The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS, has created turmoil throughout the already war torn areas of the Middle East. They have captured multiple towns from central Iraq to the southern border of Turkey. ISIS is a terrorist organization that has carved out land in order to create a new state based on the ideological stance that state and church should be intertwined, also known as a caliphate or “the rank or reign of a caliph,” where the laws of the state are directly…
Do you know which United States President was shot sixty-nine days after being in office? This president was also the fortieth president and he had a wife named Nancy. You’re totally right, it’s Ronald Wilson Reagan, the only president was was shot but not killed. Ronald Reagan was the most consistently active president in policy making. Even though Ronald only served for two short terms he is still one of the greatest presidents to live in the White House. Ronald excelled in the presidential,…
democracies. According to him this form of democracy is typical for non-Western countries which embraced it from France (the French model). Although these countries are democracies, according to their official form of government, but in practice the leaders of these countries abuse the power and the citizens have many of their rights limited or violated. All the power is usually concentrated in the hands of one and the same person. The power is centralized no matter how big the country is, all…
gathered. An example of circular structure is when the President Jimmy Carter had to deal with the Iran Hostage Crisis, which prompted him to create the West Wing in his pyramid structure of…
by only 1.5% from 1965 and the administration was being accused for failing to mitigate issues related to foreign policies like the Iran hostage case. The general Jimmy…
Change Ever since Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States on November 4, 2008, he has changed America. Barack Obama was the first African American president in U.S. history. During the election for president, many candidates had promised the people of America that they will make America better. Little did the American people know that the candidates only did this to get people's votes. Instead of making false promises to the people of America, Barack Obama was the only…
(Ginsberg) The 9/11 attack scared Americans so bad this violence opened more citizens’ eyes to pay more attention to the news. News of widespread political unrest in Iran after allegations of rigged national elections in 2009 was disseminated to the outside world mostly by Internet-based forms of communication, including Internet video, blogs, and Twitter messages. (Ginsberg) Some younger people use YouTube more now…
As a citizen of the United State of American I can say that I am grateful to have a constitution that our founding fathers created. Most of all I am grateful that our country is a democracy and the people have the power to elect political officials. After researching forms of government and theories it has allowed me to understand what other individuals from different countries go through. Our democracy is broken up into two, direct and representative. I was able to look a different countries…
money replaces politics and ideology as the main weapon for war. This certainly can be seen in many countries all over the world, from Opium sales to support the war in Afghanistan, to oil wars, and in the case of Somalia, piracy to support illicit leaders, privatized wars have seen an increase since the Cold War era and it can be argued that there are more private wars currently existing than any point since the signing of the Westphalia Treaty. Chabal indicates that warlords have manipulated…
| 3163.4 | Indonesia | 6,245.33 | 9,918.63 | 16,163.96 | -3673.3 | Belgium | 6,296.21 | 8,609.82 | 14,906.02 | -2313.61 | South Korea | 4,140.37 | 10,475.29 | 14,615.66 | -6334.92 | Japan | 5,191.23 | 8,632.03 | 13,823.26 | -3440.8 | Iran | 2,742.46 | 10,928.21 | 13,670.67 | -8185.75 | Nigeria | 2,259.09 | 10,787.72 | 13,046.81 | -8528.63 | United Kingdom | 7,140.52 | 5,396.78 | 12,537.30 | 1743.74…