Essays on Reminding

I have always thought that being a leader entails taking control of huge responsibilities like being the president or even being the leader of a school committee. However, it is until recently that I came to realize that leadership can also entail even the smaller responsibilities accorded to us. Therefore, my current definition of leadership is simply the act of taking responsibility for a group of people - whether large or small - and leading them towards a predetermined course. For example, a president is responsible for a whole nation, and he or she leads the citizens towards different ...

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Almost all around the world, different organizations put their best effort to convince smokers to quit in order to avoid the negative effects of tobacco. The same holds true in the country of Thailand. In the year 2012, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation created a short video advertisement to convince smokers to quit. The foundation is a local agency that aims to promote health and well-being of individuals and the society as a whole. Because smoking causes serious health damage as well as environmental impact, it is not surprising that the Thai Health Promotion Foundation specifically targets ...

The book Aski Awasis talks about the adoption of Aboriginal children into non-Aboriginal families. The issue of adoption has been a long and contentious issue in Canada. Research has revealed that the experience has not been very positive for this community (Carriere, 2010). It is viewed as a fundamental feature of colonization. To reduce the level of colonization, the Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) situated in Alberta incorporated accustomed adoption practices with local adoption regulations for First People. In the book, the author talks about the history of First Nations adoptions. In addition to this, he also describes the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a popular iconic personality of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s, was a strong and inspiring speaker. An African American by birth, Dr. King was a Baptist minister who actively campaigned to end racial discrimination and segregation in America. Dr. King is best known for his belief in non violence and civil disobedience in keeping with Christian beliefs. King, who was inspired by Gandhi, quoted him in many of his speeches while campaigning for the Civil Rights in America (Raab, 2014). Dr. King’s popular speech ‘I have a dream’ ...

Most of these plantations grew sugar and cotton; the slaves worked grueling hours in the fields with the only compensation being some food and a place to sleep at the end of the day. Their living quarters were bare, with no beds or blankets and very poor hygienic conditions . The majority of the field working slaves were women, who were forced to work through their pregnancies which resulted in a very high infant mortality rate on the plantations. If they contracted diseases, they were left to die, since their owners did not consider it worthwhile to spend any resources ...