Is protest and resistance the only valid reponse to injustice? Protest and resistance is the only valid response to injustice and oppression. This is because through a non-violent means‚ protest can stimulate a universal fight by contesting social perspectives and revealing hypocrisies. This is clearly demonstrated by Rafeef Ziadah in her protest poem "Shades of Anger". She is a Palestinian activist‚ academic and spoken word artist who is currently a PhD candidate at York University in Canada.
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Cultural and National identity play a crucial role on our lives everyday. It exercises influences on how we perceive the world around us‚ on the decisions we make and on how we view ourselves. Culture is a way of life of a group of people‚ it is the behaviors‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and language that they accept and are passed along by generations. On that note‚ cultural identity is belonging to a group that shares the same beliefs and religion. Meanwhile‚ national identity is one’s identity of sense of
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IS genocide of Assyrians Imagine being driven from your house and on the way out‚ anything of value that you own is taken from you. As you are leaving your sister is kidnapped as a slave and the neighbors down the street have been shot. This is the plight of the Assyrian Christians‚ who are descendants of the Assyrian empire and the only native group in northern Iraq‚ and the Yazidis who believe in an ancient religion and live in southern Syria. They are being persecuted by the Islamic State (IS)
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“You will not be punished for your anger‚ you will be punished by your anger.”(Siddhartha Gautama/Buddha).For years a religion has been split in two‚ cradling much contempt and malice in-between. A conflict that has existed for fifteen centuries‚ exists still today. From it‚ war and each continue to plague the countries of Iran‚ Iraq‚ and all others in the Middle East. Now‚ however‚ more and more people ask why the conflict persists‚ where it came from‚ and how anyone could benefit from such a religious
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Nire beltzaren These days we have become so accustomed to war that we don’t even know how many wars are currently active. Do you know how many there are? As I write this paper there are 10 wars and 8 active conflicts. That said most of these conflicts are taking place in Africa. But why there? Well there are a few reasons‚ first there isn’t a lot of education going around. Second there is a lot of poverty leading to unhappiness among the poor. But the third and most prominent reason is the muslim
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The French Mandate of Syria and its Effect on the Political State of Syria Today TheBlewn 31 May 2013 The Effect of the French Mandate of Syria on the Political State of Syria Today The French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon was established by the League of Nations after World War One during the partition of the Ottoman Empire. This mandate‚ which was
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● The case “Syrian Refugees” causes questions to arise regarding whether or not the United States should do more to help those caught in the middle of the Syrian civil war. ● The war has nearly half of the population of Syria to scatter far from their homes and destroyed their standards of living. ● Along with the civil war‚ the emergence of the Islamic state there has also instigated many to leave their homelands. ● Due to this displacement many seek to find asylum in other neighboring countries
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In the early 20th century‚ Syrian Jewish immigration to the Americas and other states was largely the result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Numerous Jews fled to America to skirt conscription into the army the Young Turks‚ the ground that rebelled against the Ottomans. Additionally‚ economic opportunities in became increasingly scarce in Syria as a result of a worldwide depression and sluggish recovery‚ driving many to the Americas for opportunity and wealth of Western civilization. Lastly
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The Arab Revolt of World War I can be said to be a key battle in the Arab world‚ with reinforcement from the West. The key countries that were involved with the Revolt included the Kingdom of Hejaz‚ Britain‚ France and the Ottoman Empire (Lecture on Bahrain and Syria). The Ottoman Empire had assumed authority over most of the Middle East‚ and their government was mostly dominated by Turkish officials. The Arab population within the Ottoman Empire wanted to create an independent Arab state without
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Everyone wants to live in a good situation which provide a job‚ a house. Sometimes‚ people decide a wrong thing. There is an example‚ while Syrian people chose the government‚ they made a mistake. Their government deceived the residents. The government started a war‚ killed the residents too. The residents had to migrate the other countries. One of these countries is Turkey. Gaziantep is a city which is close Syria. The residents immigrated to Gaziantep‚ but it roots some problems. These problems
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