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security purposes although Congress passed laws which prohibited torture and tightened interrogation restrictions (Keating, 2). The US-EU relationship was complex as the Bush administration when around international law such as treaty obligations and the Geneva Conventions by focusing on the legitimistic of their actions (Keating,…

On September 27, 1389 Cosimo de Medici was born in Florence, and he became a grand influence on the people of the Renaissance. Medici was part of a large family of bankers and successful patrons. People called him Pater Patriae, which in Latin means Father of our Country. His great grandson, Lorenzo de Medici, or Lorenzo the Magnificent, named for his leadership and patronage, was also a significant part of Renaissance history. De Medici patronized artists by allowing them stay at his…

It is June 27, 2014, and I am sitting on a coach bus that is driving me to Geneva, New York. I have never heard of this place, I do not know what to expect for the next two weeks, and I barely know anyone on this bus. In addition, it is very cold. The people in the back are too loud and excited this early in the morning. On top of that, I barely ate breakfast. With that said, the scholars kids might have similar feelings as I had my first time being away from home for so long, therefore it will…

which was called Gopher. Both Archie and Gopher were used file transfer protocol (FTP) to work. In 1993, the field of search engines was changed because the first essential of the search engine was created by Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. That search engine was called W3 catalog. Also, in 1993, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Stirling in Scotland released JumpStation that combined between three essential elements of the web search…

after the 1550s because of John Calvin. Calvin, a student and follower of Luther, was convinced that The Church needed reforming, turned to humanism, and eventually became the leader of a new church. This Evangelical Church thrived in the city of Geneva (where Calvin was taking refuge from a persecuting France); missionaries of Calvin penetrated France to spread the new word and slowly, but surely it gained momentum and supporters. The French government-- aware of the situation-- resorted to…

positive obligation to ensure that rights are discharged from covenants fully and all the individuals in the society are equally protected. On the other hand IHL ensures that states protect people during conflicts, prisoners are equally protected and given access to basics, women are not raped or harassed etc. Its state’s positive obligation to make efforts to protect state’s own people from enemy attacks and to take precautionary measures in order to keep civilian areas away from military…

Community service is an activity carried out by a person or group of people that addresses human and community needs. Although some people make think it’s just another chore to do, it helps bring out the best in people by forcing them to take a role of responsibility and leadership while helping others at the same time. It also teaches good morals and values such as honesty, gratefulness, and respect; values that will help guide me throughout the rest of my life. Over the summer my PLTW…

Edward snowden The individual in charge of a standout amongst the most huge holes in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old previous specialized right hand for the CIA and current worker of the barrier contractual worker Booz Allen Hamilton. He was raised initially in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His family moved later to Maryland, close to the NSA base camp in Fort Meade. By his own particular affirmation, he was not a stellar understudy. So as to get the…

The capacity of a system to recover from any difficulty and adapt to it is called Resiliency. Resiliency help us in understanding the general resilience and approaches for building general resilience of social-ecological systems. Natural calamities are the random event but few of them are similar and experience helps in providing a basis for building a specified resilience towards such random events. Few strategies identified by World Economic Forum for building specified resilience are…

habitability. The following is a highlight of a few educational and professional accomplishments:  Awarded research internship at the Fermi National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois  Awarded scholarship to attend the CERN Particle Accelerator School in Geneva, Switzerland  Member of scientific and engineering team for a probe space mission, a concept applied to 2010 Deep Impact NASA/JPL space mission  Chief radiation officer for the NASA full scale lunar analogue  Invited speaker on The…