There's three aspects of national interest. There's economic prosperity, security and safety, then beliefs and values. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) otherwise known as the Law Of the Sea Treaty. This treaty was set out as a a guideline of "who owns what" and just the general rights and responsibilities of each nation to respect the oceans and natural resources. Within this law, countries have sovereignty for 22.2 kilometers of sea from their coastline and ownership of all resources in and under the sea for 370 kilometers. When it comes to claiming sovereignty over land or territories, national interest is almost always involved. The Arctic sovereignty was sparked up when there was a discovery of resources in the Arctic (example: oil) and the possibility of a huge economic gain if nation-states had control over the Arctic. Many different nation states like Canada, Denmark, Russia and America starting calling "dibs" on different parts of the Arctic. Russia was the first to claim parts of the Arctic. In my opinion, I think that the waters should be an international route. Since there's already so much tension over the land claims, which having all this tension could lead to bigger problems like another war. The Holodomor was a huge event in Ukrainian history. When Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union around 1928, one of his first acts was to confiscate land owned by farmers & create collective farms owned by the state. Those who objected to this were executed. The crops from these far,ms were shipped to the Soviet Union to gain profit. When Ukrainian farmers refused to give up their land, Stalin confiscated their crops. As a result, up to 10 million Ukrainians starved to death. In 2006, the government of Ukraine declared the Holodomor as an act of genocide. In my opinion, I believe that the Holodomor was a genocide. The literal definition of a genocide is killing off a large group of people, especially targeting particular ethnic groups or nations. Holdomor specifically targeted the people of Ukraine, hense why it's known as the "Ukrainian Genocide". Also the deaths of millions of people could have always been prevented. But Stalin didn't care about the people of his country, it was all about what he could profit, and he would do anything to gain money. The bomb in Hiroshima happened on August 6th 1945. At the end of World War 11, the US dropped this atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima as an act to end the World War. They felt it was an obligation because Germany had already surrendered, but Japan kept fighting. They're plan didn't work for this bomb, but Japan eventually surrendered after the second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. I don't really have much of an opinion, I feel like there could've been other options that didn't destroy entire cities. But if Japan was refusing to surrender, this may have been their only option, I guess it ended up working eventually.
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Kiera
5/3/2018 12:00:58 pm
I agree with saying that Holodomar was a genocide. I don't know why it being a genocide was even question. I agree that they should have found a better solution than bombing
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Emma Fimrite
5/3/2018 12:01:17 pm
You chose powerful unique visuals, good job
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Jacob
5/3/2018 12:01:43 pm
The info was well written and presented nicely. I appreciated how you voiced your opinion while presenting rather than just reading off the more known info.
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