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‘In its present form the UN Security Council is insufficiently effective in resolving threats to international peace and security”. Discuss. UNSC Failures In recent years, the UN Security Council (herein referred to as SC) has had its effectiveness challenged. Criticisms have ranged from the SC’s structures being out-dated and unfit for purpose, to the SC’s failures to act in cases of genocide, war, and humanitarian crisis. This essay will discuss key failures of the SC, the structure of the…

The Making of a Good or King: Comparing Clovis to Alexander Kings and Emperors are indeed multi-faceted people. Many possess good qualities like military knowledge, courage, and fairness. Some possess negative traits such as inflated egos, propensity for violence, and mistrust. Some rulers have an ability to adapt or change. Most often, a ruler in ancient history embodied a combination of these qualities. Looking at the reigns of the ancient rulers, one sees evidence of how these attributes…

King Philip of Macedonia captured this town and expanded it, renaming it Philippi and allowed the citizens of this colony to be regarded as citizens of Rome. The Apostle Paul during his second missionary travels arrived in Philippi and began his ministry there. After the…

evangelism. One thing we have to note here is that Paul preached the gospel in the midst of various oppositions and the converts live out their faith in the midst of many sufferings. During this hard time, they also “were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia” (v7). Paul, the great evangelist lived an exemplary life in which Christ is revealed through him and thereafter the converts follow his footsteps in doing the same. Living an exemplary life to other believers and to other…

Undoubtedly Paul, “the apostle of the gentiles”, has become one of the founding fathers of what we now know as missions. He exemplified the great commission in its entirety by “going into all the world and preaching the gospel to all creations.” Even though Paul had a zeal for the conversion of his fellow citizens, his ultimate call was not restricted by this. His call, with the leading of the holy spirit (Acts 16:6,7), was to educate people, “from every tribe and language and nation and creed”…

Greece is one of the oldest and most interesting countries still in the world today. However, most people in the world don’t know anything about it other than they believed in the Greek gods and their E’s look like: Ʃ. I pity these people for not knowing about their history and culture, because it’s actually a pretty interesting story. Greece is a very amazing country with an interesting culture and history. The Greeks were very religious people. “With formal rituals which included animal…

nothing. She eventually met Timothy III, who taught her about Monophysitism, which is the nature of god and nature of man combining to create a new nature. This changed Theodora, and she decided to start on a new path. She then went to Antioch and met Macedonia, who happened to work for the heir of the throne, Justinian. Around 522, Theodora became a wool spinner, near the house of Justinian. Justinian noticed her beauty and intelligence and fell deeply in love with her. He desired to marry…

Alexander the Great believed to be one of the great kings of ancient Macedonia. In his short 13 year reign as king, he conquered more land than any other king in his time. At the age of twenty-two, he was crowned king of Greece. The impact Alexander the great had in his time is that he was the king of cultural diffusion. Alexander's conquests brought Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and Asian under one ruler. This spiked trade immensely in these areas and all the cultures from the world…

Alexander was driven to discover and conquer as much land as he can. It was important that back then in order for an empire to be strong it must be in control with as much land as possible. On his journey in the middle east he stumbled upon modern day Jordan where the Jewish people inhabited that land. According to one book, “the greater part of the area belonged to the kingdom of Jordan – is the broken table-land round Jerusalem, roughly corresponding with the territory known in Roman times as…

1948, to show his gratitude to the family who saved him and his family during the Holocaust. Leon wanted to give as a present a restaurant to Destan family and offered to pay all the expenses for the next ten years. They didn’t want to move to Macedonia, and never sought a recognition; since it says in Koran: “in the name of G-d we help all humans” . In 1949, the communist party of Albania imprisoned Destan…