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- 241: World Order
- ... leaders of the time did not recognise the importance of "global" agreements to decision and conventions. The lessons learnt from the failure of the League of Nations and the horror and shock at the Jewish Holocaust prompted the establishment of the United Nations in 1948. The UN was established with its primary purpose as an international organisation to ensure peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, and to promote ...
- 242: What To Do About Ethnic Cleans
- ... allowed to conduct its own internal affairs as it sees fit, as soon as the conflict oversteps the nation s borders, we must intervene to prevent the trouble from spreading as it did during the holocaust. At the present moment, the pro-action side is most influential in determining strategies for dealing with ethnic cleansing. This is illustrated by the Kosovo conflict. Only a few years previously, the anti-action approach ...
- 243: Should A Superpower Establish
- Should a Superpower Establish a Sphere of Influence? This influence, that was felt around the world, led to many wars and possibly prevented a holocaust. It was a visible defensive action and an invisible security wall. The real importance of this question is not "should" a sphere of influence be established, but "why should" a sphere be established. Is it ...
- 244: Science Fiction In Human Socie
- ... setting" (Nicholson 1). Wells foresaw certain developments in military use of aircrafts in "The War in the Air" and for a long period he acquired a reputation of a future prophet (Nicholson 2). "Some 'post-holocaust' stories such as Wyndham's 'The Chrysalides,' portray cultures that understand and control less of the world than we do; the scientific element consists of our understanding of their world, and of the change led ...
- 245: Journalistic Integrity
- ... 65). As in the case of Dateline, a newsmagazine affiliated with NBC, two car crashes were staged to show that GM trucks were unsafe and hazardous to the public. Later it was discovered that the holocaust fire that was described was in fact planned by NBC to get a decent show (61). The piece was later retracted due to obviously fraudulent actions on NBC s part. What the public views on ...
- 246: I Want To Believe
- ... when examining the alien abduction phenomena, one of the most common traits to emerge, is the conveying of a similar apocalyptic type message by the alien beings "Scenes of the earth devastated by a nuclear holocaust, vast panoramas of lifeless polluted landscapes and waters and images of giant earthquakes, firestorms and floods even fractures of the planet are shown by the aliens" (Mack. Dr. J.E, 1994, P.40). This unnerving ...
- 247: Controlling Computers With Neu
- ... from thousands of miles away with only a mere thought. Governments could use the technology to control humans, thus forming a sub-species of mindless slaves. World leaders would be able to launch a nuclear holocaust with a thought, while they were performing a simple task like grocery shopping. Work Cited An EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface for Cursor Control. J. R. Wolpaw, D.J. McFarland, G.W. Neat and C ...
- 248: Cultural Relativism
- ... behalf of the authorities within the society. The most common example of this would be Hitler's powerful influence over Germany during World War two that led the country to brutal monstrosities such as the Holocaust. A possible solution to this problem, I believe, would be to add a simple remark to the argument; 'Different cultures have different moral codes, thus there is no one set of correct moral codes, only ...
- 249: Hume
- ... the six hundred and first year of Noahs life the floods stopped and the earth began to dry. Noah then built an alter to the Lord and choosing from every clean animal he offered holocaust on the alter. As God states Never again will I doom the earth because of man, since the desires of mans heart are evil from the start; nor will I ever strike down all ...
- 250: Apathy
- ... Reich because it did not directly affect them. It was not just people in other countries who ignored the cries for help from the oppressed, but neighbors of the victims as well. Martin Niemoeller, a Holocaust survivor, illustrates the passiveness that he felt during that time, and how his apathy led to his departure to a concentration camp. He states, "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn ...
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