Mongolia

thousand years. One of its Infamous known facts is that it was a safe haven for the Taliban who were proud supporters of Al Qaeda. Throughout its time, Afghanistan has been a place of war between many factions and countries. These countries included Mongolia, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and the United States of America. Afghanistan had been through many different periods of war, thus, making it a melting pot of different ethnic backgrounds to include languages and religions. The Islamic…

Vietnamese Community’s Approaching the Chinese Influence on and Chinese Elements Within Vietnamese Culture: Customs, Traditions, Language and Contemporary Media The conflict between China-Vietnam regarding the 2016 territorial dispute appears a new development to the rest of the world. In reality, this hostility is deep rooted, and significantly more vibrant and imminent from Vietnam side, almost making the conflict one sided. Overpowered and overshadowed by China, the smaller nation puts more…

this sense is a new form of imperialism because it continues to dictate the way in which an economy can grow. This theory also doesn’t have good examples of it being effective. Countries who have experienced economic shock therapy include: Poland, Mongolia, and Bolivia. The Spanish film, Even the Rain, clearly portrayed how the quick privatization of water was not helpful to the government and economy of Bolivia. The privatization of water created more conflict, and did not benefit any sector of…

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and nowadays Russia Introduction According to Horvath & Robert (2005), USSR, that is currently Russia has been a communist nation since the 19th century. The Soviet Union has been a socialist federation containing many institutions of the country and other non-governmental organizations. In the past, many human and civil rights were limited prompting the formation of some civil rights organizations. The political dispensations were so limited, and this…

Drinking Age The percent of alcohol consumption in the United States by underage drinkers is 11.4 percent (11 Facts). Underage drinking is common and most people think it is inadequate. Though it has its negatives, alcohol also has many benefits. If one drinks a moderate amount of alcohol, it can lower the risk for cardiovascular disease, decrease the chances for developing Type 2 diabetes, and decrease the chances for the common cold in the cases of non-smokers. Moderate drinkers are…

By the time the Mongols had conquered most of their land, the Silk Road had fallen into disuse. Because of their religious tolerance, the Mongols made the first great free-trade zone. However, these trade routes (Pax Mongolia) were perfect vectors for the disease to travel. Rats were scientifically known to have carried fleas with the Bubonic Plague but were able to travel in Black Sea trading ships that only existed because of the Mongols. Although the Mongols never…

During the dark ages, the belief in witchcraft, commerce and the draconian response by the church to the threat of the Black Death, accelerated and in many ways helped spread the Bubonic Plague. Yersinia Pestis, often referred to as the Black Plague or the Black Death is a bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and their fleas, however, it was the rat fleas that spread the plague to humans, while the rats, simply carried the plague from region to region. Ole Benedictow (2005, para. 33)…

Climate change makes people’s living unsecured, it forces people to migrate and often limit their sources of income. Child labour report 2016 shows the vicious relationship between climate change and child labour as push and pull factors. Push factors include “poverty, economic shocks, social acceptance of child labour, insufficient educational opportunities and/or barriers to education, discrimination in access to schooling or certain jobs and lack of parental guidance (Matt Rosenberg).” Pull…

The bedrock of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) carries the firm imprint of its architect, Mao Zedong. Revered to the extent of a semi-divine individual, he ruled with irrefutable authority and possessed an extraordinary cult of personality. The mark of the Great Helmsman, which was altogether political, cultural, and ideological, had dramatically defined the country. However, his tenure was contingent on his own mortality. Mao’s death in 1976 spurned a political crisis in which the question…

On December 26, 1893, the architect of China’s Communist revolution and the founding member of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), Chairman Mao Zedong(毛泽东) was born. Although many of his socialist reforms resulted in failure and caused much devastation for the people of China, his legacy as a nationalist leader and the creator of an independent China still inspires post-Mao generations. Born from a peasant family, Chairman Mao understood what it was like to be in the “98 percent”. This allowed him…