As an assignment‚ I watched the “Gandhi (1982)” starring Ben Kingsley and Candice Bergen. The movie shows Mohandas Gandhi’s life. He was a lawyer who later became the leader of India’s rebellion against Great Britain. He used extraordinary non-violent tactics. During his life‚ Gandhi faced many obstacles: discrimination and violence. At the start of the movie‚ Mohandas Gandhi is thrown off of a train because he was seated in the “whites only” part of the train. The conductor of the train told him
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Insecurities vary significantly across countries and communities. Both their causes and expressions depend on a complex interaction of international‚ regional‚ national and local factors. The one way bilateral approach to achieving human security is a misconception and farfetched approach which is often less realistic and at times destructive. Multilateral approach has important implications for policy making as it accepts that human insecurities cannot be tackled in isolation through stand alone
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leadership of imams (Muslim religious leaders) to Muslim nations.”(What are the differences..) Another very distinguishable point in between their viewpoints are the different groups that accompany these branches. Most terrorist groups such as ISIS‚ IJU‚ Boko Haram‚ Al Qaeda‚ and many more. These Sunni groups follow their books a lot more closely than their counterparts: the Shiite. The Shiite Muslim group is a calm group that doesn’t want to fight people. Even though they have some very questionable holidays
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The repercussions of the media are devastating clear as asian women are assaulted‚ harassed and abused by men who grow up with these stereotypes as reality. Research shows that violence towards this demographic increases as stereotypes like China Dolls are spread through the media. 41% to 61% of asian women have said that they were victims of physical and or sexual violence by a partner. This is the highest rate for any racial group. It’s also more likely for these women to not reach out for help
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Malala Malala Yousafzai was born on July‚ 12‚ 1997. She was born in Mingora‚ Pakistan. Mingora is in Swat Valley in northern Pakistan. Her parents are Ziauddin and Toor Peki Yousafzai. She enjoyed reading books and playing outside when she was little. Education was very important to her father and when she was old enough to go to school‚ she went to the school her dad had started. Swat Valley had always been a good place to live and tourists visited all the time. Malala herself described it
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Radicalization of youth is the biggest threat of international terrorism. Socially ignored‚ disenchanted young men turn to extremism in search for identity‚ acceptance‚ and purpose which they are unable to find in a community they are living. Lately‚ they choose path of terror as a solution to their questions. However‚ in any act of terror‚ right wing condemns all of Islam‚ and holds every Muslims accountable for the actions of wrong doing of few radicalized mind. They tend to ignore the fact that
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Female agency implicates on putting the female at the center‚ which has been explored to a certain degree in the characters Tessie Hutchinson in Jackson’s “The lottery”‚ Louise Mallard in Chopin’s “ The story of an Hour” as well as Joyce’s “ Eveline.” The three stories arise together from the unavoidable fact of women discrimination and patriarchy. This conflict is the key factor on explaining the main point of the stories which is the attack of the society’s ideas of fear‚ equality‚ and freedom
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‘We swing our power like a club and the world bides its time until our ignorance strips us of our glory’. Stack Abuse of power refers to the unwarranted use of authority. A person or group of people who abuse power‚ unjustifiably use their authority to exploit or harm those under their care or influence‚ or allow exploitation and perhaps harm to occur through lack of action. These powers can range in form‚ social position‚ physical strength‚ knowledge‚ technology‚ weapons‚ wealth‚ or the trust that
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Kafanchan crises in 1987 and another coup attempt by Major Okah‚ and with the recent Boko-Haram crises in some states in the Northeast just to mention a few. In fact different sort and forms of crises occurred within the time frame of this research work 1970-2015. According to Alexander (2011)‚ defence and health sector may enhance the supply
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conflicts as a result of political or social issues as well as proxy wars among African countries. Currently‚ there are several security threats that need a significant attention of the AU and the AU member states. These range from al-Shabaab and Boko Haram terrorists as well as terrorists in Maghreb and Sahel regions‚ besides conflicts in Darfur‚ South Sudan‚ the Central African Republic‚ Mali and Libya. There are other transregional threat such as human trafficking‚ piracy‚ and drugs and small arms
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