The Hague

My first interaction with State Department was at the age of ten at the consulate of Guadalajara. My uncle’s family was going to interview for a tourist visa so that they could come to the United States to visit us that following summer. When we arrived I saw my country’s flag waiving and I was very excited, but I also remember a heavy presence of fear. It was one year after the September 11 attacks. I was very young, but at this age I understood why the hostility was present that day at the…

offensive war in 1948 and was never recognized by the international community, including the Arab states, with the exception of Great Britain and Pakistan. This fact was admitted by Stephen Schwebel, who headed the International Court of Justice in the Hague in…

Criminal law; I told my students that I teach in the Human Rights Education module that ‘refugees are like people like us’. A student in the class stated ‘if he was in a position of a refugee he would see noway out and would commit crime’. I feel the same way about criminals. I am interested in criminal law as I have compassion for the ‘Criminal’, guilty or not. I believe I feel like this as I have experience with a ‘dark side of life’ and I believe there should be no hierarchy of people in…

sisters. His mother encouraged him to draw and paints and when he became a teenager, he draw and painted on a regular basis. When he turned sixteen, he started at his uncle’s firm, Goupil and Company, and was there for six years. He traveled to The Hague, Paris, and then London, where he found…

supposed to see the world through imaginative eyes not despair, so the war is taking away the kids childhood and making them grow up earlier then they have too. However, Gettleman also states, “But perhaps most significant is the ongoing trial in the Hague, a city in the Netherlands, of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.” By extension the trial of former president Charles Taylor, was a trial that prosecuted Taylor for his use of child soldiers. This shows that even though underage…

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is an infamous work of art that many people find captivating (many for it’s vibrant colors and elaborate design, and some for the history of it’s creation). Van Gogh is an artist known for his elaborate works of art, those of which came in high demand after his death. As well being a mostly self taught artist, he produced over a 2,000 works of art, all of which are now praised for their beauty and design. Van Gogh, while brilliant, became mentally ill over…

Throughout history, there have been many different warlords and rebels, some good and some bad, fighting to gain control of their country and/or resources. Even though this may be a hard task to accomplish, many leaders reach their goals through unethical means, such as using violence and oppression against those that have conflicting views. These acts of violence by rebel leaders and warlords often lead to thousands of deaths, many of those are people that could not defend themselves but were…

Lee, M., Reese-Weber, M., & Kahn, J.H. (2014). Exposure to Family Violence and attachment styles as Predators of Dating Violence perpetration among men and women: A Meditational Model. The Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 29(1), 20-43 Brief Summary: Exposure to Family Violence and Attachment Styles as Predators of dating Violence Perpetration among Men and Women: A Mediational Model This passage will explain how children relate abuse to choosing a partner. Also, when abused you think that is…

fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in The Hague, located it what is now the Netherlands, to an influential Dutch family. He was the families’ third and penultimate child, as his mother passed away in the process of giving birth to his younger sister. His father, Constantijn Huygens, was a…

Vincent van Gogh once said, “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process” (“Vincent Van Gogh, and His Paintings”). The only thing a lot of people know about Vincent is that he truly did lose his mind and that he cut his own earlobe off. They don’t know anything about his work or his history. Vincent was a unique and unusual man, yet he truly was an artistic genius. Like so many, though, this wasn’t realized until after he had already passed. The oldest of six…