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    “From time to time it is worth reminding ourselves why twenty-seven European nation states have come together voluntarily to form the partnership that is the European Union.” 1 Europe has a history of war and conflict that predates living memory and the idea of a united Europe is something that appears repeatedly in that history. Hitler, Napoleon, and the many Roman Emperors all sought a united Europe. Their quests although in many ways motivated by a horrifying desire for power sparked the minds

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    sustain a community. The European countries involved in the transatlantic slave trade, made one of the most profitable systems in world history that led to the development of one of the greatest countries in history. Each chapter in the book explains a different reason for why leading up to an ending goal of sufficient evidence on why the Africans more than any other race. In the book David Eltis, examines why a system with such advanced societies used such a primitive system to accomplish economic and

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    Statistics [ABS], 2011). Their health has greatly suffered since colonisation by Europeans, creating a large gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. This is a result of psychosocial due to colonisation, the stolen generation and discrimination, lower socio-economic status due to lack of education, employment and income and poor access to services due to location and lack of cultural sensitivity. Lower socio-economic status is a direct link to poorer health outcomes of non-indigenous Australians

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    today has 192 Member States who express their opinions through the following institutions. They are all located in New York: • The General Assembly debates issues and recommends actions. • The Security Council authorizes economic and military actions in settling disputes. • The Economic and Social Council sponsors trades and human rights organizations. • The International Court of Justice decides questions of international law. • The Trusteeship Council controls territories under UN supervision. • The

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    When the European settled in Australia, it impacted on Indigenous people drastically. They deemed the land as Terra Nullius, meaning the land belonged to no one despite the Indigenous people being there first (Treatyrepublic.net, 2014). When the European possessed the land and exposed the Indigenous community to new diseases, it resulted in a vast number of deaths of the Aboriginal people. The minority of Aboriginal people that were left, who were not killed in violent conflict or died during the

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    Historical Legacies of Social and Economic Inequality History includes the role that certain institutions played on political, economic and social aspects. It can be perceived that individuals from the western region including the Spanish, French, and Portuguese employed various strategies in their administration which significantly impacted the social, economic and political conditions of the regions that they occupied. The analysis puts into view the social, economic and political structures that were

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    Social Care Diamond

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    tendencies of care in each country. The classification of care regimes is popularly based in the scope of Europe. The categories of care systems are related to their geographical regions. Daly and Lewis (2000) categorized, social care for older people in European welfare states into three categories: 1) the Scandinavian states of

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    and assimil[ate] into different arrangements” with a brand-new approach to the ‘relationships among… nations”. Having in mind the idea that the identities of Eastern European countries had changed significantly by the very end of the Cold War, we understand why such massive international organisation as the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) was no more needed when the Soviet Union collapsed. It ceased to serve the old belief system of communism which the Eastern bloc had (or were imposed

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    the considerable differences between one another. Native Americans and European colonists coexisted incongruously because neither wanted to adapt to the other’s customs. As a result, the two groups had different views of what American culture was to reflect. The natives believed that land belonged to everyone for the use of agricultural, while the English colonists viewed America as a land of personal opportunity and economic profit through native exploitation. The natives revered their land because

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    Exchange, the global community made its first attempts to address the issue of human rights, the Europeans became wealthier due to exotic crops, and the Native Americans suffered great loss. Due to the Columbian Exchange, the issue of human rights rose globally. Slavery became a more prevalent issue due to the demand of slaves in the New World. which existed because there was a large amount of work to be done, but not enough Europeans willing to do it. Therefore, the Europeans relied on forced labor

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