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believe human behavior is making a threat on the environment. The reason why states have environmental agreements also seems to be a reoccurring theme in the reading. This reading also discussed the idea of soft and hard law. This is not the first time reading about soft and hard law so every time I read something new about it, my knowledge on the topic grows. The evidence from the reading shows how hard agreements makes shrinking difficult which is key in ensuring compliance. The second reading for this week was chapter 15 in the Cali textbook. This chapter focused on world trade. Basically, the focus was on the WTO treaty system. This system deals with the rules of trade between different nations. International law has made a way for good and services to be traded throughout the different nations. The first thing I want to talk about is the example the author used in the beginning of the chapter on cars. I believe this is a great example in explaining trade treaties. From the example, there is a list of actions one of the countries could take to protect from imports. Under customary international law, every state has the right to restrict trade with other countries and not accept goods and services (Cali, 333). Just because you go into trade does not mean you do not have a way out. When dealing with trade there are a few treaties. One of the treaties is a bilateral trade treaty. This is a treaty that happens between two countries. Another trade treaty is a regional trade…

As empires made their way into these countries they also made it into the lives of the people. As mentioned above, empires are not homogenous like nationalism, they are heterogeneous being that empires can span over large areas where there are different cultures. Indigenous people are adopted into the nation’s culture and in many cases cause problems with ethnic Europeans being that these Africans, who were considered lesser human beings by many nationalist Europeans, were being integrated and…

strategically to navigate around the society. Additionally, race is still an exceptionally critical topic since the ideology of nationalism is still used to justify the domination of one race over another within a nation. Race plays a crucial role in a country 's population. It separates the population and draws a line among its population. Race increases racial violence, prejudice or both at the same time. As it has been stated by Marx (1998), Racial prejudice in Brazil was influenced by the…

distributed equally among the Thai population: between 1981 and 1994 the incomes of the richest 20 percent of the population grew significantly in comparison to those of the poorest 20 percent. Nevertheless, nearly all of Thailand benefited in some fashion from growth. The percentage of the population living in poverty fell from 23 percent in 1981 to less than 10 percent in 1994. Agriculture was traditionally the mainstay of the Thai economy. The economy is heavily agricultural, with rice by…

Americans all over the nation have become far too accustomed to the big blue corporate stores; know as Wal-Mart, they are incapable of seeing the damage caused by the corporate Wal-Mart, which ultimately impacts all social classes. Thus, many citizens are incapable of surviving without one-stop stores like Wal-Mart. This is a big issue because Wal-Mart is the main good-provider in the U.S. This movie poster effectively utilizes imagery by using pathos to portray Wal-Mart as the middle class…

denied, which forced the Kurds to adopt another language, which made the preservation of their ethnic identity difficult (Withman, 1993: 37). An ethnic group can also actively change aspects of their ethnicity. This happened in the 1960’s when the Hausa traders in Nigeria converted en masse to a Stufi sect called Tijaniyya to justify a separate Hausa quarter (Joirnema, 2003: 38). A particular part of an ethnic identity or the identity as whole can bet strengthened or weakened or parts can get…

comes under threat if globalization is involved. This debate occupies the minds of many as the research the change that globalization brings to the continent of Africa and other nations. What we do know for sure is that globalization is brought about by the political views and economic standpoint of a nation, which many can argue is because of the western world’s involvement in affairs they don’t belong in. However the question remains is globalization and advantage or disadvantage to the nation…

all names and other significant identifying details were changed, and the original recording has been encrypted. Additionally, informed consent was established after informing Harman of her freedom to withdraw from the research, and explaining how the data would be used. While there was the potential issue of the interview causing some emotional strain with discussion of negative experiences or problems with privacy if sensitive information were shared, this was not the case here. However, these…

origins (Matsumoto et al., 2013). The relationship between nationality and ethnicity bring into light customs and traditions. Like the United States, Jamaica is ethnically diverse; in part, this is due to the history of this nation. The origins of Jamaica trace back to slavery days when the British parliament and the Spanish rule governed the country’s agriculture. When the wealth of the country was recognized, other nations wanted to embark on this prosperous opportunity. Therefore, a diverse…

They did all seek to build new societies free of the persecutions of the past, but most of them were predominately of Anglo-Saxon origin in their ethnic makeup. The nations that "founded" America would end up justifying their killing of the aboriginal people as a means of saying "well God ordained it". From this, even though America claims to not be based on ethnicity it ends up being a founding value of the United States and we possess a de facto founding ethnicity from the start. This founding…