The Nation

Three Founding Nations When asked, “Who founded Canada?” the tendency is for people to reply with the notion that there are two founders: the French and English. It is due to negligence that people overlook the first residents of this land, our land; the land of the aboriginal peoples. My people where from the Plains land in the west, where we hunted buffalo and lived in tepees. It was us, along with other Native groups who were here before any Frenchman, Briton, or even Spaniard arrived here.…

The Failure and Success of League of Nations and United Nations Although League of Nations had achieved to accomplish the objectives in some instance yet the League is illustrated as failure due to the broke of second World War. There are numerous reason why the League had failed. In fact, the structure of League itself considered as ineffective. The League is known as the “Winner club “or victors of World War I dominated by the European countries. The initiative countries of the League -United…

the help from the United Nations’ military force. The United Nations (UN) formed with only 51 countries in 1945, but now contains 192 countries, which have formed a military force made up of volunteers from the member-states. This military force, known as peacekeepers, does not have the authority to intervene with force into other countries, therefore according to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (2008), they also work to reform…

Although the United Nation has its shortcomings, as will all supranational organizations, it has a tendency to perform well in some areas, given its scale and age this is impressive by any account, and consistently fail in other, possibly more pertinent realms of governance. A simple example of this is how the world, by extension the United Nations, is more willing to negotiate and work together in areas related to trade and politics, to a lesser degree, but historically significantly less…

Though Adam Smith was not an economist, he is often known as the “father of modern capitalism.” In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith described an ‘Invisible Hand.’ The phrase was introduced as a force that helps the supply and demand of goods in the free market to reach equilibrium. Smith suggested that when everyone works for their own interest in a free market, the economy will thrive. He assumed if the government would leave the community alone to buy and sell freely among themselves, the…

The United Nations (UN) was established in 1945 to promote global peace and international cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations which was deemed as ineffective since it failed to prevent the Second World War. The organization enjoys a membership of 193 nations with the privilege to operate extraterritoriality. The UN also ensures that human rights of member states are not violated in any way. To ensure that the body achieves the task, UN has established a global structure that oversee…

All the nations of the world have different resources or skill sets to offer to the world. It is a macrocosm of how people interact and work with one another, offering what they can and asking for what they need to create something for the betterment of themselves, their office, or their company. It is a macrocosm in a sense that the different nations try to work as one unit to make life better in general. Like everything else in this world, not all nations are perfect. There are going to be…

living in Canada, the Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations in Canada and in North America. The James Smith Cree Nation is a diversion of the Cree Nation; a Cree First Nation band government. An agreement between band governments of First Nations at Fort Carlton over owned territory; current provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta (Postl et al. 2010). At the time of the treaty, the population of the James Smith Cree Nation was at about 134 members and had grown to a population of…

took place on February 14th, 1919 following the end of World War I. The speech was addressed to the Chairman of the Conference, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau. During the speech, Wilson presents the draft of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which he interrupts sparingly to provide clarifying remarks. After reading the Covenant, Wilson provides his commentary. The document only includes Wilson’s remarks and commentary, and excludes the body of the drafted Covenant. Wilson…

because of the punishments that it set out towards the weaker countries. Keynes also had his own point of view of how the League of Nations and if it had the enough power to balance out an environment post-World War One. Many of the Hessian readings assigned for class and the lectures help explain Keynes possible response to the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. The Treaty of Versailles was a contract made after World War 1 to make peace throughout the European countries. The…