Nation

My topic, D.W Griffith, was a man that very few people know about. He was one of the founding fathers of modern film making and one of the first people to add camera effects to his work. However, he had humble beginnings because he was born on a farm in Kentucky on January 22, 1875. His full name was David Llewelyn Wark Griffith. His parents were Jacob and Mary Griffith, they met each other after the Civil War, but during the war his father fought on the side of the Confederates as a…

The United Nations (U.N.) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) collide with their ideology on digital censorship of the free internet. The EFF is a nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is defending the general population’s civil liberties in the digital community through impact litigation, policy analysis, activism, and technology development (Electronic Frontier Foundation). While, the United Nation’s mission statement is to, take action on the issues confronting humanity in the…

after reading and doing a lot of research he transforms himself and converted to the Nation of Islam. While converting to the Nation of Islam and becoming fully committed to his Faith, Malcolm X stop using drugs, started praying, studied several types of languages and even join a debate team. When Malcolm X was released from prison be becomes very involved and active, he begin to preach the teaching of Nation of Islam. Malcolm X was appointed as a Minister and spokesman for…

urban African American culture? Why did he leave it? What did he find in universal Islam that was different from the practices and teachings of the nation of Islam? It really amazed me to read about this part of his journey. Malcolm had a lot of things to say about the nation of Islam. He talks about how he saw there were differences in the Nation of Islam and the Universal Islam. He later explains he five pillars of Islam. First, is the Shahadah, which is acknowledging that there is…

Keeping, and the Americans, is the organizations financial situation. It has been forced to begin a lengthy restructuring to make it more cost effective due to the lack of funds it is encountering. In a recent UN report entitled, “Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform” the UN officials began to address this problem. The report outlined the course which will be taken in order to balance the budget. Since the organization itself is completely reliant upon the money it receives…

The United Nations is the association of almost every country in the world. It is thus an international association. In its preamble it states that its aim is to end the war, to proclaim its faith in human rights and in justice between countries, to develop social progress and work for tolerance. Moreover, the goal of the Security Council is “to maintain international peace and security” and also “to develop friendly relations between nations”. These principles promote the Liberal Peace theory.…

after World War I. Those fourteen points went into the formal armistice with Germany. However, in negotiations with the Treaty of Versailles, Wilson had to compromise away many of these points so he could save the capstone, the League of Nations. The League of Nations became the main line of contention when Wilson attempted to pass the treaty in the Senate, and there were three factions in the Senate who had differing opinions on it. One group, the internationalists, led by Woodrow Wilson,…

year going to an ineffective, unnecessary, and expensive program. The United Nations is ineffective, because it does not uphold its promises. It is expensive because we spend 6.8 billion dollars a year on a failing program. Lastly it is unnecessary because countries already have their own resources and programs. We should abolish the United Nations because it is needless, unproductive, and expensive. The United Nations is unproductive seeing as it does not, do one thing it promises to do…

One way countries outside of the United States deal with disasters and emergency situations, is the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The UNDP works to restore government and community capacities to rebuild and recover, so as to prevent a crisis situation (Haddow, Bullock, Coppola, 2014). From this description it seems like the purpose of this program…

fifty one countries came together and created the United Nations Organization (the UN). This organization's main priority is to maintain peace and security throughout the world. The United Nations was conceived as an instrument to face the most relevant and global challenges in the international system. Since it's foundation, it has suffered many successes and failures and among the many strengths there are still some weaknesses. The United Nations has celebrated many victories and successes,…