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NAME: Catherine Wairimu Wahome Manning ID NUMBER: 649598 COURSE: Composition II COURSE CODE: ENG 2206 LECTURER: Milton Obote MEETING PLACE: Room O DATE SUBMITTED: 4 August 2016 WORD COUNT: 1,433 REASERACH QUESTION: How effectively does the film ‘Waltz with Bashir’ depict Israeli involvement in the 16th September 1982 events at ‘Sabra and Shatila’? TABLE OF CONTENTS Tittle Page 1 Table of contents …………………………………………………………………………….. 2 Plan of investigation…

Beauty and terror are two words that can be associated with peace and war, security and fear, comfort and devastation, serenity and distribution. Peace is a necessary requirement among all nations because its based on a system of just and truth. War has always been a motivation among nations to seek authority and power, some see it as the mechanism of survival and a fullfilment to humans desire of violence, others see it as violent armed conflict between two political units that share…

Obama betrayed Israel. President Obama’s refusal to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution that would allot Israel territory the Western Wall resided in caused many Americans to claim that Obama betrayed Israel. However, Obama and others backed his decision by claiming that Israel had violated human rights laws agains Palestinians, and Israel and Pakistan should work out a two-state solution to settle the land dispute. In the columns “ The Unkindest Cut of All, Right in the Back of…

A Masterpiece by Hiba Kalache Hiba Kalache’s Historic Dialogues is a diptych that combines an aquarelle ink painting and an aquarelle on paper. Each of the parts of the diptych is 120x120 cm. This creation is one of Kalache’s private collections and it was made in 2014. Ms.Kalache describes this piece of art as a psychological autobiography where she reflects her own personality. She combines the happy moments but also the sad ones and the moments of anxiety in her art. In her description of her…

This presentation will examine a new approach to reading the social history of the Middle East through examining the use, and abuse, of soldiers’ narratives during WWI. The Great War on the Eastern Front, looked at from the passage of one century, led to major transformations in the way in which the people of the region – from the Ottoman capital of Istanbul to the Arab provinces of the Empire - looked at themselves and at the world. What I propose to do is to see how the war and the fighting…

in urban areas have run the full operational gamut: full-scale ground combat with huge numbers of casualties (Stalingrad, Manila, Seoul); aerial bombing producing hundreds of thousands of casualties in a single day (Dresden and Tokyo); civil war (Beirut, Monrovia); precision bombing (Baghdad, Belgrade); counterterrorism (Belfast)” among others. To minimize these risks, commanders and their staffs should select carefully the targets inside a town and respect strictly the rules of engagement.…

mid-1960s. This allows one to consider Fadi to have been raised in a family with a high value for entrepreneurship. As a matter of fact, his father rose to become Alia’s chairman. Furthermore, it is worth noting that Fadi spent part of his life in Beirut and the other part in Amman before relocating to the United States for his political science studies at George Washington University. These places gave him substantial exposure, allowing him to have several entrepreneurial ideas. It is after…

Kali mera sas? Good morning. Wake up, you are in Athens. Athens is your corporate regional headquarters for Africa and the Middle East. It used to be in Beirut, but, when Lebanon became a war zone, many companies moved their regional operations to Athens. The local laws provide regional headquarters with permits for residency. There are also no taxes for regional headquarters that conduct no actual sales/manufacturing business in Greece, but create administrative and marketing jobs to focus…

There is an abundance of scholarly literature centered upon the contemporary state of Israel in relation to its Arabic neighbors. Politically, economically, and religiously disconnected from its territorial surroundings, with heavy reliance on Western powers for security and growth, Israel almost parallels the experience of the Christian Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Though despite being territorially surrounded by, and economically and militarily inferior to, its Arabic and orthodox…

One of them was at the American University of Beirut (AUB) medical center in Lebanon and the other one was at Obeid Specialized Hospital in KSA, both of which have enriched my knowledge and enhanced my teamwork abilities. I also had the opportunity to do an observership at Rush Center for Congenital…