1. China and Japan
School vouchers fall may incidentally promote one or another religious creed, but their primary purpose is to improve the educational prospects of inner city students trapped in our very worst public schools. ... This was the vision dangled before inner city parents in Jersey City, New Jersey, one evening in 1998 by a private company that runs publicly financed charter schools. ...
The development of oil resources has led to much corruption, conflict, environment devastation, and poverty, which is currently experienced in Nigeria. ... Along with the political conflicts Nigeria is battling agricultural and health conflicts as well. ...
On October 1st 1989, the wife of Moises Giroldi, a member of Noriega's inner circle who had crushed the 1988 Macias coup attempt, informed Southcom officers that her husband was planning a nonviolent coup against Noriega and that he wanted limited U.S. help. ... Perhaps if the United States had delivered a tougher and yet clearer message up front and in the beginning of the conflict a cleaner and more efficient outcome would have prevailed, saving both lives and resorces....
Examining knowledge from a conflict perspective, I found that some social groups attain better knowledge that others--not necessarily true--which in turn solidifies the stratification of our societies. ... Because, "knowledge has no inner power to resist; different people and interest can do with it as they wish. it has no form or structure other than that imposed upon it from without....
They claim that children from the inner-cities are the most impoverished, and therefore have the greatest chance of being "at-risk." ... "Dramatic changes have occurred in the country, i.e., single-parent families, two working parents, latch-key kids, growing poverty, overcrowding, racial conflict, hopelessness in youth. ... "The salience of interpersonal conflict among adolescents and the negative consequences for adolescent victims and perpetrators identified in this study amplified our alarm at predictions that violence among adolescents will continue to worsen as poverty, racism, guns, alc...
Liberty is a word that produces a strong feeling of hope and touches the inner soul of man. ... The Civil War was an unavoidable conflict resulting primarily, from the dependence of the South upon slavery and the inevitable power struggle between the north and the South resulting then the slavery issue. ...
Our objective is to understand and address the conflicts that occur when clinicians provide care to patients whose beliefs and practices differ from their own. ... The second is an excision which removes the clitoris, the hood, and the labia minor (the inner folds of the vulva that is responsible for producing lubrication). ...
The Vietnam War, a military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the national liberation front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army was a complicated war. ... Among the civilians of Hue, there were 5,800 listed as dead or missing, most of whom had been killed by communist and buried in mass graves in the inner city. ...