Defection

In the 21st century, us humans have gotten fairly good at trying to meet everyone’s needs. Dozens of organizations are dedicated to providing food, water, shelter and clothing to people around the world. While most of them do great and necessary work, there is one bodily function that is mysteriously absent: pooping. The mere mention of this unanimously performed action incites people to cough awkwardly and giggle. But there is nothing funny about the global sanitation crisis that affects…

Lungworm is any of the parasitic worms of the superfamily Metastrongyloidea (phylum Nematoda) that infest the lungs and air passages of a wide range of mammals such as cattle, llamas, alpacas, goats, sheep, deer, donkeys, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs, cats, rats, and even dolphins and whales (which are much less common). Humans are also susceptible to the disease from a variety of different hosts. However, the most common lungworm cases in humans appear to only be common in areas of the…

the British were still limited in their abilities to post enough men along the border of these vast lands. With little ability to supervise these men, Indian culture was highly influential in their daily lives. Furthermore, the likelihood of defection was likely increased due to the use of sepoys, Indian soldiers under the direction of the British military. This gave the British men even more firsthand access to Indian culture. Overall, the British Empire was able to learn from its…

Fekadu’s stories of murder and militia, defection, and indecipherable juggles of bravery and cowardice poke at the existential fears that every good man has. The reader is left to wonder about Fekadu and his mysterious escapades: whether or not he actually “dropped bombs on his own people”, if he…

The church is currently facing many serious and divisive issues. Issues such as the authority of women, mechanical instruments and other changes to the New Testament pattern of worship, fellowship with denominations, morality (homosexuality, marriage/divorce/remarriage, abortion, etc.), and many others are causing quite a stir within the church in modern times. While it is certainly important to understand each of these issues in an individual and in-depth way, perhaps it is even more critical…

influence is the extent to which a small faction of the group maintains different positions on issues affecting the group during decision-making. This influence is mainly dependent on information and consistent adherence to the position, the level of defection from the majority, and the status and confidence of the members of the minority. Effect of information occurs when people change their behavior in order to correct. In a situation where we are not sure of the correct response, we often…

Above, I have established that accountability through oversight is key to maintaining the democratic principles of Australian society. Yet, oversight did not become an incorporated function of the AIC until the late 70’s and early 80’s. This can be attributed to the early Australian agencies which were primarily developed under the instructions of Great Britain (Andrew 1989): Inheriting a culture of secrecy. Moreover, as the agencies of the AIC were born from the necessity of war, they developed…

or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.”…

In the commodity Martin Luther King Jr. Biography, King was a baptist abbot and amusing activist, who led the civilian rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until the day of his assassination occurred in 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr was the baton of civilian rights in United States. He has committed his activity to the attempt for the ancestral adequation of African Americans. In August 28th, 1963, King gave one of his a lot of influencing speeches advantaged “I Acquire A Dream…

Morality and Secrecy in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold “There was certainly nothing to grin at in what I saw, and inside myself I felt nothing but disgust and terror, which was exactly what I was supposed to feel: the Wall was perfect theatre as well as a perfect symbol of the monstrosity of ideology gone mad” (Le Carré 4). John Le Carré explains what he felt as he gazed upon the newly erected Berlin Wall, his inspiration for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The creation of the Berlin…