Essays on Declaration

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Question: How International Treaties Interact with Emirati Law (Hierarchy and International Treaties Implementation) according to the Constitution and Main Legislation?

Abstract According to Kelsen, “‘international law and national law cannot be mutually different and mutually independent systems” (as cited in Harris, 2004, p. 67). Kelsen explains further that “both systems” of the law are perceived as to be “‘valid for the same space and at the same time’” (as cited in Harris, 2004, p. 67). Therefore, certain stipulations found in the national laws expressed in the United Emirates Constitution and the Main Legislation align themselves well with international law. The Emirati Law has provisions that interact with the stipulations of international treaties related to human ...

In 1904 a British scholar Halford Mackinder delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society called “The Geographical Pivot to History.” Among other important points he made in the lecture one is very relevant to the topic of this essay. Namely, Mr. Mackinder stated that at the beginning of the 20th century the world became the fully interconnected system. There were no more blanks and white spots on the map of the world. Everything was already known to man. Pushing forward, the scholar said that compared to the previous period in history of mankind when developments happening in a ...

The natural resources like oil and gas are of great importance for any country, as the drive the plants, heating and so on. This market though important is very tricky and it take much effort and resource not only to enter it, but to stay. Exxon Mobil is one of the biggest international corporation in a gas and oil fields. To ensure stability, promote growth and avoid potential dangers it is essential for any companies to be prepared, thus different analysis like SWOT, PEST and STEEP are performed, to evaluate the current situation in the company and on the ...

At the time of Spanish American War, the United States went from relative isolation to increased global involvement because it suggested joining of the United States in the struggle for world hegemony; it also began the era of imperialism. The consequences on American society of that greater involvement was demonstration the power of the new state and transformation it into a key player in the political arena. Ever since the beginning of the XIX century, the United States attracted a particular interest to Cuba, as it had a convenient strategic position. By the end of the XIX century, Cuba ...

Statement of Purpose and Academic Motivation

Intercultural management practices and competence has been poorly explored by the academic community from the perspective of multicultural Finnish professional life (Weber, Festing & Dowling, 2013). In spite of the fact that various cultural issues in the employment context have been studied from the purely managerial perspective, the majority of these studies relate to either migration of the highly skilled professionals (Thomas & Peterson, 2014), reflected common international trends (Van der Vijer, Hemert & Poortinga, 2008) or evaluated financial performance of the institutions, which significantly attracted employees with different cultural backgrounds (Smith, 2004). This research, however, pursues a number of unique objectives, ...

This paper would be dedicated to the assessment of the Oil Price Change from two opposite perspectives - the one, offered by Michael Levi (Bloomberg News) and opinion of Mr. Horsnell, a veteran oil analyst. In this paper, it is essential to consider the change in oil prices from retrospective - as the significant increase in oil prices has taken its place on Feb. 1, 2011, - as it has reached more than $100 a barrel. For the timeframe of several years, this rate was kept almost unchanged; there were only few dramatic ups and downs, which, in turn, ...

As long as the Revolution of 1776 – 1783 established the United States, the Civil War 1861 – 1865 determined the kind of nation they are going to be. The war gave resolutions to two cardinal questions that remained unresolved by the Revolution: whether the United States are going to be a confederation of sovereign states or an impartible nation with a sovereign federal government, and whether it will remain in being the largest slave-owner nation in the world nevertheless it is born of a declaration which proclaims that all people have equal rights to liberty. When Abraham Lincoln won the ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Business Failures by Industry in the United States’ by Gary Richardson and Michael Gou is an informative research paper that details on data relating to the business failures that have occurred for the period between 1895 and 1940. The paper is unique in that it does this using the lowest level of aggregation in length, breadth and depth that no other scholar has ever provided as far as data relating to business failure during this period is concerned. The information has dominantly been drawn from the works of R.G. Dun and Company and its successor, Dun, and Bradstreet. ...

1. Article I vests the Congress with the legislative making powers. It establishes provisions for who is eligible to serve as a Congressional member, both in the Senate and the House. Article I also enumerates specific powers of Congress and contains the Necessary and Proper Clause to provide Congress with the legal authority of carrying out such enumerated powers. 2. Article II sets forth the Executive powers in the President and the Vice President. It provides that the President is the Commander in Chief of the Armed forces and dubs the President the head of all commissions of the ...

U.S. AIRWAYS FLIGHT 1549

Summary of Event

U.S. Airways Flight 1549 struck a at least two Canadian geese around 3:27 p.m. on January 15, 2009, after departing New York’s LaGuardia Airport headed to Charlotte, North Carolina. As a result, both engines on the plane lost thrust. The pilot notified air traffic controllers of the strike less than three minutes after takeoff, and an emergency was declared. As Captain Chesley Sullenberger communicated with air traffic control, he determined that he would be unable to turn the plane back to LaGuardia Airport and land safely. The captain made the decision to land the ...

Interpersonal physical violence (committed against women and children)

Human trafficking and concomitant criminal sexual exploitation of women and children in the XXI century is becoming the fastest growing and highly lucrative activity for transnational organized crime. Statistical data of different sources irrefutably specify on the tendency of increasing human trafficking in many countries of the world. It is necessary, to mark that this crime is not a problem of one state and an issue that has gained an international dimension. The danger of human trafficking is that the buyer gets as a result of the deed of sale full control over the victim and may dispose of ...

DQ 6x

Q1: The principal considerations of a board of directors in making decisions involving dividend declarations There are three principal considerations of a board of directors in making decisions involving dividend declarations: the dividend policy; the type of dividend; and the source of dividend. Dividend policy: The Board must decide between two main policies in dividend declaration: progressive policy and payout ratio policy. Progressive policy may be in any of the three common methods: (1) increase or at least sustained; (2) increasing steadily (at a defined rate); and (3) increasing in real value (Financial Reporting Council [FRC], 2015). Conversely, payout ...

Introduction

The President of the U.S. holds the powers of the executive branch, acts as the armed forces’ commander-in-chief and head of state. The President is also responsible for enforcing and implementing the laws written by the Congress and, appoints the federal agency leadership, including the Cabinet (The White House N.pag). Despite holding these vast formal powers, there are several constitutional legal restricts, balances and checks, the incumbent President usually finds as mentioned by the former President Harry S. Truman, that “the powers of the president mostly amount to getting people to do what they ought to do without him ...

Abstract

It is well known that the debates on the religious topics are among the hottest in our time. Understanding the processes of possible differences can significantly smooth or eliminate the conflict altogether. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to study the relationships between representatives of different religions in different countries. Comparing these relations will help to identify possible scenarios for the behavior of the two sides and the possible outcome of the conflict between them. This paper examines the relations between Orthodox Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire and between Catholics and Protestants in the Holy Roman ...

Abstract

This paper will discuss the emergence of national security policies and laws in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to these attacks, there was relatively little coordination between different government agencies and branches with regards to counterterrorism. But the 9/11 attacks led to significant changes. All three government branches are highly involved in national security measures and interests. Congress responded by passing very important statutes to augment the government’s authority to conduct and investigate terrorist threats and apprehend suspects. These statutes reflect the practical difficulties of apprehending and prosecuting terrorists. Terrorism is unique in that if ...

Jane Doe

Introduction Women’s rights throughout the world have continued to be the subject of human rights concerns for members of the various nations and regulatory groups throughout the world. Not all entities have the same concerns for the fair and equal rights of women in their nations, but with the world watching, pressure is put on these nations lacking proper adherence to human rights policies for women in these countries. Africa, often known for its volatile circumstances and harsh treatment of women is the focal point of this research paper in helping to create a best practices policy suggestion ...

Similarities and differences between the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789); and Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804).

All the three documents advocates for men being created equally and the creator has endowed everyone with definite unalienable rights, including the right to happiness, life, and liberty. According to these documents, contempt and neglect of these rights were the primary cause of the public calamities. Therefore, it is the duty of the government to secure these rights. In the three documents, the citizens are complaining of the inhuman ...

Introduction

When the Founding Fathers set up our form of government, relatively little thought was given to the judicial branch. From early on, the Framers considered the courts to possess the least amount of authority in a democratic republican society. In The Federalist papers, Alexander Hamilton noted that the legislative power was by far the most predominant, whereas the judicial branch was by far the weakest of the three branches of government (Paulsen, 1994, p. 229). Today, however, the judicial branch has grown increasingly influential in shaping policy on a national level. Given the tremendous policy-making authority the Supreme Court ...

Management Report

Management Report

Internal Controls of the Wal-Mart

It is believed by the management of the Wal-Mart that it has accountability for setting up and sustaining of sufficient internal control over the financial reporting. The organization also intends to offer rational declaration concerning the consistency of financial reporting. The company is determined to organize financial reporting for the purpose of external reporting in compliance with those standards of accounting that are allowed in the United States (Wal-Mart, 2014).

The internal control of the company is effective because the company maintains disclosure controls and practices that are planned to offer rational declaration that data needed on ...

July the 4th, 1776 is considered to be the birthday of the US nation, since that day the Declaration of Independence was adopted (History.com). Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation that ‘all men were created equal’ destined America’s political course towards democracy; however, the notion of ethnic diversity was excluded from defining traits of the American identity. The Declaration was written for white Americans, while other inhabitants suffered from being enslaved or dispossessed of their lands. According to historian Paul Finkelman (Race: The Power Of An Illusion), Thomas Jefferson was the first person, who implemented the idea of race in ...

The world today is full of serious pressing problems, such as poor nutrition and obesity, access to water, pollution, deforestation, climate changes, lack of skills and help care. The biggest problem for governments in dealing with these problems is absence of financial resources, which can be provided by business segment. Business creates wealth when it meets needs and a profit, because that leads to taxes and incomes. Thus, only business can guarantee necessary recourses. The first example is Volvo Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines. “The Volvo Group’ ...

Friends and citizens,

Being in the dark about the past, it is impossible to comprehend and understand a present, and also to glance into the future. Only by studying history we can understand and predict what the consequences of our current activities are. Only by studying the history we can do major conclusions for prosperity of our country, to analyze made mistakes and to prevent them from arising again. History is an integral part of the present and the future. Summing up the results of recent years it is necessary to note the most important events, which have a direct impact on ...

Introduction

Immigration is a brainchild of globalization and has been a subject of critique by a group of Americans who may take a xenophobic or protectionist cast. These critics argue that immigration undermines the US economy due to the access gained by immigrants to jobs and other important resources. Others also argue that employment of immigrants encourages cheap labor and undermines the US industries. On the other hand, the subject of immigration is hugely supported by the IMF body that argues that overall, immigration and integration will extend its benefits to everyone both the American community and the rest of ...

The commonly believed beginning of the Israeli-Palestine conflict began with the founding of the Jewish nationalist movement known as Zionism in the late 1800 with the ultimate goal of establishing a Jewish nation in their what Jews considered their historic homeland, which included areas in present-day Palestine, which was then under the control of the Ottoman empire. Despite the fact that, their traditional homeland was under Ottoman rule, the early 1900s, so many Jews across the world who believed or followed Zionism or supported the establishment of a Jewish nation began to immigrate to Palestine. The local Zionist movement ...

In order to show how the possession of atomic weapons influences the strength of the United States in the world developments and the outcome of many processes in which the United States as a nuclear power state was taking part it is vital to dig a little bit deeper into the prehistory of the United States’ acquisition of the nuclear weapons. It is important in order to understand why it was significant for the state to acquire such weapon in the first place and what international developments led the state to the decision to. For the foreign policy of ...

According to Abadinsky (2014), the cases have to be briefed and analyzed in concordance with the legislation norms. The case had occurred in Santa Ana, California in 1965. Ted Chimel was a suspect in the matter of burglary of a coin shop. Obtaining the arrest warrant police officers came to the place of residence of the estimated suspect. Ted Chimel was away while his wife had opened the door for police officers. After arriving of Chimel from work the officers showed the arrest warrant and asked the suspect to search the house. He refused the officers’ request. It is ...

History, Circumstances, Ethical Issues

“The Italian Tax Mores” case, prepared by Arthur R. Kelly highlights an ethical issue specific to the modern corporate world. The case is based on a real life occurrence, which indicates that the moral absolutes are surpassed by the legal morality, which results in a moral contradiction. Therefore, an American leading bank that opened a subsidiary in Italy was faced with a moral issue when it was forced to apply the “Italian style” for declaring its tax return, which implied lying about the actual tax return by downsizing it with 30 – 70% of its real value (Kelly 54). Although ...

The American Revolution War (1775-1783), sometimes referred to as the American Revolution or the U.S war of Independence, was a war that was fought between the Kingdom of Great Britain (the colonial government) and its 13 North American colonies. The colonies later declared themselves independent in the year 1776, which eventually resulted in the creation of United States of America (Alden, 3). The brewing tensions between the residents of the colonies and the colonial government that represented the British Crown escalated into a full war. The skirmishes between the colonial residents and the British troops kicked off an armed ...

Description

Human rights occur as one of the highly coveted topics across various contexts all around the world. A reflection on the contemporary world depicts the deliberate violation of human rights by anarchist and dictatorial governments. In fact, the whole world is yet to establish a long lasting solution that would prevent the occurrence of war and conflicts, which offer a viable platform for the violation of human rights. Nonetheless, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights occur as one of the various documents established with the sole intent of curbing massive violation of human rights, which mainly occurs as a ...

China is a country that is divided by two cultures. There is the culture adopted by Hong Kong and the culture adopted by Mainland China. There is an invisible barrier between the two cultures in China (Cheung, 2013). Hong Kong had been under the rule of the Britain for a very long time. It was until the year 1997 when Britain handed over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. Hong Kong is part of China, but it operates independently with its own systems. Hong Kong has adopted a policy known as “One Country, Two Systems”. The ...

Punic Wars are series of wars in the III-II centuries BC between Rome and Carthage for the influence over the Mediterranean Sea. It has ended by complete victory of Rome and the destruction of Carthage State. By the mid-260's BC Roman Republic finally took control of the Apennine Peninsula. Further expansion of Roman Republic has made it inevitable war with the Carthage the a powerful state in the North Africa that has controlled a large territory of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and major sea routes in the western Mediterranean. Relations between Rome and Carthage for a long have been friendly. ...

Background

The crisis in Yemen, which is known to be a poor country with corrupted rulers, began in the year 2012 with the revolution against Ali Abdullah Saleh, who, as president of the country, had led Yemen for more than twenty years. Saleh resigned office in 2012 as per an earlier agreement between the Government of Yemen and the opposition groups. Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, the former vice president of Saleh wished to unite the fragmented landscape of Yemen by defending the threat to the country from forces trying to revolt from different sides. Yemen had to face the Al ...

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on the 4th of July 1776 and the signing by the delegates began on the 2nd of August. The Declaration of Independence formally declared that the thirteen American colonies were independent of Great Britain. 56 members signed the Declaration of Independence and Benjamin Franklin was one of them. Benjamin Franklin was not only a member of the Continental Congress that drafted the Declaration of Independence but was an able diplomat who was known for his wit, scientific achievements and kind, unpretentious manners (Benjamin Franklin). Benjamin Franklin was also the ...

Action for health in the Sonagachi red-light area of Kolkata

The sex workers of the Sonagachi red-light area of Kolkata were a vulnerable and exploited group at the bottom rung of the societal ladder: they had no rights, little education, few opportunities and lived a life full of violence and with the very real risk of ill health. As well as the risk of ill health to themselves, there were also wider public health concerns – most notably of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV transmission. In this essay we shall look at how the sex workers were able to achieve a previously unheralded change and improvement in their lives ...

Question No.1

1ST ISSUE: WHETHER S 16 OF DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT IS VALID

The provision is invalid on the grounds of unconstitutionality. Article IV, s 1 of the US Constitution provides “Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.” The Court, in Mills v. Duryee, 11 U.S. 481 (1813) explained that the Full Faith and Credit Clause means that not only are records of public acts, records and judicial proceedings in one state admitted in another, but their effects as well. Section 16 should, therefore, ...

Question 1: Explain the circumstances under which the United States was created.

Before what is now the United States of America, the lands were inhabited by indigenous people who are known as the Red Indians (Zinn, Howard, 54). Then European colonists invaded the land. The British, being the colonists, imposed impossible taxes to the thirteen colonies. These colonies rejected the British rule. Consequently, in April 1775, there arose an armed conflict between the thirteen colonies and the British. On the 4th of July 1176 (Historical Statistics, 31), the Declaration of Independence, which was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, was ...

Universality of human rights was introduced in the twentieth century following the declaration of Human Rights by the UN on the basis that the standards and principles of human rights have a universal nature. Its emergence came at a time that the world placed high expectations for the establishment that would propel the law and exercise control. Hence, the foundations of this declaration are on the protection of human rights be the universal rule of law.

The values that were accorded significance utmost significance were categorized under, individual liberty and freedoms, democracy and political rights and social and economic rights. ...

Ashford University

In the analysis of personal organizational ethics, it is important to consider the identification of the key problems that relates to the business ethics of the organization. With these two organizations, the Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc and Jollibee Foods Corporation, both have its key problems. The key problems are the core targets to evaluate the stands of the organizations, how they responded to the problems legally, socially, and politically. Consequently, from the individual responses of the organizations on legal, social, and political perspectives, ethnographic researchers can provide reflections and criticisms of their actions based on the ...

The events that took place during the declaration of independence are a great treasure to Americans. Analyzing the book, Declaration: Nine Tumultuous Weeks can give insight on the events that associated with the war of American independence. Initially, this review highlights the author’s background and current occupation. The paper also evaluates the author’s argument while detailing the shortcomings and strengths for the book. The book’s thesis accounts for the struggles that characterized the war towards Americans independence.

William Hogeland presents the chronological order of activities, in the establishment of America as a nation. The writer highlights the ...

ABSTRACT

Frederick Douglass was a great man and truly brilliant public speaker, who spent his life working to abolish slavery and guarantee equal citizenship rights for blacks. He did not make a moral argument for nonviolence although he strongly denounced the United States for betraying its own principles of liberty and democracy for all. In his rhetorical situation, he was addressing white audiences that he hoped would be sympathetic to their cause, and had strong criticism for white Christians who had often been indifferent to the situation of blacks and failed to live up to the highest principles of their faith. ...

Executive Summary

This research aims in understanding the role and responsibility of in-flight catering in the process of offering quality food and services. The core approach is to comprehend all those aspects that are considered to attain enough excellence and meet the expectations of the consumers. In this context, to exemplify in-flight catering company, the paper chose Emirates

Flight Catering that has already established a strong niche of being one of the popular and most preferred in-flight catering companies all over the world. In the process of the research, it has been discovered that there are many aspects that are important for a ...

Twitter Inc. headquartered in San Francisco is a popular micro-blogging site, was founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass in the year 2006. The micro-blogging site is one of the most visited website around the world with 500 million registered users by the end of July, 2014. Also known as ‘SMS service of the internet’, the users of this micro-blogging website are allowed to receive and sent short messages of upto 140 characters known as Tweets. The company filed its legal documents for its Initial Public Offering with Security and Exchange Commission on September 12th, 2013 ...

Nokia

Nokia, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland, is a global growing communications organization that concentrated on procuring services and products in the IT, wireless, and wired telecommunications industries. The span of its employees’ recruitment exceeded one-hundred and twenty thousand across the globe and its yearly income as of 2008 was fifty billion euro. The current production of Nokia entailed a broad array of smartphones and mobile phones which is supplementary to a handful of fixtures. Moreover, Nokia launched digital map information, internet, and navigation services that are certainly the value addition in the global marketplace.

Fredrik Idestam established his initial timber pulp company ...

1 What led to the meeting of the First Continental Congress? The convocation of the First Continental Congress was a response to new British taxes. Empire used them to decrease consequences from wars and other events that hurt economy. Some taxes, like Tea Act of 1773, gave British companies advantages over rivals and made them monopolist. Other documents created new taxes for colonies or increased existing rates. One of them was the Stamp Act of 1765, which made Americans to add paid stamps on many different papers, including informal documents. There were several serious protest actions (Boston Tea Party ...

Many historians acknowledge the Declaration of Independence as the starting point of the American statehood and one of the most prominent democratic instruments of the United States. A large part of the Declaration takes account of all kinds of accusations against the parliament and the monarchy of England that brought tyranny to the land and undermined the economic interests of the colonists. The true value of the document lies in its social philosophy that “defined three inalienable rights (Ginsberg, et. al. 2014: 18)”: “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” (Declaration of Independence, US 1776, par. 2) The ...

In the year 1880, when Susan Coolidge published her book, A Short History of the City of Philadelphia, From Its Foundation to the Present Time, she observed the rapid growth of the city. She wrote, “It is difficult to realize, when studying any one of our large American towns, how short a time it is since the ground on which it stands was an unbroken wilderness, upon which eye of white man had never rested” (Coolidge, Chapter 1). Indeed, to stand in Philadelphia today, one absorbs a sense of great history, ideas, and progress, feelings that seem as if they should ...

The world has changed significantly since the 1990s. While changes in technology may be the most obvious, America’s place in the world has shifted several times from the 1990s to today. From the nearly fifty years between the immediate post World War II years to the fall of the Soviet Union 1991, the political world could put into three categories, the first world, second world, and third world. The category reflected a nation’s alignment in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was the single most important political situation of its ...

Do the ends justify the means in our constant meddling in foreign conflicts and are the wars really just in the first place? I believe that America will not be able to create a climate of civil engagement and democracy for young people when our leaders are unable to cultivate their own virtues in considering a Just War? Fortunately I do see some hope in your recent actions as President.

What would the founding fathers have to say about the moral philosophy of our actions in the Middle East and the effect it has had on millions of people in ...

ISIS is a Salafi group within Sunni Islam, which originally operated in areas inhabited by Sunnis (Stanford, par.14). More precisely, the creators of the Islamic State were Sunni Muslims, who primarily adhered to Hanbali, the most distinguished among the four existing schools of Islamic law in Sunni Islam, known for its rigor and discipline. They have played on these fundamentalist sentiments, which allowed them to get support of the Sunni population. Not because ISIS banned the teaching of biology, physics, music, social sciences (in particular, those connected with democracy), not because the members of this group cut off the heads ...

In the views of Jefferson it is “the consent of the governed” that provide the government the power to govern and to enact laws and to perform other administrative activities to ensure the basic rights of the people. The essential purpose of establishing the Governments, in the eyes of Jefferson, is to serve the people and that is why the assent of the people is crucial to make the government legitimate. The ...

Nowadays, putting up a business is a better option than finding employment in someone else’s company. There are many business options and ideas that people can choose from, which could be the start of something big and better for the individual. However, it is important to note that not all who go into business succeed. This can be attributed to the person’s, or group or persons’, lack of understanding pertaining to the type of business to structure to follow. If one wants to capitalize on the potentials of a business, understanding the business and choosing the appropriate business structure can ...

The occupation of Antofagasta sparked the first actual military conflict in the War of the Pacific. Bolivia was in control of Antofagasta, and wanted to impose a tax hike on the citizens of the city (Sater, 1997). When it faced resistance, Bolivia confiscated property from a Chilean mining company in Antofagasta and decided to auction the property to raise revenue (Sater, 1997). In response, Chile sent a warship to Antofagasta and took control of the city of Antofagasta on the day Bolivia planned to sell off the property (Sater, 2007). While occupying the city of Antofagasta, a Chilean military officer intercepted a letter ...

It is trite knowledge that Algeria is a country that comprises people of diverse culture and origin. At least a quarter of the population of this North African Country is comprises Berbers. During the famous Arab Conquests of the early 8th century, Arabs settled in Algeria and made the country an Islam nation. The most dominant language in Algeria is Arabic language. However, another family known as the Tamazight which comprises a number of Berber tribes also dominates the Maghreb.

The country was colonized be the French during the colonial era in Africa. French colonizers applied the system of divide and ...

Overview

Chengdu is one of China’s largest cities. In people’s perception, it is favorable and in 2006 China Daily named it the 4th-most livable city in the country. It is also one of the oldest cities in the world, founded 2,000 years ago. Most recently it was in the national spotlight for earthquakes, which led to thousands in the city and surrounding area to lose their lives or homes. The major religion of the area is Buddhism and Daoism.

Geography

Chengdu is one of China’s most important cities. It is located on a large plain area that varies ...

People sometimes take for granted what it means to be proud to be an American and all that it stands for, some people have those freedoms taken away from them unwillingly as a result. For others, embracing the concept of being a proud American is what their life revolves around and they live every single day appreciating it. There are several reasons to be proud of being an American, having the right to complain about lousy service at a restaurant, the right to an attorney (whether you can afford one or not) the right to your own opinion ...

War against Polio

Throughout the history of humanity, viral diseases have been with people, and for a very long time, medical scientists have sought various ways to stop and eliminate them. In the developed states, vaccines were produced to make humans immune to diseases such as rubella, mumps, measles and whooping cough. However, it was just once that any virus has been eliminated from its last defense in both the body of human and the wild and effectively treated completely. This virus was smallpox, which was totally eliminated outside high-security laboratories in 1977. From that day on, people have been free to inject ...

Political Implications of Sino-Saudi Relations to the US and Regional Affairs

Abstract As the largest and most influential nations in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has been considered a valuable asset to any country wishing to have influence in the tightly-knitted Middle East. Many nations throughout the years have tried to sway the Saudi government and monarchy into entering diplomatic and economic partnerships with them in order to gain access to the region’s oil reserves and establish their partnership but only a few have been successful. One of these successful nations is the People’s Republic of China, which has strong diplomatic, economic and social partnerships with Saudi. China has been ...

Introduction

This dissertations main porpoise and focus will be to address if the British armed forces will have any role in future international conflict. It will address the beginning of the British Empire all the way to the empire that we know today. After this we will look at concerns and threats that the British might face as well as the rest of the world and how this could have an impact on the British role in any future conflict. After having discussed all of the concerns we will look at the ability through advances in technology for any involvement ...

Section 1.0 Executive Summary

Previously Merchant’s Bank of Halifax, the Royal Bank of Canada was founded by 134 Halifax businessmen was founded in 1869. However, it was later changed to its present name in 1901. In 1941, RBC became the largest bank in Canada moving in parallel direct as Canada as far as the economy is concerned. With its headquarter based in Toronto, Ontario Canada, RBC is able to cater to 15 million highly diverse clienteles needing different services as indicated in the organization’s five business segments given its highly diversified and competent 79,000 workforce. At present, RBC thrives in ...

Ever since the beginning of the new millenium, more and more attention began to be paid to the concept of universal human rights and to the need for global morality, considered to have a positive impact on global politics and to improve the life of people across the globe. While these universal human rights have yet to be enforced, the very idea of their existence gains ground among people all around the world, no matter their cultural background or religious appurtenance. While some of the rights mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...