source there is about the Atlantis is Plato’s dialogue of Timeo and Critias‚ written around 350 B.C (Bolivar). In this text‚ Atlantis is described as an island that is bigger than Southern Asia and Libya together (Muñoz 18). It also mentions that it was fully developed and that bridges made of ivory‚ describing it as heaven on earth (“Atlantis: The Lost Continent”). Thanks to the many theories about Atlantis‚ all the submerged cities that have been found in the past years and the mentioning of a lost
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middle of January 2011. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was the president of Tunisia for 23 years‚ and the citizens of this country accused his government of dictatorship and corruption (Justin C. De Leon‚ 2011). Unlike revolutions that took place in Libya‚ and the ongoing protests in Syria where the Army supported their governments‚ in Tunisia and Egypt‚ things happened to be different. This is because‚ in Tunisia despite the emergence of clashes between the loyal police forces and protesters‚ the military
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Honesty‚ integrity‚ and good values are some of the most important qualities for a person to have. These qualities are especially important for a leader‚ person in power‚ or government official to possess. When a government official is dishonest‚ is lacking integrity‚ and has poor values‚ national secrets and sometimes even lives are at stake. Hillary Clinton’s actions prove that she is immoral and has poor values. Hillary Rodham Clinton served as the First Lady of the United States to the
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Aerial Vehicle’s (UAV’s) in order to wage war on terrorism. However‚ the current president has moved away from Bush’s reliance on unilateralism to solve world conflict‚ especially in Libya. I will first introduce the legality of the use of drones and how Obama has built off Bush-era arguments‚ and then move to Libya and highlight the current administrations push for multilateralism in a post-Bush world. In order to provide a short roadmap of the essay to follow‚ I’ll provide a short summary of
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Budd 1 Liam Budd 260465022 POLI 227 TA: Sherif Fouad The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East Marc Lynch defines the 2011 Arab uprisings as “an exceptionally rapid‚ intense‚ and nearly simultaneous explosions of popular protest across an Arab world united by shared transnational media and bound by a common identity” (Lynch‚ 9). In his book The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East‚ he sets out to put the events of the Arab uprising
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rallies and insurgency in the Arab world‚ mainly to get rid of dictatorship aimed at democratic form of government in these countries through violent or non-violent means. To date‚ rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia‚ Egypt (twice)‚ Libya‚ and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ Kuwait‚ Morocco‚ and Sudan; and minor protests have occurred in Mauritania‚ Oman‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Djibouti‚ Western Sahara‚ and the
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An important key to understanding the Middle East is through observing relations between foreign powers and local or regional groups. This gives rise to the concept of globalism which does not set the Middle East and the global platform as opposite entities. Two events highlight the world-historical position of the Middle East in the second half of the eighteenth century‚ the Treaty of Kuçuk Kainarji ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 and the invasion of Egypt and Syria by Napoleon in 1798
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Timeline 1951 – The UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees is first adopted. The convention “provides the most comprehensive codification of the rights of refugees at the international level” (UNHCR). Later revised in 1967‚ the agreement sets a guideline for the treatment of refugees by individual states”. 1980 – Various groups in Somalia compete against each other for influence during a power vacuum. The nation is‚ to this day‚ in an ongoing state of turmoil as the government struggles
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Affiliated Institutions at SSC & HSSC level Abroad |S.No |Name |City |Area |Country |Status | |1 |Al-Anjal Pakistan International School‚ P.O.Box: 8586‚|Holy Makkah | |K.S.A |Co-Education | | |Al-Rusaifah | | | |
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of Australians‚ Canadians and the British is we as Americans are the World’s Police Force. Team America is no longer just a movie title but a reality amongst the world’s most powerful organizations and countries. Even a simple bombing campaign in Libya during the fall of Muammar Gaddafi couldn’t exist without the majority of American airpower and munitions. When we take a step back and do not intervene‚ we have atrocities and needless civil war and unrest such as Syria. We refuse to act due to
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