International Security Assistance Force

Immigrant workers come to America in search of a better life. However, when they arrive they are faced with many hardships: inability to speak English, discrimination, and unfair wages in the worst jobs available. Due to earning low wages, immigrants live in unacceptable housing conditions. Because of their illegal status in the United States, immigrants are constantly taken advantage of. In spite of all the pain and suffering, field workers still work very hard to pick the fruits and vegetables…

- The Era of Independence Cuba began its independence with the leadership of Fulgencio Batista, after the dictatorship before failed. A coup was created that would attempt to redirect the country and its policy problems. Batista used his troops to force out high-ranking officers but had a short lived dictatorship that installed a new president, Ramón Grau San Martín (Corrales). He began his term by creating political stability by working with the United States President at the time Roosevelt.…

because the commanders of the juntas were put on trial and the country had elected a rightful president. For example, the junta that was led by General Videla was replaced by a second junta led by the commanding officers of the navy, army, and air force in March of 1981. In 1982, the second junta was replaced by a third led by General Galtieri due to a faltering economy and it started a war because of a diversionary tactic. It is easy to see, this tactic led to the Falkland Islands invasion…

nation. Mikhail Gorbachev was determined to end the arms race with the United States. and decided to attempt to negotiate with President Ronald Reagan. Reagan and Gorbachev met several times and eventually both signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987. The treaty required that both countries remove their close range nuclear weapons. This was the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Soon Gorbachev pulled Soviets out of Communist-controlled nations in East Europe. Finally, in…

territory in northern Syria and Iraq, could allow the militants to shut down the airport", as stated in the article called ISIS bearing down on Baghdad even as world watches Kobani siege by Fox New, a American news source. The quote shows that the ISIS forces are already planning what to take over next, the planned weapons that could be utilize to control whole sections of the countries. The world is very concern about their growing power, the US took actions via air strikes, "Waves of U.S.-led…

INTRODUCTION Cambodia, which has fewer people but larger land used to be peaceful and nonaligned. But the genocide occurred by surprise, “The dead are crying out for justice. Their voices must be heard. It is the responsibility of the survivors to speak out for those who are unable to speak, in order that the genocide and holocaust will never happen again in this world” (Pran 10). The terror shrouded the country and silently influences people’s life. Genocide occurred in Cambodia in South East…

troops, and “the Khmer Rouge went to civil war with the U.S. backed “Khmer Republic,” under lieutenant-general Lon Nol. Lon Nol’s government assumed a pro-Western, anti-Communist stance, and demanded the withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces from Cambodia”(Cambodian Genocide), but there were still some organizations in Cambodia that did not like the US. Lon Nol now faced enemies in Khmer Rouge and needed the US to support their financial system in Cambodia. However, the American…

What should the minimum wage be? This is a question that has been posed and answered by both sides of the political spectrum, although at the current moment it is under heated debate as to whether or not minimum wage should be raised, or stay at its current $7.25. The side with the majority however, wants to raise minimum wage. Over 3/4ths of the country wants minimum wage raised to at least $9 an hour. Minimum wage has dropped 10% since 2009, when it was last raised. So although workers may…

preparing the citizens of disaster prone areas with the knowledgeability of how to reconstruct after a disaster as well as how to better prepare for the chance of a catastrophe striking. This would be directed through the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategy, informing those living in areas of risk what they could be exposed to, as well as how to handle the disasters they are threatened by if they were to occur (USAID 6). Another…

help out the refugees by all able-countries working together to assist diplomatically, socially, and economically. In addition, informing the masses about this ongoing problem could bring more people to help them. We are writing this paper to give assistance, guidance, and reasons to help the refugees; especially for the people that are having mixed feelings about whether or not to help them. The structure of this essay…