products and trade could lead to a serious damage to people. ... As coffeehouses began to popularize women protested and created a petition expressing that coffee had the effect on men to make them sterile, pow...

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For fans and enthusiasts, popular music can be a leisure-time pursuit occurring on evenings or weekends; alternatively, it can constitute a lifestyle, or way of life (e.g., Deadheads-a group of fans of the American band Grateful Dead who saw the band at as many gigs and festivals as possible from the 1970s onward). ... Different forms of popular music can create pleasure and excitement for some and moral panic and dread for others; it is a much debated and important realm of cultural life with significant implications for our understanding of consumer culture. ... The emergence of many popula...

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At best, we can simply hope for controlled chaos during the various phases of disaster. ... Chemical accidents are referred to by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as the hazardous release of chemicals, unintentional or intentional, which can cause harm to human health (2013). Chemical accidents can be spillage, release of toxins, fires, or explosions. The scope of damage from chemical accidents can easily be multiplied dependent of the chemical-type and exposure to environmental elements, such as oxygen or dust. ... Another activity of chemical and biological disaster can strike...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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