Albania

Power, in the international arena, is used to protect a nation’s interests by influencing potential competitors or partners. The most important instrument of power available to a nation-state is military power. The role of the armed forces is to protect and defend the country from the threats and enemies. Armed forces’ missions and tasks are written or derived from the Constitution and can slightly differ from country to country. For example, in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United…

Description Throughout the course, we have discussed numerous, interrelated subjects pertaining to meta-ethical issues and normative frameworks. Each one has strong relationship with the criminal justice system. One of the first subtopics we learned was that of choices, values, and ethics. The everyday choices we make have consequences for ourselves and others. Most people think of the intended consequences of their decisions before they act, but few people really take the time to consider…

Terri Schiavo was a right-to-die case involving a woman who was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state in the United States from 1990 to 2005. Schiavo family debated on her behalf to be removed from the feeding tube if it was not going to help her recover so, finally it took President George W. Bush seven years before ultimately removing Terri feeding tube. Euthanasia or better known as assisted suicide is “the act or practice of causing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or…

Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany we see two leaders who were really not the best of friends. In fact the two leaders had times when they were ready to go to war with one another. Their alliance was full of intentional secrets like Italy’s invasion of Albania which was a response to Germany’s unannounced takeover of Prague. Nevertheless, the two nations remained allies throughout the late part of the 1930’s until both of their regimes would fall to the Allied powers in World War II. How did the…

The integration of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) petrified the Soviet Union and caused them to create their own military and economic alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. Even though it was initially referred to as a Treaty on Friendship, the Soviets became increasingly authoritative in regard to the actions of their so called allies and provided these nations with the impetus to withdraw from the Pact. Two countries that felt the sting of Russian authoritarianism…

Human trafficking is a term that many people misconstrue. Research studies show that human trafficking is a growing international concern. A debate that many have is whether women are being ignored in this issue. Human trafficking is a major problem that women face. It happens more often where women are trafficked more times than men. This paper will talk about the gender issues of human trafficking and how people misconstrue what human trafficking really is, forms of it, and efforts to try…

escalating Al Qaeda operations worldwide. By 2012 Al Qaeda was assessed to operate within 100 countries, increasing the consortium’s operational footprint from the Middle East to the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Albania, Uganda, etc. In 2001, shortly after the United States began a military campaign targeting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Usama bin Laden relocates to Pakistan, where he is eventually killed by US forces on May 01, 2011 in the town of Abbottabad.…

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu on August 26th 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia and she was the youngest of three children (Spink, 1997). Her parents were originally from Albania, but settled in Yugoslavia, which at the time was formerly known as Macedonia and was an unstable land (Spink, 1997). When it came to her personal life, Mother Teresa was always secretive, and thus most of the information provided about her childhood and discussed below comes from…

As someone who has always straddled two cultures, Albanian and American, I know what it means to participate in two different language codes. One code, the private code, has to do with speaking a more intimate language. At home or in my local church, my parents have a more comfortable, personal approach when it comes to speaking. They usually speak in Albanian to one another or when they encounter an Albanian native. In this way they both can express themselves easily and have have a better…

When you think about war, what do you think about? Maybe airplanes dropping bombs, fighter jets, people at war fighting, mass destruction? Is there a war that didn’t involve any of these actions, but involved tension between multiple countries that lasted numerous decades? Yes, there is a war like this, it’s known as the Cold War. Even though the Cold War wasn’t a war, it consisted of wars and events that almost lead to world destruction. This event lasted a little more than four decades, from…