East Asian Games

young and get started on having a family young, and be a “housewife”. The status of women in the Middle East differs greatly from the status of women in America. Women in America have gained a lot of respect and freedom, this did not come easy. However, there has been change in the way women live in the Middle East, but not nearly as much as women in America. The Muslim countries of the Middle East state that women must…

COMPARING THREE WORLD RELIGIONS WITH MIDDLE EASTERN BEGINNINGS In William A. Young’s book entitled, The World Religions - Worldviews and Contemporary Issues (Fourth Edition), Young presents the major religions of the world using a fundamentally descriptive method that is “historical, comparative and – above all – phenomenological” (Young 14). With his basic definition of religion as “the human transformation in response to perceived ultimacy” (Young 15). Young methodically answers seven basic…

The Berlin Wall stretched for over one hundred miles. It not only ran through Berlin’s center, but also wrapped around West Berlin, which entirely cut West Berlin off from the rest of East Germany. The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of the night and for 28 years kept most East Germans from fleeing to the West. The wall itself went through four major transformations during its 28 year history, each version being more deadly than the next. The first version of the wall consisted…

many people from the middle east and other unstable countries -e.g. Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Eritrea etc.- and arriving in western Europe in almost millions each month and thousands each day. The reason for that is because their country of origins are not safe places to live in causing their life to be in danger. The root causes includes civil war, poverty, and corrupt government. According, to the media publication about the war in Syria and across most of the Middle East, this topic has become…

million dollars to train four or five fighters in Syria to combat ISIS which could have gone to settling Syrian refugees in safe places in the middle east (Ackerman). Many also suggest that we also settle Syrian refugees in the United States and European countries. This is a bad idea due to the fact that its cost. To resettle a refugee in the middle east for five years it would cost on average $5,285 per individual, per family it would cost on average $21,140 but if you wanted to settle a…

by Ulrich Plenzdorf the reader is presented with a complex character by the name of Edgar Wibeau. Edgar is a very abstract individual who has decided that the strict life he was thrust into by both his mother, and having to live in a boring town in East Germany has placed upon him were not in his future plans. After coming to this realization due to a work related incident, he packs up the belongings he finds most important to him and moves to Berlin. During his time in Berlin is where the…

On August 13th of 1961, the infamous Berlin Wall was built. The barbed wire and concrete separated Berlin into two different zones; East and West Berlin. This wall stood as an iconic symbol of the Cold War. This wall created pain, sorrow, and suffering for all Germans. Over a long 28 years of the standing Berlin Wall, the concrete that divided Europe stood through the rigorous tensions of political and physical war. After WWII, Germany was split up into 4 different zones ruled by different…

“the Middle East along has about 63 percent of the known reserves of oil in the world”. The abundancy of this vital resource made the region on of the most reached region on the planet. In addition, countries like Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates have one of the largest Natural Gas reserves in the world. Oil and Natural Gas are not the only important natural resources found in the Middle East; for instance, Iran possess the world’s…

Airbus Group (formerly EADS) is one of the world’s leading Aerospace and Defence corporations. Born from the merger, on July 2000, of the French company Aerospatiale Matra, its German competitor DASA and its Spanish pair CASA, the group has managed to develop a strong expertise in a large range of complementary businesses, such as commercial aircraft, military and defence equipment, helicopters, communication systems, missiles, satellites and related services. Reorganised in January 2014, the…

Saudi Arabia, the Key to Middle East Stability The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s role as the key to Middle East stability is becoming more important in the current world climate, more specifically the United States Central Command Area of Operations. General regional instability of the Middle East, religious conflicts, and Iranian hegemonic intentions add to obstacles for Saudi Arabia to overcome. These issues also undermine United States’ interests to bring peace to the region. Saudi…