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Praise for 50 Facts that Should Change the World -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Introduction: Why should these 50 facts change the world? -- The average Japanese woman can expect to live to be 84. The average Botswanan will reach just 39 -- A third of the world's obese people live in the developing world -- If you stand at the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street in central London, there are 161 branches of Starbucks within a five-mile radius -- China has 44 million missing women -- Brazil has more Avon ladies than members of its armed services -- Ninety-four per cent of the world's executions in 2005 took place in just four countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA -- British supermarkets know more about their customers than the British government does -- Every cow in the European Union is subsidised by 2.50 a day. That's more than what 75 per cent of Africans have to live on -- In more than 70 countries, same-sex relationships are illegal. In nine countries, the penalty is death -- One in five of the world's people lives on less than 1 a day -- More than 12,000 women are killed each year in Russia as a result of domestic violence -- In 2006, 16 million Americans had some form of plastic surgery -- Landmines kill or maim at least one person every hour -- There are 44 million child labourers in India -- People in industrialised countries eat between six and seven kilograms of food additives every year -- David Beckham's deal with the LA Galaxy football team will earn him £50 every minute -- Seven million American women and 1 million American men suffer from an eating disorder -- Nearly half of British fifteen year olds have tried illegal drugs and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers

The argument that democratic states do not go to war with one another, better known by political scientists and international relations theorists as the democratic peace proposition, remains one of the most difficult to dispute phenomena in state's relations with one another. Immanuel Kant argued over two hundred years ago that three components were necessary in order for dyads to behave peacefully toward one another: institutionalized democracy, closely intertwined economies, and international organizations. In this thesis, I analyze a specific dyad, Armenia and Azerbaijan, which in the early 1990s, had a war over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh. A cease-fire was brokered in 1994; however, still in 2009 a political solution is far from being rendered. The thesis will begin with a brief introduction to the Nagorno Karabakh territorial dispute as well as a section on democratic peace literature and theory. In the main chapters, I will discuss each leg of the Kantian tripod for peace and the problems and possibilities in achieving each of these individual requirements in the Karabakh case. The paper will conclude by examining whether Armenia and Azerbaijan have a chance at realizing democracy.

Reading the Bible with the Poor is a methodology of biblical study rooted in liberation theology and hermeneutics. Leaders within the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival are utilizing this methodology as a tool for organizing the movement to end poverty. This paper will explore the literature of the Reading the Bible with the Poor methodology with emphasis on the influences from contextual biblical study and liberation theology, especially in South Africa and Latin America, as well as social movements of the poor and dispossessed in the United States. Additionally, the paper will include reflections from one author, who is a practitioner of this methodology of biblical reading, on its use as an emancipatory adult education program within the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The analysis and reflections can inform other adult education movements rooted in struggles for liberation and revolutionary critical pedagogy.