However it has proven to do nothing but disturb and hurt the lives of millions of civilians around the world. ... It is difficult to think of a world without war because we have grown accustomed to continuous conflict and have made it the only solution for peace. ... For example, if we take a look at World War I, the only reason why it ended was because many of the countries that fought were exhausted and begged their leaders to call for a ceasefire. ... War only fuels war" (p.5). ... Effects of War on Children In wars such as the Liberian civil war and the Angolan civil war children wer...

• Word Count: 2849
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Among other things, he seems to have been dragging his feet about helping the U.S. in the contra war. ... On January 1, 1990 most of the administration of the Canal was due to go over to Panama. ... Then in December 1989, the United States celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War by invading Panama outright. ... This was just in time to make certain a compliant government for the administrative changeover of the Canal on January 1, 1990. ... Dan Rather placed him "at the top of the list of the world's drug thieves and scum's."" ...

• Word Count: 3327
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Private military and security companies fill the vacuum mainly left in three types of unstable situations: (i) in zones of low-intensity armed conflict (the new asymmetrical wars) where the armies are not fully deployed or in post conflict situations with a high level of insecurity; (ii) in armed conflicts when international organizations do not intervene; and (iii) in troubled areas in developing countries where there is no presence of the State and extractive transnational corporations operate.5 Under the emergent system of international criminal law the individual is a subject of the law. ....

• Word Count: 9871
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: Graduate

Excerpts from John Locke [pp. 1-6], and Edmund Burke [pp. 7-11] from this document. ... The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions; for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker; all the servants of one sovereign Master, sent into the world by His order and about His business; they are His property, whose workmanship they are made to last duri...

• Word Count: 7672
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Written treaties between tribes and European powers go back to the early 1 7th century. ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... In 1982 section 35 was added to the Constitution of Canada: (1) The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed. (2) In this Act, "aboriginal peoples of Canada" includes the Indian, Inuit and Metis peoples of Canada. ...

• Word Count: 4016
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The defense of women who killed their batterers also became a rallying cry in the US and in other parts of the world. ... It is used in many places around the world, including New Zealand, Germany, Scotland, Canada, Israel, St. ... During her tenure as Special Rapporteur from 1994 until 2003, she prepared several substantial reports defining violence against women and investigating its various manifestations around the world. ... Although it has no binding force, this Declaration does have the moral strength of world consensus (Coomaraswamy and Kios 1999: 182). It is a comprehensive document...

• Word Count: 9630
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ... ...

• Word Count: 2503
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ... T...

• Word Count: 2503
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Spender concludes that the art of poetry has receded because poets are limiting creation of contemporary writing by turning away from many areas of the modern world. ... Impact Propensity: The original onset of world religions and empires changed ways of life due to literacy and alterations in worldviews. ... (d) mediascapes, refers to all forms of media and the images of they world that they create. ... Also, studies that are about the non-western world tend to put too much attention on developmental issues. ... "The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action" The Platform for Action w...

• Word Count: 3769
• Approx Pages: 15

TOPIC 1: Historical Context It can be said the body of Human Rights was first identified in the early eighteenth century, drawn up in response to the experiences of the Second World War. Post war seen the formation of a global organisation known as the United Nations, whose aim was never to let such brutality and conflict happen again. ... World leaders came together in a General Assembly in January of 1946 where a drafted declaration of fundamental human rights was received from the Economic and Social Council. ... This body of world leaders compiled a document containing 30 articles definin...

• Word Count: 3189
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to "Church History", by Manent Pierre, (1995) when Rome became the ruler of the world, the Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in about 330 CE. As a result, the Christian religion was legalized and Emperor Theodosius 1 made it the official religion of the Empire. ... Karen O'Connor in her book "Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook", Volume 1" (2010) examines the exclusion of women from the leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. ... Stan in Reality Check News: Beatriz Case Reveals Catholic Hierarchy's War on Women (2013), uses test...

• Word Count: 2952
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Drafted in 1950 by the then council of Europe after the second world war and coming into play September 3, 1953, it contains a total of 18 Articles and six Protocols and gives practical form to certain of the rights and freedoms embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and provides a list of guaranteed rights such as the right to life, the prohibition of torture, slavery and forced labour, the right to liberty and security, the right to a fair trial, respect for private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly ...

• Word Count: 3008
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography