Council of Europe

I feel qualified to hold this position because of how influential the big/little aspect of Zeta has been on my life. My family within Zeta is so close from my great grand big down to my little, and each of them have given me a feeling of having a home away from home. I’ve experienced how important getting a big sister can be when you are a freshman trying to find your way and find where you belong at Auburn. I’ve also experienced how important it is to turn around and be that same guiding light…

The expansion of Europe during the time More was writing Utopia led him to create idealized version of the foreign lands he heard described due to his distaste in the current state of European government and society. By telling a story of a Utopian society, More was able to critique the state of affairs in Europe without explicitly stating his distaste. He uses the fictional Hythloday to first critique European governance and society and then to explain what More believes to be the perfect…

The official name is the Portuguese Republic and it is located in southwest Europe. The name Portugal derives from the Roman name “Portus Cale.” Portugal is located in the Iberian Peninsula, south west of Spain and north east of the Atlantic Ocean. They started as the county of Portugal after the crusades started reconquering land to the moors. In 1143 Portugal had its independence and started conquering its way south. In 1297 it stabilized its borders, making itself the European country with…

During the mid-eighteenth century, Europe was starving for more power. With the colonization of the New World, different countries began to try and one up another in order to achieve ultimate power. Despite this, on the major scale, it was Europe itself trying to dominate the world on a global scale. Europe began to expand to increase their overall power, and inside of the continent, individual countries started act unreasonable so that it would not grant powers to anyone outside of themselves,…

so weak, these towns developed autonomous, self-governing bodies that considered themselves a community that was made up of most middle-class citizens, which tended to govern themselves through a number of organizations. (Document 1) By examining Europe, as well…

Europe is in the middle of the largest influx of people since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the move to search for better life, free of war and fear, just within Europe. Another 4 million are being hosted in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. In 2014, the Great Britain gained approximately 330,00 people through migration, which is the highest figure ever to be recorded. On Thursday, in an interview with British news station ITV, the British prime minister, David Cameron…

ideas. […] One day will come when […] the bombs will be replaced with the […] venerable arbitrage of a great sovereign Parliament […]. One day will come when we will see these two immense groups, the United States of America and the United States of Europe.” (Brennan and Murray, n.d.)Victor Hugo said this at the Peace Congress Discourse in August 1849. In this essay…

large impact upon much of Europe. The Napoleonic regime was undeniably militaristic in nature and the existence of widespread conscription clearly highlights this. In the past historians have often regarded the empire as being purely a military enterprise. For example Georges Lefebvre branded the empire a ‘military dictatorship’. However, as contemporary historians have argued, it cannot be considered to have purely been a military enterprise as it reformed much of Europe. Napoleon introduced…

Committee Name: United Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Committee Topic: Situation of the Roma People Country Name: Iraq Recent Background of the Issue In the European Union, Roma people are one of the largest ethnic minorities, they consist about six million out of ten to twelve million people living in the EU. But these Roma people are facing many problems such as social exclusion, discrimination, and unequal opportunities to education, employment, health, and housing. About 71% of the Roma…

Byzantium, the Islamic Empire, and Western Europe. All three have blaring similarities and differences that can be accounted for due to the decline of Rome. Byzantium found its stability from its previous life alongside the previous Great Empire of Rome, it took away Rome’s legal institutions and even their political structure. Western Europe also made use of some of Rome’s older policies as well and even the main religion of Byzantium and Western Europe were both Christianity. Religion is where…