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amount of people who have the rights to love whoever they want to because there is absolutely "no connection between family, marriage, or procreation, and homosexuality.” Not only is there no constitutional law against same sex marriage but Lepore also mentions how "there is nothing in the United States Constitution concerning birth, contraception, and abortion" yet it has been repeatedly banned throughout American history. Lepore 's discussion of our constitutional rights in her articles allows…

Now nationalism is defined as being free from foreign domination, being united and carrying the notion of self-determination. Nationalism is a movement, a sentiment or an ideology. Many nationalists fight over land, share the same language, history, values and land. There are two types of nationalism, civic nationalism and ethnic…

At the start of her third paragraph, she said you can’t discriminate against blacks, Asians or the disabled so why is it OK to discriminate homosexuals. I believe they are completely different from each other and hard to compare with each other since blacks and Asians are races and homosexuals are sexuality. But when she said…

The WTO currently has too many loopholes, allowing Japan to hunt for “research purposes” and Norway to hunt under an “objection” of the ban. I think that the panel should be a part of an environmental offshoot of the United Nations and that delegates that serve on the panel should be a working part of the UN. Science, interests, and morals should be reasonably discussed, weighted on the evidence presented and states must reformulate common jurisdiction. They must also make…

Christopher Mouawad (915196889) Ms. Sarah Prince POL 003 27 October 2017 Senkaku Islands Dispute: Best Explained by Realist Thought For centuries, interactions between states have revolved around power, be it geopolitical, economic, militaristic, or otherwise. This concept is central to a theory of international relations known as realism. Contrary to liberalism, the other dominant theory of international relations, the tenants of realism support the idea that a state’s interests revolve around…

If states were able to cooperate, would the world be a better place? What would be the likely hood of all of the state’s cooperating? In this essay, I will present two arguments, which will spell out the neorealist point of view and the neoliberal point of view of international cooperation. The neorealist believe that it would be difficult to have international cooperation because they are worried about having equal distribution of power within states, and being able to trust other states. The…

Legal and Ethical Dilemmas: The Media and Terrorism Considering the recent rise in terror attacks across the globe and the predominant effect this has on journalistic reporting, this essay will centre around legal and ethical dilemmas that arise when covering terrorism in the media. Brian Jenkins (1974) states that “Terrorist attacks are often carefully choreographed to attract the attention of the electronic media and the international press. Terrorism is aimed at the people watching, not at…

In the book “Globalization and its Discontents” by Joseph E. Stiglitz, there are a lot of arguments about how the international community can do better when it comes to providing developing nations with aid. He discusses big organizations like the IMF and the World Bank, and how their efforts might even make the situation worse in some cases. The last chapters in the book, Stiglitz also discusses steps he sees are needed and that he argues should be applied by the international community.…

While referencing the terror inflicted on the people of the Dominican Republic under the reign of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the author Robert Crassweiler once said: The extent to which violence, both open and covert, is a constant factor in the life of the region may cause surprise. The incongruous and rather unreal quality of many events, whether fanciful or farcical in appearance, may also prove unexpected. Understanding the Dominican Republic’s cultural atmosphere without discussing the…

Aaron Nguyen HY104 Test 1: Question 2 9.18.2017 Difference of the Old and New Trade Ways With old ways being dated, there are new ways always knocking at the door to replace the old, whether for the good or for the bad. The old versus the new ways have impacts on the world economy. The costs of the early global trade versus the costs of the new trade placed a new way that people interacted with each other in a world basis. The costs of the early global trade were on the environment and…