Cattle raiding

The nature of morality is very relative across the many different cultures in the world. Different cultures have different ways of how they view some practices of what is moral and what is not moral or ethical. And philosophers and anthropologists who study different people and their cultures have a way of rationally thinking about this topic of morality, by saying that morality cannot be viewed by one culture as correct and the other culture as wrong but it can be thought as diverse and that no…

was to move or be abused and often times, killed. Many of them died on the journey just as many perished in concentration camps during World War II years later, but those that were left began building a new life on the reservations through raising cattle and becoming tight-knit communities. Unfortunately, Native Americans have never truly recovered after their forced removal and to this day they rank among the poorest of the United States with the highest suicide rates of any other race…

Climatic Deviations Lead to Conflict Scholarships associating environmental stress to conflicts begun to emerge in the 1980s (Myers 1986, Mathews 1989, Bekure 1989, Christiansson and Tobisson 1989, Ornas 1989, Prah 1989, Mascarenhas 1989). One study considered that watersheds, croplands, climate, and other factors that seldom figure in the minds of political leaders rank alongside military approaches as crucial to a nation 's security (Myers 1986). Another postulated that environmental strains…

In 1983, after a decade-long silence in the countries extensive civil war among north and South Sudan, conflict broke out again (CARE, 2016). In 2005, a long awaited comprehensive peace agreement was signed, ending Africa’s longest-running civil war. This therefore led to the historic vote with over 98 percent of the South Sudanese population voting to separate from Sudan therefore creating the Republic of South Sudan an independent state on the 9th of July 2011 (BBC, 2011). Independence however…

Prior to the authoring of professor Frank Tannenbaum’s book Slave and Citizen most scholars believed that slavery in North and South America was the same in Ancient Greece and Rome along with the Middle Ages in Europe. However, one important difference made slavery in the Americas stand out and it was the enslavement of Africans and indigenous populations. Professor Tannenbaum’s thesis argued that Iberian laws regarding slavery and the teachings and principles of the Catholic Church made slavery…

The television show ‘Rendez-vous en Terre Inconnue’ presents the lives of four different ethnic groups around the world, the Lolos Noirs in Vietnam, the Amharas in northern Ethiopia, the Nyangatom in southern Ethiopia, and the Tsaatans in Mongolia. Anthropologist Frédéric Michalak, along with a french celebrity guest, spend two weeks living these groups, immersing themselves in the lives of the ‘others’ through participant observation, eating the local’s foods and partaking in the local’s work,…

We all live on Earth, a world that houses a collection of many diverse nations, individually connected and powered by the personal connections with one another. These continents that make up the earth all possess something special to offer up to one another. Africa is one such continent that offers a great deal of desirable resources to this world. Africa offers a wide collection of religions, languages, animals, and environmental resources that are readily available for the world to benefit…

We all live on Earth, a world that houses a collection of many diverse nations, individually connected and powered by the personal connections with one another. These continents that make up the earth all possess something special to offer up to all other nations. Africa is one such continent that offers a great deal of prosperous goods to this world. Some things that Africa offers include a wide collection of religions, languages, animals, and environmental resources that are readily available…

place at some period prior to the 28th of October 1788 (Hamilton 1828: 548). After experiencing this disaster the Rajah retreated towards the frontiers of Tibet in order to re-assemble an army, and to solicit assistance from the Deb Rajah of Bhutan and the pontiff Lama of Lhasa (ibid). Gorkhas captured most of the Sikkim territories up to the Teesta river including all of the modern districts of South and West Sikkim as well as Darjeeling. It coincided with the Sino-Gorkha war (1788-1792)…