The island is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea in regard of its surface area, where it is after Sicily and Sardinia. It is legally a part of metropolitan France. In spite of the fact that Corsica is located 170 km far from Nice (one of régions of France), it is a peripheral region (which is away 850 km from the céntre) and closer to Sardinia than to the coast of France ( a part of Italy). Transportation costs are particularly high and the main way of transportation is maritim...
Before the Athenian developed a democracy it was ruled by kings. It was king thesus who founded Athens, he did so by uniting several settlements of Attica into a state. However, Greek mythology was said to be the basis in which Athens was named, that there was competition of who could protect the city between the goddess Athena and Poseidon, this myths indicates that the goddess Poseidon gave a spring with sea water and Athena gave an olive tree as she touched the ground of the sacred rock of...
Chechens are an ethnic minority living mostly in Russia's North Caucasus region. For the past two hundred years, they have generally been governed by Moscow although at times, they have had varying degrees of de facto autonomy. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Chechen separatists launched a coordinated campaign for independence, which resulted in two devastating wars and an ongoing insurgency in Russia's republic of Chechnya. Militants in and around Chechnya continue to agitate for indepen...
The fall of Singapore 1942 was the most devastating defeat for the British in World War 2. It had its effects on the British rule in the Commonwealth Countries of South East Asia including the Indian Subcontinent and Australia. The fall of Singapore resulted in loss of man power as hundreds and thousands of soldiers from India and Burma and Australia were taken in as POW (Prisoners of war ) and this made the fortress of Singapore which was once thought to be impregnable look weak. This gave a...
The Canadian population is a mixed race whom have crossed to its boarders for the last century and made it their permanent resident. Canada initially welcomed these people since it had a great deficit for laborers who were needed to work in the farms in Prairies, forests factories and mines to build the country (Schiffer- Graham 72). Many of these immigrants originated from Europe while the rest comprises of economic migrants and people who ran away from their countries facing different crisi...
18. In the past decade the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) emerged as a potent terrorist force threatening to sabotage the security and democratic fabric of the country. As a matter of historical fact, Naxal movement derived its name from a village called Naxalbari in Darjeeling district. In a popular uprising the landless farmers rose against the oppression and unjust practices of land owners. These farmers were mobilized to this uprising by the ultra Marxists. This event dates back to 1967. There...
"[Let] us consecrate this moment by resolving together to make the peace we have achieved a peace that will last," Nixon said, upon the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. Diplomacy, an ever-present solution to the problems of a nation, can both help nations avoid war and it helps nations terminate conflict. In a prime example of diplomacy at work, the Paris Peace Accords were an attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the Vietnam War. The goals of the Accords were to get American prisoners of...
Australia was a member of the British Empire although it became a Federation since 1901. This meant that when Britain declared war on 4 August 1914 not only were the French and Russian empires forced to join the British, but Australia as well found itself at war. At the time the Labor leader, Andrew Fisher, assured the British that 'Australians will stand beside our own to help and defend her to our last man and our last shilling.’ Australia, being a newly-created nation with only a r...
The inhabitants of Afghanistan are diverse in their languages and ethnicity. Chief ethnic groups in Afghanistan are Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. These groups have been residing collectively for hundreds of years. Despite this fact, the dissimilarities among them is quiet evident. Each of them have their own way of living, own beliefs, taboos, customs, mores etc. Descent, geography and Shi'ism of Dari speaking Hararas distinguish them from Tajiks. Pashtuns constitute the largest ethni...
Religion and identity construction are closely intertwined since the expression of individual faith encourages a sense of identity. This notion is discussed in José Casanova's paper 'Immigrant Religions in Secular Europe and in Christian America' and in Will Herberg's analysis on religion and immigration from 1955. [1] More specifically, both scholars argue that the interaction between identity construction and religion is one of the central themes in American history, especially with regard ...
