resources for schools around the world. EFA (2014) described an example of how this planning approach assisted in accurately estimating the educational staffing needs in the African country of Tanzania. The national government of this fledgling African nation employed this planning approach and discovered that they could lower their current estimates…
When looking at the works of both Carl von Clausewitz and John Boyd, there are many points of similarity and one particular difference. The point of similarity with the most common threads is that of the ever-changing and dynamic nature of war. This includes Clausewitz’s ‘Trinity’ and Boyds ‘OODA loop’ cycle, particularly the ‘Orient’ phase. The main point on which they differ is Clausewitz perceiving defense as the main focus as opposed to Boyd’s inherent bias toward the offense. The central…
Al-Qaeda used direct and symbolic violence to create the reaction that they wanted in the American people from their 9/11 attack. Direct violence is used to physically eliminate parts of the opposition and to destroy resources used by the institution. This type of violence does not regard the symbolic results of their violence, but when paired with symbolic violence it can be very dangerous. Symbolic violence is staged for a movement, in this case Al-Qaeda, to gain attention. They directed their…
white people who have church background can get away with legal punishment after they sexually abuse the Aboriginal children. The fact of background privilege of the whites is unequal to the First Nations people when compares the church background to the residential school background. The First Nations who comes from the residential school would be discriminated by others because the crowds are aware that they comes from a awful place that tortures children. Overall, the author reveals the…
Discussion 6.1 Strategic analysis of the different actors responsible for the organization of Togolese women's football The strategic approach highlights the structure of cooperation and opposition between a set of actors and the resulting logic of functioning. It complements the systemic analysis that "describes and demonstrates concretely the institutional mechanisms, structural arrangements and power balances that link a set of empirical actors concerned by a given common problem and regulate…
In his play Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring illuminates the origins and implications of the legacy of residential schools which remains prevalent in Indigenous communities in the twenty-first century. Loring strives not to diminish the experiences of residential school survivors, but to reconstruct how individuals in the twenty-first century view and represent survivors of residential schools. This goal is achieved through Loring’s depiction of characters that are sad, but loving and funny…
Q: Is Sovereignty the main characteristic of the modern state? Sovereignty is the main characteristic, which can also be referred to as the most important, of the modern state for many reasons which include the essential nature of sovereignty to the capitalist system (Wallerstein,1999, p.32) and the way in which it allows the state to protect its citizens (Held, 1989, p.16). However, there are other characteristics of the modern state to consider such as the feature of a bureaucracy and the…
During World War 2, Romanian women started to increase their participation in war industries and as nursing units on the front line. The women in Romania played a part in helping the war effort but appear to be exclude from the nations ministry of defenses war commemoration propaganda works. The ministry ignored the experiences of women during the war because their stories did not fit a traditional concept of “heroism, patriotism and the proletariat struggle.” In contrast, Polish…
prevent states from becoming too powerful therefore attaining the ability to impose its will upon the other states. In these kinds of situations, self-preservation is usually seen as the main guiding principle; it commonly leads to states building up alliances with one another for benefit purposes rather than for shared ideologies. This essay will look at a brief history of classical realism including the issues that surround it and the main tenets of the paradigm, then it will go on to…
achieved through “nation-building”. “Nation -building” is defined as establishing civil order and government in a state (Pan, 2005). This objective was not achieved, as the U.S. forces were unable to create an entity which secured the state by having the capacity to protect Somali citizens and promote civil order and control (Marra and Pierce, 2013). Without civil order and control; developing infrastructure and the formation of a government that is a fundamental element of “nation-building”…