World Civ: 1500 - 1900

Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources.  read more »

Napoleon: Pro or Con: 7th period.

Refer to the following questions and guidelines:
1. What were his strengths and were weaknesses?
2. What is your position?  read more »

Napoleon: Pro or Con?

Refer to the following questions and guidelines:
1. What were his strengths and were weaknesses?
2. What is your position?  read more »

Pope Benedict XVI calls for Palestinian state on visit to refugee camp

The Pope gave his most forthright endorsement of a Palestinian state yesterday as his Holy Land pilgrimage took him to a refugee camp in the shadow of Israel’s controversial “separation barrier”  read more »

Not Aiding Africa

Aid to Africa has been under fire recently due to the continuing poverty and violence in many African countries. In this editorial, Greg Mills looks at some of the problems with aid to Africa.  read more »

The Other Man's Burden

We read Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden" in class. Here are a few lines for review:

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile  read more »

Letters/Questions to any Philisophe.

Choose any one of the following thinkers: Rousseau, Voltaire, or John Locke. Write them a question you would ask them, were you to ask for their advice, OR to question/debate their philosophies.  read more »

Russia and Georgia Clash Over Separatist Region

Russia conducted airstrikes on Georgian targets on Friday evening, escalating the conflict in a separatist area of Georgia that is shaping into a test of the power and military reach of an emboldened  read more »

Medvedev says Russia will continue active role in S.Caucasus

MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president said on Monday that Russia will continue its active role in the South Caucasus after the current conflict, and pledged to see through the operation  read more »

Zimbabweans Call for International Peacekeeping Intervention

Zimbabweans who have been scarred by weeks of ongoing violence that is causing significant loss of lives and property are reportedly calling for the intervention of an international peacekeeping force  read more »

India asks Dalai Lama to refrain from political activities

New Delhi: India has asked the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, not to engage in political activities that could hurt the country’s ties with China, media reports said on Tuesday.  read more »

Chinese Police Fire Tear-Gas at Protesting Tibetan Monks (Tibetan Reporting)

KATHMANDU—Armed Chinese police fired tear-gas Tuesday to disperse a crowd of several hundred protesting Tibetan Buddhist monks near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, RFA's Tibetan service reports.  read more »

US Public Losing Interest in Iraq As News Coverage Wanes

A sharp fall in US media coverage of the Iraq war has left Americans less interested in and knowledgeable about the conflict, a report by the independent Pew Research Center showed Wednesday.  read more »

CIA sees Taliban role in killing of Bhutto

The CIA thinks that Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud and his associates, some of them linked to al-Qaida, were responsible for the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir  read more »

CIA scapegoats al-Qaeda over BB killing

CIA Director Michael Hayden has blamed al-Qaeda and allies of a Pakistani tribal leader for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.  read more »

US Role in Pakistan (Opinion)

The brutal and bloody assassination of Benazir Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and former prime minister, continues to reverberate. In part, this is because she was a woman.  read more »

Speech Dilemma (OPINION, US Free Speech vs Korean Free Speech)

An American investigative news program, 20/20, aired a report that sheds light on the dark side of free speech in America and the difference in the treatment of speech in America vs. Korea.  read more »

ADL commends N.Y. police for arrests in anti-Semitic subway attack

The Anti Defamation League (ADL) applauded on Wednesday the New York City Police for arresting ten individuals suspected of carrying out an anti-Semitic attack against four students on the Subway on F  read more »

Syndicate content