1. Muammar Al-Gaddafi - Libya's Manipulative Dictator
It's All Connected Joanna begins this section by discussing ancient cultures, at first I was concerned that I would be reading yet another doomsday prediction describing how the world will set on fire and all that is and ever way will no longer be, but contrary to my initial reaction Macy began to create a solid argument that altered the way in which I believe we should perceive ancient cultures, like the ones that are continuously manipulated by pop culture to feed some sick hunger we humans have for destruction and death. ...
Your life is literally worth less than that of a Jew; the Israeli military likes to fire indiscriminate heavy weapons such as rockets or shells at Arab neighborhoods if they think a terrorist might live there, and they casually dismiss dozens of innocent casualties or even deaths as unfortunate but necessary. ...
During the late 1700's, two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. These two historical events happened at the same time, but had a great number of differences and very little similarity. When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent and bloody event, while the American Revolution was almost nonviolent, aside from the war. In 1774, King Louis XVI made a decision that could have prevented the French Revolution by breathing new life into the French economy: he appointed Physiocrat Robert Turgot as Controller General of Finance. The Ph...
Although Philoctetes' cave is rugged, it also contains some traces of civilization; a carved wooden cup; "a wooden bowl, the work of some rude hand3" a bed made of leaves; material for making a fire and especially Philoctetes' bow. ...
As their history is studied, the development of the strict Jewish code of morality is one that tells of the strict forge in which their race was created. ... Islam is the one true path to salvation and anyone who forsakes Islam knowingly is destined for the fires of hell. ...
Atlantis: The Lost Continent INTRODUCTION. For thousands of years a burning question has tantalized mankind: Did the lost continent of Atlantis really exist? Why did it vanish without a trace? Atlantis, said by some to be the world's oldest civilization, has never ceased ...
HSBC is one of the largest banking groups in the world today. It has been ranked fifth largest company in Forbes Global 2000 and the third largest banking company as well. HSBC head office is located in the HSBC Tower in London's Canary Wharf. The HSBC group is named after its founding member, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, a bank established by, a Scot, to finance British trade in the Far East in 1865. HSBC has some 110 million customers worldwide across its 5 Customer Groups. ...
Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...
On the first night of continuous operation, 389 Federal Express employees and 14 aircrafts deliver 186 packages overnight to 25 U.S. cities - and the modern air/ground express industry is born. 1975 - Federal Express installs the first Federal Express Drop Box. 1975 - UPS forges "Golden Link," becomes first package delivery company to serve every address in the 48 contiguous United States. 1977 - After two years of lobbying led by Federal Express, Congress passes Public Law 95-163 enabling FedEx and other cargo airlines to use larger aircraft with no geographic restrictions on routes. ...
Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...
