Essays on Motherland

Ladies and gentlemen, in the words of Martin Luther King, “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.’’ In these wise words, Martin Luther appreciated the value of compassion; but he knew something more needed to be done. Settling veterans are an infallible sign of appreciation for the sacrifices that veterans make for the sake of the country. Today, San Diego is the sixth most populous domicile for homeless veterans. And, according to the State Department of Housing and Urban Development, the number of ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world, China is considered as a country with a brilliant future. The reason is that the country has dealt with the issue of poverty and repression and is taking a premier place in the category of the most economically developed nations. According to the data provided in the book by Chai, May-Lee, and Chai W. (23), the Chinese economy has provided employment opportunities to numerous people from all over the world. This success is associated with the Chinese policy of ‘one country nation, two systems’ that was adopted in the 1980s under the rule of Deng ...

While writing this sociology autobiography paper let me introduce myself. I was born and raised in Europe and came into the United States 18 years ago. During the first few months after moving to a new place I was feeling as if I was an alien, because in most cases I did not understand what interlocutors said. In real-life situations the Americans do not make allowances for the fact that you are a foreigner, if you for sure not ask them about it. In my Motherland there were no diversity people, with only white dwellers and the few black ...

Abstract

In the minds of many citizens and people across the globe the U.S. army is seen as a powerful machine that produces strong characters, devoted hearts and brave men. However, they are also human, and deep psychological problems develop while military men are exposed to wartime realities and massive killings. The problem of suicide in the army is a high-profile health problem that is complex and poorly studied. Military suicide is becoming a number one public concern as it puts a question of what are the real causes of suicides and how they can be prevented. The causes and ...

The Biblical Scripture and the U.S. Civil and Criminal Codes

Research Paper

Introduction Almost all countries nowadays comply with one of two main legal systems-- civil law or common law. The civil law system originated from continental Europe and was implemented by European colonizers, like Portugal and Spain, in their respective colonies. On the other hand, the common law system was developed in Great Britain and was implemented in the British colonies. In the 19th and 20th centuries, civil law was accepted and enforced by countries previously implementing unique legal systems, like Japan and Russia, which aimed at reforming their legal ...

Introduction

Offshoring is a common trend to a majority of international companies that have their root of operation outside the U.S market. Apple Inc. is one such company that has been caught up in a flurry of controversy regarding its stake in remitting taxes to the U.S government. Besides, the offshore account maintained by Apple Company has led to serious criticisms and flurry of accusations. This essay focuses on the main reason why companies like Apple would wish to maintain offshore operations rather than refocus their operations in its domestic country.

Reasons for Offshoring

The main motto that is behind Apple’s decision ...

How Will I Going to Prepare Myself to Compete in This Global Environment

Abstract The book of Thomas Friedman “The World is Flat” reveals a big difference between ‘development’ and ‘globalization’. Technological progress and political compromises led the world far from what it was half a century ago. He talks about three stages of globalization: Globalization 1.0, Globalization 2.0, and Globalization 3.0. Such modern phenomena as outsourcing and offshoring could not have been possible without the World Wide Web and introduction of network technologies. Today, protectionism is abandoned and countries compete for an opportunity to have business offshore on their territories, while lots of locals work for a foreign company without leaving ...

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In the globalized world, it is difficult to preserve national culture uninfluenced by tendencies and trends that are brought up by technological development or changes in lifestyles. Even such conservative societies as Saudi Arabia or other East Asian nations are subject to dramatic changes in the minds of people. For centuries, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s culture was under a great influence of religion, traditions, the way of living of the ancestors, and rich heritage that allows it to be influential and independent. Islam influenced the culture of the country a lot. However, some historical incidents affected women ...

In the pre-revolutionary period between 1760 and 1775, the American colonists revolted against their mother country. By the year 1760, England and Scotland had united into one kingdom of Great Britain, which extended her influence into North America to about thirteen thriving colonies. However, this power would not last long since the economic and political alliances that bound these two sides began to crumble and sabotaged their relationship (Ubbelohde, and Stout). American colonists were different from British natives because they were immigrants. Those that had departed for the New World aspired to attain wealth and a sense of economic ...

The motherland family, a movie by John Marshall, that was set to show the challenges of particular communities in Africa, using a concrete example of the South African-Namibian community, the Ju/'hoans.The film represented a 50-year stretch if difficulties and misery. It was prepared for the year 1951 to 2000 (Gordon n.p).this movie was set to narrate and even show the lives of the most marginalized communities in the core of Africa. It was a movie that apparently succeeded in showing the kind of love these communities had for their motherlands. Through the wars that these people had to ...

Charles Baudelaire once famously quoted, ‘there exist only three beings worthy of respect: The priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.” The quote encompasses the value, importance, and respect that are associated to a soldier. A soldier fights, lives and dies for his/her country and hence exercises the most selfless and supreme sacrifice.

Being an Army officer means being fearless, being selfless and most importantly being dedicated, zealous, nationalistic and patriotic. An army officers needs to have exceptional and incredible leadership skills since it is not just about shooting but about building a team, about knowing ...

Persepolis is a comic autobiographical novel written by Marjane Satrapi. Marjane writes about her life from childhood to adulthood during the Islamic revolution in Iran. The novel is about the protagonist’s life and the challenges she faces into adulthood and how these hardships changed her identity. As the main character in the novel, Marjane is depicted as a tough and intelligent girl who followed in her parents footsteps. She was a young Iranian girl who had to overcome great obstacles in her childhood in order to become a great person in future. Marjane grew up in a difficult and complicated setting in Iran ...

International Students Financial Issues in the US

Introduction The issue of foreign students or international students is increasing within U.S, especially at the level of university. According to Burdett and Crossman (2010), in the year 2007, there were approximately 35,433 international students registered in an educational institution within New York. As an initiative, CREPUQ commits in supporting efforts of government to locate NY as destination of high quality university studies. Their supports are devoted to creating support measures or strategies as Para academic components for success of students. Nonetheless, there are many challenges facing foreign students, which include, but not limited to language problems, ...

Things Fall Apart was written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe and was published in 1958. The title foreshadows the tragedy in the novel. Achebe borrows the title from W B Yeats’ poem The Second Coming: ‘Things fall apart and the center cannot hold’. The phrase things fall apart is used to show the images of more general chaos that follows in the novel. The second phrase is a kind of declaration that “the centre cannot hold,” It is relevant to Achebe’s novel as the traditional structure of the society is challenged by the coming of missionaries and the white ...

in the Movie “Vénus Noire” by Abdellatif Kechiche

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Sarah Baartman is not the name known by every person, only a few are aware of the facts about her ordinary but at the same time, tragic life. Among the different sources of getting to know the biography of Sarah Baartman, there is a fabulous feature film "Vénus Noire", which exposes “the Hottentot Venus period” of life of this woman till her death. The film review presented in this paper was influenced by the Africa study. Although the world cinematography covers a wide variety of films dedicated to the race discrimination "Vé ...

- What were some of the large religious groups that had an impact on the forming of this country? You are being asked to not only name the groups but how their theology had an impact on the forming of the United States. America’s experience towards the formation involves various linguistic, individual, national, and most importantly theological differences and similarities of religion. The powerful interactions between Europeans, Africans, and Native American brought the religion as a powerful force to establish the Colonies and United States. The formation of United States was not free of interaction by religious groups ...

The Wizard of OZ is able to enchant any audience from children to adults. One of the most important themes in the movie is the importance of origin. Watching the movie, one understands that there is no place “no place like home”. The Kansas plains where Aunt Em lives does not provide inspiring environment given the absence of beauty and the cyclones. According to the film, the conditions that the movie portrays regarding the environment in the Kansas prairie are so tough that it makes Aunt Em look older than her actual age. On the other hand, the ...

During World War I, the United States of America took a stance of neutrality in 1914. It was firm on its decision not to get involved with the brewing conflict across the globe. This choice was a consensus amongst the majority of the population who saw nothing but loss from participation in warfare. Many other countries like Germany, Russia, and Great Britain were compelled to side due to forged treaties between the two warring nations; Austria-Hungary and Serbia. However, claims about breach of certain rights have forced the previously impartial United States to seek swift actions towards its provoker, Germany (Kramer, ...

Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The novel Heart of Darkness develops its storyline around Charles Marlow describing his experience as an ivory dealer. He transports ivory using the Congo River located from Central Africa. The events in the novel happen between two societies that are completely different, the civilized and uncivilized communities. As such, imperialism and colonialism take charge of the story filled with evil. The characters, setting, events and storyline revolve around developing the events of imperialism and colonialism in the novel. This analytical essay looks into the above elements of the story. The story develops the themes of hypocrisy of imperialism ...

English 106

Introduction “What Love is,” was the most searched phrase on Google in the year 2012. It indeed is a feeling, like hunger, thirst. Love is an emotional need than a physical thus it is difficult to quantify it and say how much would be enough and how much will be more. Love is believed to be a tool that humanity thrives on a feeling of security, support, and most importantly the want to live life. It can be in most cases auspicious and can induce positive human behavior but then it has many negative aspects as well. People lose control on their ...

Solzhenitsyn's first novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in 1962 after a round of intense, routine scrutiny by Party officials. (Biography of A. Solzhenitsyn) It is autobiographical: ‘Mr. Solzhenitsyn, who spent 11 years (1945-56) in various prisons, concentration camps and places of forced exile in the Soviet Union because of some disrespectful references to Stalin in private correspondence with a friend, caused a worldwide sensation in November 1962 when his first novel, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," was published in the magazine Novy Mir.’ (Kramer) There Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote his masterpiece. ‘The tale involves a ...

Economists are interested in immigration for two reasons: their impact on the labor market and what progress these immigrants are contributing to the United States economy (Edmonston, 1996). There is much discussion about these immigrants in this area of study. These two areas of concern are important because research shows that the labor markets have changes considerably due to the changing contexts of recent immigrants. Not only are the labor markets being changed, but they way homes are shaped and culture bounds are formed (Johnson & Menounos, 2008). This research leads us to believe that further conceptual work is needed ...

The book illustrates the dynamic ideas that shape black politicians, intellectuals, and social movement activists’ behavior as they participate in U.S foreign issues towards Africa. The author is an African descendant interested with knowledge on racism. This is because of the rich and reassuring conversations he had on race relations from his immediate family and the shadow of civil rights associations. At the same time, his parents had exposed him to the realities of Africa through art, museums, and books hence able to counter psychological assault by the whites. Black Americans are deeply ambivalent on their status as ...

Yang reports in his publication (Corruption in Asia: China Case) that the Peoples’ Republic of China was ranked position 80 out of 176 countries in the corruption list by the Transparency International in 2012. This ranking placed one of the world’s most significant economies in the same position as three other countries; Serbia, Tobago and Trinidad. By the latest ranking, The Peoples’ Republic of China ranks as more corrupt than most developed countries. China is more corrupt than Burkina Faso, Panama, Jamaica and Peru. The populous country suffers widespread vices related to inequity and misuse of public resources. ...

Socrates, in Book 5 of Plato’s Republic as explained by his student Plato distinguishes the terms faction and war. Socrates distinguishes the two terms by stating that faction is hostility towards one’s own people. On the other hand, he refers to war as hostility towards strangers. In the book, which is written in a dialogue form, Socrates is speaking to Glaucon whom he tells that faction only occurs between kinsmen. He further illustrates by giving an example of a Greek race fighting against another Greek who are its own and kin, as faction rather than war. On the contrary, ...

Introduction

The love for homeland for every individual in a society or country is very special and unique. So, everybody has a unique attraction towards one’s own country. It is rightly said that a bird moves here and there all day in the search of food, but at the end of the day, it returns to its peaceful place called nest. Similarly, for me, my country is my nest like a bird where I live with pride, unity, freedom, and love. I personally feel that for any good human being with a logical and broad-mind, a country is one’s home, and everybody is attracted ...

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Introduction

Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the family is a very heart-touching account of how much he wants to travel to his motherland and relive his childhood which he missed. Each passage describes how he is connected somewhere to his past and craves for getting more connected to it. Though he has been living in Canada and evolved as a usual resident of the country but in his heart, but he is imbued in the memories with his family, motherland, trees, forests, animals and the essence of being connected to Ceylon or Sri Lanka. His emotions and nostalgia ...

ABSTRACT

Yugoslavia is a known nation that has enthusiastically supported the socialism fever by the Soviet Union. Its position and the key role in the greatest World Wars and in the Cold War enabled it to present a two-edged chance for both the West and the Soviet Union. With the psychopolitical influence of Soviet Union in Yugoslavia’s main leader for forty years, the country has been able to create its own brand of communism and even force their influence on other identities in support to this brand. But this psychopolitical propaganda was turned into psychopolitical hatred by those who have been ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a battle involving the Jewish nation of Israel and the Arabs of the Middle East regarding the region called Palestine. The expression refers to the political strains and overt fighting involving the Arab society and the Jewish people in the Middle East that have existed for more than a century. The name ‘Palestine’ has been linked variously and at times contentiously with this small area. Both the geographic region known as such and the political standing of the expression have undergone changes over the course of time. The Palestine region, or a fraction of it, is also called ...