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INTRODUCTIONInternational environmental law has been developing gradually throughout the century; there has been a considerable acceleration in that process since 1970s. Two factors have been responsible for these developments. The first has been an increase in major environmental incidents which have had trans-boundary impacts. The second factor has been the increased attention given to environmental…

Core values are personal beliefs of a person or it can be from an organization. Core values influence the way we live our lives and help us dictate what is most important to us. But where do we get our values from? Most of us learn our values growing up from our family or people…

Thomas Paine and James Chalmers were two work forces with different thoughts and different social-political backgrounds. Chalmers was an American Landowner in Maryland while Paine was an Englishman who arrived from England to Pennsylvania with one intent in head: fade outing the English Monarchy in the English Colonies in America. Even though these two characters…

Strangers From A Different Shore by author/professor Ronald Takaki has brought a new position of my turning cognition of the adversities and eternal obstructions that Asian-Americans have struggled with through their in-migration experience. Immigrants of Asia represent many states and many different state of affairss that have brought them to this “better” state with hopes…

After the Civil War, America was in shambles. The country needed to be rebuilt and become united. Southern states who seceded before the war would now have to come back to the Union. The period of Reconstruction lasted from 1863 to 1877. During this time, slavery was abolished and Amendments were added to the Constitution…

The book “1787: The Grand Convention” by Clinton Rossiter delves into the proceedings of the convention that took place in 1787. Divided into four parts – The Setting, The Men, The Event, and The Consequences – Rossiter highlights the challenges faced by the country during this period. He emphasizes that without substantial support, America would…

After successfully defeating the Confederate, and the Union took the victory, Lincoln began discussing his reconstruction plan. Lincoln being assassinated put an end to his plan for reconstruction. That leads to the curiosity of what would have happened if Lincoln had survived to serve his second term and he began his journey towards reconstruction. One…

merica since the late 1950s and 60s. During those times blacks were not treated with the rights that they were promised in the Declaration of Independence. In the book, Black Like Me, John Griffin had many unacceptable things happen to him when he was black and also when he reverted back to being white. The…

In our cinematographic history is normal to see a common depiction of the Native Americans as primitive, salvage and violent people. Nonetheless, in the chapter 1 The First Americans of Binder’s The Way We Lived, Native Americans are mainly described as a civilized and orgamized group of people that showed certain traits of agriculture, technology…

When Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States of America, his Republican views of anti-slavery quickly created a divide between the Northern and Southern states as while the North opposed slavery, the South heavily relied on its practice for daily life and financial stability. Following the end of the Civil…