The High Price of Low Costs
There are always two sides to a market. The population sees the side they want to. When people (not excluding myself) get a deal on a car, toy, or slurpie, they feel accomplished because their one dollar will stretch that much further for another slurpie, but the problem [...]
NABUUR
Nabuur is a different type of charity organization than most expect. The most widely known charities are groups of people in an office somewhere that take donations for money and send that money to foreign countries in forms of food, clothing, housing, and monetary contributions. The problem that these types of charities face is [...]
How to win the oil end game
The presentation I attended brought up many growing concerns about oil and the United States’ reluctance, as well as other major countries, to find new and less damaging means of transportation and production than be means of oil. The perspective however, on who is able to [...]
Taking a Fetal Life
Abortion is probably one of the most sensitive hot spots on the ethical agenda today. With beliefs influenced from all aspects of life, it is difficult to sort out the “best” opinion concerning it. It is important to first define what “best” truly means in respect to taking a life. [...]
Palestinian Israeli Conflict
The conflicts of the Palestinian Israeli developments and the Gulf wars have been intertwined since the beginning of the gulf wars. In order to determine these similarities and differences as well as propose a solution for peace for both of these conflicts it is necessary to determine the causes behind the eruption of [...]
The Ottoman Empire ruled the majority of the Middle East following the reign of the Seljuk Turks beginning in the early 1300’s and was ultimately dissolved at the end of World War I in 1922. The fall of this great nation includes many internal factors which were targeted and worsened by the external hardships faced [...]
What is Orientalism?
Said embarked on a journey to define Orientalism and to define it, show how it developed, and in the process uncover the effects of Orientalism being a biased belief based on the imaginations of those uneducated about the East. Orientalism is an analysis of other literary works through which Orientalism developed. In order [...]
Egypt and Syria vs. Europe
A certain attitude has existed towards the Middle East by the European Powers. This attitude incorporated with European desires for wealth and power has developed into an attempt on the European’s part to colonize the Middle East. Two exemplary examples of the corruption and desire for power expressed in the [...]
