Katie Davis "People tell me I am brave. People tell me I am strong. People tell me good job. Well here is the truth of it. I am really not that brave‚ I am not really that strong‚ and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am just doing what God called me to do as a follower of Him. Feed His sheep‚ do unto the least of His people." These words from Katie Davis speak volumes of this young woman’s heart for the people of Uganda. In December of 2006‚ 18 year-old Katie Davis from Brentwood‚ Tennessee
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A lot of effort has been devoted to analyzing the protracted bloody wars of the 20th Century when mass killings were “perpetrated by and against a wide range of nations‚ cultures‚ forms of government‚ ethnic and religious groups” (Mingst and Snyder 2008‚ 368) with brazen zeal to wipe out entire races for power and control. For most disposed people of the world – the ‘bottom billion’ as Collier refers to them‚ unchecked power takes away the freedom of the other and replaces it with terror and the
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“The Poisonwood Bible” is mostly based on 1960s Congo‚ although the story continues until after that. The author‚ Barbara Kingslover‚ draws on the independence and political conflict in the Congo when telling the story of the Prices‚ a missionary family‚ during their time there. The Congo declared independence from Belgium in 1960 and elected a prime minister‚ Patrice Lumumba‚ who was placed under house arrest and murdered only months after becoming prime minister. Joseph-Désiré Mobutu replaced him
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Ben Castro Period 4 Mr. McManus Rape of Nanking The Rape of Nanking should be turned into the next big blockbuster because of the producers ability to create this movie like no other. This movie could follow the journey of Nazi‚ John Rabe‚ and his journey to prevent exploiting people in the rape of Nanking. Rabe was one of two dozen people in his group or protectors that created a safe haven for Chinese citizens. Rabe ended up saving a total of about 300‚000 men‚ women‚ and children from being
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Argentina is located in the South America. It covers most of the portion of the southern continent and a portion of Antarctica‚ in addition to several islands in the South Atlantic. It contains huge plains‚ deserts‚ tundra‚ forest‚ mountains‚ rivers‚ and many miles of ocean shoreline. It is consider the eighth largest country in the world‚ the second largest country in South America‚ and its one-third the size of the United States. Argentina is adjoined to the north by Bolivia and Paraguay‚ to
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The colonial act of drawing border lines equates to drawing lies. This essentially means that when the maps were drawn up by European explorers‚ they were taking the preexisting geography but changing up the layout. In the process‚ they created what they considered countries based on their border lines. The lines were a way for military forces and businessmen to manipulate the competitors from taking the valuable raw resources by driving them away from the parts with minerals and oil beds‚ for example
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Ukraine’s history in the 20th century has been dramatic. In two periods‚ particularly‚ there has been a great deal of suffering and death on its territory. During the Stalin era in the 1930s‚ forced collectivisation of agriculture is widely accepted to have led to the death of millions in the Soviet Union‚ mainly Ukrainian peasant farmers. The famine was largely man-made‚ although the episode remains controversial. In 2006 (under the West-leaning Viktor Yushchenko) the government of Ukraine passed
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Dave Eggers wrote What is the What to raise awareness about the Sudanese Civil War‚ and the Lost Boys living in America. Eggers originally decided to write his novel after he was approached by Achak Deng‚ who asked him to write about his life. Eggers was interested in the conflicts in Sudan‚ and making the voices of the lost boys in America heard‚ and decided to write Deng’s story. The story itself follows Achak Deng‚ a child refugee who migrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan
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The Tiv people are a group of individuals who reside in West Africa. With approximately 6 million people‚ the Tiv live in regions with significant populations in places such as Nigeria and Cameroon. “Tiv”‚ as the culture is called‚ is the name of the ancestor from which all Tiv people descended. The Tiv people believe that they all come from a single patrilineage‚ as they reckon patrilineal descent from their earliest ancestor (Fardon‚ 4; 1984). Both their social and political organization is founded
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra‚ Nnamdi Kanu‚ whose arrest sparked a wave of protests by supporters in Nigeria’s southeast‚ pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday on treason charges. Nnamdi Kanu last month refused to enter a plea when he was first charged with “treasonable felony”‚ arguing he had no confidence in the then trial judge. Director of Radio Biafra‚ Nnamdi Kanu‚ sandwiched between security operatives‚ leaving the court yesterday in Abuja. But
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