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Marcus Rediker takes us on a difficult journey of what it was like to travel the middle passage for a slave from 1700-1808 in his riveting book, The Slave Ship: A Human History. He focuses heavily on the calculated barbarity of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and how it gave birth to capitalism with the commodification of humans as goods to be bought and sold on the open market. Rediker gives us a unique and unexplored perspective of the slave trade to give us a sense of the violence that…

1. An activist is a person who is striving to bring political or social change. Famous activist Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States to bring justice for African Americans. 2. To annex means to add to a document or to something. When the United States annexed Alaska would be an annex. 3. The central government is the government that only has power over an individual state. The executive position of a central government is the…

The first World Happiness Report was published in 2012 to better understand happiness and well-being of various countries throughout the world by ranking each country based on GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity, and absence of corruption. A country that is extremely low on the World Happiness Report—ranked one hundred thirty-six out of one hundred fifty-seven—is Haiti. Although this ranking is from the 2016 version of the World Happiness Report,…

The Contemporary Child Solider Professor Anne Farina International Child Welfare George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in Saint Louis Introduction In the contemporary battlefield of today, child soldiers are becoming normalized in the majority of conflicts. Motivations for child recruitment include children’s limited ability to assess risks, feelings of invulnerability, and shortsightedness. Child soldiers are more often killed or injured than adult…

The sharp ideological distinctions between East and West began to fade. In the 1990s, Multilateralism was strong, in that almost unanimously the UN resolutions against Iraq inversion of Kuwait, Angola, Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, were handled through multilateral efforts. But that period is behind us. There has been a steady rise of new economic powers, and expansion of nuclear club member states, the growing role of regional integrations…

Lalson 1 Throughout the history of mankind, humans have been stripped of their human rights, including the right of political participation. Is it right for us to just stand by and watch these tragic events occur? Many human rights activists such as Ethel Kennedy have dedicated their lives to stand up for the injustices that people all over the world are facing every day. Human rights are crucial for all people and without them many different kinds of social disputes would occur. Ethel Kennedy…

The Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement was signed by DR Congo and the five regional states (Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda & Zimbabwe) involved in the conflict. In 2006 the UN peace operations team known as MONUSCO helped DR Congo to hold the first free and fair elections ever. The UN peace team stayed their after the elections with devising tasks…

Culture is “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively” (Culture n.d.).The culture of jazz and jazz performers is deeply embedded in American History. However, within Jazz culture the Latin jazz performers sub-culture emerged during the 1940’s and has continued to grow since. From the time when Latin Jazz was created, its performers have been considered a subculture due to the fact that they not only play the same music, but they share the same…

Africans Fight to Overcome Stereotypes in Colonial Latin America In the early 1500’s Africans began arriving in Latin America to fill the need for labor. The labor required of the African people varied from domestic help in the large cities to field work in the rural areas. From country to country in Latin America slavery had a different look. In the case of some African slaves, especially in the city areas, they were often treated with more respect and were able to eventually buy their freedom…

Ronald Reagan Before Ronald Reagan became president he was a actor and President of the Screen Actors Guild, as President of the Screen Actors Guild his political views would shift from liberal to conservative this was mostly due to the fear of communism in the Film industry. During the 50’s and early 60’s he toured the United States as television host and a spokesperson for conservatism his policies were also family oriented even though he was formerly divorced. He was then elected as governor…