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The development of fuel-efficient cars was primarily in response to the OPEC oil crisis of the nineteen-seventies and the dramatic rise in gasoline prices for American motorists. Up until the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Americans drove high-powered, gas guzzling cars. Gasoline was cheap and consumers were not interested in purchasing fuel-efficient cars. As a result, the Detroit automakers did not design or produce fuel-efficient cars. Within a few years, the market demand changed with skyrocketing oil

A Loss in Faith, Ever Found? Night, written by Elie Wiesel, tells the terrifying experience in the concentration camps that many Jews were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout most of the novel, Elie Wiesel tells about how many prisoners, including himself, lost faith in God. During the Holocaust many groups of people, especially Jews, were taken to concentrations camps and treated in the most inhumane way. Many were taken away from their homes, and lost everything that was once their own

Beginning in 2008, my research focuses mostly on Rwanda’s political, militarily, economic reconstruction since the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. This research has led to a greater exploration of regional dynamics between other African Great Lakes region nations. During my various periods living within Rwanda, I have had the opportunity to perform independent research and analysis on the nation’s political, military, agricultural-focused development, religious and social history and presence. This research

was treated as a slave and bought himself free. Many different researchers and psychologists have focused in depth on statistics in which what kind of events caused PTSD the most often. A research study that referenced Israeli veterans from the Yom Kippur War concluded, “As a preliminary analysis we assessed PTSD rates according to the DSM-IV TR criteria among the ex-POWS (prisoners of war) and control groups. A chi-square analysis showed a significant relationship between group and PTSD, χ2(1) =

Scars of War, Wounds of Peace The Israeli-Arab Tragedy by Shlomo Ben-Ami Preface This scholarly publication details the overall work of how Shlomo Ben-Ami, the once prior Israeli Foreign Minister and author, configured an English based novel detailing the catastrophic years of war involving the Arab-Israeli conflict. This confliction between the Jews and Arabs escalades to terrorizing threats to eradicate Palestinian Arabs and Zionists throughout the Palestinian region. The Zionists and Yishuv struggle

been contemplating when I would go to a Shabbat service over the last couple of weeks. I had some conflicts with the times and there were also a couple of Jewish holidays happening during the months of September and October, such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. I became aware that services may change location and style during the high holidays depending on the congregation. High holidays do not fall on the day each civil calendar year; the Jewish calendar is

Jewish people have long been known for their role in finance and banking, for better or worse. The Jewish presence in the highest legions of financial gurus is so prevalent, that the stereotype of Jews and Money is deeply ingrained in most people’s minds. The success of these Jews is admirable, but the negative stereotypes that have been generated as a result of this are not. The aim of this paper is to investigate and find out the Torah’s and Judaism’s viewpoint on money, wealth, and charity is

(OAPEC) is composed by Saudia Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Syria, and Tunisia. The organization placed an embargo on the USA over their support of Isreal in the Yom Kippur War. This is an example of economic warfare which allowed them to express their outrage and disagreement with USA without declaring war. They simply use economic measures to stifle the economy of their enemies. The same tactic was implemented when

Israel is a small democracy at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, with a 2016 population of 8.17 million, of which, 74.8 percent is Jewish; most of the rest of Israel 's population is Arab. The term "Arab" denotes persons descended from tribes inhabiting the Arabian Peninsula or persons speaking the Arabic language. By this definition, there are about 250 million Arabs worldwide, most found in the group of countries occupying North Africa and the western part of the Middle East. Most Arabs

Judaism and Baha’i In the World The religions Baha'i and Judaism have many things in common but are also very different in many different aspects. Both religions are large and practiced in many places around the world by many people. These two can be compared with the multiple ways that their people have been viciously murdered. Even though Judaism is one of the oldest religions, Baha’i is much more of a prevalent religion and, perhaps more modern of the two. Despite their many similarities, abundant