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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The book I read was The Warriors Heart‚ a true story about Eric Greitens life. The story mostly follows Greitens as he serves as a US navy seal. The main conflicts are talking about the Rwandan Genocide and the refugees in Rwanda to Bosnia and then the War in Iraq.. The principal lesson Greitens learned through his unique background in military service and humanitarian work was that in order to create meaningful change‚ one must be both good and strong. The vocabulary wasn’t very complicated and
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Shortly into the film “Genocide: The Horror Continues” (“Genocide: The Horror Continues”) the tragedy in the late 20th century in Uganda is described. Army General and later self-appointed President for Life Idi Amin took power and began his attacks against “various ethnic groups” for being “enemies of the state” (“Genocide: The Horror Continues”). With no other reasons or means to do so‚ he victimized and sent the military to attack his guiltless civilians. He did this with massacres and deportation
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Management Ethics Review 2 Part 1 The Hidden Traps in Decision Making The higher the stakes of your decision‚ the higher the risk of getting caught in a thinking trap. When these traps work in concert‚ they can amplify one another. In this article‚ the author introduced 5 kinds of psychological traps. First and foremost‚ the anchoring trap means giving disproportionate weight to the first information received‚ which needs us to view a problem from different perspectives. The second one is
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Between 1915 and 1920 a mass killing occurred in the Ottoman Empire where an estimated 500‚000 Armenians were slaughtered. Historians have argued on the causes of these massacres and whether or not the Armenian Massacres should be considered genocide. More specifically‚ historians argue if the Armenian Massacres were precipitated by Turkish nationalism‚ Armenian rebellion‚ or Western and Russian influence. There are two main opposing views in this argument of genocide‚ the Western view and the Turkish
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Ever had to walk more than 5 miles a day for a bucket of water‚ ever had to wait in lines longer than the ones at black friday or the DMV for just a pint of water. Ever Had to wait for a certain time for your sick to open so you could get water. Ever had to walk many blocks in the middle of the night for just the bathroom. Have you ever had to leave a place you call home because of war. Ever lived in a place with so much disease and no proper treatment‚ never knowing for you were next. I have‚ by
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Bunting Article Analysis Throughout the Bunting article‚ various concepts that are included in the Afrocentric approach to critical thinking are reflected. . These concepts include omissions‚ stereotypes‚ distortions‚ unwarranted assumptions‚ what is hidden-below the surface‚ Eurocentric perspectives‚ effects of power relations‚ and exclusions of others points of views. The first concept reflected in this article is an unwarranted assumption. We see an unwarranted assumption in the first page of
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