many countries‚ the gestures that we make that convey nonverbal communication may be insulting or seen as offensive. For example‚ nodding your head in North America is a gesture that means yes or shows affirmation. In parts of Greece‚ Turkey‚ Yugoslavia‚ and Bulgaria‚ nodding the head means no (Rugsaken‚ 2006). Nonverbal communication can say much more than what we intend to say. Because most nonverbal communication is unconscious‚ when traveling abroad it is very important to be aware
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Hinduism- Created in India‚ approximately 4‚000 years ago with >750 million followers today. Unlike other religions‚ no single founder or text; heaven isn’t always the ultimate goal in life. Third largest in world religion behind Christianity and Islam. Religion is inseparable from life; god (Brahman‚ universal soul) may be in many forms (polytheistic); karma (what goes around comes around; transferability of the soul) and reincarnation are cornerstones; caste system locks people into class levels;
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The Great War affected almost everyone in the world. Tensions continued to rise in Europe until everything exploded. World War 1 began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Serbia. After Austria-Hungary decided Serbia was responsible for the assassination rather than the Black Hand members‚ other countries began to get involved‚ and eventually the Great War began. This was supposed to be a short war‚ however it lasted longer than most countries thought it would
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ethnic and ideological conflicts in the Balkans‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The Balkans region is in the southeast section of the European Continent ("Balkans."). Including Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ Romania‚ Moldova‚ and Yugoslavia‚ this peninsula is often under ethnic difficulties. "Since ancient times‚ the Balkans have been the site of...ethnic unrest" ("Balkans."). After the fall of the Byzantine Empire‚ Christians had filled the area. When the Ottoman empire arrived‚ Turks
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services. NAFTA affects the economies of the United States‚ Mexico and Canada‚ especially when it comes to their imports and exports of all types. Kosovo It was an armed combat war that was assaulted by the strength ofthe Federal Republic of Yugoslavia‚ Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and NATO which lasted from February 28‚ 1998 until June 11‚ 1999. The KLA begin in 1991‚ and held its initial campaign in 1995 where then begun focusing on the law enforcement in Kosovo. Cell phones During the 1990s
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Many historians say that Hitler invaded Soviet Russia because he wanted to avoid a two front war‚ and they didn’t feel confident that he could win. What also prompted him to invade was he had promised the German people that he would get their land back that was taken. Hitler wanted to create one country that had all the German people living under one government and practicing a central religion. I think another reason for invasion was he didn’t want to split his army‚ and decided to send them up
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Humanitarian intervention poses a hard test for an international society built on principles of sovereignty‚ non-intervention‚ and the non-use of force. Immediately after the holocaust‚ the society of states established laws prohibiting genocide‚ forbidding the mistreatment of civilians‚ and recognising basic human rights. These humanitarian principles often conflict with principles of sovereignty and non-intervention. Sovereign states are expected to act as guardians of their citizen’s security
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Restricted Warfare: Ethics and Morality in Modern Warfare. The Ethics of War In recent years‚ the world has seen a sharp rise in wars across the globe. What was meant to be the first century not scarred by war quickly turned into a bloodbath in the wake of terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe. In response to these attacks on civilian populations the United States engaged in two preemptive wars on those who harbored terrorists. These wars have now been lasting for five
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program‚ progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis. The Jews of
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The "Fourteen Points" was a statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. People in Europe generally welcomed Wilson’s intervention‚ but his main Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau of France‚ David Lloyd George of the Great Britain‚ and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism.[1] The U.S. had joined the Allies in fighting the Central Powers on April
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