1948

Healthcare as a Universal Human Right The human right to health has been preserved in several legal instruments that are part of the globally acceptable legal standards. The idea that all people regardless of their socioeconomic status, level of education, age, gender or physical abilities must have access to unbiased and high-quality healthcare cannot be ignored (United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, 2000). Although this has been clear for over fifty years now since…

The Conflict of Land in the Middle East Ever since 1300 CE, land has been an issue in the Middle East because of recurring fighting. The partitioning of the Ottoman Empire caused conflict because of the separation of religious and ethnic groups. Correspondingly, Israel has been fighting for their rights against Palestinians. Altogether, the Middle East has experienced a very disastrous history full of fights and war. The Middle East, a highly diverse and controversial region, comprises of a…

Kryptonite, his only catastrophic weakness, does not offer a broad range of solutions. It must be used sparingly or the narrative becomes redundant as does the storyline of Superman using is abilities to save the world. Throughout both the 1948 and 1952 series, Superman easily concours any problems without breaking a sweat. He flies to save someone hanging out of a airplane, is able to stop a car dead in its tracks all while making it back to the Daily Planet to write the headline. According…

Constantine’s conversion to Christianity was a pivotal turning point in the highly pagan regime of the Roman Empire (Afoldi, 1948). There has been much speculation by historians and scholars surrounding whether the conversion to Christianity was a carefully articulated political maneuver by Constantine, for military supremacy of the Roman Empire. Historically, scholars suggest that the context in which Constantine was said to have converted to Christianity was a militaristic based context, with…

The competing ideologies between the United States of America and the Soviet Union influenced the Cold War. The Berline Blockade and airlift, the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis are crucial events of the Cold War and was a result of the ideological differences between the two superpowers. As Malone stated, “the United States’ ideology of capitalism and the Soviet Union’s ideology of communism led to a superpower rivalry” (156). The Berlin blockade and airlift which was the first crisis…

At the end of world war two for the first time in 35 years Korea was free of Japanese occupation. Due to the agreements that the Soviet Union signed with America to join the pacific war against Japan the Soviet army stopped at the 38th parallel and the country was split into two, the Soviet Union controlled the North and the Americans controlled the south. With the fall of Fascism and the rise of communism across Europe, the United States and the USSR both strived to prove the superiority of…

Canada at the end of the second World War had started to make a name for itself. Canada was no longer seen as a country not strong to defend itself, but a country filled with brave men and women. As time went on and the war was being pushed back into the background Canada started to develop a close relationship with a very powerful country. Canada and America’s relation had started to take off and in every aspect made Canada stronger and more dangerous every single day. Canada and America’s…

into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Throughout her life, baseball was her life. Effa grew up loving baseball, and so did her husband, Abe Manley. Together, they owned and managed the Newark Eagles, a Negro National League franchise from 1934 to 1948. This movie will follow who Effa Manley was and how she became the most famous woman in baseball. Effa Manley was born March 27, 1897 to an African American seamstress mother, Bertha Ford Brooks and John Marcus Bishop who was her white employer…

was the first one of its kind to ever be created. It included 23 countries and was to function as the first worldwide multilateral free trade agreement. The agreement itself was formed not too long after world war two and was in effect from 30th June 1948 and lasted until 1st January 1995 whereby it ended as a result of being replaced by the World Trade Organization. GATT itself was a set of multilateral trade agreements that were aimed at the abolition of quotas and the reduction of tariff…

the commercial sex workers to have relations with the soldiers and inmates. The Tuskegee experiment doctors documented the natural growth of syphilis, the Guatemala Experiment doctor deliberately infected people with the STD. The experiment ended in 1948 because of gossip and the doctors didn’t want the truth to come to…