Absentee landlord

The slave trade in African captives, already well underway in Europe and the Atlantic islands since at least the fifteenth century, morphed into the historical period known as the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade when Europeans who made the voyage to the Americas in the sixteenth century began shipping Africans as cargo along with other commodities being transported to the New World. By the middle of the century, dedicated slave ships had begun to transport captured peoples across the route known as…

society. And in perhaps the most important biblical document that requires us to wrestle with the liberation agenda, the epistle of James we discover a community of largely poor, Christian day-labourers being opposed by their wealthy, often absentee landlords- a frightening parallel to the situation of many third world labourers today. Many of them Christian believers denied wedge and basic human rights by the large multinational corporations or corrupt national governments that employ them as…

institution of family and that if women were to enter the workforce, the ideal picture of a family would collapse. (Kimmel, 2012) Due to this imagery of women staying home, he also mentioned that “men were so dedicated to their work they were becoming absentee landlords at home”. (Kimmel, 2012, p.142) This helped me connect why my dad wouldn’t spend much time with his family. In a broader perspective, it explains why men believe they should be the one in the workforce and not their wives because…

As I searched journals and websites for material on the research involving auto thefts, I found very few articles. In fact, according to one author, motor vehicle thefts are the number one under-researched part one crime (Jeffrey Walsh, 2007). In this same article studies indicate auto thefts are linked to community structure, instability and surrounding crime (Jeffrey Walsh, 2007). The author theorizes the reason for the lack of research is the crime itself creates little effect on most victims…