Essays on Territory

Arizona Statehood and Constitution

Introduction
Arizona is a state found in the South western side of the United States of America. The capital and larges city of Arizona is Phoenix. Arizona was state number 48 to be admitted to the Union of the American States. However, unlike many other states, several events were recorded during the process of statehood of Arizona.
This paper gives an overview of events in Arizona in both the Preterritorial and territorial periods. A number of events took place and they played a great role that resulted to the statehood of the region.

The Preterritorial Period

The preterritorial period goes down in Continue reading...

1.0 Introduction
The current consumer regime in Australia came into effect on 1st January 2011. The sole aim of this thesis is to compare and contrast the present day consumer regime legislations and the pre-2011 ones. This is to ascertain whether the present day legislations are progressive or retrogressive. The Australian Consumer Law of 2011 (ACL) can be defined as “a national, state and territory law from 1 January 2011 and includes unfair contract terms legislation introduced on 1 July 2010’. Under this legislation, all consumers have the same entitlements and all businesses too have the same responsibilities and Continue reading...

Prior to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, what we know today as the Midwest was actually the Louisiana territory. The purchase of the territory was a massive step in expanding the United States. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson became the second American president and assumed control a year later. In the same year, the Treaty of San Ildefonso was also signed under which France regained control of the Louisiana territory and refused to give up control for many years. However, at this point Napoleon was also at the brink of a war with Great Britain and direly needed money. New Continue reading...

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Provincial Health Services

Introduction
Canada along with several other countries follow a public health care system that takes care of all basic health care services required by its citizens. The health care system of Canada has undergone a lot of changes since its conception. Several reforms have shaped the current health care system to turn out as a publicly funded system. The health care system is a provincial responsibility and is comprised of ten provincial and three territorial plans. The entire system is known as "Medicare" to Canadians. Despite various reforms, the main motto of the health care system has remained the Continue reading...

History

The Louisiana Purchase – is one of the most important events in the early history of the United States.
In 1762, Louisiana became a colony of Spain. New Orleans (now the largest city of the state), located on the territory of Louisiana had a very favorable geographical position. It was so that the country owning this town could control the entire Mississippi River. I think we should not talk about economic importance this river played; it is one of the most important waterways in North America. In October 27, 1795, under a contract with Spain, U.S. citizens received the right Continue reading...

The Preterritorial Period

Arizona’s written history goes back to the 1500s, long after the cultural decline of the pre-historic groups (including Sinagua, Anasazi and Hohokam), who had settled in the region as early as 300 BC (McClory, 2012).

The Spanish Period

The Spanish arrived in the region when a Franciscan priest, Cabeza de Vaca’s expedition was shipwrecked of the Coast of present day Texas in 1528, after which they set off to explore the territory including the city of Cibola in 1539. De Vaca claimed the modern-day Southwest territory for Spain between1540-1542. Franciscan Europeans arrived in 1629 to settle the territory, while also Continue reading...

I. Introduction
The Arab-Israeli conflict may seem to be one of the longest-lasting international feuds of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but in reality the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is rooted in actions and changes that took place only in the late nineteenth century. The conflict itself only truly came to a head after World War II made significant socio-political changes to the makeup of certain countries in the Middle East, effectively throwing off political and social power balances and provoking chaos and violence in the region. According to Riedel, the violence of the Arab-Israeli conflict has Continue reading...

The Cherokee removal took place between 1838 and 1839 because of the Cherokee leaders embracing the civilization policy. The Cherokee leaders embraced the civilization from the white man. By the virtue of accepting and embracing the white man, the Cherokee community had to accept civilization as a sign of good will. Before the civilization and interactions with the white man, the Cherokee community had a lifestyle. The community had leaders who advised the community. The leaders also gave direction to the community. When the Cherokee leaders accepted the civilization, it hurt their efforts to maintain residence in their native Continue reading...

Robert W. Merry's "A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent." 
Robert Merry’s book is a firm but fair appraisal of James Polk’s much maligned Presidency where the Mexican American war occurred and where the United States managed to expand its territory quite vastly. The overarching theme of the book is the misinterpretation of James Polk as a President who perhaps was heavy handed in his tactics but managed to secure considerable expansion for the United States.
In the book, Merry describes Polk as a one term Continue reading...

Introduction

In a UN referendum in 1973, Morocco pushed its claim of Western Sahara and proclaimed that it actually belonged to their kingdom (Maghouri, p. 114). It threatened Spain with war so that Spain wil move out of the said teritories. Morrocco pressured Spain and brought the case to the International Court of Justice. After this, Morocco, together with Mauritania, successfully claimed Western Sahara. Spain handed it over to these two neighboring countries. In 1975, the International Court did not historically legitimize Morocco’s claim. Instead, it independently entitled the territory as Western Sahara (BBC Online, p. 1).
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1. Is comparative politics a science? Why is it so difficult to create a science of comparative politics?
Comparative politics is an empirical study of political science that uses formulations and concepts that applies in many countries. Comparative politics is a method that is applied in political science to address local politics, conflicts, and political institutions. The field of comparative politics uses methodological approaches to compare patterns in various countries. Comparative politics does not use a substantive approach since it fails to define the objective of the study. The focus of comparative politics applies in multiple countries by use Continue reading...

The Acadian expulsion, as much as it happened long time during the 1750s, continues to be a highly controversial topic in the annals of North America. The Canadian Nationalists, especially those that affiliated to France, continue to demand that Queen Elizabeth offers an apology for the Acadian expulsion. In 1990, an attorney from Cajun, Warren Perrin, had threatened that he would sue the British regime if the apology for the British misdeeds is not made. Of course, the topic is a subject of division. Some have stood for the fact that an apology should never be made. Yet others Continue reading...

The Effects of Population Density and Noise

Population density can be defined as the measurement of the amount of individuals in a given area (Lerner & Millon, 2003). The percentage is determined by dividing the number of individuals by the area. In the last United States census, the mean population density was 87 individuals per square mile. This measurement is not widely applied in the average individual’s daily life and is only considered as a fact of the growing population. However, when issues of pollution, noise, territory, privacy, and space are considered, then it clearly reflects the effects of population density. Many individuals are not aware Continue reading...

Topic: Australian Indigenous Politics

Introduction

The Northern Territory Intervention refers to a set of legislature that was tailored towards people considered indigenous. However, these legislations were passed without prior consultations from the people that the legislature affected directly. The main aim of the intervention was to ensure that certain human rights are observed and upheld, while others at the same time were restricted. At the same time, it was meant to protect the children from abuse and any other inhumane actions from the larger population. The fundamental role that this intervention served was the realization Continue reading...

The British Empire is one of the most extensive empires in the world history. The empire is said to have ruled a population of between four hundred and seventy to five hundred and seventy million people by 1921, which is equivalent to a third of the world population. The development of the British Empire can be dated back to the activities of King Henry VII who reined in a period dated 1485 to 1509. King Henry had a strong drive to improve the British economy through trade and development of factories within and outside Britain. As a way of Continue reading...

Abstract

The physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of the children living in Palestine is one for concern. The horrifying tales of waking up or going to sleep in the sounds of bombs and gunfire cause posttraumatic stress disorder on everyone, including children. The incursion of the Israeli military in Palestine since the 1940s has left the nation with limits to their freedom of movement, limits to fair and free education, verbal and physical assaults, and the undeniable possibility of a troubled future. There is no doubt that within this troubled future lays an uneducated population that has seen and known Continue reading...

Analyzing the conflict and its consequences requires scrutinizing the demographic data historical boundaries, territory in general and legal aspect of the situation. The demographic information addresses various issues that clarify the victims in the conflict, the legitimacy of the claims of each of the parties in the conflict and the larger history of the process. My aim is not even compare or contrast the seriousness of the situation as it is challenging to operationalize it, but rather to emphasize the urgency of the situation in Nagorno- Karabakh and to make a clearer picture of the conflict within the context Continue reading...

Strategies and tools for Spanish and Portuguese to control their empires

A myriad of Spanish settlers and missionaries went throughout the world in expeditious actions of establishing colonies and consequently having a claim on the land for their church and king. However, in some cases where they faced resistance, force was necessary. By the end of 1500s, Spain had claimed a large empire in the south of America. On the other hand, Portuguese colony also spread just as the Spanish colony. There was a large territory to the south of America which remained out of the hands of the Spanish. Therefore, the Portuguese took claim of the regions in the Continue reading...

Introduction:

The United States was a young nation in 1820 and had its eyes on the vast territory which was named Texas and which was the property of the Mexican government. After some aggression and arbitrary land grabbing by the US, Mexico which was alarmed by the neighbouring countries’ attitude decided to act and declared war on the United States. This armed conflict led to the cessation of several Mexican territories to the United States including the area now known as New Mexico and California. The immigration of several Americans into the state of Texas created a situation where the Continue reading...

Alienation

The concept of alienation is a one of the central constructs of Marxian theory. This concept was used for description of a capitalist mode of production when workers lost control over the means of production. In accordance with Knox & Pinch (2010) it is described as “a mechanism of social change” and relates another concept of deviant behavior in wider sociopolitical connotation (p.215). Later alienation was used by the early deterministic theorists because it was of a great interest when studying spatial variations of people behavior (Amin, 2002).
Marx outlined several reasons of alienation. Firstly, alienated person feels like Continue reading...

The development of Russia had many historical turning points. These changes were mainly connected with such political figures as Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. The Soviet economy depended on mostly political decisions but not economic programs. Although the basic economic system in Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev eras remained unchanged, there were some peculiarities in these periods. The effect of Stalin’s policy had a profound impact on people and the state. In 1928, the Communists instituted the first Five-Year Plan. It dealt with such aspects of development as an industry, consumer goods, agriculture, transportation, communications, health, education, Continue reading...

Introduction

Following the ousting and the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte's, there was a great need for Europe to come with a strategy that would counter the impact of French revolution. To lay down a congressional meeting commenced in Vienna 1 October 1814. Initially, the meeting was aimed at restoring Europe earlier boundaries, which existed before the 1789 French revolution and the wars of napoleon that took precedence.
In the procession of leaders leading, the talks were the victors of the revolution Great Britain, who had sent a representative of King George III, Lord Castelergh since the king of England then Continue reading...

After the ending most widespread war in the history of mankind - the Second World War, the world entered into the New World Order. With the last shot of this war the European colonial period ended, and began new era –era of the two rival superpowers. Almost immediately after the ending of the war “Iron Curtain” has crossed the continent but not only the continent across the entire world. So let’s analyze to what consequences WWII led and how it impact on positions of all major players in the world. The first major consequence of the Second World Continue reading...

Nevada, which became a state in 1864 at the height of the Civil War, entered into the Union at this time for a few different reasons. The way in which Nevada acquired statehood reflects the national turmoil at the time and the history of the 36th state is rich with mining and gambling, to things that are still strongly associated with the state. Silver and gold were discovered in large quantities in the Comstock Lode in 1859, hastening Nevada’s development into a territory and state and quickly populating the state.
It took several failed attempts before the Nevada Continue reading...

Introduction

Selling is an activity in the area of business that has paved way for heated debates between those involved directly and those who are involved indirectly. Due to this closeness to the concept of selling many individuals often have strong and misplaced opinions of the sales people and selling in general, and it does not come as a surprise that these misgivings are believed by people who have engaged in selling their whole lives.
Processes and activities that assist an organization to efficiently and effectively run and support its business objectives and strategies is what is known as sales Continue reading...

Introduction

There has been a renewed interest with the indigenous tourism recently. In Australia, it is one of the most thriving tourism sector and attraction at present. This is because Australia is home to one of the world’s historic living cultures and so, it is well placed to develop this global tourism sector (ONT, 1998, p. 2). Indigenous tourism is a general term formerly used to pertain to “all tourism services or products, managed by either the Indigenous or the non-indigenous entities but focuses on an indigenous motif such as cultural tours, festivals, arts and crafts making, interpretation of Continue reading...

- What was the hijrah (emirgration/migration) that Muhammad and his followers made, and why was this such an important event in Muslim history?
The “Hijrah” – is the Prophet Muhammad's and his supporters` flight from Mecca to Medina, where the first Muslim community was founded in 622 AD. Basically, “hijrah” in Arabic language has got a meaning of relocation from one place to another. As a religious term, the word "hijra" is used in cases of relocation of believers who are oppressed in their homeland and deprived of freedom of religion, to other regions where there are more favorable conditions Continue reading...

Introduction

Power battles and fights have always been taking place that get had the capacity to curse the whole of the nation. As occurrence of this crusade history that can be viewed all through history, it is particularly manifested in medieval era. Particularly, battles for getting power created between the church of Roman and several other groups for example kings, non-believers of Christ, Muslims, and yet common individuals all through the medieval times. Consequently, Christian fighters as crusades were recommended to clash for their faith by the church pope to withdraw land that Christian non-believers existed on and abolish anyone Continue reading...

ABSTRACT

Karl Jack Bauer’s The Mexican War (1974) does describe the United States as the aggressor in the conflict and concedes that President James K. Polk was motivated by the desire to expand the borders to the Pacific. Indeed, there was never any real question about this in either the U.S. or Mexico at that time—or later. He justifies this action by asserting that that this type of expansion was inevitable, and if it had not been carried out by Polk’s administration then some other one would have done it eventually. Although the U.S. president preferred to Continue reading...

Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?

Collapse of the Soviet Union resulted from the processes of system disintegration, which took place in the public and political sphere of the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the end of the USSR on December 26, 1991. As a result, 15 independent republics appeared on the world arena. In this paper a short overview of the USSR history will be presented along with the possible reasons for the Soviet Union collapse and description of the collapse process.
USSR inherited a large part of the territory that the Russian Empire possessed, as well as its multinational structure. Between 1917 Continue reading...

Abstract

The main idea of the current paper is not to reject reasons why Bin Laden arranged the attacks but to describe what drove him to carry out and plan the events leading to 9/11. In other words, his motives and political situation in the Middle East are analyzed in the framework of strategic thinking and long-term implications on jihad and radical Muslim movement in general. The structure of the paper consists of outlining and description of each of the reasons Bin Laden had suggested himself and their fitting into general strategy of jihad. Then strategy of jihad and meaning Continue reading...

1.0 Introduction

The French and Indian war as is mainly called in USA was a war between the British and their enemies who were the French and their Native Americans allies. The Indian tribes were allied to the French as they were more trusting of the French than the British. But in all this the Indians were very protective of their people’s independence and nothing could deter them from that. This paper will analyze the war focusing on causes of the war, the participation of the Native Americans (Indian tribes), the events of the war, the effects of the war and the resulting treaty. Continue reading...

Cold War and Decolonization

After the end of World War II, the world somehow split into two halves and two large groups of countries were formed: the communist block and the western democratic-capitalist states. The first block was led by the Soviet Union, which developed its economy and military force that was equal to the one from the US. Another block was led by the United States of America and included other countries such as Great Britain and France, as well as the defeated post-fascism countries like Germany. The aim of this block was to enforce the necessary reforms in the world in Continue reading...

Images and livestream video clips of American military vehicles getting blown up and dead Americans--both military and civilian--laying dead on the ground in the vicinity have saturated both the international and media. Such images underscore the barbarity and savagery that has become so widespread in the Middle East. Often, such images are disseminated via the news and mass media as well as the internet in order to galvanize new supporters against the United States by discursively framing the American military, coalition forces, and civilians abroad as not indefatigable. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIL) is an extremist Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper explores the history of gangs and their relationship with drugs in the United States. The existing literature shows that gangs have been around since 18th century, they have evolved over the time to carry out different atrocities in the cities. Research has shown that violence is a way of life for the gang members because it is their main system of justice. The paper also identifies the measures that state agencies should use to curb the illicit trade and save the society from the terror that is associated with this trade. The research has shown that the Continue reading...

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Years before the American civil War of 1861-1865, the two sides that were formed on the issue of slavery had already had different disagreements. While the Southern states were keen on ensuring slavery continued in America, the northern states sought to abolish the act and in turn make all of America slaves free. This has been attributed to the fact that the Southern States were in fact cotton farmers and had big plantations of the same all over the southern territory. With slaves came free labor and major profits from said plantations. On the other hand, Northern Continue reading...

International politics/relations

In his article “Russia's Latest Land Grab: How Putin Won Crimea and Lost Ukraine” Jeffrey Mankoff states that Russia interrupts political uncertainty of former socialistic countries justifying it with protection of Russian national minorities on these territories. According to the author, in this way Kremlin is able to maintain influence on post-Soviet countries. After dissolution of Soviet Union many of these countries have directed their policy on European integration not willing to play under Kremlin rules. Russia was playing a restrictive role in each case, except the Baltic countries.
During 2014 Russia has probably lost the strongest political ally – Continue reading...

Puerto Rico has one of the Caribbean’s most dynamic economies, which has however struggled with slow growth and recession over the past four decades, worsened most recently by the global economic crisis. According the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2012), the territory’s GNP fell by 10% since 2005, with its linkages to the US economy being the main reason for the recession, not least because of the exposure to weakened financial institutions, collapse of the construction/housing industries and reduction in government employment. In 2010, the real GDP suffered a 5.4 reduction compared to the previous year. Continue reading...

The Chinese Revolution marks one of the most significant historical milestones that has a great influence to the social-economic and even political journey that China has had to follow to date. The 1911 Revolution spelled the fall of the long reign of the imperialist system of the Qing Dynasty. The spontaneous uprisings that are also referred to as the Xinhai Revolution started with increased calls for unification of China, constitutional reforms and protection against foreign incursion sparked protests started in Wunchan province and the neighboring provinces. In this paper we will focus on the events surrounding the Revolution and Continue reading...

For the past couple of months, several news organizations are reporting China’s astounding economic growth and subsequent mobilization in the Asian region which is both alarming and impressive for many experts. Their economic growth is astounding for the very fact it proves China is still an economic powerhouse even in today’s world given their history as the world’s first traders. On the other hand, however, the mobilization of its forces around its “claimed” territories is alarming because of the possible implications that China is now getting ready to overthrow the United States as the dominant force Continue reading...