Current Issues Essays and Term Papers

Organization talks in Seattle, Washington, a peculiar meld of extreme leftists and rightists, trade unionists, radical environmentalists and some self-appointed representatives of civil society still insists on saving the poor people of developing countr…

the issue of terrorism has become a permanent actor in the daily amphitheater of international politics. Elevated from its formerly amateur status, this evolving phenomenon has not only captured the substantial absorption of the United States, but…

ethnic cleansing from ideological ethnic cleansing. Pre-twentieth-century acts of ethnic cleansing typically were of the utilitarian type, in which perpetrators were pursuing land, economic wealth, slaves, or simply settling old scores. Modern ethnic…

to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the growing shortage of nurses in America's hospitals is putting patient lives in danger and requires immediate attention. "The current nursing shortage threatens to heavily…

competitive challenges now confronting Southeast Asia have changed the basis on which new projects are being evaluated, regardless on their location. You would never think there had been an economic crisis if you examined the number of petrochemical…

defines globalization as "to make worldwide in scope or application." Many third world countries around the world have been affected by globalization. In the book Eyes of the Heart, by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the author writes about the Haitian…

durante la dictadura del General Franco en España. Nació del sentimiento nacionalista de un pueblo que vio reprimida su cultura y su forma de vida, por un sector fanático de la política española - derechista, que se hizo del poder gracias a las…

a group of student activists dissatisfied with the reserved nationalism of the traditional Basque party. The group's aim was the creation of an independent homeland in Spain's Basque region. ETA had its origin in a nationalist group, EKIN, formed as…

Thomas Allen Marshall was apathetic when he was drafted to serve the United States army in Vietnam. This apathy did not last long once he actually set foot in the jungle. Like so many young men, Tom crossed the Atlantic not knowing…

on my life. It tells me, with respect to athletics, what I can and cannot do. If I were a division one athlete, the limitations would be far greater. I could not, for example, work certain jobs, or accept money for being good at what I do. When…