The United Nations was founded in 1945 following World War II and today has 193 members. Its original aim was to prevent another World War but over the years it has expanded to include peace keeping missions and human rights issues as well as providing economic...
Mulan is a Disney movie which was released in 1998 and tells the story of Fa Mulan – a woman who impersonates her father in order to take his place when a general conscription is brought in by the Han Dynasty to battle against the Hun invasion....
Full disclosure: this post was inspired by an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that I recently watched. In episode 8 of season 15 of the show a female member of the Coast Guard admits to being raped by four of her colleagues. When Benson and her squad...
In a previous post, I discussed the kidnap of 218 girls from their school in Nigeria in 2014. Recently, some good news broke in relation to the girls with the two teenagers being rescued. On Tuesday the 18th of May news broke of the rescue of...
Many countries at one time or another have made it compulsory for people to join their armed forces. Perhaps the most notable use of this was during the Second World War when the United States and other countries brought in conscription in order to secure victory....
