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countries where regime stability relies on its oil pact, low oil prices leads to problems such as inflation, increasing debt, budget and trade deficits, rising food prices, and poverty. Additionally, these consequences are not just isolated to the Middle East – Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada will also face revenue losses and an increase in poverty due to cheap oil prices. Major oil producing countries are already facing trouble – in Venezuela, for example, where oil revenue makes up 95…

goodness that is unanimously echoed throughout each culture, justified by the stark differences in culture between the middle east and the west. While according to my code of morality, it is immoral to abuse women, according to the morality code of the middle east, it is perfectly acceptable. This is an understanding I must have when approaching issues pertinent to the middle east. It is important to note, though, that my understanding of their code of morals does not mean that I condone what…

quite simplistic in its nature and practice. Such unintelligent assumptions, however, may not always be definitive. Characteristically, an ethnographic reconnaissance in the small chapel in Goodenough College can be as complex as studying exotic communities in Amazon of Brazil or primitive ways of life in rural areas of Western Africa. This short essay aims to shed light on the multifaceted interplay of ‘social reality’ vs ‘material reality’ vs ‘space’ in the small chapel in Goodenough College…

because the Jewish people believed that no one else was suited to help them due to the discrimination they had faced in the past. Additionally, Israel, like the other countries involved in this conflict, wanted to be a regional hegemon in the Middle East and the only way to do that was to maximize its power against those that wanted to take it by fighting harder and smarter than their adversaries. Another major theme that Israel emulated with the start of the War was the security dilemma. The…

power responsibility in Berlin (Harrison 53). Due to economic, political, and social consequences, the Berlin Wall divided Berlin into two very distinctively different cities. East Berlin was ruled under a Soviet communist regime, while West Berlin was ruled under the influence of the Western World. The division between East Germany and West Germany is what Winston Churchill called the “Iron Curtain” that fell across Europe, isolating its…

September 1922.(Norman, 2006, 4). Chanak Affair (political) In 1922 there was a dispute in the Balkans in an area called Chanak.(West, N/A, 1). Due to the Treaty of Sevres, after Turkey’s defeat in WW1, forces from France, Greece, and Britain were stationed on broad fractions of western Turkey. (Norman, 2006, 3). The Greek army was pushed out of Turkey by nationalist Turkey forces who disapproved of foreign troops.(Norman, 2006, 4). Troops from Britain, who were stationed in Turkey were being…

burtoniana.org have provided scholars, historians, anthropologists, and geographers with valuable primary sources of Burton’s expeditions of India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Specifically in Africa, Burton had the fortune of being the first European to enter many African lands never explored by outsiders. Burton led the expedition to East Africa that in 1858 discovered Lake Tanganyika and, through his deputy Captain John Hanning Speke, the headwaters of the Nile, Lake Victoria…

Introduction Women’s rights in the middle east is gaining more momentum now than it has in the past years. Reformation is the key to moving forward, but democracy still must change in order to enact and continue future progress for women. There are still heavy limitations on what women can and cannot do, which hinders progress, but sources say there is progress on the way. Women’s rights, and whether the United States can interfere, is the cornerstone of progress abroad. Governments are still…

“Harrison Bergeron” is a fictitious story written by Kurt Vonnegut in October of 1961. During the time period in which it was published, the Soviet Union (USSR) was still in power. The Soviet Union was a communist society that used force from “secret police”, whose main objective was to censor the people. The story “Harrison Bergeron” has a similar approach set in a dystopian society in the year 2081. In this society “Everybody was finally equal....Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody…

Triggering Factors B: Triggering factors are things that cause a conflict to break out. They are separated into four categories which include: Internal mass-level factors, external mass-level factors, external elite factors, and internal elite factors. All four of these categories have influenced the Yemen Civil war. Internal, Mass-level factors Internal mass-level factors manifest itself in the form of bad domestic problems. Yemen faced several domestic problems before the war had broken…