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Millions of women around the world today are being mutilated against their will. Many are only infants and do not survive the process due to infections and blood loss. This process of dehumanizing someone goes beyond what we as people have seen before. There are now laws that protect us from being mutilated but in some countries around the world there is no laws to protect those who do not live in the United States are some other place against mutilation. Imagine having your legs tied together…

Imagine a world with no one to help, everyone is only looking to better themselves. After a big hurricane off the coast of New Orleans in 2005, the town was a big mess, without any help it was a disaster and a trainwreck.. With nobody to come to the rescue it was everyone for themselves. The hurricanes name was Katrina and it was a category three hurricane. It devastated the state of Louisiana and was a vicious storm. Over 80% of the larger roads and major areas were flooded by this storm. This…

The Arab slave traders relied on the Indian Ocean monsoon winds during the slave trade. Indian Ocean was regarded as an important route since it connected East Africa to the outside world, including India Peninsula. The Arabs, precisely from the Gulf of Persia, used the Indian Ocean route since it linked the East African region to the potential clients of the Arab Merchants. They mostly resided on some parts of North Africa, including Egypt, Morocco, and among others. Again, the Indian Ocean…

Mixed Messages: Branding Guidelines Arab Culture Introduction To be able to correctly market to any target demographic one must first have a full understanding of the political correctness that surrounds the culture. Certain stigmas and generalizations about any culture often are over assertion and a broad net cast across the culture giving classification to all even though there is a vast difference in the culture being stereotyped. This is especially true when looking at Arab culture. Arab…

Widely recognized symbols are the backbone of political cartoons. These symbols allow illustrators to communicate their ideas with few words. Larry Bush, author of “More Than Words: Rhetorical Constructs in American Political Cartoons”, separates these symbols into two groups; natural metaphors and ad hoc symbols. Natural symbols are considered “symbols that humans automatically understand” (Bush 68). For example, lightness and darkness would symbolize good versus evil, respectively. Ad hoc…

Al Qaeda During the 1980’s Osama Bin Laden had built a terrorist organization called “Al Qaeda”. According to the writers of PBS Socal FRONTLINE, “Al Qaeda was created to over power governments in the Middle East, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, which do not strictly enforce a religiously-sanctioned political and social order, but that wasn’t the only thing they wanted.(9/11 Memorial)”. Osama started this group in Afghanistan camps by becoming stable in his financial system, supports, and…

Malala Yousafzai, according to her biography on Biography.com, born July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, became an advocate for girls’ education as a young girl, after the Taliban began attacking girls’ schools in her county in 2008. When she was 14, the Taliban issued a death threat against her. Her and her family initially felt that the fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child. However, on October 9, 2012, a man boarded the bus Malala was riding on her way home from…

In the days before industrialization, climate change, carbon emissions and rising temperatures were not global issues. Back then, people were concerned more with the Bubonic plague or the Crusades, instead of their EVs and solar roofs. But obviously, the times have changed. In the mid-eighteenth century, also known as the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, there were roughly 700 million people on the Earth, compared to estimates of over seven billion in 2015 (McLamb). Much of the economic…

that I would write about Ethiopia and Puerto Rico. Ethiopia which is a country ran by dictatorship is located in what is called the Eastern region of Africa, also known as the horn of Africa. Ethiopia shares that region with other countries like, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia. In contrast, ran by democracy Puerto Rico is an island surrounded by smaller islands located near the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. By the end of this essay I would like for readers to have learned the history and…

The twenty-first century has been a time of great advancement for humanity, but also a time of great decline of American influence, as a whole, across the globe. With the world’s once greatest superpower now showing weakness, lying vulnerable, the time is ripe for a rising star to make a grab at achieving the hegemonic status that has lain in the stable hands of the Americans for so long, to pull the rug out from under their feet. As history has shown the transition of a new power into and…