makes the events we learn about happen. I think cultures are similar to magnets. They either repel strongly, or they attract strongly. Imagine how different our world would be if certain cultures hadn’t collided. That’s what makes this question an interesting one to answer. First, I would like to talk about what happens when the cultures repel, and give some examples. In this unit we learned about colonization in the New World, which can be a great example. Some of the European nations went to war
An answer to this question requires a probe of Canadian attitudes to see if they match Canada's historical and present contributions. For many Canadians, peacekeeping conjures up images of heroic actions in tragic circumstances: a soldier rescuing a child during a firefight or extracting a hapless person from a minefield; a medic mending the wounds of an aging refugee; a pilot flying in desperately-needed supplies while under fire from the ground; or soldiers patroling in no-man's land to keep combatants
In Things That Matter, Charles Krauthammer compiles a collection of written works spanning the course of his career. Each essay addresses some of Krauthammer’s core principles, from politics and history to religion and personal life. In a more recent essay titled “Decline is a Choice” (2009), Krauthammer discusses the decline of the United States as an influential nation and the results of such a decline. He claims that the nation’s loss of hegemony in the world is voluntary and can be linked to
the troubled spirit of modernity so aptly, through means of practical contexts and empirical applications. They were able to create theories such as Marx’s historical materialism to connect history with the present. They were able to answer the metaphysical questions so crucial to our existence: Who are we and what should we do? Despite the failure of Marx’s idea of communism in the 21st century, and the struggles of current day democracy in America, they were modern social theorists in very right