Drones or Die On August 6‚ 1945‚ the United States military used a massive‚ atomic weapon against Hiroshima‚ Japan. This atomic bomb‚ the equivalent of 20‚000 tons of dynamite‚ flattened the city‚ killing tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to get a grasp of this devastation‚ three days later‚ the United States struck again‚ this time‚ on Nagasaki. Within the first two to four months of the bombings‚ the immediate effects killed 90‚000–166‚000 people in Hiroshima and 60
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Financial crises ? Due to lack of liquidity in the financial institution causes recession or depression in the economy. The situation occurs in which the value of financial assets or institutions drops promptly. Financial crises always concord with a panic or run n the banks‚ in this situation investors sells off their all assets keeping in mind that their values will go down and they also withdraw money from their saving accounts. There are many ways for the cause of financial crises such as
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WBSO GLOBALIZATION AND STATE-BUILDING NIKOLA LAKIĆ Is globalization a challenge or a threat to nation-states as a dominant form of polity? WESTERN BALKANS SECURITY OBSERVER Nikola Lakić1 1 BAMERC - Balkan and Middle East regional Cooperation Scientific article August 2011 UDK: 321.8 ; 316.334.2/.3 Abstract Contact: nl023@yahoo.com A true Nation-state has never yet existed in our diverse and vibrant world. For states to remain in the game‚ they need to understand they are no longer the only
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environmental cuts largely. As reported by am NewYork‚ these proposed EPA cuts‚ which total $2.6 billion or 31 percent‚ include staff reductions and program eliminations‚ which may make the city’s drinking water and air quality vulnerable to pollution.” (Balkan 2015) These budget cuts will have a tremendous impact on New York City‚ and‚ of course‚ that includes my neighborhood. For this reason‚ I believe we need to work together as a neighborhood. I interviewed the storeowners on my block. One of them
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Byzantine is located in the Balkan’s‚ from lower Greece to the Danube‚ to Asia Minor‚ which is modern day Turkey‚ Syria‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ Egypt‚ North Africa‚ and Iran. Due to this position it was nearly always at war with its neighbors‚ the terrain in the Balkans was rough mountainous and filled with forests‚ making defense easier. Byzantine Emperors would have to carefully use diplomacy to avoid being
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The Long Fuse In Laurence Lafore’s book titled The Long Fuse he discusses the conflicts of World War I and describes how Austria-Hungary was considered to be the "Second Sick Man of Europe". During a time when Europe seemed to be moving faster towards progressive ideas and towards the sweeping away of old institutes‚ Turkey was the original Sick Man of Europe‚ mostly caused constitutional and national problems. The European order was based upon the assumption of nations in 1871‚ a kind of mutual
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“The War to End All Wars” World War I: a hallowed name from a dark time in history. World War I (1914-1918) has gone down in history as the fourth deadliest war (an estimated 37‚400‚000 casualties) and separated the European nations further than ever before. What could cause such devastation and extreme loss of life? Nationalism and imperialism were deciding factors‚ but what everlasting effect would the war bring? The people of Europe would have never seen this coming. World War I was
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majority. Balkanization: The political term used when referring to the fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries. The term comes from the Balkan wars‚ where the country of Yugoslavia was broken up in to six countries between 1989 and 1992. It was the effect of the Balkan wars. Buffer state: A country lying between two more powerful countries that are hostile to each other. An example is Mongolia‚ which serves as a buffer between Russia and China.
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CRISES Paul Krugman‚ January 2010 As this is formally billed on this program as the Nobel lecture‚ I suppose that I’m expected to focus on the work for which I was honored with the prize. And yet … proud as I am of the work I and many others did on increasing-returns trade and economic geography‚ given what is happening in the world – and given what I’ve largely been working on these past dozen years – that work is not uppermost in my mind. Fortunately‚ there’s an out. The Nobel committee
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the Byzantine empire and followed Osman Bey. They captured the Anatolian city of Bursa and made it their capital. Their formidable military machine drove them to expansion. Devshirme: Required by the Ottomans for the Christian population of the Balkans to contribute young boys to become slaves of the sultan. Those boys received special training‚ learned Turkish‚ and converted to Islam. Janissaries: Those who became soldiers. They quickly gained a reputations for esprit de corps‚ loyalty to the
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