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I am an 18 year old student living in London. I have a desire to be a journalist when I am older, preferably as a freelance writer writing political articles for a magazine such as the Economist and for quality broadsheet newspapers across the world.

I am looking to get a break into this career field and obviously this site is an excellent way to see the quality of other articles in relation to your own and just as a way to express your own arguments. If anyone likes my work please let me know especially if you have links in the writing industry. Email me at gaws@hotmail.co.uk.

Thank you all for looking, Patrick

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learning

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politics, current affairs, countries, sport, history

My inspiration ...

great men of the past, da Vinci, Plato, Edward Said, Aristotle

Business > International Business & Trade How to deal with foreign-government bribery issues

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For any individual whether a traveler, a businessman or as a representative of a global company it is likely you will at some stage find yourself in a situation where you are expected to pay a bribe to a government official. This is particularly true for developing nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as Russia and its former satellite states. In most cases bribes will be thinly disguised as 'fines' or 'administrative charges.' It will be immediately clear to both parties it is in fact a bribe. In African and Asian countries such as Nigeria, Chad and India, cars, especially wi...

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