United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

The period between 1800 and 1855 marked an era of expansion in American history including the Louisiana purchase, Mexican acquisition, California, Oregon, and development of the Midwest. This era, however, coexisted with a constant state of conflict and mixed feelings about slavery, reformation of society, and rapidly changing political stances. Most opposition and conflict was hinged at areas and topics the country had not decided to explore until then, including federalist opposition to the…

Powers and the Central Powers. This bloody battle started on July 28, 1914 and did not end until November 11, 1918. Woodrow Wilson played a major part in the United States entering the war overseas. Wilson’s role in the war was him joining and becoming one of the many leaders of the Allied Powers, and that he was the president of the United States of America at time the war started and continuing through and after the war. Wilson became one of the major leaders of the Allied Powers. Wilson had…

freighter MV Tampa rescued 438 refugees off a sinking fishing boat named the Palapa (Doherty, 2011). It was an event that ushered Australia into what is now more than a decade of constant failures to meet humanitarian conventions and international laws outlined by the United Nations and ratified by the Australian government. Federal politicians will often exhort to the use of exclusionary, and often divisive language whenever asylum seekers or refugees are discussed, particularly in the public…

In Henry Clay’s American System, the southern states were to serve as subsides for the internal improvements in the urban areas in the northern states. Without the South, Lincoln only had the Border States, and the New England states left. The Border States were “shaky” in whose side they were going to be on, especially lukewarm, Maryland because of its diverse population. When Lincoln called for arms after the attack on Fort Sumter, Maryland revealed its conflicted soul. It had both…

of business throughout the years. Once independent from the business needs and demands of other nations, companies have had to adapt and overcome the repercussions of this ever-changing event in order to remain competitive and afloat in their industry. One way to ensure sustainability and growth is by establishing practices of international trade and manufacturing to be preformed outside of the United States making the organization a multinational corporation (Block & Hirt, 2014). As an…

Membership of the IPCC is open to all members of the WMO and UNEP.[4] The IPCC produces reports that support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the main international treaty on climate change.[5][6] The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous…

He used this term to describe the motivation to expand west. The concept was meant to describe how some believed they were granted with God’s gifts, while other felt the western expansion was what the nation needed. He states how a nation filled with many diverse means, was “destined to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles” (Allard). Both, Polk and O’Sullivan believed moving west would be the start of a new life for America. The concept, allowed people…

women, slaves, or rather anyone besides themselves, while writing the new law of the land. As famous American historian George Bancroft states, “The Constitution establishes nothing that interferes with equality and individuality. It knows nothing of differences by descent, or opinions, of favored classes, or legalized religion, or the political power of property. It leaves the individual alongside of the individual. ... As the sea is made up of drops, American society is composed of separate,…

include the creation or adjustment of trade barriers, lifecycle costs of goods, supply chain disruption, and potential risk of human or environment disaster. The Office of the United States Trade Representative tracks relevant data through their National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (Office of the United States Trade Representative, 2015). The Office reports that an increase of maritime piracy is expected to increase costs of global trade. There is evidence to support a…

the proposed extension of Texas as opposed to the laws of countries and of God. Despite the fact that the…