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The game Hex was invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein in the 1940s. This game has been of great interest to mathematicians around the world since its introduction, including Martin Gardner who explores it in chapter eight of his first Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games (1959). The game is normally played on a board of 11x11 hexagons with two edges labelled black and the other two labelled white. It is a two-person game in which both players (using black and…

Living in the past can hold you back from opportunities that present themselves in the current day. This is shown in the film The Silver Lining Playbook directed by David O. Russell, this film sends an important message that living in the past will affect you in the present. Patrick Solitano Jr lived in the past, this torn his whole life apart. Living in the past cause Pat to go through many mental stages such as obsessed, Bipolar, defensive and decisive. Pat’s first hurdle to become mentally…

In1948, a new State was born in the Middle East, the State of Israel. After two thousand years, the Jews regained their sovereignty, through a challenging process. The Jews, which had suffered more than any other population during the Holocaust, were spread all over the world, many of them striving to recover from the World War II. The active presence of a leader that could motivate people towards a common goal of unification and the creation of a new county was essential to the Jewish people.…

Geographically, the nation of Israel is situated in the Middle East and comparatively smaller in size than the state of New Jersey, U.S. According to the map above, Israel falls to the south east of Mediterranean sea, and adjoins the Gulf of Aqaba and Sinai Peninsula to the to the south and southwest respectively. Along its borderline, the nation shares a length of 147 miles and 189 miles with the Hashemite kingdom and Palestinian Autonomous Area correspondingly. The area is conjoined with the…

Avram Bornstein explores how citizenship, sovereignty, and national identity manifest themselves in Palestine and Israel throughout his book, Crossing the Green Line. His ethnographic study examines how the citizens of this area worked, lived, and interacted at the borders, boundaries, and frontiers of the two nations. Relationships between the Palestinians and the Israelis were further documented in the film, Checkpoint, which focused on dynamics at the border with special regards to the…

Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Author Institution Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) FTOs (Foreign Terrorist Organizations) are foreign groups that the Secretary of State designates “in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)” (“Chapter 6…,” 2012). The designation of FTOs is crucial to fighting terrorism and helps to curtail support for terror activities. Accordingly, section 219…

how well has it worked in other countries, how would this affect military spending or the defense budget, what would the number of active and reserve military force numbers become and lastly how would this affect the overall fighting force of the US military. Examples…

economy, and is the pillar of their food security. However, the agriculture industry in Palestine is being controlled and restricted by the Israeli government. Israel continues to use the Palestinian agriculture as a means to inflict collective punishment on the Palestinian people to confiscate more land in the Occupied Territories’ (OT). Israel continues to confiscate Palestinian agricultural land and aquifers by denying Palestinian civilians access to their crops and their harvest (UN General…

The Israel Palestine conflict is not as complicated as people may think. The two nations have been fighting for many years. The objective of the war has always been for the possession of the greater territory. This war has been destroying and separating families from both sides. The area, Palestine, that both nations have been fighting for, is an area in the Middle East, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean, to the north by Lebanon, to the south by the Sinai Desert, and to the east by the…

drawn. For instance, one group in the peace movement focuses on Palestinian human rights, while anothers are concerned with the importance “democratic Israel” and the Jewish population. The article goes on to make the distinction between the Left and others among the peace forces. Hurwitz (pg. 4) states “The Zionist peace camp is focused on keeping Israel a Jewish and democratic state. Meanwhile, the progressive peace camp, also called the Left, is concerned more with human rights issues.…