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of the time, also because french medias don't explain the whole problem, and if we only watch news on TV, it could seem simple: they are good people and bad ones. We have heard a lot about the FARC during the last months, mostly because they have been keeping prisoner for six years Ingrid Betancourt, a french-colombian political woman. But kidnappings are not the only side of the guerilla and it's better to consider it on the whole. The marxist guerilla is having a conflict with Uribe's politics

so shoddy that Exxon was forced to return just two years later and rebuild them to avoid a major PR embarrassment. There is no furniture to be found. In theory, everyone displaced by the project received some form of compensation, but rarely has it been sufficient to restore their standard of living. This is because Chad’s oil happens to be located a few meters below Chad’s most fertile agricultural land. The farming problem is especially serious since the zone is Chad’s only breadbasket and feeds

Question 1 One of the key successes when Howard Schultz launched Starbucks, has been the well-managed projection of its stores as places for socialization between office and work. This strategy permitted the company to get a large customer base that could meet and talk and laugh drinking a coffee in different places that were not office or work. The idea was to sell a high quality coffee which flavor was entirely natural and not modified by any machine. The attention was also paid on the environment

Introduction Water has always been a subject of great concern for mankind, as the very survival of our species depends on it. Thus since remote time, men have had to sort out the issue of the water supply by carrying out hydraulic works whenever natural resources were not sufficient or constant enough. Therefore, “hydraulic civilizations” were born very early in the antiquity, as was Egypt’s for instance. For nearly three thousand years, the fertile waters of the Nile River have been exploited and

of human society. Morover she insist on the fact that they represent 20% of the total population. Their everyday living conditions are appaling/miserable. Then the other focus is on MacWan. The key information about him is that he’s an activist he has been fighting for Dalit’s civil rights since 1981. As for his family background we can say that he come a very underprivileged family and yet he managed to carry on further studies. Nonetheless, one day he was on the verge of give up his fight since he

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (signed in 1992), the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997. The first objective of this protocol is to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. These emissions are link to human activities and have been destroying our planet. Thus, this protocol was implemented in February 2005; after the Russian Federation ratified the protocol in November 2004 (it was only ratified at this moment because it had to be ratified by 55 countries that represent 55% of

situation today than two years ago? The article explains the fact that two years ago there has been a financial crisis, which touched all sectors, including cars industry. Nevertheless, the dramatic situation has been resolve thanks to government bail-outs and economic strategies. Indeed, the bankruptcy of several firms has lightened the debt burdens and the government of the United States has helped the "Big Three" with the payment of bail-outs. Furthermore, today, some investment banks, like

Although it has been incubating for a long time, the debate on the legalisation of gestational surrogacy has never been so topical : with the 2004 law on bioethics to be revised this year, supporters and detractors of surrogate mothers have been making their voices heard for the last month. Carrying someone else's baby is a practice as old as the world itself. But for the last twenty years or so, the techniques of in-vitro fertilisation and artificial insemination have made possible gestational

as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza in many countries in the Americas, as Discovery Day in the Bahamas, as Día de la Hispanidad and Fiesta Nacional in Spain and as Día de las Américas (Day of the Americas) in Uruguay. These holidays have been celebrated unofficially since the late 18th century, and officially in various countries since the early 20th century. Local observance of Columbus DayActual observance varies in different parts of the United States, ranging from large-scale parades

not. Because she was worried about her personal responsibility, she has decided not to tell him about it, so he would keep his job and his performance would still be beneficial for COBA. But was it a good idea to hide the truth from her employee? Another ethical issue for Jane is when Michelle, the vice president at EASEL Corp., asks her some information about Ralph, because he has been applying for a regional position after he has quit his job at COBA. Jane knows that if she decides to tell the