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- 401: The Ineptitude Of The United S
- ... where created equal," and those "unalienable rights" are still not shared by everyone in the United States. The U.S. has been lacking in its responsibility to its citizens. The state responsibility for human and civil rights must be expanded in the United States. In December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The thirty articles of the UDHR were developed to provide ... one of the most influential, yet it has failed to take adequate state responsibility for human rights. Before the ineptitude of the United States can be discussed, the concept of state responsibility for human and civil rights must be clearly defined. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines state as "a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory," and responsibility as "moral, legal, or mental accountability." These definitions of state ... to provide a literal definition of state responsibility. The definition of state responsibility could then be seen as "the moral and legal accountability of a government." A concise notion of state responsibility for human and civil rights would then be congruent to "the moral and legal accountability of government for life, liberty, security, and any other finite right of a person." With the concept of state responsibility for human and ...
- 402: Robert E. Lee
- ... to many views of the south, including succession and slavery, yet his loyalty to his native state of Virginia forced him to fight for the south and refuse command of the Union armies during the Civil War. Because of this, he was respected by every man in America including Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Robert Edward Lee was born to parents, Henry Lee of Leesylvania, and mother Ann Hill Carter of ... the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. His work there earned him a promotion to Captain. In 1841 he was transferred to Fort Hamilton in New York harbor, where he took charge of building fortifications. When war broke out between the United States and Mexico in 1846, the army sent Lee to Texas to serve as assistant engineer under General John E. Wool. All his superior officers, including General Winfield Scott, ...
- 403: Robert E. Lee
- ... to many views of the south, including succession and slavery, yet his loyalty to his native state of Virginia forced him to fight for the south and refuse command of the Union armies during the Civil War. Because of this, he was respected by every man in America including Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Robert Edward Lee was born to parents, Henry Lee of Leesylvania, and mother Ann Hill Carter of ... the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. His work there earned him a promotion to Captain. In 1841 he was transferred to Fort Hamilton in New York harbor, where he took charge of building fortifications. When war broke out between the United States and Mexico in 1846, the army sent Lee to Texas to serve as assistant engineer under General John E. Wool. All his superior officers, including General Winfield Scott, ...
- 404: Vietnam War - Vietnam Soldiers - "They Carried Ghosts"
- The relationship between the soldiers of the Vietnam War was different from the relationships with people from home. The soldiers felt as if they could not tell the whole truth about the war through their eyes to their loved ones at home. The soldiers that they were with all the time understood the pain and confusion each other felt, yet no one talked about it. War changed how people had relationships with others. War could bring people closer or tear them apart. The relationships between the soldiers and their families grew or forced them to become distant. The soldier did ...
- 405: ... which he moved out. During his time in Vienna, Hitler made a living by selling his artwork. Desiring to be an artist, he was in fact dismissed from the Arts Academy twice. Soon after World War I started, Hitler volunteered for the army where he worked as a messenger in some of the bloodiest battles. He was wounded and received two medals of valor. The medals he got were the Iron Cross Second Class, and the , Iron Cross First Class. After the German war was over he took up political work and joined the tiny German Workers Party. By 1920, he was in charge of the partys propaganda schemes, and left the army in order to build up ... party. Hitler renamed the party, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( NAZI was the abbreviation.). This was an excellent time to form a group such as this because many of the people felt angry since Germany lost the war. Also growing resentment of the minoritys in their country such as the Jew and Slavs. In 1921 the Nazis were a private party army called the SA (Sturmabteilung). When Hitler joined the party ...
- 406: The Extradition of Nazi War Criminals
- The Extradition of Nazi War Criminals The following paper was used as a term paper for a sophomore level Political Science class centering on international relations. The class was taken at a popular university in the state of Massachusetts. The paper deals with the legal issues surrounding the act of extradition of Nazi war criminals. Two international law cases are dealt with in the paper. The paper got an "A" from a fairly difficult grading professor, and once the paper is double spaced it should work out to be about 14 or 15 pages. Have fun, and good luck. The term "laws of war" refers to the rules governing the actual conduct of armed conflict. This idea that there actually exists rules that govern war is a difficult concept to understand. The simple act of war in and ...
- 407: The Hundred Years War
- The Hundred Years War The Hundred Years War was considered to be the last medieval war that played a significant role in English history.(Schwarz) The Hundred Years War was a series of wars fought between Great Britain and France with Burgundy playing a small role for the French. Although ...
- 408: Deng Xiaoping
- ... post in the area. It was Yang Sen and Deng Weiming that decided that young Deng Xiaoping go study in France. Deng arrived in France in 1920, just barely two years after the First World War. While it was easy for the wealthy Chinese to study in France, less well off people had to find employment in order to study. Work, however, was not easy to find and so Deng went ... 24,000 left. Deng and Mao became friends during the Long March, thereby furthering his ascent into the upper echelons of the CCP. The next chapter in Dengs political life was the Sino-Japanese war, in which the Communists once again teamed up with Chiang Kai-Shek. Deng Xiaoping was named deputy leader of the Main Political Department of the Army. His next appointment was to be the political officer of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which became the most famous division during this war. This was a major move up the political hierarchy, and it even came as a surprise to the 33-year old Deng . After the end of WWII in August 1945 the Chinese Civil War ...
- 409: Hundreds Years War
- Hundred Years War The definition of the Golden Rule is that those with the gold make the rules. In other words, those with the gold have the power as well as those with the power have the gold. History books will discuss the general reasons for war such as freedom from adversity or freedom from religion. But the real issue for any war is the thirst for power and control; and the means to finance them are the economic issues. Nations will endure years of fighting for power and control. France and England fought each other for ...
- 410: Western Expansion
- ... Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas-about one-third of the way across the continent. By the 1840s, the expansionist policy, typified by the Manifest Destiny doctrine, became very strong with many sections willing to go to war to acquire more land. Slavery became a bone of contention between the Northern and southern states with the control of the senate in question. The South wanted expansion to increase slave states, the North to keep the balance with free states and the West wanting expansion to increase their land. The antagonism between the North and the South sees the beginnings of sectionalism leading to the civil war later. The spirit of equality becomes a banner with which the expansionist policy was proclaimed. Phases Of Development Before the 1830s, most sections of the west passed through the same phases of development in ...
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