1990‚ SLORC proposed a new government and allowed free elections with the confidence that it would win‚ but 80% of the seats were won by the civilian opposition party led by Suu Kyi. But it refused to turn over the power to the civilian government. It outlawed the opposition party‚ and arrested its leaders including Suu Kyi. It invited foreign private investors and companies to invest in Burma to restore the economy. Pepsi Co responded favourably to the invitations of SLORC and other companies
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Introduction With the total area of 676‚552km2 and approximately 48 million populations‚ estimated in 2008‚ Myanmar officially acknowledged as Union of Myanmar‚ the republic in Southeast Asia‚ which share the border on the west with Bangladesh‚ on the northwest by India‚ on the northeast by Yunnan Province‚ China‚ and on the east by Laos and Thailand. The longest land border is communal with People’s Republic of China. Burma is known to the world as the nationally official name until 1989;
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Emily Olsen © KCDistance Learning WebQuest: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 50 points Directions: The state of Palestine was divided in 1947 to establish the nation of Israel‚ resulting in two separate homelands for the Arab and Jewish people. This land separation has sharply divided Arabs and Israelis for over 50 years‚ resulting in ongoing violent conflicts. For this WebQuest‚ you will develop a historical understanding of the complex issues behind the decisions made in the Middle East
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Chapter 1 What Do We Mean by Leadership? In the spring of 1972‚ an airplane flew across the Andes mountains carrying its crew and 40 passengers. Most of the passengers were members of an amateur Uruguayan rugby team en route to a game in Chile. The plane never arrived. It crashed in snow-covered mountains‚ breaking into several pieces on impact. The main part of the fuselage slid like a toboggan down a steep valley‚ coming to rest in waist-deep snow. Although a number of people died immediately
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the sort of public discourse that is essential to a healthy democratic process. 6. Students follow in the footsteps of famous Philosophy majors as Phil Jackson (Chicago Bulls)‚ Umberto Eco (Novelist)‚ Carly Fiorina (CEO of Hewlett-Packert)‚ Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmanese Human Rights Activist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner)‚ David Souter (Supreme Court Justice)‚ Bruce Lee (Movie Star)‚ Harrison Ford (Sexiest Man Alive‚ People Magazine 1998)‚ Tom Morris (Corporate Consultant)‚ and Robert MacNamamara (Former
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rhetorical devices to represent visionary ideas Powerful speeches affirm universal values which remain prevalent in human nature’s aspiration to productively approach the future. Noel Pearson’s speech “An Australian history for us all” (1996) and Anwar Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset” (1977)‚ through effective use of rhetorical devices‚ creates textual integrity to explore visionary ideas: establishing the need for change by examining “the past‚ with all its complexities”‚ and that in overcoming
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General Knowledge * Antonis Samras: PM of Greece * Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany * Samar Yazbek: Exiled Syrian author has won Pen’s Pinter International Writer of Courage Award for her book “A Woman in the Crossfire”‚ an account of the early stages of the Syrian Revolution * Amra Babic: Europe’s first hijab-wearing mayor (Bosnia) * MILF: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines) * Dilma Roussef: President of Brasil * October ‚ 2012: 10th anniversary of the World
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“President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino” María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino (January 25‚ 1933 – August 1‚ 2009) was a Philippine politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines‚ the first woman to hold that office‚ and the first female president in Asia‚ though not the first female Asian head of state. Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution‚ which toppled the 20-yearauthoritarian rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy to
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politically. So an invitation by President Jimmy Carter to President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel was extended. The invitation was for a meeting in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland at the presidential retreat‚ Camp David. The meeting was so that the framework of a peace agreement‚ known as the Camp David Accord‚ could be laid out between Sadat and Begin‚ with Carter as the mediator. Both Sadat and Begin had their reputations and their countries’ futures on the
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the reforms that Sadat wanted to put into place would not be popular with the people. Sadat realized that if he wanted the reforms to have a chance he needed to reinvigorate Egyptian nationalism by defeating the Israeli’s‚ boosting the countries self-esteem and his popularity. Jordan’s King Hussein did not want to lose any more territory as the country had during the Six Days War. He had already lost over half of Jordan’s population‚ when he lost the West Bank. During this time Sadat was endorsing
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