Geneva Protocol

In recent years, women’s rights advocates have been calling for an expansion and inclusion of women in all military positions. The argument is that women have already been in combat and these feminist groups assert that the current exclusion of women is a form of sex discrimination. While it is true that women have in been in a firefight, these women on the ground are mostly auxiliary forces serving as medics or liaisons with female civilians. However, the idea of placing women in direct combat…

Mustard Gas, in World War I, was called the King of Battle Gases because it caused more battle causalities, as in injuries that took them out of the war and some deaths, than all of the other chemical agents used in that Great War (Everts, n.d.). This synthetic agent had an innocent beginning but rapidly became something the world rallied around to ban due to its harmful effects. In 1886 Victor Meyer first discovered the harmful effects of (ClCH2CH2)2S or what would later become known as Mustard…

In Bell’s explanation of the events between 1936 and 1939 there were four integral affairs that spoiled the prospects of peace in Europe: namely, the German reoccupation of the Rhineland, the Austrian Anschluss, the Czechoslovakian Crisis, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. These consecutive events ultimately culminated in the Invasion of Poland on the September 1st 1939, but were foreseen well in advance and were of no surprise to anyone when they transpired. The proliferation, from crisis to…

hygiene: challenges and strategies. Retrieved from Henry The Hand: http://www.henrythehand.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Hand-Hygiene-Challenges-and-Strategies.pdf World Health Organization. (2012). Hand Hygiene in Outpatient and Home-based Care. Geneva: World Health Organzation…

The Japanese Imperial Army’s research facility, Unit 731, has been one of the best keep secret of the second world war. Just like the Nazi’s experiments on the captivates in the some of the concentration camps, the Japanese experimented on humans in many inhumane ways that went against all ethnical codes. Although Ishii did many individual experiments on humans, Unit 731’s primary use was to create biological weapons to use in war and to eventually use them to defeat the United States. This…

relegated to the backdrop of domestic affairs (Weilemann, 2000). In the past, issues such as terrorism, finance, and climate change would have been resolved and constrained by domestic politicians, but today there is a need to meet to agree on set protocols through channels such as the G8 summit, and European council meetings. Dunn also argues that the rise of summitry is also a consequence of the paucity of resources of smaller nations who are less able to finance and sustain a vast diplomatic…

Coincidentally, CERN also became a major contributor to the development of the World Wide Web in its earliest stages. Computer scientist Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the use of hypertext and its protocols, with CERN providing the necessary host servers. They envisioned that scientists all over the world could collectively contribute and gather information from these host servers. Certainly, the simple argument that big science itself contains unscientific…

Violence seems more widespread than ever, almost every day we hear about a shocking act of violence, whether it’s a terrorist bombing, a senseless school shooting, or a gruesome murder. However, much of our impression of this violent world we live in today comes from misleading media sources that distorts our views of reality. In this advanced technological era, it is nearly impossible to turn on the TV, access our phones, and browse the internet without hearing the 24-hour news cycle, amber…

US Prison Systems Have you ever wondered what life was like locked up behind bars? Most people don’t even give it a second thought; we’re used to having our freedoms and living a normal life. However, life is not that simple for everyone; for not everyone knows how to abide by the rules. Inmates don’t get the same basic rights as we do, that gets taken away from them when they violate the social norms with their deviant behavior. There are a wide number of reasons why people get…

Man has used biological weapons such as poisons for assassinating enemies for hundreds of years. Since the beginning of time, biological warfare has been a preferred method to annihilate populations at a time. Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is described as using biological agents like bacteria, viruses and fungi as biological weapons on a large scale to defeat the enemy. The main intention of such is to cause casualties by the medium of air, water, cattle or crops. The history…