Expropriation

According to the African National Congress (ANC)’s Freedom Charter of 1955, all people [of South Africa] shall have the right to live where they choose, be decently housed, and to bring their families up in comfort and security...rent and prices shall be lowered...slums shall be demolished and new suburbs built where all have transport, roads, lighting, playing fields...and social centres…[and] fenced locations and ghettoes shall be abolished. When one examines the imperfect performance of the…

On January 1, 1994 the Zapatista uprising took place in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) had been organizing long before 1994, but the New Year’s Day uprising is very significant to their beginnings as it propelled them onto a national and international spotlight. Rooted in their cause was anti-neoliberalism as it related to the indigenous struggle. The date of the revolution was not random, but chosen because it was the day that the North American Free Trade…

Often times fiction characters are created based off of real life people.In “Macbeth” the main character is very normal at the beginning of the play than by the end he was losing his mind.Macbeth and Stalin are savages, they only know to kill and nothing else.Stalin and Macbeth are suspicious, selfish paranoid people, blood-thirsty killers, and towards the end of their lives, those characteristics got them taken out of power. Macbeth and Stalin are very suspicious and selfish people they…

The eighth largest country in the world, second largest in Latin America, subdivided into 23 provinces and one autonomous city, is home to approximately 43,417,000 Argentinians holding the world’s largest population of Italians outside of Italy and the second largest population of Jews in the Americas, outside of New York. The name Argentina comes from the Latin word for silver, Argentum, and they chose this name because the original European settlers thought the country was full of silver and…

Just as epic requires one or more central heroic figure, however, it also needs a coherent internal logic of victory and defeat with which to frame that hero’s actions. We have already noted Roy’s argument that Absalom, Absalom! questions the legitimacy of Sutpen’s dynastic goals, and that of Southern settlement. Roy then complicates this logic, framing Sutpen’s imperialist goals against those evident in other “European nationalist epics such as the Aeneid, the Lusiads, and The Liberation of…

An Influential Presidency Most people would think that a small boy, brought up in the foothills of South Africa, and struggling for life at an early age, would not be a person of importance. Nelson Mandela eradicated all of these misleading thoughts. Becoming one of the most influential people of the twentieth century, Mandela used peaceful power in his time as president to help his nation become more unified. Through his relentless dedication for equality, peaceful opposition to the African…

answered such questions as how labor will work, how items will be distributed, and how the government will administer such changes. The government at this time was not averse to using ruthless force in order to reach the fulfillment of communism. Expropriation was carried out, labor was often forced, and the government increased its involvement in combating opposition to the…

SUMMARY Land Use & land cover change processes occurs at the interface between human and environmental systems interacting with both of these systems and with each other by feedback. However, there are other systems involved in these interactions to include natural and socioeconomic changes. As such land management decisions must have a balance between optimizing the various opportunities and the challenges imposed by various external factors. This proves that land-use and landscape change…

Michael Parenti, The Face of Imperialism, 2011 Michael Parenti received his Ph. D. from Yale university. He is an internationally known award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation. He has currently written 23 books with topics on theocracy and other religious sins, democracy and economic power,…

The left-wing nationalist movements in many Latin American countries had certain factors that held enormous political and social importance. One of the most significant and common factor of these movements was the issue of equal access of resources by the common people. This issue was also a major reason for high rates of inequality in Latin American countries like Cuba and Chile. Around 1950’s, factors like poverty and lack of basic needs posed some serious challenges to the development of Cuba…