The overall cause of World War I is very debatable; however most historians agree that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife was the most immediate cause. This assassination led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia. When Russia began to mobilize due to its alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. Finally, Great Britain entered the war against Germany a couple days later and then was against Austria-Hungary. The drivers of these…
What sparked the uproar in the east that eventually lead to the beginning of “The Great War”? On June 28th, 1914 a Serbian nationalist assassinated the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, while he was visiting Sarajevo a city in the Bosnia-Herzegovina province. This gave them an ample reason to declare…
Malala Yousafzai, according to her biography on Biography.com, born July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, became an advocate for girls’ education as a young girl, after the Taliban began attacking girls’ schools in her county in 2008. When she was 14, the Taliban issued a death threat against her. Her and her family initially felt that the fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child. However, on October 9, 2012, a man boarded the bus Malala was riding on her way home from…
Damir Secic, Dzenana Husremovic, Eldan Kapur, Zaim Jatic, Nina Hadziahmetovic, Benjamin Vojnikovic, Almir Fajkic, Amir Meholjic, LejlaBradic, Amila Hadzic. Medical students versus family physicians assessment of practical and logical values of pathophysiology multiple choice questions.Testing strategies can have a very strong, positive or negative effect on the learning process. The aim of this study was to examine the degree of consistency in evaluating the practicality and logic of the…
The basic human rights awarded to all human individuals in this world include, first and foremost, the right to equality and the right to life. Yet, these rights have been violated for centuries, escalating in the twentieth century “an era characterized by a phenomenal increase in the frequency and intensity of human rights violations…” (Ferllini 2008, 7). This period essentially caused the establishment of legal parameters, through the intervention of international law, in order to prosecute…
The sharp ideological distinctions between East and West began to fade. In the 1990s, Multilateralism was strong, in that almost unanimously the UN resolutions against Iraq inversion of Kuwait, Angola, Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, were handled through multilateral efforts. But that period is behind us. There has been a steady rise of new economic powers, and expansion of nuclear club member states, the growing role of regional integrations in combating regional economic…
being implemented. Problem definition Corruption in Kosovo has an immense effect on the prosperity of economic growth and equality. The perception of Kosovo’s neighbouring countries in this matter better and therefore Kosovo loses investors to Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia. This does not only impact the growth of Kosovo but also the unemployment rate. The public finances are impacted because of the corruption as the loose some of the distributions to it. Funds that would otherwise be…
The alliance between Germany and the Ottoman Empire seemed somewhat farcical at the time of the war. The Ottoman Empire was a failing state, the “sick man of Europe.” They had been losing power in the middle east and their economy was in disrepair, due to repeated wars in the Balkans before their alliance. They could only benefit from a win in this war, and that would bring them into modernizing their empire and have potential growth. However, they were a pathway to British colonies and had…
“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundation of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve” (Bush). Before I was born the world faced one tragedy after another. These events not only effected the countries they happened in , but also many places all around the world. On September 11, 2001 a tragedy struck closer to home. This is a day that the world will never forget. Thousands of American…
The First World War was sparked by “the assassination of Austria 's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The assassination occurred on June 28, 1914 while Ferdinand was visiting the city of Sarajevo in the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina.” (Rosenberg, 2015) These murders “led to a rise in Asian nationalism, the decline of Great Britain, France, and Germany as world powers, and the ascent of the United States as a global force. People everywhere seized opportunities…