Governments that spend more money on their militaries as well as authoritarian governments are more likely to recruit child soldiers (Early and Tyne). ... Surprisingly, children are exposed to violence from a young age. ... Women and girls [suffer] sexual abuse, rape, early forced marriages and pregnancies (Kalifani, Liebling and Mwaka). ... I believe that children do not deserve to have psychological problems at such a young age. ... Although it is a crime to employ children under 15 in conflicts, millions of children are forced to fight in countries in Africa and the Middle East. ...

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The combination of a forty-hour workweek, vacations, early retirement and paid holidays provided Americans with leisure time for their families and for personal endeavors. ... Tomorrowland lauded American technology and a new innovative future, Frontierland praised a mythic American frontier past, and Fantasyland stood right in the middle. Disneyland provided a "common culture for a pluralistic society" and the new age of leisure allowed Americans to bask in its idealism (119). ... Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Bet...

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Soon with the Thomson twins, they reach a country of the Middle East, Khemed trying to unveil the truth. ... Any reader who is aged enough can clearly notice the most striking factor of this story is the political and economic significance of oil, the black gold, along with the substantial amount of biased incidents orbiting around Middle East throughout the whole plot. By the concluding segment of the story, the knowledgeable readers will have to ponder if the author wants them to know subtly, that he himself might be partial to factors concerning the Middle East or that is how the world perc...

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The Japanese constitution invested Hirohito with supreme authority, however, in the early years of his reign, he merely ratified the policies that were formulated by his ministers and advisors. ... During the early 1930's, the Japanese military gained considerable political influence. ... Throughout the middle of the century, Hirohito traveled throughout Japan, to survey the progress of the countries postwar reconstruction and to win popularity for the imperial institution. ... Behr also said that Hirohito embodied and symbolized the land he ruled by coming of age with a new Japan. .....

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The city states that were characteristic of ancient Greece, the feudal principalities that defined Europe in the Middle Ages, and the empires that have existed throughout recorded history (both Eastern and Western) have largely been replaced by the nation-states as the dominant actors within the international arena. ... The Medieval Background (Middle Ages: An Age of Faith 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D) The Medieval Synthesis refers to the relationship between the 1. ... A dynasty in the early modern period was a family that ruled a state by virtue of an inherited right. ...

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The soldiers who have just enlisted in the army together are all younger than twenty years of age, but to themselves and other recruits, they describe themselves as seasoned veterans. ... This is a very common misconception that Remarque attempts to rid the reader of very early when in the first chapter, Pauls good friend Kemmerich has his leg amputated from a bullet and then dies a painfully slow death with Paul at his side. ... The soldiers are even sometimes wakened in the middle of the night to unexpected attacks as in the one explained by Paul, We wake up in the middle of the night. .....

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From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. ... The rise of the imperialistic attitude in the middle ages led England to flourish as a global power for centuries and became one of the most influential national powers the world has ever seen. ... The Brits, though still allied with the US, felt that the "Bloody Yanks" entered the war far too late though nothing was ever done about this English popular opinion in the early portion of the 20th century. ...

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Once his dad heard the news he disowned his son and kicked him out the house at the age of sixteen. ... Francis would secretly attempt to draw and water color, most of his early paintings having naked men in makeup. ... Most of his paintings are also influenced by early horror films such as Fritz Lang's Classic Metropolis and Sergei Einstein's Battleship Potemkin. ... Now the second picture located in the middle looks like a featherless ostrich. ... (www.queer-arts.org/wwwboard2/bacon/messages/89.html) In April of 1982, at the age of eighty three Francis Bacon took a trip to Mad...

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The year 1970 was considered to be the culmination of this movement with protests across the country, which attracted millions of Americans regardless of race, age, gender. ... That was hot news in early May, 1970, when hundreds of universities and colleges across the United States stopped operating in fear of the outbreak of violence related to the war protesting movement. ... It could be said that the entire generation of young and middle age, especially communities of African-Americans and Latin Americans, joined the war protest. ... In early 1973, Nixon signed the Treaty of Paris to get ou...

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Later, one of the cousins is assaulted on the grounds of the house and Briony, still stinging from an insult earlier, tells the authorities that it was Robbie, their childhood friend and Cecilia's boyfriend. ... The reader learns early on that for whatever reason, possibly the dysfunctional family,Briony seems only to understand her world through the pages of her stories, Though she sets aside her writing for a time, it becomes in veritable that she will one day return to it. ... In the final pages of the book, one is given the benefit of a very aged Briony. ... In particular, Cecelia...

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The impact of the overseas involvement of the military on the English language was already evident by 1914, which had remarkable differences with the English of the Elizabethan age. ... " In an earlier letter, Lubbock had written another letter in which he told his parents he would have no regrets if he "falls" in battle. ... In this sense, black is what earlier English termed as gloom. ... The influence was mainly from interactions by soldiers both on the Western Front as well as the in the Middle East campaign. ... Depending on factors such as their country, region, education ...

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In the early part of the novel, she mostly speaks of life within the family: births, deaths, marriages, love to each other and the family bondage gets predominant in the early description of the novel. ... The famine of early '50's is the direct outcome of their war and negligence of India. ... And it is the very consciousness which grew amid the educated middle class just after the World War II. ... " The narrator has become a woman of middle age giving birth to three boys and a girl established and married off respectively. ...

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Although women are still fighting for equality in some aspects today, their relentless fight most notably began in the early twentieth century and for several years thereafter, they won several battles. ... In cause of this women were regarded as a force to be proud of by the middle of the war (Martin, 2009). ... In early 1965, Judy LaMarsh wrote that Pearson seemed to finally accept her advice and set us the commission. ... These significant milestones weren't the end for the women journey towards equality, women's progression still continues into today's day and age and signif...

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Apart from the demise of the political ideologies described earlier, Huntington gives six specific reasons for civilizational identity. ... Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access to or a desire for Westernization react and try to nurture their local cultures and traditional identities, thus leading to non-Western habits becoming more popular there, such as the "re-Islamization of the Middle East" (Huntington, 1993). ... This occurs especially when people become impotent in the face of o...

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In the early sixties the public opinion was favourable towards USA's involvement in the war. ... The Act for a period excluded people between the age of 18 and 21 and people who went to college. As this largely applied to the middle and upper class white section of society, this was seen as a deliberate act to fill the army with the lower classes and black people. ...

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Vonnegut went to public high school, unlike his two older siblings, and there gained early writing experience writing for the high school's daily paper. ... In the book, The Hoenikker family closely parallels Vonnegut's own family, consisting of an elder son who is a scientist, a tall middle daughter, and a younger son who joins Delta Upsilon. ...

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Earlier, Hitler had become interested in three political parties, Austrian Social Democrats, Georg von Schonerer's Pan-German Nationalists, and Karl Lueger's Christian Social Party. ... Hitler in the early 1920s was named the leader of the Nazi Party. ... The German people were looking for stability since they were in the middle a depression, along with the rest of the world. ...

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The United States and its allies may possible attack Iraq any minute from now, The prospect of peace in the Middle East is in its lowest ebb ever, India and Pakistan are threatening each other. ... The continued use of or threat of the use of force by nuclear states and the proliferation of wars among non-nuclear powers prevents us from concluding that major war is obsolete in the nuclear age. ... Parallels have been drawn between our own age and the periods preceding other great wars, particularly World War I. Contrasting unhappily with the seemingly halcyon days of the early 1960s, uneasi...

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In Warwickshire, Catherine Tarrant had drawn sketches of "a mother and child locked in each other's arms, fierce protectiveness in the mother's face, terror in the child's" and "a girl in a rose splashed gown circling in ecstasy under the spreading limbs of an aged oak. ... Early symptoms included tiredness, irritability, giddiness, lack of concentration and headaches. ... Hickam often wandered aimlessly in the streets of Warwickshire, stopping in the middle of roads and directing traffic that no one else can see. ...

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He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was able to attend a nearby school. At aged 10 young Georgi was sent to Moscow to find work with his uncle as an apprentice furrier and found the working conditions severely harsh under the Czarist autocracy. ...

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Early on in their quest to rule the world, Hitler and Goebbels realized that "propaganda must be addressed to the emotions and not to the intelligence"(Rhodes 12). ... It was an anti-Semitic film set in the Middle Ages about a "crooked-nosed" Jew who forces a German woman to sleep with him or he"ll hurt her husband. ...

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