Kenya Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

LifeStraw: Science and Technology

LifeStraw is a product developed by the Swiss company Vestergaard Frandsen, which consists of a water filter that removes 99.99% of waterborne bacteria, protozoan parasites and viruses, allowing the user to obtain clean drinking water directly from containers, streams, lakes or other sources of potentially contaminated water.
The Oxford Dictionary defines science as the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. In order to develop the LifeStraw, scientific experiments were conducted to understand the process of water purification and develop an innovative method ...

Women the world over have had an influence on their societies. In Taking Root, Wangari Maathai sees the destruction of the Kenyan forests and takes steps to reclaim the forest with the help of the local women. In I will be a hummingbird, Wangari Maathai tells a story about how a fire consumed a forest. All the animals, both large and small, were frighten and did nothing to stop the fire with the exception of a small hummingbird. Both films show how women are thought to be insignificant in their societies yet can still make an enormous impact on ...

The United Nation can be equated with peace and security, although its objectives are wider and entail promotion of human rights, social and economic development as well as self-determination. Nonetheless, the United Nation is the main collective security institution. The United Nation has a world-wide membership and various competences in security, peace as well as matching powers which entail the capability to make decisions on non-forcible measures as well as authorize various military actions that range from consensual pacification to full scale fighting. The United Nation has an ardent diplomatic function which is often channeled through the United Nation Secretary-General ...

The Qualities of the Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Qualities of the Prince (1513) carries political advice that many political analyst of today would find as practical as it sounds out fashioned. His instructions to the prince or ruler include the employment of controversial/unorthodox methods to maintain power and keep order. Machiavelli claims to base his rhetoric on “what is done as opposed to what ought to be done.” This paper considers Machiavelli’s rhetoric as presented in his work, “The Qualities of the Prince” and assesses the validity of his advice in the political scenario today.

The Role of the Prince in Military Matters

Machiavelli advises that a prince should take nothing ...

Market Structure

In simple terms, market structure refers to the classification of the various types of markets, based on their unique features on how they allocate prices of a given product in the market. The aspect is primarily classified into two, which include perfect and imperfect market.

Oligopoly

Refers to a type of market structure where there are few sellers in a given economy with many buyers for the commodity. With oligopoly, the sellers have an influence on the commodity price in the market and can significantly affect competition. An example of a company to indicate the above case is the mobile ...

Problem:

How does better distribution ensure that developing regions are empowered to eventually solve their own hunger problems? What other development measures are necessary to strengthen a society? Is there a place for food distribution, perhaps early on in a development strategy?
The developing regions are unfortunately deprived of sufficient food, reason being the unequal distribution of food, hence scarcity of food in not the issue. The state governments and departments shall subsidize the purchase of food from under developed economies so as to increase their food supply, while farmers getting competitive prices. This will eventually better distribute the food, sources and ...

The activity that I was involved was a party that involved friends from different geographic regions around the world. At the party, there were foods and music from different cultures of the world. In the course of the party I got into conversations with a student from South Africa. We talked about the differences between life in South Africa and that of the United States. One of the key things we discussed was the difference in climate between both regions. The student explained that the climate in his country was much warmer than it is in the United States the whole ...

The African continent and the Anglophone Caribbean region share a common history. The two regions were colonized. Majority of the countries gained independence, through peaceful negotiation and armed struggle. Evaluating the progress of the two regions in the last five decades of independence is not easy. The task of evaluating becomes objective and reliable when the task is approached from the perspective of African and Anglo Caribbean nationalism, and the expectation of independence. Both the regions harbored complex nationalist. It’s possible for one to; argue that the two regions sought to achieve the objectives of decolonization, nation building, development, ...