Esports Part 1: What are Esports? - Harvard International Review
Apr 24, 2020 · This is part 1 of a 4 part series on Esports. Most people recognize the names Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Tom Brady, figures often seen as the faces of their respective sports. Names like Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok, Luka “Perkz” Perković, and Kim “Doinb” Tae-sang may not have quite the
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China and Russia: A New Cold War? - Harvard International Review
Oct 31, 2024 · In July 2024, Russia and China performed joint naval drills in the South China Sea—a display of military might that featured the two countries practicing anti-missile exercises, sea strikes, and air defense. Taking place just days after NATO leaders issued scathing remarks urging China to pause its heightened economic support for Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, the coordinated ...
The #MeToo Movement : Investigating the Lasting International …
Jan 31, 2024 · Weaponized words are used to fix femininity into a narrative of fragility. In normative explanations of gender and expression, feminine expression is characterized as emotional, needy, and codependent.These are attributes that affirm fragility.
Overseas Filipino Workers: The Modern-Day Heroes of the …
Aug 11, 2023 · Numerous Filipino workers suffer from various injustices including being overworked, underpaid, abused, raped, and even worse, murdered. The only way OFWs can truly be safeguarded is if the Philippine government enforces concrete and actionable policies.
The Sri Lankan Civil War and Its History, Revisited in 2020
Aug 31, 2020 · On June 9, 2020, Sri Lankans occupied the streets outside the US Embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, holding signs condemning the racism, police brutality, and other maladies plaguing the United States. Sri Lanka’s social issues also came to light at this protest. The country, after all, has its history of ethnic strife and is ...
Public Health and Overpopulation: The United Nations Takes Action
Jun 20, 2022 · With the world’s population rising faster than ever before, will our population growth outpace our resource reserves? How can the dangerous effects of overpopulation be managed without diminishing the major improvements in our quality of life that come about thanks to population growth?
Not So “Green” Technology: The Complicated Legacy of Rare Earth …
Aug 12, 2021 · Most people view technology as the future, a force of good that will generally improve quality of life around the world. In the business sector, Silicon Valley and tech startups exhibit massive growth potential; in manufacturing, new machinery and automation are boosting efficiency; and in the environmental realm, green technology presents the best prospects for decarbonization.
Vietnam and China: Conflicting neighbors stuck in nationalism and …
May 3, 2023 · There has been plenty of contentious debate over competing claims about the South China Sea (SCS), from the repercussions of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling against China in 2016 to the military analysis of China’s land reclamation efforts on the island it occupies. However, some analyses only view the South China Sea dispute in a purely geostrategic and economic way, as an ...
Building the (Fire) Wall: Internet Censorship in the United States …
Dec 28, 2020 · The newly instituted “Clean Network Initiative” in the United States strikes eerie parallels with China’s “Great Firewall,” leading to concerns about the state of internet freedom in the United States and abroad.