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hurricanes. (United States. Central Intelligence Agency, 2016) In 1978 the corrupt democratic national government lost to the leftist Sandinista’s. This is a popular people’s government symbolized by its red and black flags and paintings that are seen throughout the country. The United States has opposed this government from its inceptions and in the 1980’s funded the Contra’s to overthrow the government but those efforts failed. This left leaning government has put it at odds with the United…

1. The International hotel market 1.1 What is Internationalisation? Internationalization is going something overseas on a continual basis. dunning & McQueen (1982) defined internationalisation as “Internationalisation is taken to mean any form of transaction by an enterprise outside its national boundaries, in which assets, rights or goods are transferred and there is some continuing de facto control over the use of these and, or complementary indigenous resources.” 1.2.…

In 2013, Paul Bloom wrote the article, “The Baby in the Well: The Case against Empathy” in response to the devastating tragedies that had taken place right around this time. He argues that empathy is not enough and we need to look and address the world’s problems clearly or dispassionately. Bloom is persuasive in his writing because he points out the issues we are having, how people are reacting to them, and ways we could act better. Bloom indicates that empathy has been used for a long time…

In the article titled,“They fled Boko Haram and famine - and then they were forced back,” author Kevin Sieff highlights issues surrounding events of what the United Nations has termed “forced returns” of thousands of refugees, specifically in the case of Nigerians in Cameroon. Sieff informs readers of the thousands of Nigerians that have fled their villages and homes to seek refuge in Cameroon, escaping violent attacks of the Islamist extremists, Boko Haram. Upon escaping, Nigerian refugees are…

humanity, for instance, sexual violence, tortures and persecution on political, religious and racial grounds in the country were revealed by numerous testimonies of defectors from North Korea. Further, it argued that international aids to people in the nation should be more demanded instead of international sanctions to the head of the country, because to save people endangered from a lack of social and economic supports in North Korea must be the highest priority. More serious thing in terms of…

The advertisement that I selected is a very fresh ad that just came out after the Olympic games. It opens with a girl in her youthful years holding a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge singing the anthem of another country while gazing out into the vast open sea. She commences singing an anthem, soon afterward, the scene shifts and jumps over into another country with another person singing a different anthem. Each anthem comes with a new location which is different from the home of the anthem. At the…

An investigation of human rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights What are human rights? Justice, equality, and freedom are the three words that may pop up in our minds. In fact, the United Nation General Assembly published a document called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 with the concordance of around fifty countries. Considered as the most authoritative source, the thirty Articles in the document provides a general understanding of human rights, assuming that…

One of these issues was the gender disparities in the education system all over the world. To combat this, the United Nations developed the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs). “The MGDs are commitment by the UN to establish peace and a healthy global economy by focusing on major issues like poverty, children’s health, empowerment of women and girl, sustainable environment…

The International Labor Organization(ILO) is “the United Nations agency mandated to promote social justice and fundamental human and labor rights. Abolishing child labor has been a priority for the ILO since its founding in 1919.” (Colombini,) This organization has created programs within it, one of these programs…