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    In the election held in 2013, only two WC made it to the parliament, although women made up more than 53% of the electorate. These two candidates received the highest number of tweets about the WC before the election. RQ1: Attitudes according to gender While the negative tweets outnumbered the positive ones (31% negative versus 21% positive), the women tweeters expressed significantly more positive attitudes towards WC than the men tweeters did (X2 = .21, p = 0.01). Women contributed 385 tweets (38%

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    Flower Shop

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    * Our idea: Our business idea is not a newfound product or a yet to be explored market, it is an existing business with 100% competition. In a nutshell, our business idea is to open a flower shop catering to deliveries, formalities and small-scale events. Our objective is to be accessible and convenient whilst offering above par products. We came up with this idea through our love for flowers and the slight experience and skill we have in this field. It is a beautiful market with ability to

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    III. Dependence of the Gulf states on external security guarantees The previous part of the essay mostly focused on internal political dimensions of instability and conflict in the Arab part of the Gulf. Other factors of instability in the Gulf belong to the systemic level of the Gulf subregion. One of these factors is the existing regional security architecture, which fosters dependence on the U.S. to provide means of defence and deterrence. Part of the issue is that U.S. security guarantees

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    has the same access to the water sources, which will naturally cause problems. For example, Israel has control of the Golan, and Egypt of the Nile, and Kuwait of the Persian Gulf. Oil is in abundance, but only to a limited number of countries in the Middle East causing great economic disparity between those who have, and those who do not. Kuwait, having access to the Persian Gulf, produces a large supply of oil to international players. Given its high value internationally, and its worth, oil is

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    in the Arabian Peninsula especially when they became oil producers. British paid Jordan’s bills, supplied, and ran the army during 1950s’. London backed North Yemen to combat the rising threat of Egypt in the Arabian Peninsula to Iraq’s designs on Kuwait. British view of the region was not the favorite to Americans. The United States prevented France and Britain from overthrowing Gamal ‘Abd al-Nasser in 1956. In part for that reason, when Britain announced its withdrawal from “East of Suez” in 1971

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    Analysis of Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations Michael Walzer first wrote Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations in the years following the Vietnam War, and unfortunately its premise on morality in war will always remain as relevant as it was then as it is now, with conflict between states forever existing. Michael Walzer is one of the most prominent social critics in North America and in this book, he explores two

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    These tensions culminate in the Persian Gulf War, which forces young men to be sent over to the Middle East in an attempt to resolve this conflict. A casualty of the war is the son of a woman named Mary Ewald, who was kidnapped from the SAS Hotel in Kuwait City. Any mother (well any good one at least) would feel distraught at the loss of a child and Mary Ewald is no exception. She decides to write a letter to Saddam Hussein (care of Ambassador al-Machat), who was president of Iraq at the time, in order

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    During those five years, Saudi Arabia passed a law that was aimed toward reducing the country’s environmental footprint causing the consumption to continue to rise while the nitrogen oxide emissions dropped. Other Middle Eastern countries such as Kuwait started putting their own air quality standards into play proving that air control is successful. These standards were leading other countries like the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa to pass a Clean Air Law. The result of the Clean Air Law was

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    Conventional oil has became an indispensable part of human beings’ life. Agriculture need oil, cooking needs oil, driving needs oil, producing products also needs oil, we need conventional oil for everything. However, since human beings did not fully consider the use of non-renewable, environmental damage of oil and the social costs, people are over-rely on oil and uncontrolled product and consume of oil has caused too many problems, for example, economic problems, environmental populations and military

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    Conflict over energy resources—and the wealth and power they create—has become an increasingly prominent feature for geopolitics particularly in the Middle East . The discovery of oil in the late nineteenth century added a dimension to the region as major outside states powers employed military force to protect their newly acquired interests in the Middle East. The U.S.’s efforts to secure the flow of oil have led to ever increasing involvement in the Middle East region’s political affairs and ongoing

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