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- 361: ARAB-ISRAELI WARS
- ... which was used by Arab guerrillas for raids into southern Israel. Egypt's blockade of Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba intensified the hostilities. These escalating tensions converged with the SUEZ CRISIS caused by the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian president Gamal NASSER. Great Britain and France strenuously objected to Nasser's policies, and a joint military campaign was planned against Egypt with the understanding ... of Aqaba would be closed again to Israeli shipping. At the end of May, Egypt and Jordan signed a new defense pact placing Jordan's armed forces under Egyptian command. Efforts to de-escalate the crisis were of no avail. Israeli and Egyptian leaders visited the United States, but President Lyndon Johnson's attempts to persuade Western powers to guarantee free passage through the Gulf failed. Believing that war was inevitable ...
- 362: Terrorism As An International
- ... against the probable deterioration of the CIA’s immediate operations due to international backlash. When an operation fails, or is revealed before it has an opportunity to be accomplished, there is a potential for a crisis in the international community. The Russians compared the outcome of both and decided not to compromise the life of their spy, even though he being caught was not a definite fate. The international backlash will ... accept Russia’s offer of nuclear weapons for protection. Further results were the trade embargo that America established, the two planes which Cuba shot down when flying into its airspace, and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis, which Kennedy is heralded for stopping early and peacefully . However, that ordeal could have been avoided much earlier had the CIA not botched the covert Bay of Pigs operation. Israel’s Mossad has also had ...
- 363: Ben & Jerrys 2
- ... general." The Harlem Ben & Jerry's is a great example of what the company is doing for the community. This particular franchise donates 75 percent of its net proceeds to a homeless shelter and drug-crisis center that the franchise owner founded in 1984. The counseling center and homeless shelter have rehabilitated hundreds of people. Most of the shop's employees have been through the drug-crisis center. "They've all been tested to show that they are drug-free, and that will continue, The company waived their $25,000 franchise fee and offered support to get The Harlem franchise started with ...
- 364: How Is Mystery And Suspense Cr
- ... subject of the story, when the patient is admitted he was laughing wildly and the author states; He was off in one of those hysterical outbursts which come on a strong nature When some great crisis is over and gone The reader here is wondering what the crisis was and thus mystery is created. One of the main ways that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates mystery and suspense in this short story is through the unknown. What is known is less frightening than ...
- 365: Ben & Jerrys
- ... general." The Harlem Ben & Jerry's is a great example of what the company is doing for the community. This particular franchise donates 75 percent of its net proceeds to a homeless shelter and drug-crisis center that the franchise owner founded in 1984. The counseling center and homeless shelter have rehabilitated hundreds of people. Most of the shop's employees have been through the drug-crisis center. "They've all been tested to show that they are drug-free, and that will continue, The company waived their $25,000 franchise fee and offered support to get The Harlem franchise started with ...
- 366: Architecture In 1975 Focused Mainly On Environmentally Frien
- ... specifically, two particular themes were evident, recycling and the use of natural energy. Some may ask why the sudden interest in the environment? The answer is simple; looking back a couple of years an energy crisis crippled the nation in October of 1973. People not only did this to aid nature, moreover people wanted to be more independent in case future energy crises should arise. In addition to just reusing old ... lives. The houses were used as a place to relax and in some cases to work creatively. The ideals were pretty well followed back then, but as the years have gone by, and the energy crisis forgotten, people now have grown away from alternative energy. Although electronics and homes these days make more efficient use of electricity, people now tend to waste even more energy by using more electrical products and ...
- 367: The Breakfast Club
- ... the rental store. I chose to explain the points of view of Andrew, the jock, and Allison the loner/quite person. I will also be making use of the key terms Clique Groups, and Identity Crisis. At the start of the movie, Allison was a person off in a corner by herself. She didn’t talk to anyone, she knew that she had a "place" in the society of school. This ... just about everything. In my opinion sometimes they have gone too far. In this case of the Breakfast Club, not just the two characters that I pointed out were struggling with peer pressure, an identity crisis, or belonging to a clique group. It was all of them. The underlying theme that I think that the director or writer was getting at was the fact that no matter how many friends you ...
- 368: My Personal Search for a Meaningful Existence
- ... nothing, and it describes the belief that human values have no evacatory or meaningful power. Although there have been transient episodes of nihilism throughout our species' cultural history, the label is usually applied to the crisis of valuation that now infects our Western culture. Friederich Nietzsche, the famous German “existentialist” philosopher, predicted that the traditional European system of beliefs, which are primarily derived from the teachings of Christianity and Greek Philosophy ... enlightened to my nihilism, because many people in my culture do not become aware of the lack of meaning in their existence until much later in life, when it is affectionately called a “ mid-life crisis.” I wholly agree with the existentialist belief that there is no determinism, and that man is free to be the master of his own fate. I also believe that man's existence depends on suffering ...
- 369: The Abstract Wild
- ... He thinks that the behavior of the white pelican is another insight into the idea of the wild. The main idea of chapter six is that one of the main roots of the modern environmental crisis is the mistake of wilderness for wildness. It was Henry David Thoreau who was first mistaken. Thoreau was an American pioneer of the wild. His most famous quote is "In Wildness is the preservation of ... society. Although some were concerned with environmental issues, most of their battles were fought within the anthropocentric realm. Maybe our best fight to preserve wild nature lies in the hands of our youth. The environmental crisis is in need of a modern counter-culture. It needs a generation that could regain power through autonomy, non-conformity, and a new language. Starting from where their predecessors ended, this new counter-culture would ...
- 370: World Order
- ... of the UN these NGOs are playing an increasing role in key areas of international concern such as the promotion of Human Rights, protection of the Environment and the delivery of aid to people in crisis. The UN operates on the concept of international law. International law (otherwise known as public international law or law of nations) is the system of law which governs relations between states. International law, although primarily ... to accept its jurisdiction . The Security Council, whilst suffering from the reputation as an "American Tool", has managed to maintain some level of respect amongst the global community, however recent events, such as the Iraqi crisis have seriously threatened its standing. The basic concepts on which the UN was established have also recently come under criticism from different nations. Many nations believe that the United Nations is too "western orientated" and ...
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