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    IRC ( International Rescue Comittee )

    Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster.
  • Weapon Trafficking

    Weapon Trafficking
    The weapon traffic has been around since terrorism and narcotics existed they have caused a great impact in the lives of everyone. The most famous weapon trafficked worldwide is the AK-47 The total value of the global arms market is estimated around 60 billion a year, with around 8 billion attributed to pistols, rifles, machine guns, and bullets. This means that many countries economy is better because of the illegal weapon trafic.
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    CARE International

    At the beginning, there was a package: a CARE package, aimed to reduce hunger and show solidarity with the people of war-torn Europe. This later became a worldwide organization to help people get pass their situation.
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    Japan's Education Progress

    100% of the japanese population that studies primary schools pass everything.

    The gross enrolment ratio on secondary education is 101.4% japanese people.
    Japanese people made their education based on Chinese culture in the 6th century.
    After World War 2 Japan established and educative Reform were they wanted to eradicate the militarist teachings and to teach more about the democracy. In 2010 more than 2.8 million people entered University. There were more than 700 universities. (1945-1950)
  • Japan's Economic miracle

    Japan's Economic miracle
    The Miracle was required due to the bombing of two main cities in Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US belives that Japan's weakness would not benefit the world. Due to this belive from part of the US, they decided to help Japan making it buy more modern technology than other countries and inovate and after the help Japan became one of the most notably comercial countries.
  • Drug Trafficking

    Drug Trafficking
    During the 1960’s to current times most of the drug dealing market grew a lot. Many people started to think that consuming drugs and abusing of them was popular in the 1970’s it was really common that in clubs rich people consumed drugs especially cocaine or crack. In the modern days times specially in parties people use ecstasy even though it has many secondary effects teenagers don’t care of the consequences.
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    Landesa

    Creates homes in rural areas with the objective of being able to give people a home which they can stay and live. They also provide land rights to rural citizens around the world.
  • G8

    G8
    The G8 is known as the Group of Eight. Is an assembly of world leaders who meet annually to discuss global issues.It works throughout the year to cover important contemporary topics such as the economy and climate change. The G8 discusses and creates global policies. The countries that are on G8 are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK and USA.
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    Cure Violence

    Cure Violence is created to protect us from violence. People around the world volunteer to help cities to become peaceful with their own neighbors or bring peace to strugguling cities.
  • World Cup 2002

    World Cup 2002
    During the World Cup 2002 of Korea and Japan the economy had a lot of changes. One of the most important thing that happened was that Japan’s economic stagnation. Private consumption and investment in industries increased sharply. About a ⅓ more jobs opened in japan it helped eliminate poverty. But not everything was positive also locals suffer the economically for the new stadiums built and it was no exception on korea.
  • Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

    Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
    Japan’s Earthquake in 2011 has been an important in Japan’s history. The Fukushima Meltdown was a major strike to Japan that came with multiple deaths and injuries as well as a zone full of high levels of radiation. But this came with a previous incident which was a earthquake which initially brought a lot of tragedy and sadness to the world. But what really left the world in shock was the meltdown due to its nonhuman effects in the people.
  • Japan's Tsunami

    Japan's Tsunami
    It all started the day of March 11th, 2011 at 14:46 japanese time and the earthquake had the power of 9.0 magnitude and that is the highest of all times for Japan. Everybody thought that it was over, but the terrible outcome of that earthquake was a devastating tsunami that crashed literally everything of the city of Tohoku. The Tsunami was 40 meters and killed more than 15,885 people and more than 6,000 people were injured, these adds up to one of the most devastating events in history.
  • MLA Mike

    MLA Mike
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  • MLA Emilio

    MLA Emilio
    "The Role of the G8." The Role of the G8. N.p., 4 Aug. 2008. Web. 07 May 2014. http://www.g8.co.uk/. "EDUCATION IN JAPAN TOP PAGE." EDUCATION IN JAPAN TOP PAGE. N.p., 1 Oct. 2007. Web. 07 May 2014. http://www.education-in-japan.info/.
  • MLA Gabriel

    MLA Gabriel
    "2002 FIFA World Cup." Prezi.com. Prezi, n.d. Web. 08 May 2014. http://prezi.com/fzgndm39dfov/2002-fifa-world-cup/. "Decades of Drug Use: Data From the '60s and '70s." Decades of Drug Use: Data From the '60s and '70s. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 May 2014. http://www.gallup.com/poll/6331/decades-drug-use-data-from-60s-70s.aspx. "Decades of Drug Use: The '80s and '90s." Decades of Drug Use: The '80s and '90s. N.p., 7 Mar. 2010. Web. 08 May 2014. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/6352/decades-drug-use-80s-9