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borders. Within transnational organizations falls issue networks who have four main actors that are trying to work for something that they all morally believe in; states, international NGOs, domestic NGOs, and international organizations. The United Nations gives these a starting point that they share and discuss to get stuff done. There is a…

I first saw Emily Carr’s paintings in a book of great Canadian artists within the library of my Ontario public school. In this book was the painting created in 1935 called Scorned as Timber, Beloved as the Sky. This painting depicts a tall tree rejected as being too spindly for good lumber that is left standing in clearcut forest against the feathered shimmering sky. The painting had a unusually quality that depicts a place that was impossible to go, yet to surrounds Canadian’s everyday the…

In the case of the Concert of Europe, the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte resulted to the first unified alliance in Europe wherein the rest of the superpowers allied together to defeat one enemy. After Napoleonic War’s instead of taking all of France’s territory and divide it amongst the winning countries, they decided to forgive France for its aggression because this period, the winning countries are led by monarchy and the French monarchs also suffered from the French revolution. In addition,…

resources for schools around the world. EFA (2014) described an example of how this planning approach assisted in accurately estimating the educational staffing needs in the African country of Tanzania. The national government of this fledgling African nation employed this planning approach and discovered that they could lower their current estimates…

When looking at the works of both Carl von Clausewitz and John Boyd, there are many points of similarity and one particular difference. The point of similarity with the most common threads is that of the ever-changing and dynamic nature of war. This includes Clausewitz’s ‘Trinity’ and Boyds ‘OODA loop’ cycle, particularly the ‘Orient’ phase. The main point on which they differ is Clausewitz perceiving defense as the main focus as opposed to Boyd’s inherent bias toward the offense. The central…

Al-Qaeda used direct and symbolic violence to create the reaction that they wanted in the American people from their 9/11 attack. Direct violence is used to physically eliminate parts of the opposition and to destroy resources used by the institution. This type of violence does not regard the symbolic results of their violence, but when paired with symbolic violence it can be very dangerous. Symbolic violence is staged for a movement, in this case Al-Qaeda, to gain attention. They directed their…

white people who have church background can get away with legal punishment after they sexually abuse the Aboriginal children. The fact of background privilege of the whites is unequal to the First Nations people when compares the church background to the residential school background. The First Nations who comes from the residential school would be discriminated by others because the crowds are aware that they comes from a awful place that tortures children. Overall, the author reveals the…

Discussion 6.1 Strategic analysis of the different actors responsible for the organization of Togolese women's football The strategic approach highlights the structure of cooperation and opposition between a set of actors and the resulting logic of functioning. It complements the systemic analysis that "describes and demonstrates concretely the institutional mechanisms, structural arrangements and power balances that link a set of empirical actors concerned by a given common problem and regulate…

In his play Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring illuminates the origins and implications of the legacy of residential schools which remains prevalent in Indigenous communities in the twenty-first century. Loring strives not to diminish the experiences of residential school survivors, but to reconstruct how individuals in the twenty-first century view and represent survivors of residential schools. This goal is achieved through Loring’s depiction of characters that are sad, but loving and funny…

Q: Is Sovereignty the main characteristic of the modern state? Sovereignty is the main characteristic, which can also be referred to as the most important, of the modern state for many reasons which include the essential nature of sovereignty to the capitalist system (Wallerstein,1999, p.32) and the way in which it allows the state to protect its citizens (Held, 1989, p.16). However, there are other characteristics of the modern state to consider such as the feature of a bureaucracy and the…