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The world at large is at the brink of the great public health disaster called Ebola. The current Ebola outbreak began in December 2013,with the first case detected in Guinea in March 2014. The world is seeing more and more cases of Ebola and despite new public health measures being adopted each day, the epidemic shows no signs of abating. rom the time of its first discovery near the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976, the number of reported outbreaks of this disease has been increasing over the years. The 2014 outbreak is the ...

The military has been traditionally painted by the media as the source of protection against state to state aggression. However, the changing notions of security have caused the military in many countries to be used to deal with domestic sources of insecurity. This would include dealing with the individual. This paper seeks to sensitize its readers the changing securitization of the state and therefore the role of the military. This paper does this by looking and how the tradition notions created by the media regarding the military has been challenged by the changing notions of security. Some of the ...

The study of infectious diseases has always been crucial to mankind because of the devastating effects it has had on the human race. The influenza epidemic, for example, occurred repeatedly in the 20 th and 21st century, spreading across large regions and multiple continents. Influenza in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people world wide. This was higher than the amount of people that died in World War I. About 500,000 fatalities occurred in the US which was approximately 28% of the US population at that time. The number of deaths that took place in 1957 and 1968 ...

Introduction

Following the Second World War in which the United States played a key role, there was a significant change in the nation’s foreign policy in the East Asia. While the post-war period was largely peaceful, America’s anticommunism policy prompted her to enter the Korean’ war to contain the spread of communism. The defeat and subsequent surrender of Japan prompted the US to put the East Asian country under its control to help rebuild it. This writer argues that internal politics in Korea and Japan, as well as events in China played a key role in shaping the US foreign policy ...

Should Prostitution Be Legalized

Introduction
Prostitution refers to the act of having sexual intercourse or other sexual acts for monetary compensation. For Prostitution is one of the oldest profession with records showing that it began in the ancient Samaria (now Iraq) where maidens made sexual favors in the temples as offerings to gratify the gods. It was later transformed from a sacrament to business in the ancient Greece and this gave women an opportunity to gain status and power. Currently, prostitution takes two forms; prostitution in the streets and prostitution in the brothels. The legalization of prostitution is a controversial subject that creates a great ...

Before explaining on my moral codes, the understanding of moral codes is essential to ensure that while explaining or putting across my moral practices I understand what I am talking about in this context. Moral codes area system of morality that a particular persons or people who may be united by a common religion or practice believe in, and somehow dictates on how they envision things in life. Thus, according to the environment that I happened to be brought up in, there are certain acts that I perceive as good or bad. Consequently, according to my religious practices, there are also ...

Globalization has been taunted as a positive development due to the increased interconnectivity of many parts of the world. However, like many such developments, there are upsides and downsides to it. One of the major disadvantages of globalization to the American economy in particular is the proliferation of products that have been imported from other countries. This affects the market for American produced products. This paper will make arguments supporting the promotion of buying of products that are made in the United States of America. Many studies have been carried out to investigate the preferences of American consumers and the ...

Helen Epstein’s “Aids, INC.” was a different take on the virus which was affecting different areas of Uganda. She looked at the virus through the eyes of teenagers and adolescents who engaged in sexual activity. In her research, she kept referring to something called “Lifestyle Brand”. This is the term used for advertising products which would capture the attention of people who shared a certain style or image. It is something like talking to a set of people that one would define as a target market. However, the basis of grouping these individuals would be because of style. It is sort of ...

The war in Vietnam occurred due to the conflicts that existed between the two super powers. At this period, cold war was in progress. United States had a policy that it should stop the spread of communism as much as possible (Faragher, 774). This is why it intervened in Vietnam and tried to stop this spread. The war was very necessary for the security of the United States.
United States believed that if one country adopted communism, then other more countries would follow suit and communism. As a result, communism would spread in other neighboring regions. United States felt that ...

The Dumbing of Society

With the current technological advancements, popular culture is continuously gaining prevalence. Pop culture is epitomized in a variety of ways, modalities, and expressions effected in styles varying from one traditional philosophy to another. Owing to its pervasive and gradually interrelated nature, many people find themselves embracing popular culture without a clear understanding of the effects that it has on them. Despite the many controversies and challenges surrounding the social media, popular culture is continuing to gain prevalence chiefly amongst the youths. This might have dire consequences on the different diverging cultures that are in existence. The major debate that arises is, “ ...

The term “Black Death” finds its origins in 1823 whilst referring to a disease characterized by “the black blotches caused by subcutaneous hemorrhages that appeared on the skin of victims.” Otherwise known as the bubonic plague, historians believe the Black Death found its way into Europe from China through trade routes. However, it is not until 1348 that the first signs of the infection appear in England’s society and by 1350; England’s records show a rapid decline in the number of its population. Consequently, between 1348 and 1350, much of medieval Europe saw a division in the elites of its ...

Dawkins Richard compares religion to a virus, which spreads and infects the weak-minded people, making them produce aberrant behavior. Like a virus, religion begins as a by- product, and use human beings to propagate its spread. Religions are costly to those infected in them, just as the idea of viruses. Religions demand large amounts of time and money impose health risks and make people believe in things that are contradicting. Religions and viruses succeed by using threats and promises, which People accept and want to pass. This is evident in Michael Blume’s speech, “The reproductive advantage of religion.” In his graph, ...

Globalization is a term that is used to refer to spread and amalgamation of social-cultural beliefs such as customs, cultural beliefs and ideological beliefs from one region of the world to another due to social interaction between different people across the globe. This interaction of different cultures has accelerated recently due to modern development of technology. Middle East region is known to have been dominated by Islamic Culture due to its dominant Islamic religion in the region (Amina, 2005). However, due to globalization Western culture has penetrated its roots in the region. This has led to adoption of western ideas, ...

In my view, most media houses practice biasness whenever they broadcast or convey information about foreign countries. The rate at which media houses continue to exercise their press freedom by telling half truths and sometimes lies about other countries is quite alarming. Media houses practice their culture of biasness with a lot of impunity whenever they are giving out information about foreign countries. It is, therefore, important to examine why the media continues to give such biased reports about other foreign countries.
There are a number of reasons why the media continues to give impartial news about foreign countries. For ...

Introduction

Over the years, the United States has gained global military, economic, cultural, scientific, and political dominance, which has allowed the country to have a significant influence on other nations. For instance, American influence and power have extended across different countries such as Iraq, spreading democracy and liberty through military invasion and the War on Terror. In addition, the United States’ political influence has been strengthened by its financial support to foreign countries through the U.S. foreign aid. For instance, Buchan argues that the U.S. has played a significant role in enhancing the relationships of the free nations of southern and Pacific ...

In the many developments that are taking place in the religious world, ecumenism is one of the most significant of them all. Church leaders are coming together with common goals that enable them to best serve and worship God, among other many activities. The main goal of contemporary ecumenism has been for all the Christians in the world to be brought together into unity amidst diverse and pluralistic expressions of the faith. This interdenominational union is rooted in the belief that all Christians are bound together by Christ and His existence should not be the cause of division and ...

Vampires

Vampires - in the lower mythology of Europe dead at night getting up from the grave or being in the shape of a bat, sucking the blood of sleeping people, Sender nightmares. Vampires are "unclean" dead - criminals, suicides, deaths of premature death and the dead from the bites of vampires.
The image of a vampire is not rare for the cinema and literature, although vampires from works of art, usually, have some differences from the vampire mythology. In folklore, the term, usually, used to refer to the blood-sucking essence of Eastern European legends, but often referred to as vampires ...

As one would be aware that Capitalism is the form of an economic system that dominates the world these days. This system has evolved out of human’s natural trading process. However, as put by Robert Heilbroner, it is both beneficial and dysfunctional for the society. Here I would argue that it provides greater good for the society. This ability also implies whether it also expected to dominate the centuries ahead.
Before we discuss the role of capitalism in the next century, we must acknowledge that it is near impossible for any economist to predict any major economic ...

Academic freedom refers to a very old debate which has evolved over the centuries to having become an integral part of constitutions around the globe such as in the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure in the United States, the 1996 Constitution of South Africa, the German Constitution and the 1987 Philippine Constitution, all referred to the right to academic freedom in their own specific manners. In actuality, it means the right to research and convey new ideas through teaching without any inconvenience regardless of the ideas being controversial (Encyclopedia of Ethics 10). There is though, in ...

Introduction

Exordium
The death penalty is something which has existed for centuries in various countries, but recently it has been coming under increased scrutiny. More people are turning to the view that it is somehow inhumane, or perhaps that it is immoral to say that we who obey and make the law are better than those break and oppose it, while still committing the same acts as they do (presuming that the offenders are murderers, of course).
It could be said that the death penalty was a simple solution for a simpler time. Today, not only do we have the ...

The Crusades are the series of the religious military campaigns in the XI-XV centuries from Western Europe against the Muslims and not only. In a narrow sense they are the campaigns of 1096-1291 years into Palestine, first aimed at the ‘liberation’ of Jerusalem (with the Holy Sepulchre), against the Seljuk Turks. In a broader sense, Crusades are also other campaigns, proclaimed by popes, including later conducted Crusades with the purposes of the conversion to Christianity Gentiles Baltic and suppression of the heretical and anticlerical currents in Europe (the Cathars, Hussites, and others) (Bridge).
At the beginning of the XIII ...

The legalization of marijuana was only brought to effect after the drug had been tested to prove it had positive effects on a user’s health. There has been much debate about the drug’s effects on the brain, psychological health of a person and the benefits of marijuana in treating illnesses. Many people use marijuana mainly for recreational purposes. However at times, they are in pain or are suffering from an illness because of which they take the drug in order to alleviate some pain. But if the drug helps them then it is beneficial for their health, ...

For the purpose of the media analysis, one of the most iconic images or photographs in the history of world civilization has been chosen. The original photograph was taken by Alberto Korda on March 5, 1960, at the memorial service of the victims of an explosion. It came in the public domain soon after it was taken by the photographer. The picture titled, “Guerrillero Heroico” is that of the iconic revolutionary figure, Che Guevara, who can also be deemed as one of most famous persons in the history of the human society. The particular image in context is an ...

Culture plays a big role in health, diseases, and healing as well as medical anthropology. Some diseases result from the cultures we adopt, our own cultures as well as our life choices. These cultures and choices may cause the rise of a disease, the healing of a disease or the maintenance of good health. One disease that arises from our life choices is hypertension which involves having a high blood pressure. This paper will aim to compare the different cultures, the choices they make in regard to health care as well as the diseases that arise from lifestyle or ...

The Growth in Internet Use Has Affected Cultures Around the World, Leading to a Westernized, Homogenous World Culture

The concept of globalization is sometimes discussed as an undesirable feature of the current geopolitical realities of the world. However, in reality, globalization is an immutable feature of the current human race. Human beings have been striving to travel and to stretch their legs since their earliest days. Some might ascribe some early form of imperialism to this behavior, while others might suggest that human beings, as a species, have a distinct curiosity that compels them forward. One of the impacts of going out to explore the world is that cultural interactions take place. These cultural interactions have been ...

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The main point of this essay is that even if smartphones have many desirable and positive qualities, it also has negative qualities that can harm its users. Smartphones, for instance, significantly changed how people exchange information and communicate with each other. These technologies have influenced their social and personal life, including their work, education and personal relationships. The prevalence of smartphones is phenomenal. Statistics have shown that almost all people in the United States have smartphones and that almost 70% of these people access the internet through their cell phones for work, personal and recreational purposes. But ...

Analysis:

The following article is a critical analysis of an essay from the second chapter from the famous book “Silent Springs” by Rachel Carson, a famous Marine biologist of her time. The chapter titles “The Obligation to Endure” discusses about the use of synthetic chemicals by human beings and their adverse effect on eco-systems and human beings themselves, raising questions against this unsustainable practice and why it continues without any thought.
Analysis: The Obligation to Endure

Introduction

Environmental deterioration is probably the most heated debate of present day. Every day thousands speculate the damage human deeds do to the environment, ...

Abstract

Discussion of the issues caused in Portugal by Phytophthora Ramorum, a pathogen affecting the local Cortilha, or Cork Tree, population. This problem has had a large impact on the personal lives of farmers in Portugal, as the trees and their growth and cultivation are deeply important to their culture. This disease affects the Cork Trees of Portugal through a rotting of their roots, and can begin causing issues from the time the trees are in their seedling stages. In order to protect against the fungus, farmers have begun to take various preventative measures, including the testing of the soil, the treating of ...

World War II is up to today considered the largest and the worst war to ever happen in history. It started in 1939 from Europe and ended in 1945, spreading to almost all parts of the world and leaving about 70 million people dead. The figure included men, women, soldiers, children and civilians who died mainly due to illnesses, starvation and bomb attacks. The WW2 involved two opposing military alliances, the Axis and the Allies, formed from great nations that participated in the war. Axis was the alliance between Germany, Japan and Italy where as Allies alliance was between ...

Introduction

The legalization of Gay marriage has stirred a lot of controversies in America, and the world in general. Traditionally, marriage has been rooted in many cultures, practices and even traditions, as the union of a man and a woman. Same sex marriages or relationships have been prohibited all along, and people that went against these practices were often termed as outcasts. But in the recent years, the rate of gay marriages and relationships has been on the rise. This has stirred a lot of debate on whether they should be legalized or not. Movements and societies have been formed to protects the gay ...

The ways in which people interpret the past are often colored by the ways in which they see their contemporary times. One of the more colorful phenomena of American politics in the early twenty-first century has been the emergence of the Tea Party, a group that appears to want to roll back the role of government in American affairs much like the American colonists wanted to roll back British influence in North America. When a group of colonists stormed Boston Harbor in the guise of Mohawk Indians, bent on throwing a load of British tea into the harbor in protest against a new ...

Introduction

The influx of over 300,000 people into California opened many opportunities in especially the economic sector. The initial news about the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in San Francisco appeared in a daily newspaper in March of 1848. the news did not receive much attention at first. However, gradually, the excitement grew among the locals after the newspaper published a picture of a merchant rejoicing at striking gold. As the news of the discovery spread fast across the country, it brought in people by sea and land from both natives and foreigners from Latin America, Europe and as far as ...

Free speech is considered as a part of fundamental rights. Books are a medium of expressing views of authors. Censoring books is not new, and it has been practiced by dominant groups or governments since centuries. Books are censored in order to prevent specific ideas from spreading. Books are censored by governments or other powerful people due to different reasons. This paper intends to discuss book censorship along with discussing how productive or counterproductive book censoring is.
Books are a source of knowledge and educate people. Censoring books deprives people of knowledge and learning, but this is only aspects of the ...

Literature

Thesis Statement
Thomas Jefferson’s Query XIV Laws is quite different from Phyllis Wheatley’s Poems, in that, while both of them targeted slavery and its abolishment, Jefferson’s views are expressed by a person from the outside, while Phyllis’ views are personal. While Jefferson makes comparisons to show that slavery in America was not as bad, Phyllis makes a direct appeal to abolish slavery.
President of the United States, President Barak Obama, in one of his speeches said that he thought the need of the hour for all Americans, black or white, was to shun their differences and ...

Introduction

Communism was an ideology thought to have been originally formulated by English writer Thomas Moore. In his literature released in 1516 and titled ‘Utopia’, Moore speaks of a society where property is a common asset and ruler govern the people and society assets and property using reason. The rebellion directed towards capitalism and other traditional forms of government were the subject of numerous scholars and theorists as time passed. Karl Marx, one of the strongest supporters of this system of government felt that the class system, a failure in his view, would be remedied through communism.
After its role in the ...

The current thread that has come about with current technology is the cyber terrorism. There are cases of reports that show how this phenomenon has grown so rapidly with the internet users. Many people have now found the internet as the best avenue where terror can be spread. Terrorism affects everybody whether using the internet or not (Janczewski & Colarik, 73). The reports show that the users of the internet give the terrorists the avenue to plant their planned evil to the country, hence increasing the effects on the victims such as fear and insecurity.
The first reason that ...

Introduction

The mention of Black Liberation Movement (BLM) brings to mind iconic black activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, George Jackson and many others. The influence of these BLM heroes and heroines in America has spread to other movements and ideas about inequality. In the 1960s and 1970s many social activists looked towards prisons for political leadership while considering the prisons to be institutions of oppression and social control (Steinhauer, 2006). Prisoners emerged as icons of state repression and beacons of liberation. In the United States, black prisoners held special sway with their prolific writings ...

Introduction

Prostitution is an age old profession existing in the world from immemorial time. In the US as per the estimation made by the Prostitutes’ Education Network, over 100,000 American women are involved in the profession (Dionne 2013). Women's right activists consider prostitution a sinful act that undermines the integrity and dignity of women by victimizing them to sexual, physical, mental and emotional abuse. In the context of millions of young girls and women being exploited all over the world for commercial sex trade, it is a matter of great dispute whether or not the profession should be made legal. Over ...

In the United States, members of sexual minorities began to fight for the right of marriage to each other in the 1970s, which evolved with the wave of mass movements for civil rights of racial minorities. This idea, which was originally categorically rejected by American society, gradually acquired the right to life. In 2002, after the European Court of Human Rights called for the registration of marriages of transsexuals in the United States, a new wave of debate and litigation, this time centered on the acceptance of homosexual marriages and their compliance with the Constitution of the United States. In ...

Agreement is a powerful word in the modern world. It involves either consent or sacrifice between parties. Inability to honor agreements is a behavior which the law limits by providing civil or in some instances criminal justice mechanisms to those who fail to honor agreements depending on the gravity of the breach. Human rights are implied agreements between citizens and citizens or between citizens and the state. It is inexcusable to compromise on human rights because they define human dignity. Human rights were most compromised during the global era. This is not with regard to the volume of rights which were ...

The discourse on same sex marriages continues to capture societal attention. In that regard, nations claiming to be progressive have allowed same sex marriages. Homosexuals and lesbians have been allowed to legally marry one another. This has gone a long way in affecting the society. Indeed, it challenges the traditional societal norms. In that regard, one would argue that same sex couples should be allowed to adopt. Adopting a child remains the only option for them to start a family. This is because by their biological similarities, same sex couples cannot give birth. The role of reproduction in such couples can be ...

U.S. National Interests and Goals Articulated After World War II
After World War II, an international agenda was established by United States President George Washington to deal with Soviet Union that emerged as both geopolitical and ideological rival. This was a strategy was meant to articulate American interests throughout the Cold War. The major strategy was seen as “as one designed to foster a world environment in which the American system can survive and flourish'' (Ambrosio 62). These interests were based on the fact that the stability of America highly depended on the world order. Americans believed that it had ...

Nowadays luxuries are rapidly growing in popularity in the world. Due to high consumer demand, more fake bags are coming out to satisfy a group of people whose living standards are not very high and will hence not afford original bags.
Fake bag companies that make exactly what real bags look like are considered illegal for the piracy. There are controversial issues about whether a fake printed bag is illegal.
Recently a new Taiwanese brand “Banane Taipei” comes into fashion trend in Taiwan, which is known for fake printed bag. Ironically, some people might not be familiar with the fake ...

The nation-state is one of the fundamental and important political entities for a coherent coexistence within a particular society (Rotberg, 1). The nation-state is a structured means through which important political/public good is delivered to the community. A nation-state is normally led by a government and should the legitimacy of such a government be put to question by the citizens, it is therefore shunned and efforts to keep the nation-state together eventually fail. In the past several nations have been considered failed states however most of these nations have been able to recover and develop a country. One of the nations that stand out as a ...

This thesis aims to highlight the issue of gay marriage that is now being seen in a positive light. It has readily gained acceptance over so many years. People are beginning to see it as an acceptable reality. The roots of its acceptance are also traced through various countries with so many countries beginning to understand how essential it is to allow man with the freedom of anything.

Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is a legally or socially recognized marriage between two individuals of the same sex. The growth of gay marriage has spread worldwide and excepted more and ...

Introduction

Mosaic is a simple form of art and technique that mainly uses small tiles (tesserae) or/and pottery pieces to make large portraits on different flat forms which includes walls, frames and floors (Paul 12). Mosaic technique has been adopted by many cultures globally such as in Rome, Greece and in Middle East. The main form of art used in the areas is cladding. Cladding is preferred since its effective and the artwork formed by cladding is long lasting. History and Popular beliefs have it that, in the Middle Eastern architecture is heavily influenced by the middle ages Roman and Byzantium ...

In the Modern era, the media is the major source of information and entertainment. However, the media affects the social, political and cultural aspects of the society. The recent technological advancements and communication changes have ensured that information is relayed faster than before (Biagi 10). The development of communications technology directly affects the speed in which a society and culture evolve (Spark 5).
It is estimated that adults spend about half of their working lives with the media. In the US, an individual starts his day by watching the television news or checking the newspaper, goes to work, communicates ...

Revolution in military

Revolution in military affairs can be attributed to use of new processes and new tools of waging war like system of systems, command and control, as well as network-centric warfare, all driven by information technology. The term “Revolution in Military Affairs” is used to refer to a major shift in the nature of fighting which is as a result of the application of new technologies which adjusts the nature and accomplishment of military actions, when these technologies are pooled with organizational and operational concepts as well as vivid changes in military doctrine, (Theodor, 1995, pp.3-9).
The concept of revolution in ...

Organized crime refers to any crime that is committed by or through well-structured groups, and involves the provision of illegal or manipulative services or goods as a means of acquiring undue income, property, or finical gain. It is structured just like a normal business organization and is partitioned into different wings in a pyramid shaped hierarchy. Such crimes usually employ threats, violence, force, and sometimes bribery to continue with its operations of grievous and dubious acts. Organized crime includes activities such as illegal gambling, narcotics trade, credit card fraud, kidnapping for ransom, prostitution, gunrunning, insurance fraud, vehicle theft, racketeering, pornography, and smuggling ...