Total War: Syrian Civil War and World War I What does World War I and the current ongoing‚ Syrian Civil War have in common? They are both considered to be total wars. What exactly is a total war? A total war is a war where every resource including all civilian and military personnel and a nation’s entire financial resource are used to get victory. Not only are the individuals in the army taking action‚ but so are the many innocent civilians as well. Both World War I and the Syrian Civil War have
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MASS UPRISING DEFEATS CIA COUP IN VENEZUELA By Andy McInerney The revolutionary process underway in Venezuela passed a decisive test over the weekend of April 13-14. Hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants across the country rose up to defeat a U.S.-backed coup attempt organized by the Venezuelan capitalist class against President Hugo Chávez. It was a genuine victory of people’s power in the first open clash of social classes in the oil-rich South American country. But the victory also
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Memory helps form the basis of history‚ whereas history can be used to clarify fragmented memories. For a true understanding of the past there has to be a balance between documented evidence and personal experiences and memories. In Mark Baker’s nonfiction biography ‘The Fiftieth Gate’ (1997)‚ and Roman Polanski’s film ‘The Pianist’ (2002) have both reconstructed the past through a combination of memories and historical documentation. The interplay of historical documentation and memories is
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Popular uprisings and regime change are two events that often occur with a temporal order of the former preceding the latter. Every year witnesses a number of popular uprisings‚ the reasons behind them vary‚ as does the response from the state. The year 2011 saw a remarkable amount of uprisings; and popular protests throughout the entire Middle East and North Africa. The Change has come to countries like Egypt and Tunisia‚ while in other countries‚ namely
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system‚ but the government dealt with the protest ineffectively‚ resulting in angering students. It eventually escalated into an uprising that ended in cruel actions taken by the government‚ which was to murder the students. On June 4‚ 1989‚ The Chinese People’s Liberation Army fired into the crowd and ultimately resulted in the Tiananmen Massacre. The Tiananmen Uprising significantly affected the rest of the world as it raised many important issues that lie in the world today. It raised awareness
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distressing for the Syrians‚ it was the content and privileges contained in the denied articles. Article 2 for instance‚ declared that the Syrian territories detached from the Ottoman Empire “…constitute an indivisible political unity;” meaning that‚ “…the divisions which have taken place between the end of war and the present time leave this unity unaffected." Other articles of the Syrian Constitution that the French did not accept‚ pertained to powers vested in the President of the Syrian Republic‚ his
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United States of America since the end of the Second World War. With our presence and involvement over the recent years touching a vast majority of the Middle East‚ it is of no surprise the United States’ immense concern with the current crisis of the Syrian civil war. Syria’s recent use of chemical weapons and crimes against humanity has put the international community in a position of concern and uncertainty as to how to react to the unacceptable breach of international law. Statement of the Issue
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Development Needs in Syrian Camps within Turkey Stephen Stanis March 5‚ 2013 INTS 2180 Professor O’Dell Intended Audience: Antonio Guterres High Commissioner The UN Refugee Agency Summary: The massive exodus of refugees from Syria puts immense strain on the countries around it‚ in particular the nation of Turkey‚ oftentimes the point of stability in the Middle East. Turkey currently harbors somewhere between 185‚000 to 200‚000 refugees – numbers increase by the day. Turkey “alone
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Syrian crisis‚ within Nature/International anarchy clash Everyone acknowledges that the United States position was strange towards the bloody events in Syria‚ timing and whole achieved manner that West intervene in Libya‚ which had a similar mode for what happens in Syria makes us keep many question marks. And so‚ I’ll have to analyze this problem at a broader level of geographical constituency of Syrian conflict‚ beyond geographical boundaries of this country‚ because the deduction of the
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Cyrus Sadeghi Professor Douglas Anthro 41A 11/07/11 Cyrus Sadeghi Professor Douglas Anthro 41A 11/07/11 Increasing Death Toll Among Syrian Protestors The modern media is the principal source from which we hear about international and national issues that are going on in our world today. Although the media is a potent source of information‚ not everything reported is necessarily credible or factually correct. Many factors such as what region of the
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