Bosnia and Herzegovina

When it came to selecting my core value I had to look at what has led me to live my life the way I have today. As a Bosnian-American I have been overwhelmed with joy because of the opportunity that I have received living here in the United States. I can say I am truly blessed that my family was accepted as refugees in United States in the year of 2000. I am blessed that I have the freedom of religion, speech, and press along with the millions of others living here in the United States. The…

reform and reconciliation with the European Union. Montenegro and Macedonia both have seen similar successes. These successes seem to stem from inclusion of minority populations, a problem which has plagued the area for centuries, as described above. Bosnia remains ethnically divided and under international control. Western intervention likewise has followed a path starting in the Greek Revolution to regulate the dissolution of empire and continuing into modernity. At this point, democracy and…

Croatia is a sizable country (approximately 21,851 sq miles) that is part of Eurasia, the largest Continent (approximately 21.14 million sq). Some of the surrounding regions are, Slovenia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, and Hungary. The Adriatic Sea is bordering the west side of Croatia. The religion and language in Croatia was greatly influenced by the bordering regions, with Roman Catholicism (86.28%) being the vast majority of the people in the…

Doubt, Keith. "Evil and the ritual of shame: A crime against humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Janus Head 7.2 (2007): 319-331. Doubt uses a sociological lens to examine the ethnic cleansing in Serbia, stating that the root of ethnic cleansing lies in an “attempt to transform the public identities of individuals and a community.” (Doubt) This means to debase an individual or group into a lesser being(s) in the eyes of the witnesses, or the world community. This is the essence of how sociologists…

The author of the source, Gary Sheffield, believes that Germany was completely aware that, with their actions and decisions, they would be creating a major war. Sheffield uses case studies such as Germany’s alliance with Austria and the fact that Germany broke a French-Russian alliance to support his view. As well as this, Sheffield states that WWI was utterly and completely Germany’s fault as he states that Britain, Russia and France’s stance in the war was completely defensive, and so, they…

What many are not aware of though, is that in there are pyramids of various shapes and sizes in many different parts are the world, with some of them being found in unexpected locations. In 2008, a set of three “pyramids” were found in Visoko, Bosnia. Bosnia is located in Eastern Europe near Croatia and Serbia, and the discovery of these pyramids was quite shocking to some archeologists and most of the world. The archaeological site, now called the Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids didn 't look…

Violence against innocents is something no sane person wants to inflict. Yet, in cases of civil war and genocide, sane people become the very same insane person that they vilify. Sarajevo, a gleaming city seen as a model to the rest of former European communist countries, was being torn apart during the middle of the 20th century by the very people that made it the model city it was. The people of Rwanda, tired after years of violence and war, turns back from their signed peace agreement and…

Nationalism, Imperialism, and Militarism There were many overlapping causes behind World War I. To begin with, Serbian nationalism and Pan-Slavism led to a desire of the Serbian people to expand Serbia to include several Balkan states and territories that were populated by Slavic people but under rule by the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. This desire for Slavic independence was supported by Russia (who also had a military alliance with Serbia), and was naturally opposed by Austria-Hungary (which had…

had just annexed the neighboring country Bosnia. Serbia was furious as Austria-Hungary just took their sister country away from them. In Bosnia about 40% of the population was in fact Serbian. By May of 1914 Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabez and Nedeljko Cabrinovic of a stem of the terrorist group The Black Hand were already plotting…

During the early 1870s, the Franco-Prussian War took place. At this time France had no allies, which was the chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck’s goal; he wanted to keep France isolated for Europe. He was successful until 1890, when Kaiser Wilhelm II took office. Between the years of 1870 to 1914 France has gained many alliances and their government has changed drastically. After the Franco-Prussian War took place, France had no alliances. Their first alliance was Russia, though they…