Yugoslavia

A mother suffocating her four children…a nurse poisoning fifty young children…a woman murdering her entire family…though they may sound like plotlines of the latest hit cop show, these are all examples of real-life crimes committed by female serial killers. In their book Murder Most Rare, Michael Kelleher and C.L. Kelleher define a female serial killer as “a woman who commits the act of murdering three or more individuals in separate incidents in a period of thirty days or more”. They organize…

The World Wars ravaged Europe in the 20th century and uprooted cultural and social norms. During the war’s, men and women challenged traditional gender norms in their desire to further national pride and the fighting effort. Nancy M. Wingfield and Marai Bucur wrote Gender and War in the 20th century as a case study to better understand the roles ordinary citizens played in the World Wars and the inter-war period. Gender and War in the 20th uses a collection of essays as a case study to…

The Treaty of Versailles - Homework Assignment 1. “If I am elected, Germany is going to pay… I have personally no doubt we will get everything you squeeze out of a lemon, and a bit more. I propose that every bit of (German owned) property, movable and immovable, in Allied and neutral countries, whether state property or private property, should be surrendered by the Germans.” Sir Eric Geddes, a government minister, speaking to a rally in the general election campaign, December 1918. a. Why…

guidelines and religious guidelines. When looking back in the history of Religion one can see that almost all religious conflicts where essentially cause by shared knowledge of Religion shaping the personal knowledge. If we look at the Religious Yugoslavia - Kosovo conflict were orthodox Christians opposed Muslims one can see that the personal knowledge has been shaped in such a way that Serbians don’t tolerate Albanians and vice versa. "In the Balkans, religious identification became part of…

announced that the Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted groups in the world; they burned down their mosques and committed widespread looting, arson and rape of Rohingya Muslims. In some cases, land has been occupied by Rohingya. The war in 1991 in Yugoslavia pitted Catholic, Orthodox Christians, and Muslims against each other in a very bloody war. Violence in religion even exceeds conflicts between different ethnic groups it also happens within the same ethnic groups. In Burma, thousands of…

In compiling a list of influential Americans, Woodrow Wilson would have to be one of the forerunners, because of his enormous contribution to American history. Wilson was the President of the United States throughout the entirety of the first World War, which proved to be quite influential worldwide. Since it seemed that the American people were getting tired of being in the war, Wilson chose to give a speech to Congress on January 8, 1918 in which he outlined his plan to end World War I.…

The United Nations is an important intergovernmental organization that was established after World War II to prevent any such conflict of occurring again. Over time, the U.N has grown not only in size but in importance to global events. Currently there are 193 member states, all who finance and contribute to it whether it be money or armed forces. The objectives of the U.N include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development,…

The captured Yazidi women are sold in the markets. Their prices are decided according to their ages. The youngest and the prettiest fetch the high price. There is also bargaining on the price of the female. The female is stripped down and the prospecting buyer lowers the price by pointing out the ‘defects’ in the body. • This table shows the pathetic condition of humans captured by ISIS, how they were auctioned for slave purposes . One of the horrifying things about the slaves market is that…

occurrences were not controlled or prevented by any government globally. However, in the last thirty years we as a international community have witnessed enormous advances to protect gender rights of women in wars. The international criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia and the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda have successfully categorized sexual violence as a crime of war, crimes against humanity, and methods of torture or a form of enslavement. These developments show the progress that we…

American Foreign Policy Foreign policy, whether you realize it or not, is at the center of American culture, and effects everyone currently living in the United States. Foreign policy decisions shape the course of this country, and in turn, affect American lives in the process. Everyone has their own idea of how the United States should deal with international disputes, and these beliefs stem from a couple of different sentiments that evolved over the last 300 or so years. Joyce Kaufman, Walter…