United Nations Convention Against Torture

Ever since I was young, my parents encouraged me to pursue a degree in higher education. This insistence meant that the movement from high school to college was a given, not a concept to attempt, rather a grounded inevitability. It was an experience wrapped in certainty and all through grade school (in a wealthy, white, suburb) I appreciated it as it was. It was not until much later in my life that I realized a college degree was a privilege I had, rather than a given. Once this self-efficacy…

Roughly half of those who have gained access into the United States were school-aged children. Refugee children live appalling situations that hamper their education. The United Nations has underscored in conventions, and investigators have agreed that schooling is critical for refugee children’s psychological and societal wellbeing. Nevertheless, governmental entities, community attitudes…

El Salvador has been overran with unequal rights and violence caused by the Civil War. The 1 United States became involved in this conflict through the struggle for human rights, democracy, and equality. During the Civil War, the U.S. sent more than $4.5 billion in aid to the Salvadoran government, and trained many Salvadoran soldiers on U.S. ground. In 1977, the U.S. voiced concerns about the frequent human right violations. The Salvadoran government renounced all aid from the U.S. El Salvador…

t in order for an engine to run smoothly – or the heart to remain healthy - not only does it require the necessary parts to function, but is also needs to be supplied with the best oil – the most oxygen – to remain as strong and powerful as it can be.It is often taken for granted that these machines fall apart after so long, which is why it is important to understand the mechanism – to know how each part effects the other – in order for it to operate efficiently. This concept is a…

The United States is revered as the big brother of the world. In order to maintain that role, America should have three main foreign policy goals, protecting our nation and our people from our enemies, promoting our economy and working towards world peace. National security is the primary goal and a short term goal which needs to be prioritized. Next up is promoting America’s economy so we can get out of our immense debt. In doing so the united states will be better fit to give aid to foreign…

Responsibility in Supply Chain Management by Failing to Eradicate the Use of Child Labor Due to the failure of Hershey’s voluntary efforts to stop child labor from being used within its supply chain, the U.S. government should enforce existing federal law against the importation of products made with forced labor. Trafficked Labor and Poor Working Conditions Hershey sources most of its cocoa from West Africa – a region plagued by extreme poverty – and known for extensive use of trafficked child…

War can be devastating and sometimes even deadly, often times leaving families and nations in disarray. If people are able to make it through, however, they will be rewarded with joy, freedom, and beauty much greater than before the war. This happiness will not only make them feel better, but it will also make people realize how lucky they…

Theories can help simplify the complexities of international politics. Theories help create an abstract understanding and an explanation of why and how the states behave. Realism, liberalism, and constructivism all have different perspectives of how the states should operate, but not one of those theories is more accurate than the other or explains the real world problems. I organized this paper based on the most famous theories: realism,liberalism, and constructivism along with their core…

The purpose of this essay will be in analyzing the effects of the Ofensiva hasta el tope that occurred during the Salvadoran Civil War in 1989. The Ofensiva hasta el tope was largely considered to be the catalyst for ensuring that the peace negotiations were sped up. Because of these negotiations, the peace treaties of Chapultepec were eventually allowed to occur. Due to many actions on both sides of the conflict, including the assassination of a Supreme Court president and six Jesuit priests,…

Genocide in Rwanda When we think about Genocide we usually think of what happened during the Holocaust as the best case scenario for genocide in our history, but there were other Genocide that occurred in the world one come to mind in Rwanda. In this paper I will be focusing the history of Rwanda and the 1994 Genocide. What are the different theories that explain the Genocide in Rwanda and which ethnic conflict theory best fits the Genocide in Rwanda? Rwanda is a landlocked East African…