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    Introduction: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a non-state terror organization operating out of the Middle East. ISIS addresses the political and economic grievances of Sunni Muslims and utilizes asymmetric statecraft and exploits globalization to reach their goals wealth, capacity and influence. They strategically execute domestic and transnational terror attacks in an attempt to expose the weakness of the established state to incite political reform. Non state actors such as ISIS emerge and thrive within the dimensions of, ‘seams’, anonymity and mobility. Each of these grants a capacity to carry out their terror attacks and utilize asymmetric statecraft while remaining seemingly inviolable to the attacks of established states.…

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    sovereignty system, and it is time to evolve in the globalizing world. For so long, this operating system has been mainly about a state’s own protection and self-interest without considering other states’ needs. In today’s international order, the norms behind sovereignty are inadequate, as Hass claimed, “international order premised solely on respect for sovereignty,…

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    Communication Audit Big Brothers Big Sisters Big Brothers Big Sisters is an organization focused on encouraging and empowering the youth of the community. With locations to seek mentorship in Calgary, Airdrie, Okotoks, and Cochrane, the organization has a strong outreach to maximize their impact. The company’s vision statement being, “that every young person realizes their full potential” (bbbscalgary.ca, 2018), reflects the impact they are trying to achieve. This being emphasized further in…

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    Personal Narrative: Gallup

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    My family and I started helping Big Brothers and Big Sisters in 2010 and continue to do so to this day. In Gallup, there are two major fundraising events, The annual Bowl for Kid’s sake and the Annual Golf Tournament. My contribution to the to the events are; setting up before, taking down after, cooking, running errands, occasionally fundraising, organizing and helping during the events when they need help. Every month they host activities for the adults and kids that are in the program during…

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    Introduction and Substantive Importance Civil wars are regional violent conflicts confined to a state’s border affecting the lives of those living within its borders whether it be through direct involvement in fighting, forced migrations, and economic degradation among other factors. Due to the evident physical impacts of civil wars its predicates must be evaluated. This essay will consider a potential predicate: electoral violence and its effects on civil war facilitating the following…

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    are equally protected. On the other hand IHL ensures that states protect people during conflicts, prisoners are equally protected and given access to basics, women are not raped or harassed etc. Its state’s positive obligation to make efforts to protect state’s own people from enemy attacks and to take precautionary measures in order to keep civilian areas away from military targets. State must take budgetary, legislative, judicial and administrative measures to make sure that human rights are…

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    The worldwide research project named “Under Caesar’s Sword” has moved their findings forward that Christians are being persecuted globally. The report, which is the summary of the project, also states persecution towards Christians is an ongoing occurrence and disgraceful in nature. The report was authored by 17 Christian scholars all over the world. They studied how Christians were put under extreme persecution in 25 countries. The Under-Caesar’s Sword project was financially supported by a sum…

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    Root Of War Research Paper

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    force in order to attain or protect some assets or values. These can be territory, ideology or resources, sovereignty, etc. Confronting groups or states generally have some delineated territory that can be reshaped after the war. Wars usually ended when one of leading groups of opponent either eliminated or surrendered. In international relations, the most necessary concerns are survival and security as well as the problem of conflicts. Indeed, wars have always been a part of human history.…

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    The content analysis by Shoemaker (1984) studied how a varying degree of deviance affected the media treatment received by 11 different alternative action groups: League of Woman Voters, Sierra Club, Common Cause, NAACP, National Organization for Women, NRA, Moral Majority, Jewish Defense League, the Communist Party, and the KKK (p. 67). In the study Shoemaker found that more deviant groups like the KKK or Communist Party received a larger amount of condemning language in the coverage of their…

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    Three Strikes Law

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    Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian approach states that humans are rational actors. Humans can weigh the costs and benefits of a situation. Therefore, if the punishment is too severe, humans will not commit crimes. In theory, the three strikes law acts as a general deterrence, affecting other’s will to commit crimes. The three strikes law achieves part of the goal of punishment for the utilitarian approach, it controls the actions of the offender and deters others from committing crimes (specific and…

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