The Hague

Charles Taylor was a former Liberian president was sentenced to a 50-year jail sentence on charges of aiding and abetting war crimes during the brutal civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. In 1989 Charles Taylor stared the Liberia civil war. He was a warlord and was elected president in 1997. For six year, before he was forced into exile in Nigeria he governed Liberia. He was convicted for 11 charges of war crime and crime against humanity. This was for his alleged role in the brutal civil…

was born in Holland on March 30th, 1853 to his parents Anna Carbentus van Gogh and Theodorus van Gogh. He had three sisters, Elisabeth, Anna, Wil, and two brothers, Theo and Cor. Van Gogh didn't get into art until 1870, at 16, he was employed by the Hague gallery that was run by French art dealers Goupil et Cie. Van Gogh decided that he didn’t want to be an art dealer any more because it didn't interest him anymore, and he decided wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and preach to the…

There is a current debate on whether or not children from other countries should be adopted by parents outside of their country. At the core of this debate is the basic human rights issue. According to Gunner, Bruce, and Grotevant (2000) supporters of international adoption see international adoption as giving children the most fundamental human rights, the right to have a loving family who will give them their basic needs to grow up healthy and have a fulfilling life. But on the flip side those…

Anna was only 50 years old her 30 year dance career had come to physically wear on her. Anna decided to take a Christmas vacation after wrapping up a particularly arduous tour in England. At the end of her vacation she boarded a train back to The Hague where she planned to resume dancing. From Cannes to Paris the train was an accident. Anna was unharmed in the accident but she was left waiting out the delay for 12 hours on the platform. It was a snowy evening and Anna was only wearing a thin…

adoption hotspot, which wound up being Ethiopia. After Guatemalan inter-country adoptions were shut down in 2007, Ethiopia skyrocketed two short years later in 2009-- regardless of the newly signed Hague Convention that went into effect in 2008; but what actually is the Hague Convention? The Hague Convention is an international agreement that sets regulations for International Adoptions. The agreement’s purpose is to ensure that adoptions take place in the best interest of the child that is…

Madison McLendon Mrs. Pigford English 2 17 February, 2017 Annotated Bibliography: Adoption Child Welfare Information Getaway. "History of Adoption Practices in the United States." History of Adoption Practices in the United States - Child Welfare Information Gateway. N.p., 2016. Web. 2 Feb. 2017. Adoption has been around for thousands of years, but adoption in the US can be traced back to the 1850s. The first adoption law in the US was in Massachusetts and was considered modern.…

the rules that created the concept of the humanism of today. Although, the “Jus in Bello,” was created over 150 years ago when they began to codify international treaties and laws in the Hague. As Brian Orend (p.21) pointed out: “the culmination of this nineteenth-century move towards codification was the Hague Convention, drafted and proclaimed in ten different treaties between 1899 and 1907.” It was not until the Pact Kellogg-Briand 1928 was signed when attempting to reduce the number of just…

Today, I will review an article on the local impacts of sea level rise in the Norfolk area. Norfolk, which was essentially built on a swamp, experiences increasing flooding due to sea level rise. Sea level rise is caused by the melting polar caps and glaciers and is mainly affecting coastal areas. Due to subsidence, Norfolk is closer to sea level than surrounding areas, which makes flooding a greater problem to the community. I will discuss the major effects of flooding on the town, harm to the…

Alamogordo. Many people suggested the atomic bomb with hopes of ending the war sooner and to save lives. However, many people also advised against using the bomb because it would kill thousands upon thousands. They also advised against it because of The Hague Convention and the Historic National Laws of war. In my opinion, I think that there were other methods that could have been used instead of an atomic bomb. Many events provoked thought of using an atomic bomb. On December 7, 1941 the…

The First of its Kind Clouds of something that appeared to be smoke reached the line of soldiers waiting to fight. Immediately, the soldiers began to cough, gag and choke. Their eyes started stinging and watering, and they fell backwards into the trenches. The soldiers tried to duck and avoid the smoke in their dugouts, but it soon followed. Those who did not fall ran trying to abandon the clouds of smoke, but this was no regular smoke (Kennedy 53). It was chlorine gas that German forces used to…