Customs union

Why does the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) exist even though there are always issues with immigration and terrorists acts? CBP exists “To safeguard America's borders thereby protecting the public from dangerous people and materials while enhancing the Nation's global economic competitiveness by enabling legitimate trade and travel” (CITE http://www.cbp.gov/about). The United States of Border Patrol (USBP) has had a long and extensive history as our nation’s first line of defense against…

the member states mutually interdependent. Common policies, the creation of a single market and the introduction of a single currency led to an expansion of the economic and political cooperation. The result of this development is today’s European Union (EU) with 28 member states. Due to increasing Euroscepticism in Great Britain, a referendum about the country’s…

Why would the United States of America not legalize gay marriage? This controversial, hot topic can be disputed either way simply by using specific logic corresponding to a position’s standpoint. In most cases, the key supporting details to compare and contrast opinions are children and religion. How obvious right? Who would want lesbians or gays raising a child? On the other hand, who would want a child growing up in an abusive environment with both a mother and a father as parents? According…

sixteen Länder or states, the country has had a major part to play in both World Wars. After its defeat in 1945, and the dissolution of the Nazi Regime, Germany was divided between the four main Allies: Great Britain, France, America, and the Soviet Union. This resulted in a clear division through…

countries also found it necessary to join the European Union, since it was the best way to modernize their economies and stabilize domestic…

The laws pertaining to marriage in the legal codes distributed throughout the Old Testament are few and scattered. Most of these laws address issues such as: anathemas pertaining to who to marry, how to determine virginity, the dissolution of marriage, remarriage, childlessness, widowhood, etc. This is unlike the ancient near Eastern codes which tend to discuss matters of legal interest in an orderly manner; thus, the laws of marriage, for most part, are successively arranged in blocks like…

support restricted immigration; they became known as “nativists.” American citizens had always expected new immigrants to assimilate into the country and its culture so the appearance of multi-ethnic neighborhoods and the persistence of old world customs was very unsettling. As a result nativists worked to spread their beliefs and encouraged restricted immigration. American nativist groups opposed free, unrestricted immigration because they were afraid that the stereotypical immigrant they…

One may argue that the Roman Empire or the British Empire and many other empires of the past represent globalization of businesses that were managed by a small group of people located in a single country, to promote and protect their own interest1. The military might be considered as a form of transaction, at times utilized for acquisition and procurement. The success of such empires did not only depend on revenues they provided to their owners but also on how well their outposts were managed.…

The European Union is one of the more perplexing creations that emerged from the aftermath of World War II. This is due to the fact that the EU developed as the natural result of an economic project rather than from deliberate intent to construct a “United States of Europe.” European leaders were focused on establishing the euro system, which was a “generations-long effort to bring peace, democracy and shared prosperity to a once and frequently war-torn continent…[an integrated economy] would…

The Kite Runner, written by Afghan-American author by the name Khaled Hosseini, is a story about the friendship between Amir, a young boy coming from a wealthy family,and Hassan his closest friend who happens to be his father’s young Hazara servant. This story takes place in the country of Afghanistan during the 1970’s and ends somewhere between 2002 and 2003. This country has been very complex. We see brief fragments of this country’s history throughout the novel. Many of the events in this…