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Abstract

Women and veterans have long been ignored as far as combat is concerned. Health issues associated with women could easily be controlled, if the issue of women and combat was carefully legislated. However, recent changes in the United States military organization have stressed that women should be given equal opportunities to participate in combat as men. Therefore, this research paper aims at analyzing various constraints to organizational behavior that led to such legislation. Furthermore, analyzes of the best organizational behavior theory that can best enhance the performance of the organization, and hence eliminate cases of women and veterans facing ...

Racism is a belief that the race of one individual is superior to that of another person. During the era of the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans leaders viewed racism as a barrier to the progress of African Americans. This challenge of racism made them protest, preach, and take legal action to ensure that African Americans would be treated the same way the white people were treated. However, even after the Congress passed the Civil Right Act in the year of 1964, racism still exists today in the U.S. The United States’ schools are an example of institutions that ...

Irish Republican Army: Terror in Ireland

(Institute/College/University)

Regarded as the oldest terrorist group in Europe, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was initially named as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) or the “Fenians” on the 15th of February 1858. Its earliest objectives engaged the liberation of the region from the “invading” British forces; in the course of time, the IRB forged a close collaboration with Sinn Fein (“Ourselves Alone”) after the latter’s establishment in 1905. The IRB’s radical wing carried numerous attacks including the “Easter Uprising” onslaught in 1916 under the name “Irish Republican Army.” After a cease fire was concluded in 1923, the ...

Introduction

There are significant numbers of risks associated with the military service, and the personals deployed in the combat services have to endure these risks. Women in the military are a vulnerable group to these risks, and concerns are rife whether they should continue serving in the military, especially in the combat situation. Indeed, there are recorded incidences of medical complications to women who serve in the combat operations, and unless clear roadmaps are drawn, the situation might continue impinging harder on this generation. Indeed, the plight of women as combat soldiers and veterans predisposes them to an acute challenge, ...