Essays on Nation

The incarnation of Jesus Christ is perhaps one of the most, if not the most, amazing event that has happened in the history of mankind. In it is revealed many glorious attributes of the Triune God, particularly, His unconditional, condescending love and His abundance of mercy to an undeserving humanity. Despite this, however, many do…

            In order to discuss why ‘Inference to the Best Explanation’(IBE) is convincing but would not be capable of persuading Popper to accept it as an inferential strategy, I will first analyze Popper and build towards a necessary understanding of his most important theorizations.             Once such an understanding is assumed and organized in a…

In The Types of Legitimate Domination, Weber claims there are three ideal-types of basis for legitimate authority: rational/legal, traditional, and charismatic. Rational/legal is legal authority that comes from rules such as police officers, senators, etc. Traditional is authority that comes from traditions and the belief in the sanctity of “the way it has been done…

 What are some of Wal-Mart’s FSAs? To what extent are these FSAs location-bound or internationally transferable? Some FSA’s of Wal-Mart is EDLP (it’s ‘everyday low price’ philosophy) and its so-called ‘exceptional service’ (it customer-service)1. EDLP is in general internationally transferable because they could just transfer their low-price products from China and India. However, it was…

Identities are fluid and in a constant state of motion.  Danzy Senna calls it the “age of fluidity” and children of mixed race – people who have one parent who is black, while the other white, Asian any combination of the three – have a unique perspective on race, racial identity and most naturally, personal…

The main reasons that the League of Nations was originally set up was to prevent war, encourage disarmament and as a way to settle international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. As stated by Wilson, ‘This treaty is nothing less than an organization of liberty and mercy for the world’ (Foley 1969:129) The intentions of the…

All people are in need of something, there is no argument to that. That is the reason why the local market exists, to provide the goods and services that an individual, a household or a firm needs. These needs range from food, clothing, beverages, gadgets, shoes, and to almost anything that a person might think…

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914 by Gavrilo Princip of the Serbain Secret society, the “Black Hand” had devastating consequences on the world. The causes of this event can be found in the determination of Serbian nationalism to create a Southern Slav state and the equal determination of Austria to…

 1. Introduction A Kebaya is a traditional blouse dress combination that originates from Indonesia and worn by the women in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Burma, Singapore and southern Thailand. In Malacca, Malaysia, the nyonya kebaya is worn by the Baba and Nyonya culture. The nyonya kabaya is a beautiful, translucent, figure-hugging embroidered blouse. It is a…

Over the years, the amount of research on the Holocaust has piled up; many phenomenal published works from scholars on the topic have largely gone unnoticed, ignored by the general public—then, Daniel Goldhagen arrived. Few books have managed to rival the attention that Goldhagen received for his book Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Written in 1996, his…