SOC388 Reaction Essay September 4‚ 2003 *Eyes on the Prize* The Civil Rights Movement was an influential period of social turmoil. Vast social changes occurred not only for the African Americans striving for equality‚ but for our nation as a whole‚ as many new ideologies were shaped‚ formed‚ and fashioned. The film "Eyes on the Prize" exemplifies the revolutionary amends brought on from this era. In the case of Brown versus Board of Education‚ the Supreme Court ruled school segregation
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Accounting‚ Banking & Finance Delta State University‚ Asaba Campus. Delta State Nigeria. & Akujuobi‚ L.E (Ph.D) Department of Financial Management Technology (FMT) School of Management Technology Federal University of Technology‚ Owerri (FUTO) PMB 1526 Owerri‚ Imo State‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT This paper attempts to examine whether or not one of the preconditions for a successful inflation – targeting framework is present in Nigeria and Ghana. That is‚ the paper wants to find out whether or not a stable and
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Analysis of the challenges of religion and ethnicity on political stability in Nigeria’s fourth republic (1999-2011) INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Basically‚ Nigeria is a plural society and heterogeneous in virtually all the facet of life. The custom and tradition of Nigerians is so diverse to the extent that Nigeria as a country is now confronted with the problem of religion and ethnicity towards their political stability. The origin and history of ethnic conflict (societal wars and violence)
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International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 1 No. 15 [Special Issue – October 2011] ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF CHURCH PROLIFERATION: THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD AS A CASE STUDY IBIYINKA OLUSOLA ADESANYA‚ PhD DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION UNIVERSITY OF ADO-EKITI ADO-EKITI‚ EKITI STATE NIGERIA Abstract The environmental effects of proliferation of churches continued to be a major concern to all and particularly those in the mainstream of environmental
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Women and Driving Social Change Author(s): 1) Pravasini Sahoo 2) Biswakesan Sahoo Affiliation of the author(s): 1) Researcher (PhD‚ IIT Kharagpur) 2) Executive Engineer (IIT Bombay) E-mail: 1) pravasini@gmail.com 2) bksahoo@iitb.ac.in Abstract: The world is experiencing technology and social change at a pace never before experienced in human history. Social‚ economic‚ and technological forces have come together to inspire innovation that can change lives. It has changed
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In this essay I will reconstruct my first visit to Nigeria. The journey took place when I was seventeen in early 1993‚ during which time Nigeria was under the military rule of General Sanni Abacha. For the most part of my trip I stayed in Lagos‚ former capital state and still highly recognised as the commercial capital of Nigeria‚ although I did visit other parts of the country including Ondo State and Jos. Between this time and the time I left‚ in early 1994‚ I experienced and learnt a lot about
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Impact of Cashless Economy in Nigeria By Omotunde M. Sunday T. John-Dewole A.T. Greener Journal of Internet‚ Information and Communication Systems Vol. 1 (2)‚ pp. 040-043‚ April 2013. Research Article Impact of Cashless Economy in Nigeria *Omotunde Muyiwa1‚ Sunday Tunmibi‚1 and John-Dewole A.T.2 1 School of Computer Science‚ Mathematics and Information Technology‚ Houdegbe North American University‚ Republic of Benin. 2 Department of Computer Science with Electronics
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Definitions of Language Many definitions have been given to language by language scholars. Alo (1995) cites some of these definitions‚ which we reproduce below: “Language is the primary and most highly elaborated form of human symbolic activity…made up of symbols made by sounds produced by the vocal apparatus….” (A. A Hill) “Language is any set of system of linguistic symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with
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approaches to social change and also able to anlyse which ones offers a plausible explanation to Zambia’s prevailing circumstances. I would first like to define the major terms in the essay‚ social change may be define as movement of human beings or societies from simple way of life to a more complex kind of life and its study involves the understanding the process of change‚ the forces of its change and the challenges that might hold to it to achieve development. The study of social change can be approached
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF TRADE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF TRADE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA MIKE I. OBADAN DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS UNIVERSITY OF BENIN BENIN CITY AND OKOJIE‚ I. ELIZABETH DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS UNIVERSITY OF BENIN BENIN CITY ABSTRACT Many economists generally agree that openness to international trade accelerates development. The relationship between trade and growth is envisaged through
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