Economic Community of West African States

Black Lives Matter Ashleigh Yelverton-Best | CCJ 101 | 11/28/2016 Black Lives Matter Movement The Black lives matter movement, often called BLMM, is a worldwide activist movement. This movement is described as a “clear vision of the world where black humanity and dignity is a reality. BLMM protests police killings, racial profiling, brutality, and racial inequality (Lee). The movement began as a hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, back in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges in…

It was in the beginning of sixteenth century that the English made their first successful settlement in North America. People of many nationalities such as French, Spanish, and other European communities began pouring into America. These settlers liked to be known as Americans. Some had come for shelter, some for adventure, and some for riches and wealth. In the beginning, they spent all their time in extending the frontiers and fought pitched battles with the original inhabitants, Red Indians…

In an assessment by the World Bank, a great occurrence of under-coverage occurred within a community because it was not able to have access to teaching and learning avenues as well as health centres. Unfortunately also, these communities fall amongst the categories of people who very much need these interventions but cannot follow through with the requirements since the cost of accessing these amenities far outweigh…

years ago by creating the Declaration of Independence and leading our country as third president of the United States. Throughout his life Jefferson will become many things such as a plantation owner, philosopher, and public official. Jefferson will also expand his political career by becoming a member of congress, secretary of state, and eventually becoming the president of the United States and serve for over five decades. All of Thomas Jefferson’s achievements that he strived and worked for…

wasn’t provided as a neutral delivery of facts, but a direct form of creating or recording history so that the United States could be justified in non- intervening. This rationale contrasts greatly with another case study, that of the Rwandan genocide, where the emphasis was placed not on the ghosts of colonial history but on the more modern history of the Hutu massacre to separate the West, or formerly colonial nations, from responsibility over the current…

being a site for conflict. The changing historical narratives and how these shifts speak to the broader issues of race, identity, geography, and memory influence the main questions of this essay: How do the shifting dynamics and influx of minority communities affect White supremacists’ ability to continue to control America’s collective memory? How are specific…

She decided to flee to Philadelphia because her owner had died. She feared her own destiny “as a sickly slave of low economic value” (Biography). Harriet originally abandoned Maryland with two of her brothers, Henry and Ben, on September 17. The Cambridge Democrat granted a three hundred dollar reward for their return. Once they had left, Harriet’s brothers had second thoughts…

History Ideas To look at the british empire as a contradiction because it restricted choices, but also created opportunities for many people across the world is a viewpoint of a binary nature, one could critically evaluate the merit of this argument, The british empire became the process of enabling narratives to branch out from their brackets. For strange, unusual and unlikely things to occur to people. Specifically those that were colonised, to be more than the oppressed to inform their…

choose between her blackness, queerness, and womanhood, is asking them to shove a part of themselves away to never bee discussed and advocated for. It does not help that Alike’s parents enforce the idea that homosexuality is not tolerated in black communities or that for society as a whole “the culture of dissemblance makes it acceptable for some heterosexual black women to cast black lesbians as proverbial traitors to the race” (Hammonds 491). Because of this conflict, the viewer does not get…

On the strength of this growth, the government identified the information technology enabled services (ITES)/BPO sector as a key-contributor to economic growth, and offered them benefits like tax holidays, previously enjoyed by the software industry. In 1999, after the deregulation of the telecom industry, national long distance and international connectivity also became open to competition. India's…