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Britains first ever National Minimum Wage (NMW) comes into force this April at a rate of 3.60 an hour for those aged 22 plus and 3.00 an hour for 18-21 year olds. According to Professor David Metcalf, writing in the February Economic Journal, the NMW will boost the pay of nearly two million employees by…

Throughout history, there have been numerous peculiar characters, and Russian history was no exception. Grigory Rasputin, an assistant to the Royal Russian family, was a man of extraordinary nature. Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, who was also known as Rasputin, was born on January 23, 1871, in Tobolsk, Russia (DISCovering). Another source states that Rasputin was born…

Should a Superpower Establish a Sphere of Influence? This influence, that was felt around the world, led to many wars and possibly prevented a holocaust. It was a visible defensive action and an invisible security wall. The real importance of this question is not “should” a sphere of influence be established, but “why should” a…

Haiti is one of the top countries that suffer from world hunger. Haiti is a country located in the continent of the Caribbean and it’s an independent state with a population of roughly 10 million people. Worldwide, one person in every eight experiences hunger due to lack of food and millions of people die of…

Introduction             From the early context of slavery, the bible was pointed out as the main origin of this concept. It was the movements initiated by two groups, abolitionists and defenders, that somehow contradicted the aspect of “slavery-morality” supported by the bible. In order to counter the arguments initiated by the abolitionists, the clergy of…

Arkhangelsk, besides Archangel, metropolis, northern European Russia, capital of Arkhangelsk Oblast, on the Northern Dvina ( Severnaya Dvina ) River, near the White Sea ( Beloye More ) . It is a major haven, although icebound in winter months. The metropolis is besides a trade and processing centre for an of import timber-producing part. A…

Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon which, is not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos,…

The United States was not always a united nation. Before the United States be came what it is today, it had been just thirteen colonies. Those colonies transforme d from a united country into something more, a transcontinental nation, with the help of man y events. Though deaths and sacrifices were made in the process,…

Auschwitz Auschwitz was both a concentration and death camp, it was the largest of the Nazi’s camps and the most streamlined mass killing center ever created. It was at Auschwitz that 1. 1 million people were murdered, mostly Jews. The living conditions at Auschwitz were awful. Prisoners were kept in old brick barracks with several…

Shattered dreams, broken souls, empty laughs, and innocent children. There are 1 in 5 children that live in a household that struggles to put food on the table, which is nearly 16.2 million children that go hungry at some point each year. All due to economic hardships that many parents/guardians may face. For instance, unemployment,…