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Poland is an eastern European country which borders the Baltic Sea. It is known for its Jewish heritage and medieval architecture. The country of Poland, though full of history and ancient customs that have stood the test of time, has seen much change in religious affiliation and geographical variation in the last few decades. Established and unified in 1025, Poland has lots of Medieval and modern history and has been at the epicenter of many major events. The unification of many tribes in the…

Human Trafficking continues to exist in the twenty-first century, long after the nineteenth century when slavery was banned. Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. No matter where you live, chances are it’s happening in your backyard. It’s a multimillion dollar industry that takes away millions of freedom. It is estimated that around 10,000-15,000 people are entered into human trafficking into the United States, each year, many used as forced laborers. These forced laborers often sign…

problem, military issues, and unnerve the American individuals by escalating the Cold War. Furthermore, Lippmann explained that what Soviet did was try to influence their own power toward the nation that was used to be part of their own nation like Belarus or Lithuania. He limited the threat and influence role of the…

As an American it 's something that you grow up with portraying communism as a negative form of government. Thanks to the Cold War it 's seen as an enemy form of government that oppresses it 's people abridging their freedoms as humans. What we tend to oversee however is that there 's no such thing as an only negative form of government. In fact, for millions of people communism was, not a good thing, but rather an okay thing. It allowed the people, of Eastern Europe in specific, to not prosper…

Chernobyl Explosion 1986 On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was in Ukraine, which at that time was a part of the former Soviet Union, exploded causing fires and it released 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere (Institute, 2015). This accident caused the largest uncontrolled radioactive release into the environment that was ever recorded and large amounts of radioactive materials were released into the atmosphere for about ten days (Association, 2016). The…

8.1: Women in the Renaissance/Baroque I chose to write some information on Sophonisba Anguissola and Catherine the Great. Sophonisba Anguissola: She was one of the primary awesome female painters of the Renaissance. Her sexual orientation assumed a part in her commitments as she was not permitted as a lady to think about life systems or draw from life as it was viewed as inadmissible for a lady to see nudes. Disregarding these limitations, she needed to work with what she had utilized…

Zinky boys, by Svetlana Alexievich, the author shows how her project of gathering interviews from people that lost a loved one at war, made it possible for her to express the idea of loss in different aspects from people’s voices. Alexievich was from Belarus, who wrote in Russia how the voices from the Afghanistan and Soviet soldiers expressed their views towards their motherland and what the real truth was from their opinion. The main point of Alexievich’s project is to explore lives of…

End of the Cold War Sunny Sidhu Athabasca University Calgary, AB Adam Lajeunesse HIST 455 Nov, 16, 2015 The foundation of the Cold War was built on several different disagreements such as the two superpowers at the time having differing opinions, the way the security of the nation should be dealt with, and the governments neglecting each others opinions. All of these disagreements escalated into the war that killed many innocent civilians. Many were injured and disabled…

know about the horrors that Stalin ordered at the same time, and even before. Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder, dives into shocking details about what happened during both regimes in the Bloodlands, the lands including Poland, Ukraine, Baltic States, Belarus, and Russia. Snyder emphasizes that, although they had conflicting views and desired outcomes, Hitler and Stalin worked together to murder millions of innocent people and ruin the lives of survivors along the way. With a specialty in modern…

The argument of whether or not it is morally justifiable to allow fully autonomous robots to ‘play god’ over the lives of people in conflict is a major issue in today’s political climate. The activist group ‘The campaign to stop killer robots’ argues that it is morally unjustifiable to allow such technology to exist, stating that it will challenge the protection of civilians, more conflicts and the absence of human judgment or moral values. Their arguments make an effort to convince readers to…