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    Mindanao conflict

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    OUTLINE OF THE CONFLICT In order to understand the Mindanao conflict it is necessary to go back to the beginning of the 14th century‚ when arab missionaries and Chinese traders brought Islam to the primarily pagan tribes that inhabited the Philippines. In 1521‚ Ferdinand Magellan arrived to the Philippines and imposed Spanish rule just as Muslim missionaries were converting to Islam all the ruling families in southern Mindanao. The Spanish began a campaign to try to Christianize them‚ calling

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    Iliad's Conflict

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    In the poem Iliad by Homer‚ Homer begins the epic by asking the goddess to sing about the rage of Achilles. That is the main theme of the poem. The reason why there is so much anger and conflict in the Iliad is because the Homeric law of honor and respect is being insulted which results to rage‚ honor and conflict. The honor of every person in Homeric culture is very important. To the hero‚ their honor is supreme. They cannot tolerate any kind of insults; they feel like they have to protect their

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    Conflict Theory

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    Correlation Between Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Conflict theory is based entirely in power and how those in power do all they can to hold the majority of the population down and to keep them from gaining power‚ so as to secure their own position. Conflict theorists would say that obesity is a product of the living conditions‚ stress and poor quality of food and health education. Obesity is seen as deviant and problematic and therefore conflicts with the ideal society of being fit and thin. The

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    Conflicts in Maus

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    In the graphic novel‚ MAUS I: My Father Bleeds History‚ Art Spiegelman creates conflict that can affect the characters involved in a positive or negative manner. The man versus self conflict between Artie and his feeling of guilt concerning his mother’s death results in the comic about his last moment with his mother. Spiegelman writes that his father says “It’s so good you got it outside your system. But for me it brought in my mind so much memories of Anja” (104). This conversation between Art

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    Worldviews in Conflict

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    Worldviews in Conflict: Summary and Critique Worldviews in Conflict: Summary and Critique I agree with the introductory quote by Will Durant: “From Barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.” It is always much easier to destroy something (in this case‚ civilization)‚ than it is to create it. In general‚ there is very little effort required to demolish something; but building it up takes a conscious effort‚ passion and burden. It involves a

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    Ethnic Conflict

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    2. Discuss the effect that modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict. The effect modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict is not a great one. Early modernization theorists‚ who were quite optimistic about the positive effects of literacy‚ urbanization‚ and modern values‚ clearly underestimated the extent to which these factors might mobilize various ethnic groups and set them against each other (Handelman‚ 2011‚ p. 113). Modernization challenged

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    Water Conflicts

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    With reference to examples‚ assess the success of strategies adopted to resolve conflicts of interest in the management of water resources in trans-border river basins. Water conflicts often enough results from opposing interests of water users. This is especially true in trans-border river basins where the freshwater river travels across more than one country. Conflicts among water users arise as water quality or water quantity degrades and no longer meets the demands of each country. Today

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    Human Conflict

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    In the given debate topic of ’Is ethnic conflict inevitable?’ both authors have explained their perspectives with an example of historical events in particular society. I would like to explain the summary of both the sides and then I would express my point of view as under. Sudhir Kakar – a social researcher in India has taken the psychological perspective to explain the inevitable causes of ethnic conflicts. Taking Indian community as a whole‚ he differentiates the understanding of everybody

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    The Investiture Conflict

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    History 212 Professor Laurel Carrington Dayou Xie The Investiture Conflict The beginning of the Investiture Conflict was due to eleventh-century papacy’s attack on the clerical abuses of simony‚ clerical marriage‚ and lay investiture. According to canon law‚ bishops were supposed to be elected by the clergy of the diocese‚ but in practice‚ anointed kings who claimed themselves to be God’s vicars‚ appointed bishops and invested them with the symbols of their spiritual and temporal authority‚ which

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    Ideological Conflict

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    To a large extent‚ ideology is like a religion: it symbolizes and intensifies conflicts between groups and states more than it causes them. Ideologies have a somewhat weaker hold on core values and absolute truth than religions do‚ so they pose a somewhat fewer problems for the international system. For realist‚ ideological differences among states do not matter much‚ because all members of the international system pursue their national interests in the context of relatively fluid alliances. For

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