999 Search Results for Natural Resources as a Cause of War
This made the legal attempt to gain reparation for those who were imprisoned and lost so much very difficult. The acceptance of a plan for reparation was not achieved until 1988, and the completion of a memorial in honor of those Japanese-Americans Continue Reading...
Green Architecture in Japan: a Reflection of Societal Values
Defining Green Architecture
Man has been building structures since shortly after they began to emerge from caves and to explore areas outside his immediate vicinity. Many animals build st Continue Reading...
Dombrowsky
"Disaster" as a Trigger
Joseph Scanlon, Director of the Emergency Communications Research Unit at Carleton University, states that the term "disaster" has undergone a transformation in the wake of 9/11. Its transformation is the center o Continue Reading...
Canadian forces in Afghanistan, and whatever location those forces are directed to by the Canadian Government to protect Canada at home and its interests around the world, should be supported with intelligence sources that are directly focused on Ca Continue Reading...
The enormous number of questions did not only succeed in bringing people to physical exhaustion, but they also confused people to the level where they could no longer think logically and risked being deported, even though they were not attempting to Continue Reading...
The same is true of politics, where there are few women political leaders, and the United States has never seen a woman president or vice-president. It is interesting to note that Wollstonecraft hopes women will "grow more and more masculine" in ord Continue Reading...
labor force has always been a prime concern amongst classical political economists, starting with Petty and continuing to theorists such as Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and Marx. Labor implies the activity of production that goes into producing the Continue Reading...
In addition, large quantities of natural gas are required to produce fertilizers which are needed for growing corn. It is estimated that an average of 135 pounds of nitrogen (a potent-greenhouse-gas) per acre is used in growing corn in most U.S. far Continue Reading...
Legislators and drug enforcers are not physicians and should not substitute their belief system for demonstrable scientific studies showing that medical marijuana does benefit patients. The federal argument often begins with a denial of this, as if Continue Reading...
CONTROLLING OUR EMOTIONS?
EMOTIONAL LITERACY:
MECHANISM FOR SOCIAL CONTROL?
At the core of becoming an activist educator
Is identifying the regimes of truth that govern us the ideas that govern how we think, act and feel as educators because it Continue Reading...
Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is a new concept in strategic management, introduced by Professor W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne in 2004. After doing detailed research, Kim and Mouborgne found out that most of the companies rely on the market segmentation Continue Reading...
The discovery of frozen carbon dioxide remaining on the surface of Mars is between 100 to 1000 millibars. With this in mind, increasing the atmospheric pressure and also the temperature on the planet is just a matter of warming the poles of Mars to Continue Reading...
Sustainable Development - a Global Challenge
Need for Change
State Sovereignty
Sustainable Development
Challenges for Businesses
The Role of MNCs in Sustainable Development
The Global Compact
Initiatives outside the Global Compact
What is Int Continue Reading...
Experiments in the late nineteenth century on frogs provided the groundwork for cloning (McKinnell 9-10).
The method used a decade ago for the successful nuclear transplantation in amphibians required that the egg be enucleated, which meant removin Continue Reading...
Just War
Is the War in Iraq Justified?
This paper will explore the concept of war from the point-of-view of the just war theory. In order to better understand war, one must look at the concept from all angles including the point-of-view of peace mo Continue Reading...
" This is money that should be spent on (a) preventing and healing drug addiction and related issues; (b) more effective, and smarter, law enforcement. Legalizing marijuana would also generate much-needed tax revenues that can be spent on precisely t Continue Reading...
Life and Politics in Ancient GreeceBy any standard, ancient Greece had powerful influences on modern Western civilization, including its politics, architecture, philosophy, art, language as well as science and mathematics. It is therefore important t Continue Reading...
Changing the climate of the earth will also impact living conditions for humanity. People will be forced to deal with the effects of living in a warmer environment, which may mean hotter temperatures and growth of mold and mildew, as well as deal w Continue Reading...
The WTO Secretariat is based in Geneva, with around 600 staff members under a director-general. The main functions of the Secretariat include technical support for the WTO councils and other bodies, technical assistance for developing countries, wo Continue Reading...
internet LOST CAUSE CONFEDERACY. Review descriptions (2) sources. Focus narratives related results CIVIL WAR. "LOST CAUSE" a) From LOST CAUSE compare (2) narratives results CIVIL WAR Americans developed Union states Confederate states.
There is muc Continue Reading...
Minimizing Poverty Is a Government Initiative
The Progressive Era
Poverty reduction has remained a central debate in periodical democratic societies. Schemes have been established to enable citizens to be economically viable either at paid-employme Continue Reading...
NATO and Russia: Selected EssaysEssay #1\\\"NATO should not be considered the most successful military alliance in the history because it \\\"won\\\" the Cold War by default. Taking into consideration that Europe failed to field sufficient convention Continue Reading...
Ohio Army National Guard consists of a plethora of people who are seeking to make a difference in the world they serve. They will honor and protect the United States in all aspects of their life. This is done by using ships and plane to prepare for w Continue Reading...
Bangladesh's poverty situation
Bangladesh
Poverty is a major issue in today's world and it remains one of the biggest challenges for humankind to overcome. A third world country, such as Bangladesh, is defined as an underdeveloped nation that face Continue Reading...
Except for Miletus, which was sacked as an initiator of the revolt, the other cities were treated rather reasonably, going as far as recommendations for the settled Persians to respect local religious traditions (Herodotus VI 42-45).
This does not Continue Reading...
Web-based technologies are in fact the essence of distance learning because students from all over the world can attend courses they could not if the were confined to a geographic location.
Organizational and reference tools including digital calen Continue Reading...
Women and the Home Front in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee during the Civil War
This paper examines the living conditions and attitudes that shaped the lives of the women in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee during and afte Continue Reading...
The value of this case study is demonstrative. It demonstrates how contingency planning can be used, but it says nothing of the results.
A quasi-experimental design was used by Chermack & Kim (2008) to explore the effect of scenario planning on Continue Reading...
Jefferson's Principles and their Impact on Education
Jefferson's radical beliefs in the inherent moral and developmental capacities of humans, and in their capacities to take part to participatory democracy, in turn reinforced his enduring commitm Continue Reading...
They offer a very insightful and at the same time entertaining view on nations and nationalisms as each of them tend to argue a different point-of-view.
Ernest Gellner is considered to be a theorist of the modern comprehension of the idea of nation Continue Reading...
dangerous consumptions that have been legalized like tobacco and alcohol, the expansion of high-intensity commercial gambling on the global scale seems like a recent phenomenon. People are being entertained since the ancient times from these games t Continue Reading...
Behavioral Finance and Human Interaction a Study of the Decision-Making
Processes Impacting Financial Markets
Understanding the Stock Market
Contrasting Financial Theories
Flaws of the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Financial Bubbles and Chaos
The Continue Reading...
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Moreover, population groups "…pull up roots and seemingly go out of their way to avoid one another…" throughout Southern California, Worster writes (242). An example of the concept of "pulling up roots" is the community of Watts, which Continue Reading...
With the increase in families, and thus children and teens on the street, there has been a subsequent increase in youth drug use, pregnancy and crime, especially violent and sexual crimes. This disturbing trend has created a new challenge to how to Continue Reading...
Project Management: Case Study in Managing a Complex Shipyard Project in Singapore
Background of Complex Shipyard Construction Project
Company background
Project Overview and Objective
Work Process of Building Construction
Issue Analysis in Ship Continue Reading...
However, including progress reports that are not valued (no a and B. Or percentage grades) allow parents to follow a child's learning (Wassermann 386). This breaks the cycle of rewarding or admonishing children for subjects that may naturally be eas Continue Reading...
Growth of Modernity
Modernity is a wide and commonly debated expression utilized to explain the history of Western European nations from approximately the early-seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Generally, modernity's signature feat Continue Reading...
TRANSITION FROM MODERN WESTERN INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION TO a POSTMODERN GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION, AS DESCRIBED IN THE WRITINGS OF ORESKES & CONWAY, KLEIN, AND BERRY
Humanity has faced a number of crises throughout history, and some of thes Continue Reading...
Ancient Greek Warfare From the Mycenaeans to the Polis
The rapid progress experienced by the Ancient Greek in a relatively short period of time was reflected by the multitude of domains that started to flourish in the region. The appearance of city- Continue Reading...