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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
ESSAY 4
CONCEPT PAPER 7
REACTION PAPER 11
POSITION PAPER 13
REPORT 16
RESEARCH 17
RESOURCES 20
INTRODUCTION
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This essay could work for prompts 1, 2, 5 and 7 for the Common App.
When I was 16, I lived with the Watkins family in Wichita, Kansas. Mrs.
Watkins was the coordinator of the foreign exchange student program I
was enrolled in. She had a nine year old son named Cody. I would babysit
Cody every day after school for at least two to three hours. We would play
Scrabble or he would read to me from Charlotte’s Web or The Ugly
Duckling. He would talk a lot about his friends and school life, and I would
listen to him and ask him the meanings of certain words. He was my first
friend in the New World.
My second family was the Martinez family, who were friends of the
Watkins’s. The host dad Michael was a high school English teacher and the
host mom Jennifer (who had me call her “Jen”) taught elementary school.
She had recently delivered a baby, so she was still in the hospital when I
moved into their house. The Martinez family did almost everything together.
We made pizza together, watched Shrek on their cozy couch together, and
went fishing on Sunday together. On rainy days, Michael, Jen and I would
sit on the porch and listen to the rain, talking about our dreams and
thoughts. Within two months I was calling them mom and dad.
After I finished the exchange student program, I had the option of returning
to Korea but I decided to stay in America. I wanted to see new places and
meet different people. Since I wasn’t an exchange student anymore, I had
the freedom--and burden--of finding a new school and host family on my
own. After a few days of thorough investigation, I found the Struiksma
family in California. They were a unique group.
The host mom Shellie was a single mom who had two of her own sons and
two Russian daughters that she had adopted. The kids always had
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something warm to eat, and were always on their best behavior at home
and in school. It would be fair to say that this was all due to Shellie’s
upbringing. My room was on the first floor, right in front of Shellie’s hair
salon, a small business that she ran out of her home. In the living room
were six or seven huge amplifiers and a gigantic chandelier hung from the
high ceiling. The kitchen had a bar. At first, the non-stop visits from
strangers made me nervous, but soon I got used to them. I remember one
night, a couple barged into my room while I was sleeping. It was awkward.
After a few months I realized we weren’t the best fit. In the nicest way
possible, I told them I had to leave. They understood.
The Ortiz family was my fourth family. Kimberly, the host mom, treated me
the same way she treated her own son. She made me do chores: I fixed
dinner, fed their two dogs Sassy and Lady, and once a week I cleaned the
bathroom. I also had to follow some rules: No food in my room, no using
the family computer, no lights on after midnight, and no ride unless it was
an emergency. The first couple of months were really hard to get used to,
but eventually I adjusted.
I lived with the Ortiz family for seven months like a monk in the deep forest.
However, the host dad Greg’s asthma got worse after winter, so he wanted
to move to the countryside. It was unexpected and I only had a week to find
a new host family. I asked my friend Danielle if I could live with her until I
found a new home. That’s how I met the Dirksen family, my fifth family.
The Dirksen family had three kids. They were all different. Danielle liked
bitter black coffee, Christian liked energy drinks, and Becca liked sweet
lemon tea. Dawn, the host mom didn’t like winter, and Mark, the host dad,
didn’t like summer. After dinner, we would all play Wii Sports together. I
was the king of bowling, and Dawn was the queen of tennis. I don’t
remember a single time that they argued about the games. Afterward, we
would gather in the living room and Danielle would play the piano while the
rest of us sang hymns.
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Of course, those 28 months were too short to fully understand all five
families, but I learned from and was shaped by each of them. By teaching
me English, nine year-old Cody taught me the importance of being able to
learn from anyone; the Martinez family showed me the value of spending
time together as a family; the Struiksma family taught me to reserve
judgment about divorced women and adopted children; Mrs. Ortiz taught
me the value of discipline and the Dirksen family taught me the importance
of appreciating one another’s different qualities.
Getting along with other people is necessary for anyone and living with five
families has made me more sensitive to others’ needs: I have learned how
to recognize when someone needs to talk, when I should give advice and
when to simply listen, and when someone needs to be left alone; in the
process, I have become much more adaptable. I’m ready to change, learn,
and be shaped by my future families.
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Concept Paper
The Conference is part of a wider project being carried out by the World
Organization Against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of the Geneva
International Academic Network (GIAN) and with the financial support of
the GIAN, the Dutch Foundation ICCO, the Fondation des droits de
l’homme au travail and the Swiss Federal Government (Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation).
The Conference will base its work on a study currently being carried out by
OMCT as part of the project. More details on this study are provided below.
The context
The fight against torture, summary executions, forced disappearances and
other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment within the international human
rights framework has essentially developed through the denunciation of
cases, the establishment of a normative system, as well as through the
search for mechanisms - legal or other - that enable adequate protection
and reparation of victims to be guaranteed.
Shifting emphasis in the fight against torture; the need to look at root
causes
Nevertheless, a very large number of individuals are still subjected to
torture, ill-treatment, forced disappearances and summary executions.
Furthermore, the cases that are being reported and documented are no
longer so much the result of imposed ideologies, but rather, increasingly
come as the consequence of growing social tensions, which often lead to
violent clashes. This paradigm change requires a new look at how we
combat torture and other forms of violence.
The study
The first part of this project consists of a study being carried out by OMCT
and which will form the basic working document of the Conference. The
study contains an extensive (84 page) academic analysis investigating the
correlations between violence and socio-economic inequalities based on
information from a total of 63 countries and using survey data from the
People’s Security Survey of the ILO’s InFocus Programme on Socio-
Economic Security. A further paper deals with the relation of women’s
access to resources and domestic violence in South Africa and another
examines the relationship between economic recession and violence as
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The study also includes an in depth analysis of the human rights situation
in five countries (Argentina, Egypt, Nepal, South Africa and Uzbekistan)
together with case studies examining specific instances in those countries
of the relationship between violations of economic, social and cultural rights
and violence prepared in collaboration with a national human rights partner
in each country.
Further, the study will examine how selected international human rights
mechanisms and selected international institutions and development and
financial agencies approach the issue.
TheConference
The Conference will provide the occasion for a critical review of the study
and its conclusions. It will be an opportunity to agree that failure to respect
economic, social and cultural rights and the resulting inequality and poverty
can cause or contribute to violence, including torture. The study should also
lead to a better understanding of how well national and international
authorities, including international human rights bodies and international
financial and development institutions understand this relationship and how
adequately they react.
Finally, the Conference will be asked to propose ways in which the wide
range of actors involved can contribute to the elimination of violence,
including torture, by promoting respect for economic, social and cultural
rights. Particular attention will be given to how a network of national NGOs,
such as the OMCT SOS-Torture Network, can respond to the need to act
on the economic, social and cultural root causes of violence.
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REACTION PAPER
We urge foreign leaders to take a more vested interest in the long term
global impacts caused by the use of nuclear energy and possible health
concerns, such as those seen in Fukushima, Japan. The leaking of
radioactive waste has adversely affected Russia environmentally,
commercially, and politically. We remain supportive of our friends in Japan
who face the potential ill health effects caused by long term exposure
to radiation. This situation all too closely mirrors our own struggles with the
Chernobyl disaster and subsequent loss of life, due to both physical and
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Nuclear waste is a global issue and all countries with nuclear capability will
benefit from scientific research into this matter. As such, we firmly request
the cooperation of the United Nations in dealing with this grave issue
before further disasters occur. The Russian Federation is committed to
safely researching and developing the tremendous capabilities of nuclear
energy. We are moving steadily forward with plans of expanding the role of
nuclear energy in our country, including the development of new reactor
technology. Progressing beyond the minor errors of the past, the efficiency
of nuclear technology in Russia has increased dramatically since the mid-
1990s. Over 20 nuclear power reactors are confirmed or planned for
energy exportation. The Russian Federation is continually striving to
develop safer and more effective ways of disposing nuclear waste. The
Russian Federation envisions nuclear power providing 45-50% of our
country’s electricity demands by 2050, with that number rising to 70-80%
by the end of the century.
growth of Sierra Leone’s fishing industry, creating new jobs, increasing total
fish yield, and helps to combat the illegal fishing industry. Looking towards
the future, the Russian Federation is excited to strengthen and expand our
partnership with UNIDO to foster economic growth with our allies around
the world.
You can ride gondola there. It is the classical Venetian boat which
nowadays is mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other
ceremonies. Now, most Venetians travel by motorised waterbuses
(“vaporetti”) which ply regular routes along the major canals and between
the city’s islands. The city also has many private boats. The only gondolas
still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries
crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.
You can see the amusing city’s landmarks such as Piazza San Marco,
Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Saint Mark’s Cathedral or villas of the
Veneto. The villas of the Veneto, rural residences for nobles during the
Republic, are one of the most interesting aspects of Venetian countryside.
Research Paper
Abstract
There are few facts about the role of obedience when committing acts
against one’s personal conscience (1961). Most theories suggest that only
very disturbed people are capable of administering pain to an ordinary
citizen if they are ordered to do so. Our experiment tested people's
obedience to authority. The results showed that most obey all orders given
by the authority-figure, despite their unwillingness. The conclusion is that,
contrary to common belief, personal ethics mean little when pitted against
authority.
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Introduction
Methods
Participants
There were 30 male participants. They were recruited by advertisement in
a newspaper and were paid $4.50.
Instruments
A "shock generator" was used to trick the participants into thinking that they
were giving an electric shock to another person in another room. The shock
generator had switches labeled with different voltages, starting at 30 volts
and increasing in 15-volt increments all the way up to 450 volts. The
switches were also labeled with terms which reminded the participant of
how dangerous the shocks were.
Procedures
The participant met another "participant" in the waiting room before the
experiment. The other "participant" was an actor. Each participant got the
role as a "teacher" who would then deliver a shock to the actor ("learner")
every time an incorrect answer to a question was produced. The participant
believed that he was delivering real shocks to the learner.
The learner would pretend to be shocked. As the experiment progressed,
the teacher would hear the learner plead to be released and complain
about a heart condition. Once the 300-volt level had been reached, the
learner banged on the wall and demanded to be released. Beyond this
point, the learner became completely silent and refused to answer any
more questions. The experimenter then instructed the participant to treat
this silence as an incorrect response and deliver a further shock.
When asking the experimenter if they should stop, they were instructed to
continue.
Results
Discussion/Conclusion
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Most of the participants became very agitated, stressed and angry at the
experimenter. Many continued to follow orders throughout even though
they were clearly uncomfortable. The study shows that people are able to
harm others intentionally if ordered to do so. It provides evidence that this
dynamic is far more important than previously believed, and that personal
ethics are less predictive of such behavior.
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Resources
https://www.collegeessayguy.com/blog/college-essay-examples
https://www.omct.org/en/resources/events/concept-paper-poverty-
inequality-and-violence-is-there-a-human-rights-response-international-
conference
https://www.slideshare.net/jwalts/sample-reaction-paper
http://di-copy.blogspot.co.id/2013/01/example-of-report-text-definition.html
https://explorable.com/example-of-a-research-paper