Eight-Nation Alliance

gun control to keep African Americans powerless against police brutality and white aggression they entered the capital in a militant formation and those who protested were arrested (Black Panther Party). They gradually became more open to forming alliances with other race organizations. The Black Panther Party caught FBI’s attention and was…

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway delves into the true cost of war on the individual. World War One, also known as The Great War, is one of the biggest wars in the modern history. Generations of young men were exposed to the horrors of warfare without being aware of the cost it would have on them. The war took a sense of innocence not only from these soldiers but also from the world. “The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight. I don’t know why they screamed at that…

Hannah Paul Christopher Varlack English 100 4 November 2014 Improving Developing Nations through Educating Girls While females are relegated worldwide, females in developing countries feel the effects of patriarchy more intensely than women in developed nations such as the United States. The proportionally high cost of education through tuition, school supplies, and low parental income in developing countries, such as India, Ethiopia and Pakistan, restricts the education of girls in…

James Rosenau (1992) composed the first chapter of “Governance, Order, and Change in World Politics” in the aftermath of the Cold War. It was his argument that, rather than forming a world government to manage the world’s affairs, attentions should instead be focused on global governance. He also stressed that an increased level of governance would help propel the world towards a positive direction. The world faced an uncertain future following the end of the Cold War. The dissolution of the…

Tanner Weatherbee Professor Dr. Babb APUSH/AP Language 26 January 2015 Brilliant Compelling Title :) Following the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Francis Ferdinand in the warm summer of 1914, the major powers of Europe―split into two rivaling alliances―mobilized their armed forces and plunged Europe into World War I. By the end of 1917, more than a million French troops had been lost. France’s British, Russian, and Italian allies, along with the Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian…

play the role of mediators between two disputing countries which is at a risk of escalating into a war. Another role can be peacekeeping and peace support operations with United Nations playing the lead role. Global security and peacekeeping is lead by one of the principle organs of the United Nations, the United Nations Security Council. It plays a number of important roles which can be to probe any dispute which can threaten international peace, advising on how to solve disputes, to determine…

An estimated 215 million children under the age of 18 are child workers (“Child Protection”). Child labor is an increasing problem among human rights violations. Before 1836 there were no child labor laws, but during 1836 Massachusetts was the first state in the United States to make a child labor law. This law required children under the age of 15 that worked in factories to attend school at least three months out of the year (“Child Labor”). This was a step forward in human rights policies to…

establishment of the United Nations, this intergovernmental organization has achieved significant success in its purposes. In the United Nations charter that signed on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, there were four purposes (United Nations Charter, 1945). To maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations between nations, to achieve international co-operation in solving problems in several fields, and to be a center of the collaboration among the nations to achieve the…

After her husband’s death, Eleanor Roosevelt was appointed to by President Truman to be a United Nations delegate and then became chairperson of the commission on human rights. Eleanor was noted for using a common sense platform which represented the needs and wants of a common woman or man. This platform could reach people who felt they had no voice…

“Atoms for Peace” In New York, on December 8, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower presents his speech, “Atoms for Peace,” to the members of the United Nations Assembly in hopes to persuade and inspire the audience of well established political leaders to involve themselves in world conflicts in pursuit of peaceful negotiations rather than actions of warfare. Eisenhower presents this speech with the initiative to perhaps bring about a change in the fashion of how the world approaches the general…