Croatia

1. Introduction to Dubrovnik City. Dubrovnik is located on the Adriatic coast in the Southern part of Croatia. The City is listed as UNESCO World Heritage since 1979. Tourist from all over the world coming to see the perfectly preserved defensive walls with mighty forts and towers, characteristic Baroque houses with red roof tops, and many Gothic-Renaissance palaces. Dubrovnik, as other cities of Croatian cost line proud themselves by the crystal clear sea and surrounded by amazing countryside…

Yugoslavia had “Western-assisted development” from the US and other European countries; in addition, France and Russia had historical ties with Serbia and Montenegro, and Croatia and Slovenia with Germany and Austria. Western influence played an important role with helping support Tito and Communist Yugoslavia (Savich). Yugoslavia was surrounded by the two blocks led by the two superpowers during the Cold War: the Soviet Union…

Dalmatia, Lika, Kordun and Banija. The main idea, approved at the meeting of President Tuđman with the military commanders in the Brijuni Islands on 31 July 1995, was to organize an enduring defense in the eastmost and southmost part of the Republic of Croatia. In all other parts of the battlefield where the Croatian forces were in contact with forces at the UNPA borders, the forces were to engage in decisive offensive strikes on multiple selected…

As Winkle-Wagner (2010) noted, contextually-valued cultural capital can provide more nuanced approches to cultural capital which allow for multiple types of cultural capital that are changeable and differentially valued depending on the particular social and educational setting. For example, Anderson (2005) demonstrates how inclusion of multicultural and diversity-related texts and courses in American universities can lead to their appropriation as a particular form of cultural capital by the…

In Inside Out and Back Again by Thanna Lai and the article, “Children of War” by Arthur Brice, the characters and people go through the “universal refugee experience” of fleeing home and finding home. They also, in reference to the title of Inside Out and Back Again, are turned “inside out” when ridiculed by their host country and its people and “back again” when accepted by it. These refugees lose homes, friends, family and possessions, though also overcome hatred and discrimination from the…

inventions in his years of an inventor.Nikola Tesla was a famous inventor but he did a lot to get there. Where did Nikola Tesla go to school? Nikola Tesla attended the higher the higher secondary school at Karlovac, Croatia when he was 15.(“Nikola Tesla”,2008) Nikola Tesla went to a school in Croatia. Tesla went to the University of Prague in…

Yugoslav Wars had a similar positive ending to the Rwandan Civil War. The Yugoslav Wars were also ethnic based conflicts, affecting mainly Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, all former Yugoslav republics. The reasons behind these wars was mainly down to Slovenia and Croatia wanting to be granted independence from Yugoslavia. Serbs living in Croatia greatly opposed the move and hence the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) was created. (un.org). However, it became largely under the control…

Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen explains the foundational differences between liberals and biblically faithful Christians. In the book, Machen explores these differences through the fundamental Christian tenets like Scriptures, sacred doctrines, salvation, and Jesus’ divinity. Machen claims that Liberalism and Christianity cannot co-exist as they are founded on completely different foundational concepts. The author attempts to prove his point through four major examples.…

To End a War drafts the causal factors that produced the Yugoslav crisis and covers in detail the successes and disappointments of the various parties involved in the dialogs to end the conflict. The second chapter, entitled "The Greatest Collective Failure...," is conceivably the most interesting section of the book because it is here that Holbrooke challenges to make sense of the origins of "the greatest collective security failure of the West since the 1930s." According to Holbrooke, there is…

Andrew Chen Ms. Bergen AP European History 4 June 2018 Josip Broz Tito: The Rebel Communist Josip Broz, more commonly known as Tito, was born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was the seventh of fifteen children in a large peasant family, with a Croat father and a Slovene mother. At the early age of seven, he began working on his family’s farm. He entered primary school in Kumrovec at…