The world today is a less violent, less aggressive place than at any time in history, as proven by the decreasing number of undesirable events taking place today. ... Since war is most of the time a condition for genocide, the incidence of mass slaughter has declined by 90% between 1989 and 2005. ... Overall, there has been a decline in violence against civilians since 1989. ... Today a far greater percentage of the world's population lives in peace than at any time before in history. ...

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Throughout history, many political, economic and social conditions have been developed causing a change in the course of history for nations and people. The Cold War was a major turning point in history. ... In response to the growing pressure, the wall was torn down in 1989. ... Throughout history, many political, economic and social conditions have often led to turning points that have changed the course of history for nations and people. ...

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Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1989). ... In late 1989, Mukherjee told the Los Angeles Times "I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me. ... If that is the case, is it good to forget your history (especially if it hurts you more than it helps you)? ...

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There are many times throughout western civilization that History has repeated itself. ... Beginning in 1989, Milosevic began systematic efforts to stir up hostilities toward ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and revoked that region's autonomous status. ... Another example of history repeating itself would be how discrimination has continued in this country. ... This is just another example of how the United States society is prone to racism and discrimination, and how history continuously repeats itself in this area. History has repeated itself solely in the modern time as well. ...

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Throughout history dragons have performed amazing tasks from saving small children's lives to wrecking phenomenons. ... In 1989, The Red Wood Forest burnt down because of the carelessness of an outraged dragon. ...

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During the early history of the United States, a man owned his wife and children as they were any material of his possessions. ... It was a big step for women in the labor area because in 1989, women were part of a 45 percent of employed persons in the United States, but they had only a small participation in the decision-making jobs (Women's International Center 3)....

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The earliest reports of slavery in China surfaced in the mid-1990s as the country's economy experienced a burst of growth after shaking off the dampening effects of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. ( Deng declared martial law at the end of May. ... If we are to look at American history as the truth, then we are truly blind. History has been and well always be written in the eyes of the writer ...

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Reynolds's Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville, written in 1989. ... Hawthorne's work often explores the vexed and vexing relationship Americans bear to their past-their peculiar cultural history....

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Everybody loves an awesome action movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat with mind boggling special effects and outrageous explosions, but sadly not all action packed movies raked in the big bucks when they were released. This paper is going to go through the years and classify the best acti...

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Then again maybe kids wouldn't even ask if they were more informed about tattooings history, the dangers of it, and the effect it will have on them in society. For most people to truly understand body art then they must understand the history and that it has been around for centuries. ... In the end, tattooing has a history that spans centuries but with a lot of negative diseases that can come from getting it done and the effect of society on the teen can be greater then once thought. ... Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1989. ...

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This is due to the number of volunteers they bring in (for having such a prestigious reputation), along with the actual paid employees (Our History). ... In the year 2000 by itself, the American Red Cross collected 6.3 million units of blood as donation (Our History). ... In 1989, it made its way to the United States' Virgin Islands and South Carolina after hitting the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. ...

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Building Effective Local Partnerships (Local Government Management Board) offers as a definition: A partnership is an agreement between two or more partners to work together to achieve common aims (Watson 1989). ... The public private partnership, while it has a long and varied history, has risen to prominence in relatively recent times. ... The failure factors are listed below: • A history of conflict among key interests. ...

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This raises an interesting question: when in history should the Federal Government step in and protect the rights of others who may not share their religious views? ... In 1993, Douglass Lundman sued his ex-wife and various Christian Science groups, over the death of their 11-year-old son in 1989. ...

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Iraq Policy: Motives and Consequences", written in 1989 and given as part of a lecture, Noam Chomsky, Professor of linguistics at MIT and frequent critic of U.S. foreign policy, seeks to expose the U.S. for its duplicitious self interest in dealing with Iraq. ... By offering up the red herring of Hussein's rampant crime history as if to suggest that the west even cares, is all part of the orientalist's bag of tricks. ...

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In the United Kingdom, new communications systems are in many ways more advanced than those in the United States, owing to the UK's history (at least until the recent passage of the telecom reform bill in the US) of less restrictive regulations. ... China, while soaking up new technology like a sponge, is also attempting to control the flow of content over the Internet (having already experienced the world's first "revolution by fax" with the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in which authorities were unable to censor dissidents' fax communications). ...

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This was also because of the help from federal bureaucrats who wanted to violate the cardinal rule of bureaucracy, causing emissions trading, or Cap and Trade, to become one of the biggest success stories in the history of the Green Movement. ... In the spring on 1989, Brian McLean, an EPA market maker, proposed that the market operate on its own. ...

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This impoverishment of the middle and poor classes hit families hard and "by 1989 CEOs of corporations were making 93 times as much as the average factory worker"(Zinn, 425). ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said, "History is a relentless master. ...

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Twenty-one years later, the American Psychological Association published its 1993 report, "Violence & Youth," and concluded, "The greatest predictor of future violent behavior is a previous history of violence." ... San Francisco school system began a "Understanding Homosexuality" studies in its Public High School system in 1989, Boston began "Race Relations" in 1980. ...

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Finding sources and research for the issue of the outcome of abortions among teenagers aged 15-19 was not difficult, but in the same sense it was neither very easy. When I first chose the topic I knew that abortion was far too broad, so I narrowed it down to just teenagers aged 15-19. There is much ...

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