have made a concrete difference in terms of mitigating AIPAC’s otherwise tremendous influence. With these realities in mind, the interviews conducted above point to a context in which pro-JCPOA forces were effective in terms of directly lobbying the Congress specifically because they were supported by synchronous and concomitant mobilization within American civil society. Grassroots Lobbying and the JCPOA With the above in mind, it is critical to note that civil society’s involvement in the…
domain. I’m very interested in how the engineering community in Canada functions because I think it’s important to evaluate ourselves against other similar groups, both positively and negatively, in order to grow as a community. At the time of the congress, I will have attended CFES’s Conference on Diversity in Engineering, which I’m ecstatic to attend for that very reason: to learn about how the engineering colleges and communities of…
Ever since America was founded, its population has always struggled with the balance between national and local politics. A national government was favored because of its ability to maintain cohesiveness among the whole population, while local, smaller governments were favored in order to limit the powers of the national government and to prevent the tyranny the colonists faced before fleeing from Britain. While some Americans argue that states’ rights hold more importance over the power of the…
giving thanks for the achievements of important figures. National holidays represent an important events in American history or an important person. A holiday becomes a federally recognized holiday when it is enacted by Congress. There are ten federal holidays observed in the United States. American holidays are not just a days of celebration; however, but important days of commemoration and remembrance. The first five holidays enacted by Congress include New Year’s Day, George Washington’s…
Dead Men’s Path is written by (Achebe)and is considered a modernization of the African tribal life. The story is about a man named Michael Obi who is a young, energetic man. Obi is the young new headmaster at the college, a traditional college. Obi has new ideas he thinks will bring the school into a modern era. He soon finds that his ideas don’t achieve the results that he imagined. Obi, bright and enthusiastic as ever who is excited to find out what he can do for the school that has been in…
intimacies and mechanisms of how the balance between powers occur. He looked more specifically at the Congress of Vienna, reported on what it took for Europe to establish a framework for the country relationships. Although his paper explores the factual events that took place, he looked at what happened on a deeper level as well. On this deeper level we find what he believes to be what allowed the Congress of…
No other author like Gail Warshofsky Lapidus has written about Soviet women as she has. In one of her many books, Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union Lapidus claims that the irreplaceable role of Soviet women in both production and reproduction made it virtually certain that the questions of women’s work and household duties were central issues on the Soviet political agenda during the late 1960s. Once the male population started to rise again, and return to the labor force the…
The opposition in Russia opposed to Tsar Nicholas II autocratic style of before 1905 can be categorised into two main groups: Revolutionaries and Reformers (liberals). In turn the revolutionaries can be further divided into three distinct groups: Populists, Social Democrats and Social Revolutionaries. It has long been debated how much of a danger they posed to the tsardom, before 1905, which is what I shall be discussing. The Populists, who dated back to the 1870s, regarded that Russia’s future…
establishment of the Status Quo at the Congress of Vienna. Tensions and hostilities felt among the Great powers gradually increased over time due to these three events the acknowledgment of the eastern question, the Greeks war for independence, and the lastly the Great Eastern…
Over the past couple of years there have been a lot of controversy over whether or not fantasy sport sites should be considered gambling. Fantasy sports sites make millions of dollars with little to no restrictions such as daily bets and is considered a game of skill. The topic of fantasy sports has a deep history to consider, and there will always be both supporters and critics who continue to debate this topic. There has been an ongoing debate on whether or not fantasy sports should…