Resolving the "Kurdish Problem" War is a difficult thing to understand. It will always be a part of human history‚ and yet we as humans never become numb to the fact that our fellow man may be killed by something that seems so old and outdated. There is a war being wagged in Iraq right now‚ people are dying‚ and yet there seems to be hope for some. The Kurdish people who mainly occupy the northern parts of Iraq have an opportunity now to prosper as a whole community‚ something that has not
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Social networking is becoming a large part of the everyday life that we live in. With that being said‚ a lot of people use Facebook‚ Twitter‚ and Instagram‚ for many different reasons. For example‚ people could catch up with family‚ to catch a laugh every once in a while‚ or to keep up with old friends from high school. Some people are against social media saying that it can be bad for people and their lives. Social media is beneficial because empowers individuals to make social change in their community
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In my first essay‚ I wrote on the topic that Joshua Wong is the representative of rebellion because he employed nonviolent methods to protest against the established rules and restrictions imposed by the China Central Communist Party on both youth education and public election. Although‚ I did explain the distinctiveness of Wong’s nonviolence style of protest and rebellion against the established rules‚ still I failed to illustrate the reasons why nonviolence is better than a violent one. After reading
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Is democracy a necessary condition for development? In the modern and globalized world‚ it is common to find democratic institutions in the most economically developed countries. Democratic regimes look different all across the world‚ and the term itself is multi-faceted. For the sake of discussion‚ in its simplest terms‚ I will refer to democracy as a system of governance where the population that is governed elects their leaders. A substantive democracy would include more such the promotion
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Subject: Independent journalists vs. government censorship in internet age At the beginning of this year‚ the journalists from the newspaper Southern Weekly – a liberal Chinese newspaper- stood up to the government’s censorship. It appears that Chinese authorities cannot neglect people’s desire for the truth any longer since the awakened citizen will lean against draconian censorship. As social media1) explodes and online-based small media emerges‚ we have tremendous channels to access news and
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how they do. The media has a great impact on society. It helps people understand what is really going on around them‚ but sometimes it misreads what is really happening and spreads around the wrong information. Social media is defined as the democratization of content and a shift in the role that made humans in the process of reading and publishing information. Social media covers a variety of things that use internet to help conversation. Social media is considered as the creation of the foundation
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The debate on the issue of gender is always tense and critical in Africa. Most of the time men reject any debate on it and adopt a defensive stance‚ as they think it is a means for women to attack and overtake them—so gender relates to power-seeking and the need for societal control. Further‚ they do not want to lose their long-established historical privilege of being the ‘chief’ of the family and the ‘commander’ of women. They use for their defence the Biblical texts alleging that God
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Parliamentary System The word parliament means an event arranged to talk and discuss things‚ from the French word “parler”. A parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state in which the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from‚ and is held accountable to‚ the legislature (parliament); the executive and legislative branches are thus interconnected.. Historical background: The first known official use of the term Parliament was in 1236. It described the consultative
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Hathor : The Antiquity of Feminism The decentralization and shifting of power from the Pharaohs to the common people in ancient Egypt came about during the period of Middle Kingdom (2050 -1786 BCE). With the change of power or democratization‚ the common people‚ known as nomarchs‚ began to revise funerary spells of the Pyramid Texts (writings engraved in stone walls) that had existed from the preceding pharaoh-governed Old Kingdom. They then inscribed those modified funerary spells on and inside
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In April 1986‚ Mr. Gorbachev began the perestroika‚ translation “reconstruction”‚ which was to end the Cold War that effectively brought down the Iron Curtain. The split between West and East not only partitioned the world into two parts‚ but also divided the European family for over 40 years. With the fall of the Soviet Union came many changes that affected much if not all of Europe. At the end of the Brejnev era ‚ the socialist bloc was severely outdated and far removed from the contemporary
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