United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

For centuries the Arctic Ocean has been famed for its inaccessibility, but with unprecedented ice retreats in recent years as a result of global warming, the Arctic Ocean is becoming rapidly accessible. This means new possibilities for the Arctic countries in terms of trade, travel, and access resources. These recent changes in the topography have led many to portray the Arctic as a geopolitical race for natural resources and territory, with Russia seen as the main aggressor. Russia is depicted…

Over two years ago, the United Nations first warned that there are more than sixty million people around the world that had been forcibly displaced, which is the highest it has ever been since World War Two. The war in Syria has been the single largest driver of refugees in the world. According to Acer (2016), the conflict in Syria has displaced more than eleven million people and about five million have fled the country. Although most of the Syrian refugees are being hosted in neighboring…

their hope and pride towards winning an impossible war, they somehow manged to defeat a global superpower, with the strongest navy in the world at that time. Through this, they won their freedom and all of the liberties we, as now citizens of the United States, still gain benefits from. Of course, there were some limiations on this freedom. Only white men gained it. Slavery was still common practice, women weren't allowed to vote and were seen as property. It seems the…

The United States immigration law defines refugees as, “people who are outside of their home country and cannot return due to a well-founded fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinions, or membership in a particular social group” (“Bridging Refugee Youth and Children 's Services”, 795). In 2011, The United States Department of Homeland Security recorded that a total of 56,384 refugee arrived in the United States with majority of the population being…

the onset of the French Revolution. The revolutionaries took over the government. Although King Louis XVI was still alive, his powers were limited. Bonaparte did not take a direct part in those events, but was overjoyed to hear of the abolition of laws that kept petty nobles confined to the ranks. This meant that he did not have to place limits on his ambition, he could rise as high as he wanted in the French army. (Schlesinger jr.…

Are we doing enough? Over two hundred years ago, man witnessed the evolution of energy that sling shot humanity into a new age. Coal rich in carbon replaced wood as the number one fuel source. The energy found in coal supplied the fore fathers with the means to manufacture steel, power steam liners, and run machinery. The world had no idea a hundred years later that its need for more energy would dramatically increase. Oil and natural gas where explored. These highly efficient energies would…

The primary goal of Jefferson’s presidency was to weaken the Federalist control on the judicial branch. He was extremely angered by the Judiciary Act of 1801 that went into place immediately before Jefferson became president. The law created positions that John Adams filled with Federalists before his term was over. The act also reduced the number of Supreme Court justices so that Jefferson’s chance to name a new Supreme Court justice was postponed. Jefferson’s supporters in Congress…

4.1.1 Particulate control. Particulate can be defined or referred to as tiny particles of matter like dust, smoke, soot which are being emitted during agricultural and industrial processes as well as other economic activities. Various methods involved with particulate control operate basic principles. Solid particulate particles are usually isolated from gases where they are controlled by physical procedures like through a settling chamber. Settling chamber is a wide and elongated pipe where…

its use of sand in expanding their territory. In 2003, Malaysia claimed that, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Singapore’s use of sand was encroaching on its sovereignty and endangering the livelihood of Malaysian fishermen. Japan and China have fought over the drawing of international waters as both countries have developed islands using sand to enlarge their territory. In the South China Sea, China has used sand to create seven news islets in the region, exacerbating the…

outcomes of these two revolutions are crucial to understanding today’s democracy, however this quotation explaining a declaration that the Convention made summarizes the existence and the journey of democracy. "When the Convention declared: 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen begins' it summed up in a simple axiom the whole law of human society” (Warwick 75). I believe that the concept of equality and how someone’s rights may not be above anyone else’s is the…