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UNICEF | Children's Rights & Emergency Relief Organization - 0 views

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shared by rdeveney on 27 Feb 15 - Cached
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  • rdeveney on 27 Feb 15
     
    UNICEF is a international organization which helps children in developing countries to overcome obstacles. These obstacles are usually in the form of poverty, violence, discrimination, and disease. By helping the children with these issues they will end up living a longer, healthier life.
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'Infidels are our enemy': Afghan fighters cherish old American schoolbooks | Al Jazeera... - 2 views

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Ethnicity and Religion

shared by rdeveney on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • More alarmingly for U.S. and international forces still in the country, the textbooks describe all nonbelievers as the enemy. “Our religion is Islam. Muhammad is our leader. All the Russians and infidels are our enemy.”
  • That built resentment toward foreigners and Kabul in some villages passed over for such support. “If people perceive that their enemy is getting more of those services, then that could contribute to the underlying conditions for conflict,
  • “When you have a school not set up in a government structure but in a home or a mosque, in the village, protected by the village and supported by the villagers, the likelihood of the school being attacked is reduced,” she said. “And you don't have construction, so you don't have problems with contracts.”
  • rdeveney on 18 Dec 14
     
    There was conflict between the Taliban and the Westerns and those who support the western views, because of the different religious and ethnic views. For example westerns believe women should be educated just like men, but the Taliban is against women education. Why is a school in a home that teaches the same thing that a governmentally funded school less likely to be attacked, since the Taliban is still against those ideas?
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Diffusion of Field Hockey - 8 views

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Folk and Pop Culture

shared by rdeveney on 12 Nov 14 - No Cached
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  • rdeveney on 12 Nov 14
     
    Do you want to learn more about the way that soccer and field hockey became such popular sports? If so, visit this site to learn where they originated from and where they are popular today. You can even play an online game to test your skills at soccer and field hockey!
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Beheading video: Challenge for social media - 1 views

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shared by rdeveney on 21 Aug 14 - No Cached
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  • rdeveney on 21 Aug 14
     
    This article is a great example if globalization.  Why is it such an issue that Twitter took down a video that they didn't think was appropriate?
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