Yale Political Union

Nauru was a British mandate and Western Samoa was a New Zealand. All Class C mandates were exploited for raw material and farm products. The Great Depression and threats to international peace and collective security What were the economic and political effects of the Great Depression? The economic effects involved Britain and France establishing a system of imperial preference (government policy to restrict trade with other countries usually by placing high taxes on foreign imports so that…

I had always been destined to speak competitively, but no betting man would have ever pegged me for Extemp. Even I resisted the pairing. The first Extemp my mother had me give was preluded by an hour of me hunched over in her bathtub, fully clothed, surrounded by files and newspapers, trying to decide between figuring out who the hell Qaddafi was and prying open a second-story window. I don’t quite know how I ended up in the tub. The cold marble and safe seclusion helped, but I had made the…

the blazing guns and the explosive artillery, which ultimately contributed to the South’s demise. Disease (dysentery, typhoid, malaria) ran rampant throughout Union and Confederate armies due to unsanitary conditions and the lack of medical knowledge. People began to realize the potency of these microscopic killers and citizens of the Union accepted women as nurses to help protect their soldiers while the…

As of January first, all employs working within Morgantown city limits will see a three dollar per week fee automatically deducted from their income to pay the new city user service fee. This fee, costing each worker over $150 a year, is designed to pay for upgrades and upkeep to city roads and to finance Morgantown City Police. The city is charging this tax to those who work within city limits as a way to target those who are most likely to use the roads and police. Conservative city estimates…

For 43 years, since 1973 , Britain has been an active member of the European Union (EU) and played an important role in the development of this community. However, it is the hot topic that UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a referendum to be held on June 2017, in order to answer the question: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the EU or leave the EU?” It is uncertain what the exact answer is, since no country has ever done it before. However, people are trying to give…

Jeffery Lesser’s Immigration, Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil is a motivated, praiseworthy effort to describe the complex, evolving relationships between immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in Brazil since 1808. Brazil declared its independence from Portugal in 1822. But their connection to Portugal lead to many of the problems it had after its independence. Brazil has been always, even from the times it was a part of Portugal, a slave state. It was its national identity,…

connecting them culture to culture which is relevant to the theory of Global Interrelatedness. Moussalini and Hitler make a pact making them the powerful ones of Europe. After World War II and Hitlers fall it spawned the cold war making the Soviet Union the new imperialistic threat. United States and it 's allies defeat Europe causing a decolonization (Findley & Rothney,2011). Identity and difference is basically how a person wants to be different from his culture or his own culture…

Opening Panel Africa is an extremely diverse continent consisting of fifty-four countries, approximately 1.16 billion people which includes about 1500 – 2000 languages (cite). Africa 's demographic consists predominantly of young individuals; about 80% of the population is twenty-five years of age or younger (Ntarangwi, 2010). Due to the intense diversity in Africa and the high population of young people, this exhibit will focus on Children 's Rights in Africa. The African Charter on the…

The Soviet Union failed to challenge American hegemony. Wohlforth says that structural or neorealism was so popular to the Soviet Union because it seemed to explain the state of affairs. The end of the Cold War international system was caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Regardless of the cause, the global transformation of the collapse of the Cold War was realized when a great power abandoned…

Penalty: Efficiency versus civil rights Progressively, in the path of social evolution, states and individuals reach unanimity that some practices are intolerable. Ceremonial human sacrifice, slavery, corporeal torture, and the death penalty are some of these practices (Yorke, 2005). Many countries have abolished the practice of death penalty. Nevertheless, it should be noted that internationally unanimity against this act is yet to be reached. For instance, the Republic of China puts to death…