Algeria

Before entering the course I had a mediocre level of understanding about women and gender issues. I understood that women and men were viewed in different ways. This difference created issues for women such as the unequal pay gap in the United States. The material presented to me throughout the course has aided me in seeing the vast amount of issues women face in their daily lives and the complexity of these issues. It has changed my perspective to viewing the issues through a wider lens, which…

A semi-nomadic pastoralist culture in the middle of modern, Westernizing Africa, is an ethnic group called the Tuareg. Though diverse and living in separate communities speckled throughout Algeria, Mali, and Niger, the Tuareg are united by their shared language and proud history. They were expert traders and formidable warriors, raiding and conquering to find the best land for the livestock, prior to the European colonization of Africa. For the Tuareg, it was the French that proved too…

Truman Doctrine On March 12, 1947, President Harry Truman addressed congress with a plan to stop communist ideals. At a time when the world was still recuperating from the second largest war anyone had experienced. History was being made in the 1940’s a few months prior to Truman’s Doctrine the United States attacked Japan with nuclear weapons under his presidency. President Harry Truman was eager to see a change in the country he was leading. Under his presidency he wanted to make it clear to…

varied in the specificity of their demands, all have expressed a similar outrage with the inequities of unfettered global capitalism.” (Writers for the 99% 2). Months before the occupation of Wall Street, protestors took to the streets in Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, London, and Barcelona just to name a few (Writers for the 99% 6). In Spain six and a half million people protested welfare cuts, twenty percent unemployment, and other results of corporate greed. The strategies and organization…

elections of 1951, when it won 120 seats in the National Assembly. In 1958, de Gaulle campaigned against its constitution, which, he charged, was likely to reproduce the political and governmental inadequacies of the Third Republic. A revolt French held Algeria which threatened a civil war in France. De Gaulle was called upon to lead the country again and of course he took on the charge. Soon after, his way of government was approved and De Gaulle began to make the country of France better…

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a book that teaches a philosophical point of view on the meaning of life. The story is about a man referred to as Monsieur Meursault, who believes life is meaningless. Meursault is informed of his mother who had passed away and went to attend her funeral. He gives us details of why he feels life is meaningless by showing no emotion or remorse about the passing of his mother. He isn’t seen sobbing or bawling his eyes out for his mother and even refuses to see his…

Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential philosophers of the early Christian faith. He lived from 354 AD to 430 AD in Northern Africa before traveling to study in Italy for several years. After his conversion, he moved back to Northern Africa, Algeria to be exact, and became a Catholic bishop. His birth and conversion occurred several years after Constantine had first declared Christianity to be a state religion and played an important role in mainstreaming the religion. Therefore,…

the age of 18” (Kahf 360.) Subsequently, the youth of Israel/Palestine was essential to progressing this new form of music, and possibly wouldn’t have possible without their participation. Additionally, as with pop music in Iran and rai music in Algeria, hip hop music was an amalgam of styles in which artists “incorporated western and eastern music with powerful and politically charged lyrics that ‘tell it how it is’” (Kahf 360.) These charged lyrics where very critical for bringing about…

countries that have declared cases are: Middle East: Saudi Arabia (KSA), Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yemen. Europe: Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom., Africa, Algeria, Tunisia. Asia: China, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines. Americas: the United States. 2 - What public health prevention measures would you suggest for those travelers that move from an affected region/country to another? First,…

group of stresses: “bright images”, “ravaged plain”, or “shot boy”, “white sheet”, “own blood” “saw blood” and “brave still, trying” “stop himself” “white girl waiting” and in the third stanza still more in lines 2,6, 7,8,10, 11 which make for an emphasis and pulsation beyond that of ordinary speech. Word or phrase repetition together with sound repetition also heightens the rhythmic quality, while the run of stressed syllables in “All day/ I have thought” gives weight, the heavy pace of her…