The Hague

table of international relations. Russia is one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). As part of the UNSC Russia also gets a permanent presence at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), most often called ‘The Hague’. Interestingly, Russia does not submit or consent to ‘compulsory jurisdiction’ of the ICJ. There is not a separation of powers within the UN which means Russia can veto ICJ cases and avoid responsibility as a permanent member of the UNSC (World…

The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the play The Crucible, both display a woman’s ability to manipulate men in societies where they were virtually powerless. Kesey used Nurse Ratched in his novel as an example of a female manipulator in the time period of the late 1950s or early 1960s where women were still seen as subservient citizens that should be in the home. Miller on the other hand, used the character Abigail as a manipulator of men in his play which was set in a Puritan society…

STRATEGIES TO COMBAT THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF POLYPHARMACY AND THE ASSOCIATED NUTRITIONAL RISK Research suggested while polypharmacy, isn’t the only cause of nutritional risk in the elderly, it was shown to have a positive correlation with increased prevalence of nutritional risk. It therefore stood to reason if one reduces negative polypharmacy use, where medications dispensed have little to no added therapeutic value but rather precipitate additional symptoms, we can decrease the numbers of…

The National Military Strategy emphasizes the recognition of human, cultural, and political continuities of armed conflict xxxx. This strategy calls for forces possessing cross-cultural capabilities that permit them to operate effectively among populations. Inherent in this vision is a mastery of language, cultural awareness, and an in-depth knowledge of peoples, political systems, religion, demographics, infrastructure, and a host of other factors that can vary significantly by country and…

Moshe was born in 1926 at The Hague located in the Netherlands (Simkin). He was a brilliant student who knew eight different languages. In 1942 his entire family, including his mother, father, one brother, and five sisters fled to the city of Brussels in Belgium. The family thought they…

New Jersey is full of places where historical events have occurred. One of these places is Journal Square, which is located in Jersey City, NJ. Its history starts when the Lenni Lenape Indians first settled there. In the 1650s, General Peter Stuyvesant had everyone under his rule. Two years later, Stuyvesant engineered the purchase of most of present-day Hudson County from the Indians in return for materials. On November 1660, the Dutch moved in and claimed Bergen Square (now known as Journal…

The definition of human trafficking is, “the recruitment, harboring, and/or transport of people within or between countries for exploitation.”(Human Trafficking). Labor trafficking was the first form of human trafficking, and it is still the largest form of human trafficking today. Sex trafficking is on the rise, and has become one of the most common types. A new upcoming form of trafficking that became known at the beginning of the twenty-first century is organ trafficking. The trafficking of…

Wolfgang was nearly nine, but he was small for his age and his father advertised his age as eight so he would appear younger and more precocious. In September they reached The Hague in the Netherlands. Nannerl became very ill. In those days they "bled" people to treat them. Of course, this only made her worse. It was determined that she had typhoid fever. Then Wolfgang became ill with the same symptoms. They both finally recovered…

unhealthy marriage while raising and projecting a happy family, "Life Among the Savages", which caused her devaluation by traditional male critics who had difficulty reconciling Jackson’s housewife status with her production of Gothic narratives (Hague), to the many riveting and haunting short stories, “The Lottery”, that would quickly become one of the best- known and most frequently anthologized short stories in English (Franklin) and to this day still leave a magnitude of her readers in…

Women Strike for Peace (WSP) was an important organization for the “peace movement”. When first typing Women Strike for Peace into Google a bunch of websites popped up, most of the website gave general/most important information about this organization. Which WSP were developed to protest against nuclear testing, a protest which involved 50,000 women from 60 committees throughout the nation stopped whatever they were doing and walked out and had a one-day protest again nuclear testing. That was…