Uzbekistan

My Crucible Experience No one knows what will happen to anyone else in the near future except the God. Although, you may have heard about some people who could control their destiny without interference with God’s will. Maybe they are able to control their destiny, but it can happen due to a wish of the Creator because the God has already planned what happens or will happen with all of us. Sometimes dreams or future plans come true and sometimes not, but when they come true, no one knows what…

In this essay I attempt to examine the relationships between rural-urban migration in modern day Kazakhstan using the case study of post- Socialist Kazakh Republic and Soviet Alma-Ata as its capital in the 1920s (Alexander, Buchli, and Humphrey, 16, 2007). Withstanding an era of emerging neoliberalism, urbanization and globalization, post socialist Kazakhstan’s urban landscape in the context of Almaty’s rapid urbanization had profoundly changed the experience of the city, precisely due to the…

northern parts of the country. It spreads across 251,827 sq. miles, making it just smaller than the state of Texas which comes in at 268,820 sq. miles. The country is located between Southern Asia and Central Asia. It is bordered by Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, China, and India. This location centering between central and southern Asia makes Afghanistan both landlocked and a land bridge within Asia. The country of Afghanistan has been seen on the news around the world…

In sociology, social structures are the organization of relationships, and patterns. This forms the basis for guidelines and cultural norms that can achieve the goals placed on a macro scale within a population. In most cases, Social structure creates a hierarchy in society which dictates the social treatment of people based on their social stratification. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini stresses the placement of social structures in afghan culture. The social structure devolves beliefs…

see who should be released and who is actually guilty ("Only Three Political Prisoners among Thousands Released in Myanmar.").Egypt has confirmed that they are no longer holding political prisoners that weren’t charged with anything, as well as Uzbekistan. Colombia has begun to look into the citizen’s demands of prison reforms and have come to an agreement for improvements. Political leaders that have charges against them are being arrested for human rights violations ("Chile Arrests…

Putin’s Policy of Nationalism Why does President Putin need to use nationalism as a diversionary tactic? This next section will explain the current domestic issues in Russia as well as the methods Putin is using in order to develop a nationalist discourse in the country. When the Soviet Union fell, Russia experienced many economic, social, and political challenges in its transition to democracy. Unfortunately, it left many feeling a lack of national pride and economic suffering. When Vladimir…

2.4 Medical Science It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. – Hippocrates (460-377 BC), the ancient Greek physician – considered as one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine and, often referred to as the ‘Father of Medicine’ Visualize a chip that is implemented in the brain, which processes images from an artificial retina grafted in the eye and restores the vision of a blind person. Visualize a…

tied to overgrazing, the shrinking of the Aral Sea is related to agriculture. The sea, which was once over 26,000 square miles (larger than West Virginia), is now just over 1,200 (smaller than Rhode Island) (Howard 2014). Located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the lake’s tributaries were dammed and diverted for irrigation by the Soviet Union starting in the 1960s. Over time, the government’s poor planning destroyed the lake and surrounding ecosystem, leaving nothing but a desert behind. If steps…

contribute into something that might not bring results but vice versa aggravate the already tense situation? In his book Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas Alexander Cooley describes the Karshi-Khanabad air base (K2) in Uzbekistan which the U.S. operated to support missions against al-Qaeda in neighboring Afghanistan. This military base was set up in October 2001 following 9/11 events. Initially, the U.S. paid $15 million for use of the airfield, later, adding $120…

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) describes international tourism as a socio-cultural and economic phenomenon that involves foreigners travelling to different countries for either personal or professional purposes. The travel and tourism industry is the world’s largest and most diverse industry. Many nations rely on this dynamic industry as a primary source for generating revenues, employment, private sector growth, and infrastructure development. However,…