Abstract This paper briefly summarizes the main events of this story and discusses the main characters. Lambert Strether is an ?ambassador? from Puritanical Woollett, Massachusetts, who travels to Paris to learn of the relationship between young Chad Newsome and an unknown woman. Chad's mother, Mrs. Newsome, has commissioned him to find out more about her son in the wild Paris scene. Mrs. Newsome represents the highly strict mores of New England, and Chad, the new freedom of Paris.
From the Paper "Mrs. Newsome wants her son to come home, to take over his business opportunities and find a respectable marriage: indeed, ?in triumph as a kind of wedding present to mother.? Here begin mixed motives, for Mrs. Newsome has indicated that she will express her gratitude by marrying Strether if he succeeds. There will be financial stability for all involved, and Strether ignores the fact that he is not a fianc? -- he is an employee.
Strether is the main character in ?The Ambassadors,? and the character discussed. We have several questions to answer about Strether's time in Paris, including: What does Strether learn in Paris? How does he learn it? From whom does he learn it? And what effect does what he learns have on him?"
Tags: paris, lesson, ambassador, story, novel, short
Abstract The paper explains how the recent appointment of John Bolton as the US ambassador to the UN by President Bush through the use of "recess appointment" powers has evoked heated debate. This paper explains the "recess appointment" powers of the President as outlined in the US Constitution, discusses Ambassador Bolton's qualifications for the position and analyzes whether the appointment was a "good" use of the recess powers. The paper concludes with a personal view that Bolton's recent recess appointment is the latest in the long series of attempts by the executive to undermine the delicate framework of checks and balances that are at the core of American democracy.
Contents:
Recess Appointment
Ambassador Bolton's Qualification for the Appointment
Was Bolton's Appointment as Ambassador to the UN a "Good" Use of the Recess Power?
What Do you Think About the Recess Appointment Power?
From the Paper "Recess appointments are authorized by Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution which states: "The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the end of their next Session." The framers had included this provision in the US Constitution since they had anticipated that vacancies of important government officers such as Ambassadors, Public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court and District Courts, could fall vacant during a recess of the Senate. As clearly stated in the law, the Senate must ratify the appointment by the end of the next session [emphasis added], or the position becomes vacant again ("What is a Recess Appointment?" 2005)."
Abstract This paper takes a look at the notable masterpieces of the artistic Renaissance in Northern Europe. The author pays close attention to the new styles of the times, the use of oils, light and shadow, and how expressing inner emotions became more prevalent than outer appearances on the canvas. The author looks in particular at the portraits " The Arnolfini Portrait" by Jan van Eyck, and "The Ambassadors" by Holbein the Younger.
From the Paper "While the Southern renaissance is better known, the countries of the north" Germany, The Netherlands, France, and England? also enjoyed a rich artistic renaissance, though slightly delayed. Historians dispute reasons as to why this so. Some argue that for reasons such as the bubonic plague and economic depression, it took the Northern countries a longer time to emerge from the dark ages. Another argument is that Northern artists were simply more reluctant to switch from the Gothic style they used in the past. In any case, European patrons and artists prized their work and they were praised for their talents in working with oils and their mastery of detail. Northern art managed to progress at a surprising pace despite it's delays. The two paintings used as references in this portfolio, "The Arnolfini Portrait" by Jan van Eyck and "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein the Younger, stand as examples of this. With only 100 years difference between them, it is important to examine what accounts for the changes by comparing the paintings in areas of characterization, chiaroscuro, medium, and artistic symbolism. In this way, the differences between Early and Late Northern renaissance art can be clearly defined.
Tags: arnolfini, eyck, van, holbein, ambassadors, chiaroscuro, gothic, oil, canvas
Abstract This paper describes in-depth the life of Audrey Hepburn, the infamous Dutch Hollywood actress. The paper begins with her as a girl, born into Dutch Royalty, she suffered from hunger and poverty in Nazi occupied Holland. The paper provides chronological summaries of her role in all her films and plays, which provides the reader with a great sense of her enormous contribution to popular culture. It includes details of her personal life and her work as a special Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
From the Paper "Gigi was Audrey's ticket to America. At the show's premiere in New York, Audrey was surprisingly visited by James Hanson, who had come to formalize their engagement (Paris 74). The run of Gigi was over by the spring of 1952. However, Audrey's career was about to take an even greater step forward. Paramount Pictures was searching for a young girl to play the role of Princess Anne in Willy Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953). Audrey was about to costar with Gregory Peck in her first American film. However, the film had forced her to postpone her wedding date. In fact, as soon as she got the part, the studios had advised her not to get married in the belief that millions of lovestruck fans would be disappointed (Paris 80). Audrey was soon convinced that she was not ready to be married, and she broke off her engagement to James Hanson."
Abstract This paper is in the form of a speech by Osmane Arslanian, Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Organization. It provides a general overview of Syrian history, the current state of Syrian affairs, as well as a biography and summary of current Syrian leadership.
From the Paper "Syria first referred to the land of Aram East of the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Arabia to the south and Cilicia to the north, crossing inland, including Mesopotamia (Wikipedia 2004) and from west to east Commagene, Sophene and Adiabene, or what was known as Assyria. This was the larger Syria, which consisted of smaller regions, such as Palestine in the southwest, Phoenicia along the coast, Coele-Syria north of the Eleutheris River, and Mesopotamia. Palestine, later known as Israel, is now composed of the states of Israel and Jordan."
Abstract This paper chronicles the events that took place during the Cuban missile crisis from the perspective of the UN ambassador, Adlai Stevenson. The first half of the paper concentrates on various proposals, options, and Stevenson's role in shaping U.S. policy during the crisis. The second half of the paper seeks to illustrate how Stevenson was influenced by the liberal perspective in international relations.
From the Paper "For two weeks in October 1962, the world stood at the brink of nuclear war. The United States and the Soviet Union came close to the direct conflict that many feared would bring global annihilation. The crisis began upon the discovery of Soviet SS-4 nuclear missiles in Cuba on October 15. The Soviets had assured President John F. Kennedy earlier that month that the weapons in Cuba were of a purely defensive nature, however U-2 spy plane photographs had revealed otherwise (White 117). The next morning, Kennedy immediately convened an Executive Committee of the National Security Council to help decide a course of action (White 116)."
Abstract The paper discusses how the Merced Community College District (MCCD) seeks to attract and maintain a student body in order to create a college community that is socially and culturally diverse. The college has allocated funds to assign a student ambassador at the local high schools within its jurisdiction, on a weekly basis, to facilitate this process. The paper explains that the purpose of this study is to relate college applications completed by high school students to weekly college outreach efforts. More specifically, the researcher hopes to uncover a link between college outreach efforts and matriculation among high school students. The researcher assumes a positive relationship between matriculation and college outreach efforts will be discovered.
Outline:
Introduction
Review of the Literature
Methodology
From the Paper "College outreach is designed to recruit students to matriculate at a post-secondary institution. The Merced Community College District (MCCD) seeks to attract and maintain a student body in order to create a college community that is socially and culturally diverse (MCCD, 2006). There are many reasons for this. As an example, ethnic diversity fosters the examined life, prepares students for citizenship in a global society and enriches opportunities for underrepresented students (Niemann & Maruyama, 2005, Rodriguez, Jones, Pang, & Park, 2004). College outreach is accomplished through strategic outreach methods designed to encourage students who are graduating from high school to become matriculated."
Abstract The paper provides a brief biography of Benjamin Franklin's background and then details Franklin's genius in the field of science and his many inventions. The paper devotes considerable time to discussing Franklin's achievements as a peerless American visionary, an economist, a political thinker, a civic scientist, an elderly statesman, revolutionary spymaster, a writer, a man of letters and an ambassador to France. The paper looks at his influence over and motives behind documents such as the Declaration of Independence. Finally, the paper considers Franklin's specific characteristics, such as an aversion to tyranny, humor, humility and tolerance.
Outline:
Short Biography
Controlling Communications in His Time
Rising to Positions of Influence and Prestige and Personal Gains He Made in Each
His Influence Over and Motives Behind these Major Documents
The "Real" Benjamin Franklin
From the Paper "Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts to Josiah and Abiah Folger (Kelly 2007, the Electric Benjamin Franklin 2007). He had only two years of formal schooling but this handicap did not stop him from making the best out of himself. He first helped his older brother James in the latter's printing press until he decided to seek his own destiny in Philadelphia. Through diligence and wisdom, he evolved into a statesman, inventor, scientist, publisher and a politician. His accomplishments as such were unique in his time when colonial North America did not yet have sufficient cultural and commercial institutions for his original ideas."
Abstract The paper focuses on Nelson Mandela's fight for freedom for blacks in South Africa, from the 1950 through his release from prison and election to the office of President.
From the paper:
"Nelson Mandela would spend the remaining years of apartheid in prison (Mandela 328). However, others still carried on his work. In 1974 there appeared to be a breakthrough. South Africa's ambassador to the United Nations, R.F "Pik" Both announced that South Africa was breaking down the system of apartheid. By now, South Africa's struggle had caught International attention, and the world watched ? and waited."
Tags: anc, united, nations, africa, apartheid, civil, jr, king, luther, mandela, martin, nelson, non, protest, rights, south, violent
Abstract The paper begins by reviewing and analyzing the book "Multi-Track Diplomacy: A Systems Approach to Peace", co-authored by Dr. Louise Diamond and Ambassador John McDonald. The paper then discusses why Quebec has experienced relatively little violence, while Northern Ireland has experienced a great deal of violence although the two conflicts have similar backgrounds. The paper shows how diplomacy is an activity of conflict resolution and not of the creation of a potential utopia.
From the Paper "The book Multi-Track Diplomacy: A Systems Approach to Peace, co-authored by Dr. Louise Diamond and Ambassador John McDonald, articulates an innovative new strategy for international diplomacy. Traditionally, diplomacy has been focused upon highly specific objectives within specific situations. Negotiating nuclear proliferation treaties is perhaps the most obvious example of this, where the former superpowers often engaged in long, protracted arguments about how many warheads and of what kind either the Soviet Union or the United States could produce or maintain over a period of time."
From the Paper "FOREIGN POLICY: ROLES OF POLITICIANS & DIPLOMATS
Introduction
This research examines the roles of politicians and diplomats in the making and execution of foreign policy. Alexander George (1994) held that the making and execution of foreign policy involves (1) the establishment of objectives, (2) the development of a strategy to attain those objectives, (3) the design of a strategy implementation, (4) the execution of the strategy, (5) the maintenance of the policy and the strategy, and (6) the review of the policy and the strategy. Accepting this framework as a basis for this current research, the task then becomes one of determining which of the six functions are associated with the role of politicians and which of the functions are associated with roles for diplomats."
Abstract John Hay, the U.S. Ambassador to London, called the war of 1898 with Spain ?a splendid little war.? His statement, often quoted about the war, indicated his recognition that this war would change the position of the United States in the world and have ramifications for decades to come. This paper shows that the Spanish-American War often gets little attention in history texts, overpowered by the bigger, longer-lasting wars such as the War Between the States, World War I and World War II. The fact is that the Spanish-American War, which included significant action both in the Caribbean, especially Cuba, and the Pacific, especially involving the Philippines, had complex causes and complex long-term ramifications.
From the Paper "The war of 1898 represented a turning point in the United States? international standing. The country acquired its first overseas territories and pushed Spain out of the Western Hemisphere (Rodriguez, 1998). It laid the groundwork for our involvement in World War II, as our growing interests in the Pacific had a profound effect on Japanese action in that arena. Until the Spanish-American war, our influence had been limited to North America. Now we had presence in both major oceans and had contended with other great powers, either by warfare or by maneuvering, and had emerged victorious (Rodriguez, 1998). It was not a challenge to defeat Spain, but the long-term effects of the war dramatically affected history for the following century. The groups who drew us into the war, both in the Caribbean and the Pacific, revolutionary factions in both Cuba and the Philippines, did not fare well. Cuba was liberated from Spain but under profound influence of the Untied States. In the Philippines, the people simply traded one country's domination for another?s."
Tags: Monroe, Doctrine, Manifest, Destiny, Mexican, War, President, McKinley
Abstract This paper looks at the famous mission in which Trist was sent to Mexico. His goal was to end the Mexican-American war and settle boundary disputes that would result in land acquisitions for the United States at a fair price. It discusses how, due to unexpected circumstances, however, Mr. Trist unfortunately became the victim of unlucky circumstances, and though he ultimately was successful in his treaty endeavors, he lost the respect and admiration of his political peers.
From the Paper "Nicholas Philip Trist was born in 1800 in Charlottesville, VA (Columbia, 2002). Mr. Trist graduated from the College of New Orleans in 1817, and moved to Monticello at the invitation of Thomas Jefferson (UNC). As a young man he attended the prestigious West Point University and studies law under former president Thomas Jefferson (Columbia, 2002). He married the granddaughter of Mr. Jefferson, Virginia Jefferson Randolph, and later became the private secretary to Andrew Jackson (Columbia, 2002). The man certainly was not stranger to affluent government officials. Between the years of 1833-1841, Mr. Trist served as a U.S. consul in Havana, Cuba (Columbia, 2002). Trist is most often remembered for the time he served as chief clerk of the Department of State, when in 1847 he was sent to Mexico to represent the U.S. as a special agent during the Mexican War (Columbia, 2002). His purpose in traveling to Mexico was to conduct negotiations that would eventually help in ending the war."
Abstract This paper chronicles the life of John Adams from young lawyer to Congressional delegate to American president. It looks at how, along with Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin, Adams dedicated a good part of his life to the fight for American independence. It discusses his education and career from schoolmaster to vice-president, as well as his tenure as Ambassador to Holland and Great Britain.
From the Paper "A three year stint in the Continental Congress (1774-1777), punctuated by short recuperative leaves and service in the colonial legislature in 1774-1775, brought Adams national fame. Adams was a master of workable compromise and meaningful debate, though he was sometimes impatient. He chaired 25 of the more than 90 committees on which he sat, the most important of which in obtaining Washington's appointment as commander in chief of the Continental Army. Adams was a member of the five-man committee charged with drafting the Declaration of Independence in June of 1776, though he probably made no major changes in Jefferson's draft. But, more directly involved, he defended it from its congressional detractors, advocated it to the wavering, and guided it to passage (Ferris & Morris 34)."
Abstract In this paper the author hypothesizes on the extent and context of God's mission, asking God's mission is and what He is doing in His world? The author then goes on to discuss the Christian's mission mandate and if it comes out of an understanding of what God is doing in His world,and where it leads to. The author goes into depth about the idea of Christians being God's ambassadors.
Introduction
God's Redemption Plan
Globalization
Majority World Church
Insights and Evaluation of this Course
Toward a Concise Definition of Covenant Theology
From the Paper "Over the dispensation of time, mankind has developed and matured, nation has risen and fallen and knowledge has significantly increased but the Abrahamic Covenant through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit remains as the ultimate intention of God. What does this mean to us where globalization dominants this new world order? Are our methods today the same today as they were doing biblical days? Well, the message does not change but the methodology might change based on the circumstance."
