Angela Merkel

The Chief of State is President Joachim Gauck and the Head of Government is Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to the OECD, the unemployment rate in Germany is currently sitting at 44%, with an Employment rate at 74.5% at the working age. Women in the workforce has become increasingly higher, along with changes in the wage gap in Germany. In…

The Cost of Freedom As Americans continue to heavily rely on digital means of media and communication, surveillance over the population becomes easier than ever for the government to carry out. One of the main institutions created in the United States to gather intelligence is the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA monitors the phone calls, emails, text messages, contacts, photos, video calls, and many other aspects of digital communication utilized in today’s world as a means to protect…

First and foremost, I am so overwhelmed as a president of Africam Young Adult(AYA) to be called upon at this day of 7/13/16 at the United Nations conference to speak on behalf of African countries on the topic of family and gender violence:women and girls. Women from the medieval ages were denied from so many opportunities and their voices were not being considered in a society.They were not allowed to hold any position and “either were they allowed to contribute in any aspect of life. There is…

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There were few known ruling women during the time of King Lear , one important figure being Queen Elizabeth I. “The Elizabethans had very clear expectations of men and women, and in general men were expected to be the breadwinners and women to be housewives and mothers” (3). In William Shakespeare’s play King Lear, he portrays the women to be dissimilar to how they appear in history. The daughters, Goneril and Regan, have profound amounts of power over that of their husband and seem to be the…

(figure 1 source: Migrant Crisis) Most the refugees are traveling to the UN to find new lives. The UN is providing the most support for the refugees so it makes sense that a majority of them are going to the UN. The chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel was the one that…

1. The 2015 European Migrant Crisis Must End It is seen everywhere. On the television, in the newspapers, on the front page of the Yahoo! website. The European migrant crisis of 2014-2015 is one of the biggest events of our time, and there is no avoiding it for anyone. The rapid anthropomorphic inundation has wreaked serious havoc on the countries that are having to accept them and as the year 2015 begins to close, two things are becoming clear: the anthropoid flow is not stopping anytime soon,…

yet shattered the ultimate political gender barrier within the country. Today in more than 70 countries across the world, women have sat in top leadership positions. Women in such positions have included Margaret Thatcher and currently include Angela Merkel, yet not one of these women are American. Justification for this deficiency includes historical, cultural, and institutional explanations. In order to overcome such a barrier, other leading countries in terms of political gender cohesion…

Should we be concerned about surveillance throughout the places we go? If so, why? Is it not meant to keep us safe? These are the questions I asked myself as I walked along Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles. This street, along with Broadway street in Downtown Los Angeles, hold an important piece of history due to the fact that many significant events have occurred there. The 1970 Chicano Moratorium, for example, took place on Whittier Boulevard and immigration rallies have taken place in…

Europe is Tested with Flood of Immigrants It’s common for one to read or hear about humanitarian crises in third-world countries, feel subsequent pity, and then return to his/hers expected, everyday life. However, Europe has no choice in putting such matters to the side; the aftermath of said crises is right on its doorstep. Migrants from all over, Syria, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Eritrea, Serbia, Pakistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, and Albania, among others, are surging into Europe. The numbers vary…