The Refuge

people do know the negative impacts of the use of these chemicals, they still use it. The economic component in the selected issue is the that it costs a lot of money to transport the polar bears to the high Arctic, where they can find their last refuge due to the climate…

branched from the fact that the revolutionaries violated some European treaties by invading papal territory and abolishing the rights of the Austrian princes in Alsace. Foreign governments undermined the revolution by attacking France, providing refuge for French rebels (émigrés) and armed them to attack…

Between the dates of October 7th to the 21st, I visited the Buddhist temple called the Hsi Fang temple located in San Diego, CA at Park Blvd. Although Buddhism is my religion, I never knew much about. Before visiting a Buddhism temple, I felt that my experience there was very eye opening, and gave me a whole new understanding and appreciation for Buddhist practices and beliefs. In my mind, I thought that there are a few Buddhist temples in San Diego, such as Chua Ba Thien Hau, Tinh Xa Ngoc Minh…

masterpiece, their princesses have been looked upon as role models. Walt Disney has created a franchise with prim, proper female leads and charming princes. His first film, the beloved Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is about a young princess who seeks refuge in a cottage of seven dwarves. She is fleeing from her evil step mother who is envious of her beauty. Little girls idolize Snow White along with the other classic Disney princesses for what they stand for. Since the beginning of Disney…

that carried men in and out of the mine for their shifts, Franklin Lobos, when he passed the main boss of the mine, Carlos Pinilla, he seemed worried. He was setting up a plan to get more provisions, as well as blankets and first aid kits into the Refuge, as if preparing for an emergency (Campbell, 2015). At many times throughout the San José mines’ functioning prior to this disaster, several contracting companies recommended the purchase of equipment that would be able to detect any…

Unconventional Warfare (UW) is considered the trademark of the U.S. Army Special Forces (SF). In fact, UW often serves as the focus for training, planning, and discussion within every aspect of the SF community. Most debates involving UW turn into an analysis of defining Unconventional Warfare and trying to figure out how to fit current SF operations into that definition. Special Forces prides itself on owning UW and serving as the Department of Defense’s subject matter experts on operating…

This way for the gas ladies and gentlemen is a collection of short stories following the experiences of narrator and author, Tadeusz Borowski, during his time in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Although the book was first published more than 50 years ago, Borowski's brutally honest, and personal accounts from one of the most traumatizing moments in human history help us gain an insight into modern events. The work of art provides us with a personal account for a moment in history that seems…

In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe we learn about the Ibo culture and how it is a male-dominant society that is ran by men. In the village of Umuofia, women have little to no power and men are seen as superior to them. Women are seen as the “weak” sex and have only a few qualities that make them powerful for example the ability of conceiving children, to be an obedient wife, and to be a pure bride. Genders in Ibo society play an important role. The people from Umoufia are gendered…

All throughout the world people and countries are searching for ways to replace fossil fuels as an energy source, and one way they try is nuclear power. Nuclear power plants have the potential to be very dangerous to not only the people that live near, but also the entire area. If something goes wrong it could cause an entire swath of land to become uninhabitable for millions of years, basically forever in the spectrum of human life. Therefore it is imperative that before nuclear power plants…

colonies. As early as the 1620s, escaped slaves would take refuge here and began forming colonies and coastal plantations. The two largest of these groups were the Saramaka and the Djuka. These African communities would raid the coastal plantations and free other slaves to join them. This created problems with the Dutch. The dutch finally formally recognized their independence under the condition that they no longer allow slaves to take refuge with them. Eventually, in 1975, Suriname…