East Asian Games

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…

“love, intrigue and revenge.” The romantic affair between Erastus who is the gallant knight and Perseda who is his beautiful chaste mistress. Wann discusses that ‘Two-thirds of these Oriental plays were tragedies because the Elizabethans considered the East as the domain of war, conquest, fratricide, lust and treachery’ (Wann, 168–69). Kyd’s play is constructed around stereotyped idea of Soliman and Turkey because of anti-Oriental prejudices (Al-Olaqi, 36). He conjures up a figment of the…

Israelites’ Military Campaign in the Levant In both, Joshua chapters 10 and 11 and Judges chapter 1, Israelite armies battle to gain control of land in the Levant. However, each story’s military campaign was a bit different. In Joshua, YHWH helped the army immensely, the army battled in accordance with YHWH, and fought with brutality. In Judges, the army didn’t get as much assistance from YHWH, they didn’t fulfill all of YHWH’s commands, and they used less force and more negotiation in battle.…

East Asia in the 19th to the early 20th century was a time period of change, new approaches and constant pressures. After a lengthy era of isolationism East Asia was experiencing pressure from outside forces. The West approached with strong intentions and new ideas and unique cultural traditions. The Eastern Asian countries were finding themselves behind in advances in several different realms, such as, the military and in technology. Japan and China were suffering under the pressures to…

were escaping the reality of communism to live in Western Germany. Upset and angry, East Germany decided to build a wall in order to split up the country in the center of Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of detachment of the government politically and physically. However, during the years of the “Iron Curtain”, hundreds of citizens were killed trying to escape the harsh environment that began to destroy the East. The “Iron Curtain” was the name that was given by the people of Berlin that…