Kerry Ngan
The Supreme Court deliberates whether President Barack Obama’s health care insurance, the Affordable Care Act, is constitutional or not. By branding this unconstitutional they will destroy one of President Obama’s major achievement in his presidency . The supreme justices have offered severely divided points of views.
The Affordable Care [...]
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17 year old Trayvon Martin was shot dead on his way home from a convenience store on Feb. 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood watchguard George Zimmerman. Zimmerman defends his actions because he claims Martin had been acting “suspicious”.
Zimmerman pleaded and was found not guilty as he [...]
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The accents, absolutely charming; the humor, witty; maybe the pronunciation is a bit off (only to American ears), though we can forgive the British for that, because we have more than enough to give thanks to them for. Let’s look at the scoreboard, the British can claim Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, [...]
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From music and fashion, to food and traditions, the Hispanic culture is an array of color and spice. There are 20 some odd Spanish speaking countries in the world. Some being: Spain, Venezuela, Honduras, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, and the many others. All of these countries, though have their own special traditions and [...]
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Nothing but sparkles and shine, new collections of design; according to Forbes.com a three day event was assembled for fashion week in the Middle East. Designers from all the surrounding countries gathered together to show off their new designs each one more glamorous than the last.
Beautiful greens, oranges, reds, purples, [...]
Continue Reading →The popular NBC hit NCIS can only prepare you for some of the situations that are related to United States military veterans. Of course while some of the plot twists Team Gibbs can experience be horrifying and gruesome, it seems that real life has won out once again.
For a decade, the United States military has had their “boots on the ground” in country as they have been reinforcing the Afghani government after the Taliban regime was taken out in the early 2000’s. Two years later, after the US had entered Afghanistan, President George W. Bush made a speech to congress declaring his belief that the US had to invade and take out Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. In his speech, Bush had claimed that the Iraqi regime had Weapons of Mass destruction which they could possibly lend to terrorists groups who worked against the US.
Continue Reading →On March 14, 2012, Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord, was found guilty by the International Criminal Court for initiating the Union of Congolese Patriots campaign in the Democratic Republic of Congo of abducting children and turning them into murderers.
He was convicted for the forced enlistment of children under the age of 15 and using them to participate in “hostilities” during a civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Under the command of Lubanga, UCP leaders forced children to take part in the civil war that took place from 1998 to 2003; until last year the conflict continued in the mineral rich eastern region of the nation. Witnesses testified that Lubanga ordered for the forced recruitment of children so that these children could kill, rape, and rob, as well as take part in armed conflicts.
Lubanga surrendered in 2006 to the ICC and three years later his trial officially began. Since the ICC established in 2002, Lubanga was their first verdict and trial that was held by the ICC.
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From the skyscrapers overlooking crimes of Gotham City to being voted Sexiest Man Alive twice to the slums of the back of a police car, Clooney has done it all.
Famous actor George Clooney was arrested alongside his father on Friday March 16, 2012. The arrest was part of [...]
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