Flip-flop

Opening Panel Africa is an extremely diverse continent consisting of fifty-four countries, approximately 1.16 billion people which includes about 1500 – 2000 languages (cite). Africa 's demographic consists predominantly of young individuals; about 80% of the population is twenty-five years of age or younger (Ntarangwi, 2010). Due to the intense diversity in Africa and the high population of young people, this exhibit will focus on Children 's Rights in Africa. The African Charter on the…

El Camino de Santiago has been, and remains, the oldest and most celebrated route of the old continent. The route crosses Europa to arrive to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. There are different variants of the Camino de Santiago, starting from different parts of Europe. Each of the routes has a different name and its corresponding stages. El Camino de Santiago is the route that the pilgrims take to visit the tomb of the Apostle Santiago, in Santiago de Compostela. Since IX century, it was…

“Who’s your friend?” Danny asked later, when they had stopped for the day, having watched as the young Lieutenant danced to his sisters tune. “Captain’s son,” Charlie replied as she and Danny spread out the bedrolls they had been given. “He might come in handy later.” Danny nodded in agreement, slipping an arm under his head as he stretched out, watching the lieutenant settle down nearby. The Matheson children had learned at an early age that no one was to be trusted. Especially not eager…

Nike Inc, is an American sportswear company. The company was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sport by student Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman. Knight was a middle-distance runner for Oregon University team and Bowerman coached local team. Both of them felt the lack of good equipment for the competition at an affordable price. In fact, the only serious brand in this area was then Adidas, but, unfortunately, their athletic shoes were highly priced and the products of local companies for…

Alice Walker is a very influential Pulitzer Prize winning writer, African-American novelist, and social activist who is most notably famous for her authoring of “The Color Purple.” She was born in 1944, just about decade before the civil rights movement, in Eatonton, Georgia to sharecropper parents and is the youngest of eight children. In 1973, during part of a period of discovery where she embarked on exploring writing in all its forms, Walker published the short story collection In Love and…

Symbolic Analysis: Don Lee Camp and Retreat Center Introduction When a place transforms from a location you visit into an institution, the symbolic frame plays a large part in that transformation. Over the last 50 years, Don Lee Camp and Retreat Center developed from a rustic summer camp center utilized 7 to 8 weeks a year into a year-round destination where school children learn about marine life, pastors enjoy family time, community members enjoy Sunday dinner, and thousands of children and…

K. Sello Duiker, author of ‘Thirteen Cents’, initiative behind Azure, the unreliable narrator, is effective in a genre such as magical realism. Azure experiences throughout the novel are unpredictable and are immediate (present tense) and not predetermined, that which has already happened. The unreliable narrator brings vital importance to the narration for the unreliability due to the absence of fact, which aids in the reader to express self-interpretation instead of definite closure. An…

Full Moon Festival at Paradise Beach The Full Moon Festival at paradise beach is Phuket’s biggest beach party. Modelled after the successful Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan, Phuket’s version of the all night beach party is more upscale and well organised. Paradise beach is well located and a beautiful secluded beach close to Patong beach. Each month on the night of the full moon, famous DJ’s, local expats, Thai’s and tourists head to paradise beach to party and dance all night long. Tickets can…

While sounding like it would be a way for men to end their often unwanted duty of being the breadwinners, it actually creates an arguably more dangerous situation. The rise of matriarchy makes for a flip-flop of the roles. A prime example of this is in Morocco, which was a strict patriarchal society in years past, but has become (too) progressive and has now fallen to the other extreme end of the spectrum. The Islamic society strictly follows the Quran…

Trials and tribulations tower over our everyday lives, but not as much as the denizens of the past. The past is often characterized as being more primitive than its respective future which could be true in most cases. A lack of knowledge gives room for superstition and superstition gives room for disasters. One of these disastrous cases point directly towards the United States of America in the 17th century in the story dubbed “The Crucible”. Witches and warlocks were a bad existence for the…