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According to a study done by the United Nations, Latin America is considered the most violent region in the world. It accounts for every 1 in 3 deaths worldwide. As a whole, Latin America's homicide rate is 23 deaths for every 100,000 people, nearly double the rate in Africa, which is sometimes mistakenly believed to be the most violent continent. Most of the time the crime, violence, and murder take place in Northern South America and Central America. I have a friend who emigrated here from El…

nationalist Gavrilo Princip, which led Austria to declare war on Serbia. This one event created a snowball effect in just a matter of days creating a division between two armed forces; the Allied Powers of France, Russia and Great Britain against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. The battle began on July 28, 1914, within the three major areas of Europe: the Southern front of Serbia, the Western front of France and Belgium, and the Eastern front of…

American people and even some of the Mexican locals rebelled against the Mexican government asking to become part of the United States. They also joined some of the congress stating that Texas belonged to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; therefore, was…

Russia, France and Germany began recruiting the male population. The male population were forcibly dragged into war, thus giving the military experience and taste of war to the countrymen. The arms buildup and recruitment ensured that every European state had large army at its own disposal. Even though the armies were creating a negative impact on their economies, they could not get rid of them since, they were needed to destroy their enemies and hence provide them with the required security for…

There were challenges for the North and the South. Lincoln was elected President in November, 1860 and made his inaugural speech in March 1861, were two weeks before on February 16th, President Davis gave his inaugural speech to the Confederate States. Lincoln and Davis both were born in Kentucky, less than one-hundred miles from each other. Lincoln had very little schooling, was known as a storekeeper, country postmaster, rail-splitter, flatboatman, and a captain in the Black Hawk War.1…

Social Security is one of very few domestic programs that have been both federally created and federally funded and are administered exclusively from Washington. It is a rare case of highly successful public policy that has been both popular and effective since its inception in 1935. Its main function is to pay cash benefits to those who have reached retirement age or suffered the death of a spouse and mainly seeks to provide an essential financial safety net beneath private savings. While…

The United States has always gone to great lengths in order to be the most dominant power in the world, whether economically, militarily, socially etc. In order to be so advanced, the United States has evolved and grown to be able to gather lots of information and intelligence from around the world that concerns its own prosperity. Currently, the most dominant channel of gathering foreign information is the CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency was created to gather information on foreign policy…

Merriam-Webster defines civil disobedience as “refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government.” While this definition may have slightly changed from Henry David Thoreau’s coined term in the mid 1800s, the idea of peaceful protest is still central. The people have a right to protest as stated in the first amendment to the Constitution, so why does the term civil disobedience have a negative…

Leslie Morgan Steiner, a former abuse victim, stressed the importance of identifying the red flags of relationship abuse. Steiner gave a speech at Central Connecticut State University Alumni hall on the myths and misconceptions on relationship abuse last Wednesday. “Abuse is not about hitting somebody, it’s about using violence and control to dominate them,” said Steiner, author of the New York Times best seller Crazy Love. Steiner grew up in an abuse-free home in Washington, eventually…

by the White House in which five Taliban officials were released from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and kept under supervised watch in Qatar. The decision was made by Gen. Robert Abrams, the four-star commander of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C. It came after Bergdahl broke his…