Humanitarianism

In January 2013 France launched Operation Serval in the former French colony of Mali as a humanitarian intervention, with the blessing and an official mandate by the UN Security Council after an official request by the Malian interim government, led by interim president Dioncounda Traoré, for French military assistance. The official request came after Islamist militants who held northern Mali launched a military offensive against the government-controlled south. The goal of Operation Serval…

With his defiance, he was refusing to participate in America’s plan for a nation far away from home, especially when that plan called for murdering the enemy and violated his faith. Ali couldn’t accept betraying his faith for America while in a foreign land, only to return home to a culture of racial bias and discrimination by the country he just served. 6 Civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s came to Ali’s defense. "He is giving up millions of dollars to do what his conscience tells him…

Doctor Russell Kirk, is a name that I never had heard of much less even understood his significance in American history and politics before I started at Emporia. While identifying as a Conservative for most of my life (Please forgive me, but my parents were “New Deal” Democrats and I was young at the time); I never understood the philosophy or the background of the Conservative movement. More importantly, I never connected faith and personal values into what it meant to be a Conservative. I…

A Powerful Government and Its Hopeless Citizens The struggling people of a country reflects the role of a totalitarian government. Syria has become a divided country because the president, Bashar al-Assad, has done little to nothing to unify and help his people. There has been an emergence of an ethnical divide to overthrow the government because the majority of the country—Sunnis—wants a democracy, while the opposing side—Shiites—is staying loyal to Bashar and the government. The downfall of…

Andrew Lampman HIST 202A-03 MW 0800-0930 An American Discourse to Liberty Americans often remember the battle cry of Patrick Henry “Give me liberty,” though many forget that with the liberation of America in the 1770s from British control many remained in bondage in this nation. The American Revolution revealed the hypocrisy of liberty, as the colonies fought for independence, and yet enslavement remained an integral part of the new nation. Liberation was the idea that men had certain…

In highlighting the different ways in which the carelessness of the State and humanitarianism put Britain at risk of internal and colonial unrest, Punch's views agreed with those of the leader of the Eyre Defence Committee, Thomas Carlyle. Fifteen years before the Morant Bay Rebellion, the Scottish writer engaged in a press debate with John Stuart Mill, the English philosopher who would be his opponent as chairman of the Jamaica Committee. Both published their essays anonymously in Fraser's…

To what extent is the Canadian Collective Consciousness different than that of the American Collective Consciousness? Canadians and Americans share a very similars set of beliefs and values, however their are key differences which separate the “American Dream” from the “Canadian Dream”. These key differences often revolve around the importance of human life; to Americans life is important, however if someone else 's life gets in their way it is no longer of value. This is evident due to the…

I. Introduction From World War I to shortly after World War II, the Western world created numerous significant treaties and agreements including the Treaty of Versailles, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, otherwise known as the Geneva Protocol. However, the Geneva Protocol is one of the most comprehensive and arguably successful agreements to come from the time…

1. Introduction A dispute between sovereignty and global security, which is based on human rights, has been more contentious to this day as the world becomes globalised, and this proposition means that global security is contradictory to sovereignty in a state system which was established from the Peace of Westphalia following the Thirty year’s War. In fact, Contemporary global security in a wide sense encompasses intricate as well as debatable issues in terms of human security resting on…

The Civil War is already known as one of the most devastating and destructive wars in American history, though many sacrifices were made that are still very seldom mentioned. As every Great War requires great effort and dedication on all fronts, it makes sense that the greatest war would have the greatest amounts of such effort and dedication. Upwards of 2.75 million total soldiers fought in this war, and millions more contributed to each side in other ways. The largest group of unsung heroes in…