Guantanamo: past‚ present and future The Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay is the oldest U.S. military base still operating outside the U.S. It has been under U.S. control since 1898 but it was not used to hold prisoners from the Afghanistan war until January 2002. Since then‚ hundreds of “law combatants” have been held there against the Geneva Convention and their rights have been removed. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp became a matter of international concern when it was stated that the prisoners
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Rhode Island. This proves that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was only religiously tolerant to Puritans and gave others different political rights. Moreover‚ 1564 at Fort Caroline was completed only to survive a year till the Spanish St. Augustine. Commander Pedro Avilés wrote to King Philip II that he had “hanged all those we had found in because . . . they were scattering the odious Lutheran doctrine in these Provinces.” Furthermore‚ Puritan Boston believed Catholics and other Non-Puritans were anathemas
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by Puritans who wanted the freedom to practice their religion without Catholic influence which the Church of England had. They did not seek to settle a colony for religious freedom and believing what they wanted that was not Protestantism. They wanted to be able to eliminate Catholic influence from their Protestant beliefs. They did not want to have to deal with the Church of England changing between Catholic and Protestant or having to go through the Religious
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If there were few people to talk seriously about the 1857 mutinous Sepoys as victims and British forces as being unnecessarily ruthless in their repression‚ the main protagonists of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion greatly divided opinions in Britain. The logic according to which people disagree with what they opponents agree with meant that someone’s hero was someone else’s villain. Paul Bogle‚ a Black Jamaican‚ was depicted by supporters of philanthropy as a pious preacher spreading Christianity and
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Since the September 11 terrorist attacks detainees have passed through a prison camp that is known as Guantanamo Bay. Since then‚ there has been an ongoing conversation about the treatment of the detained combatants and many justify the camp under utilitarian grounds. John Mill explains utilitarianism and describes the greatest happiness principle which states that actions are right in as long as they tend to promote happiness. In this paper‚ I will be using the prison camp to argue that utilitarianism
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there. As soon we got our luggage‚ we rented a car from the Thrifty Rental Car from the Honolulu International Airport. From there on a 50 minute drive to the island of Oahu to get to our hotel. The hotel we were staying at was called The Turtle Bay Resort in Oahu‚ Hawaii with my family. We had planned this 5 day trip 3 months in advance. The trip was spontaneous. We took the opportunity since my family and I been wanting to go for such a long time. As soon as we arrived to our hotel they greeted
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aptitude for mathematics‚ his education was oriented towards preparing him for life as a midshipman in the Royal Navy. His studies included algebra‚ trigonometry‚ geography‚ and navigation using ’practical astronomy’. Over the years‚ the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) made periodic requests to the school for students to be apprenticed to the North American fur trade. Many of these students would later receive training from Philip Turnor‚ the HBC’s first chief surveyor.
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Introduction This case study focuses on the situation at the Bridges Bay Public Library‚ in which‚ the staff dealt with people experiencing homelessness‚ who stayed inside the library to escape the harsh weather. Director Joseph Calenda’s immediate dilemma was what to do about the woman that people had called the “bag lady”. Apparently‚ she had been going to the library for two straight days. On Monday‚ several patrons were curious and wanted to know what the library administration would do about
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Due to the local naval bases and the strong maritime trade‚ the San Francisco Bay Area became one of the leading centers for the development of radio and radar. Bell Labs was back east‚ in New York and New Jersey‚ but around the San Francisco Bay was perhaps the highest concentration of amateur or “ham” radio operators anywhere in the world. These amateur enthusiasts were constantly figuring out better ways to send or receive a radio signal. Around 1920‚ there were many local‚ mostly young‚
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was training anti- Castro Cuban rebels for an invasion in Cuba. The operation was supposed to inspire other rebels to want to overthrow their Communist dictator and abolish communisms. According to Michael Dunne journal entry‚ The Perfect Failure: Bay of Pigs‚ heavily armed men boarded a ship and headed for their landing point ninety miles from Havana. The group known as the Brigade 2506‚ invaded Cuba with little success. Everything that could go wrong‚ did go wrong. The Brigade 2506 were poorly
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