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Russia, once a great power state during its empire and cold war era, is taking opportunities to gain power again over its rivals, and the United States (U.S.) being the greatest one. Since Russia has revisionist intention in its core, it is not satisfied with the post-cold war international order, and seeks its rightful place among great power states. Russia’s intent to maximize power and its ultimate goal to rise again as a hegemon, challenges current international order. Russia is trying to…

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is well known in history as a book that has caused a change in the food industry. It is about an immigrant family from Lithuania coming to America for a better life. They soon discover the difficulties of living in a town known for it’s grand amount of immigrants and for it’s meatpacking industry. Jurgis Rudkus and his wife Ona Lukoszaite struggle to find jobs while trying to also support their immediate family. They are taken advantage of and used for the most…

The Real Irish Republican Army, or Real IRA, is a terrorist organization in Northern Ireland conducting an armed campaign to reunite the island of Ireland under an Irish Republic. The Real IRA has conducted some of the most sensational attacks of the conflict in Northern Ireland, including the Omagh bombing in 1998 and a rocket propelled grenade attack on the MI-5 headquarters in England. The Real IRA has also been at the forefront of improvised explosive device technology; utilizing bombs with…

Abstract Tourism is an international activity that includes a combination of economic, political, social and environmental factors with more and more complex consequences. The touristic development creates economic benefits and costs from country to country and from region to region. This is mainly attributed to at the different economic structures of the countries or regions of touristic destinations and by their geographical position. The Historic and cultural objects play an important role in…

The European Union and North American Free Trade Agreement The European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are two regional trade agreements that promote the trade of goods, people, and services across borders. Both of these regional trade agreements help their member regions reduce or eliminate trade restrictions, quotas, and tariffs. By implementing regional trade agreements, the member regions can improve their economy and promote trade growth throughout the…

together, they were forced to dig a pit and were killed right there. Places like Babi Yar, Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek will forever remain as symbols of most evil crime ever committed by humans. Countries like Poland, Germany, Austria, Latvia and Lithuania suffered the most. By the end of the Second World War only one tenth of the Jewish population survived. Jews of Hungary, Netherlands, Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia lost more than two thirds of their population. More than fifty percent…

Trotsky and the Red Army.* e. With Lenin's resignation, which was intended to get both sides to make peace. 27. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed by a. joining Russia and the Soviet Ukraine.* b. allying Russia, Georgia, and Lithuania. c. uniting Russia, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. d. unifying all communist provinces. e. a United Nations mandate. 28. Lenin's New Economic Policy in 1921 a. created labor brigades to run factories. b. gave government full control of…

Two courses of action, it was argued, were required. First, crypto-Judaism could only be overcome by the introduction of an Inquisition; second, Jewish influence over the conversos could only be overcome by their expulsion. These ideas, adumbrated in works such as Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei, continued to gain ground, and on 27 September 1480 the Catholic Monarchs appointed Inquisitors in Castile who began their work in Seville shortly after (1481). Conversos, often subjected to torture…

He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…

In addition, some of our ingredients, such as aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, saccharin and ascorbic acid, as well as some of the packaging containers, such as aluminum cans, are available from a limited number of suppliers, some of which are located in countries experiencing political or other risks. We cannot assure you that we and our bottling partners will be able to maintain favorable arrangements and relationships with these suppliers. The citrus industry is subject to the…