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Through perseverance the day finally came where the scared Lakshmi could finally leave with the help of the American man. Primarily due to substandard living conditions, broken family structures, and widespread unemployment, citizens of developing nations struggle to persevere.…

While not matching the intensity and devastation of World War I and World War II, the period following 1945 would seem to most casual observers of history as a generally violent one, consumed with deadly regional wars, revolutions, and the possibility of a nuclear exchange. Though acknowledging the rivalries, anxieties, and dangers of The Cold War, historian John Lewis Gaddis, in The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System, argues that it was the longest period of…

Debate Tryouts Speech Topic: Resolved: The United States should lift the embargo on Cuba. Good afternoon. The topic of this speech is on the United States should or should not lift the Cuban embargo. This is a very short backstory behind the embargo placed on Cuba. The U.S. placed an trade embargo on Cuba in 1962 and added travel restrictions in 1963. The economic embargo was placed because Cuba had taken oil-refineries which were American owned as their own and Cuba did not give compensation…

2014-2017, we observe that there has been a growing tendency around the globe but not limited to the United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Turkey to see the rise of a populist rhetoric where demagogues are increasingly indulging in “gesture politics” while supporting and advocating for policies that right violate the sanctity of the right to privacy and other human rights in an attempt to ‘call for’ doing something about topical security issues and combating terrorism.…

Contemporary academic and public security discourses have produced a substantial body of literature on terrorism. However, there currently does not exist a single accepted definition of terrorism or what classifies an organization as a terrorist group. Different organizations that compile and classify terrorists and terrorist organizations operate under different and at times contentious and contradictory definitions of terrorism and terrorist groups. This is reflected in state classifications…

Rwandan population faced after the assassination of their leader. Following these two factors are the hardliners response and the space of opportunity. Because of the assassinations, the population was filled with uncertainty, anxiety and confusion. This led…

ISIL does not have any relationship with Islam, even though they call themselves Islamic State. There is not any religion around the world that says people to kill another people, Islam as well. ISIL is a terrorist group, it is simple, that hides under religious identities, they use religious values for their benefit and kill innocent people, and the majority of ISIL’s victims are Muslims. ISIL threatens the people of Iraq and Syria, and the Middle East, American citizens and whole countries…

the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan) – Baku. That tragic night, without any notice or declaration of the state of emergency, Soviet Army units and interior troops entered Baku with heavy weapons and staged a cruel carnage of the peaceful and unarmed population of the city. Citizens of Baku created a “live barricades” believing that the soviet military would not dare to attack the unarmed people. But they were wrong: Soviet Army attacked its own citizens. Tanks and armored personnel carriers were…

Genocide and cross-cultural conflicts affect everyone in the world whether directly or not, both Misha Glenny and Samantha Power write about these affects in their books. Though both of these authors write on the similar topic but on very different trains of thought. Glenny focuses on independence movements and how the side which is fighting for independence is always more righteous and right where as Powers focuses more on Political/economical gains and loses then that of right and wrong. In…

On Tuesday, September 19th, President Donald Trump gave his first United Nations Speech. The article by The Washington Post addresses and extracts his main points of the night. First, it stresses Trump’s statement that the world faces “great peril” from rogue regimes with powerful weapons and expanding terrorists. He then encourages fellow leaders to help the U.S. defeat failed or murderous ideologies and “loser terrorists.” Embracing national sovereignty was Trump’s next point which according…