Forced Diversity: Detrimental Effects. With the rise of civil rights movements in 1960’s the first diversity trainings started taking place. They were educating people to make them culturally aware, showing the oppression people were facing in their daily lives. It is almost impossible to underestimate how important the work was that people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have done to create an equal society, where the people of different races could live in harmony. Cities with…
on nuclear desalination have been accumulated worldwide” (5 Nisan). With so many years of experience, there is no doubt about the safety and sensibility of nuclear desalination. However, these years of experience have mainly been accumulated in Kazakhstan, India, and Japan (Nuclear). Even though nuclear desalination has yet to reach global applications, it should be globally considered for its cost effectiveness, and ability to meet two demands at once, with the addition of reducing greenhouse…
Despite being a relatively new source of energy, nuclear energy has emerged as one of the most influential energy sources. Nuclear power was developed in the 1950s after several years of intensive research on atoms, uranium, and radioactivity (Ferguson, 22). Initially, nuclear energy was mainly applied in the military field through the production of destructive weapons such as bombs. However, as years progressed, it became an essential component of industrial production. Nuclear energy is…
Earl Browder, an American political activist, once said “What remains constant for me, during the last fifteen years, has been the conviction that the Cold War was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.” This quote perfectly states how the Cold War was not only a tragedy for the United States and the Soviet Union, but also for the entire world. It also tells how the United States and the Soviet Union…
The Unexpected Miracle Sometimes life decides to be generous and without warning it gave me a beautiful gift. It was the birth of my baby brother. Now, of course most people will probably think, what’s so special? It is just another sibling? But, this little guy changed my life before he was even born. It was around last year in September when I started realizing the little changes my mom was experiencing. It was little things like she stopped exercising and resting a lot more. There were…
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) was established in 1977 by Congress to ensure that all American businesspeople and companies were using ethical behavior when participating in international sales and contracts. At the time, companies based out of other countries would often bribe government officials to ensure that they received preferential treatment in any contracts they may enter with another business entity or a consumer and American companies and businesspeople had established an…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are a vital part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). One of the major tools that agencies have between departments across all levels of law enforcement is a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). These documents contain concepts of mutual understanding, goals, plans, responsibilities, and actions for each party that is involved. For example, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) established…
November of 2002, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that their first mission to the planet Venus, titled Venus Express, would launch in 2005 (Abbott and Schiermeier, 2002; Hoofs et al., 2009). The Russian Soyuz-Fregat launcher in Baikonur Kazakhstan on November 9th 2005, launched Venus Express into space (Fabrega et al. 2007). After traveling a distance of 440 million km, Venus Express reached the orbit of the planet on April 11th 2006 (Fabrega et al. 2007). The polar elliptical orbit…
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Leader President Gerbachev brought the Soviet Union to an end. “The United States recognized the independence of all former Soviet Republics, and established diplomatic relations with Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine. This made the U.S. people happy. (United States Relations with Russia: After the Cold War) Even though the Cold War is over, the U.S. and Russia still have problems with each other. Political leaders of both countries…
A number of different liberal theories have evolved over the past few centuries, they differ on a wide range of issues but they all share some common principles such as social liberties, representative governments, private property, and political equality. Liberal countries that have those principles as the foundation of their political and social systems tend to maintain peace among themselves and prosper economically. In modern times, there are over one hundred countries in the world that…