Beirut

The United States is one of the most promptly developed countries in the world: the superior level of life it offers its citizen drives people searching for a better living and future. In fact, it witnesses a massive number of immigrants from all around the world every year. Lebanon being a country always in external and internal conflict, it is unable to grant its citizens the level of life they have always wished for, pushing them far away from their homeland to other advanced nations such as…

Zaha Hadid Architectures Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect, born on 31 October 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq to an upper-class Iraqi family. Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon before moving to London in 1972 to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Hadid has about 950 projects in 44 different countries according to Zaha Hadid Architects website. Hadid also worked with the interior architecture, product, and fashion design.…

Syrian people are fleeing their native country to Canada and other safe countries mainly because of the civil war, which has left their homeland in complete devastation. The war that has been relentless since spring of 2011, after pro-democracy turned violent when some teenagers were arrested and tortured for painting revolutionary slogans on a school wall. This caused hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets, all over the country in a protest demanding President Assad’s…

The Impact of Social Media: What Role does it play on a Child’s Mental Health? Social media has taken over the entire world in a large way. Social media Web sites, such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, have become basic regimes of day to day modern life, particularly for kids. Most kids have an account for each social media site. That means having three to four accounts to check multiple times a day. What is the mental effect of checking these social media accounts daily? Being on these…

Change management is important in a company so that they could fulfill the customers needs and wants and to increase the company’s profit growth. A company should manage its employees, stakeholders, suppliers and customers so that the changes can be made successfully. A company should send their employees for more training so that they can may have more skills and they can make the company more profitable in the future. The company should encourage its employees to voice out their ideas about…

The changes of the world are evident when reviewing Mohammed Mossadegh’s “Person of the Year” article from 1951. Mohammed Mossadegh was born in May of 1882. He grew up in the midst of major Iranian movements such as the 1891 Tobacco Revolt. He studied in France and Switzerland, then later eventually became prime minister of Iran. Mossadegh was selected as Time's magazine’s 1951 “Person of the Year” due to his nationalization of the Iranian oil. We are revisiting him today due to unknown factors…

white. He comes across a portrait of a man in his fifties wearing khaki pants and is smiling at the camera. Penrose mentions that it’s his father and takes the frame away to put it back. He tells Paul that he worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Beirut and was killed in 1980. Paul notices another photo of a man in a boxing ring and though it was Penrose when he was younger but it happened to be his father also. He tells Paul “boxing released something in him- he was a gentle man out of the…

Martyrdom has been considered by many to be the epitome of doing something for the greater good, where a person sacrifices life itself for the sake of principle (Merriam-Webster). During the Beirut Bombing of 2015, Adel Termos, a husband and father of two, forced a suicide bomber to detonate his explosive belt. Subsequently, Termos was killed on impact but is now thought to have saved dozens of lives due to his bravery. One may bring forth the…

the restoration of territory lost by Palestinians during wars. The resolution attempted to push the Arabs and Israelis towards peacefully coexisting, nonetheless, it remains unsuccessful. Additionally, all Arab states except Libya gathered at the Beirut Summit of the Arab League to endorse a plan for peace. The peace initiative presented an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict by offering recognition of Israel and stabilized relations among Arab states in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from…

his administration would have no choice, but to cut ties with Israel and to work on fixing the tension that Israel started once again. Before the Gulf War, while Present Ronald Reagan was in office. Israel had sent bombing raids into the country of Beirut, while they were at war with the nation of Lebanon. During this instant President Ronald Reagan was forced to discuss with Israel to ceasefire (Reuter, 2010). President George H.W. Bush, or George Bush Senior, had to deal with another policy…