Humanitarianism

What holds society’s social structure together? Man-made and ever-evolving institutions such as race, laws, gender, practices, and religion are foundational in human social life. Cathy Davidson analyzes the educational institution structure and call for transformation in her essay Project Classroom Makeover; she discusses how the customs of educating students impacts their future skillsets and current attitudes and also critiques the outdated hierarchical classroom paradigm for obstructing…

Catherine Benincasa was raised as one of the younger of many siblings in a wealthy, pious home in Italy during the mid-1300s (Keifer). Half of Catherine’s siblings, including her twin sister, died of the Black Death, but Catherine was healthy and happy. Her parents called her Euphrosyne, which is Greek for “joyous” (Did You Know?). Catherine desired an intimate relationship with Jesus from an early childhood age and earnestly devoted herself to obeying and worshipping her Lord. She contributed…

During the middle ages, the Roman Catholic Church became the dominant power in Europe. The church becoming the established rule, Christianity starts working it's way into the daily lives of medieval people. This era of Christianity helped shaped the ways in which western medieval culture was built. Christian influence on the medieval people's beliefs, values, and behaviors quickly became fixed into medieval society. The Christian religion impacted medieval culture in many ways, primarily through…

As Abraham Lincoln once said about the war “Both sides deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came” ( week 7, Crisis). He was responding to the clams from the North and the South. The North attacked slavery while trying to over come tension between wage labor and capital. One the other hand, the South tried to change to view point of language of rights to help their master to slave…

Hypocrisy of the United States Government on Human Rights The language that is used by government officials is critical when it comes to analyzing the governments policies. In “Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms”, the authors Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter demonstrates how spokespeople of governments can easily manipulate the language of human rights in order to justify violations of human rights such as attacks on Afghanistan after the 9/11. In Beth A. Simmons’s article…

Generally attributed to Mark Twain is the saying that politicians are like nappies in that they need to be changed regularly and for the same reason. And across the Atlantic, in the Land of the Free, it is almost changing time. Predictably, the Clinton and Bush dynasties still feel they haven’t made enough of a mark on US politics, and their representatives, Hillary and Jeb, respectively, are desperate to secure their party’s nomination. But it is one man that stands out from the rest, and to…

A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm by Amy Moran-Thomas whom reported her main thesis as a viewpoint about a “hard-fought health campaign against a centuries old pathogen, and the conflicting priorities and values, and laden paradoxes of humanitarianism at play as medicine breaches boundaries not normally thought of a permeable” (p.207). Moran-Thomas describes…

the consumer is assured, “measures the bottom line, not by dollars earned, but by number [sic] of lives we change and the positive social and environmental impact we make” (Me to We, 2011a). Such a model has significant implications for both humanitarianism and global education. (Jefferess,…

The war on drugs began in 1971 by Richard Nixon. Although the intension of the war on drugs was really to target certain groups of people, its outward appearance was to curve drug usage. That being said, this war has gone on for over 40 years; yet, the results of drug usage seem to be unchanged. The war on drugs has done nothing but targeted ethnic minorities, costed over a trillion dollars, and has exponentially increased the size of the prison system. This being said, I will argue that the war…

at numerous hospitals, clinics, and soup kitchens. Outside of the United States, he has traveled to several countries to do service work and help those in need. He has been a part of hunger relief, hostage negotiation, civil rights movements, humanitarianism promotions, and interfaith relations. Over the years, Ali has been recognized for his service to others, including, but not limited to, being chosen to be a United Nations Messenger of Peace, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from…