Escalation

Although President Richard Nixon is known more for the Watergate scandal and as the only US President to have resigned from office, he was responsible for introducing a number of bold and innovative foreign policy When Nixon took over the office of US President in 1969, the Vietnam War was the main issue in the country. During his election campaign, Nixon had promised to bring the American soldiers home. He started to implement a…

One of therein questions of concern is about the definition of use of force and how it applies to the police force in perspective of their training. We can expect that the training of a police officer involves making sure that the officer is ready to make split second decisions about life or death. An officer usually has very little time to access a situation and chart the best course (Lobobucci, 2014). In such events, it is his training that helps him. So to understand the nature of force, as…

to underline though. War may be caused by a revisionist state, but this is not always the case. The premise of the security dilemma is that seeking one’s own security can decrease that of other’s. As a result, states can lose full control of the escalation that ensues. Furthermore, many of the issues studied acknowledge that an essential variable is whether offense or defense has the advantage. Also, though a lot of issues on conflict and war are connected to realist assumptions, there are…

The English dictionary (1998 :) defines poverty as “a condition of having little or no money, goods or any means of support. It is the condition of being poor”. According to the statistics of South Africa, the unemployment rate of South Africa increased from 25.50 percent in the second quarter of 2014 and 25.20 percent in the first quarter. The average rate of unemployment in South Africa is 25.27 percent from 2000 to 2014. Mulligan (2010: xii) states that “poverty remains disproportionately a…

In conclusion, Mark Knapp’s theoretical model on interpersonal relationships proved correct when in correlation to Tina Fey’s iconic 2004 film, Mean Girls (Waters, 2004). Putting in place relational escalation and deescalation between leads, Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, both undergo all ten phases between the two stages present in Knapp’s Staircase Model (Waters, 2004). Including, but not limited to, initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, differentiating,…

address the issue to ensure maximum system availability. This involves effective communication and technical expertise. Shivam had played a vital role in handling such calls individually, and that has taken team performance to heights, without escalations. While Shivam leaving our team/company to attend graduate school is a loss for us, I have every confidence that Shivam will thrive in a graduate school setting. I believe that he will be a strength to your…

The people that set out these attacks were Islamic terrorists and most of them were from Saudi Arabia. The terrorists were supported and helped by Osama Bin Laden and his group called Al-Qaeda (“History”). Osama Bin Laden was a Saudi fugitive who founded Al-Qaeda in 1989. Al-Qaeda was originally formed to fight a jihad, a war or struggle against unbelievers, against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, but soon turned its attention towards the United States (“Events”). Some of the terrorists had…

Government funding for Planned Parenthood should continue. As a woman I have visited Planned Parenthood for my annual appointment as well as follow up appointments. 40% of the federal and state government resources were provided in 2014. According to the 2014-2015 Planned Parenthood Annual Report, the multitude of the funding was provided from Medicaid. 3% of services completed in 2014 were abortions. Abortions at Planned Parenthood are not funded by federal funds, according to The…

The antitumor effect of nivolumab in the melanoma regiment was followed by another trial with 107 patients, where 31% of the patients had an impartial response, with a median duration for 2 years. Of these responders, 15 responded to the therapy by 8 weeks during the first assessment, 12 had continued responses for minimum of 4 months after ending the therapy, while 17 had responses but left the program unexpectedly. Now, nivolumab use has achieved an improved outcome in patients with melanoma…

According to WHO, substance abuse is a damaging behavior of the usage of psychoactive substances. Substance abuse is one of the major problems worldwide. Therefore, this abuse can be related to alcohol, medication, smoking and drugs use. The use of any substance without discipline can be destructive for an individual. The adult is most likely to engage in such behavior but the starting point of that style of live begun somewhere in his or her early adulthood and why not in his or her adolescent…