Humanitarianism

Many people find themselves misinformed regarding what exactly happened to the hippies of the late 60’s and 70’s. The belief that the psyconautical, tie-dye sporting, van-driving, happy-go-lucky counterculture has hence been disbanded is a common misconception. All that has occurred is the divergent evolution of a community. More clearly, for the predecessor breed, some did stay loyal to the soft, spacey, feel-good rock of the era like “The Grateful Dead,” and Jimi Hendrix. Then with the turn…

Canada has always thrived on being a country that people can trust to be welcoming and compassionate. Since the first world war, Canada’s participation and success on the battlefields did the most to create a sense of distinct nationhood; resulting in a flood of cultural nationalism across the country. However, in recent years, Canada’s familiar reputation for being a peacekeeping nation quickly changed as a certain political party took over the country. Spending billions of dollars to send…

The United Nations is the principal international organisation for the maintenance of world order and the prevention and resolution of global conflict. It holds the responsibility for almost every aspect of international affairs however this responsibility is not easily enforceable resulting in many questions the effectiveness of the organisation. This essay will outline the primary aims of the United Nations before exploring the key reasons the United Nations may be deemed ineffective; these…

Hypocrisy is rampant in human nature - we say one thing and do another; we believe one thing and renounce it with one event. This condition seems amplified in Dostoevsky’s Underground Man – a man of ‘high conscious’ and intellect. “To be overly conscious,” the Underground Man writes, “is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness” (Dostoevsky 2006, p.6). This extreme state of consciousness is the undoing for the Man; perhaps even the main cause of his paradoxical nature. The unreliability of the…

Introduction President Barack Obama effectively convinces his audience that increasing minimum wage is a matter that the American people have the power to make this change come to pass. He utilizes the appeals of ethos, pathos and logos to motivate the audience to take action in their community. In this literature review I want to highlight a few subcategories that help understand how President Obama was successful in convincing the American population to flex their democratic muscle to ensure…

China’s and Japan’s Classical Ages were a time that involved the growth and development of political, social, and cultural expressions. Classic Japanese literature resulted from using China’s language system and implementing its own ideas. The ideas that were spread during this time were a result of a cultural diffusion, which led to Japan developing their own writing system during the Nara period near 700 A.D. Both countries’ poetry continues show much of this development and growth. As a…

“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.” - Will Ferguson Throughout Canadian history we’ve discriminated against non-anglo-saxon groups of people on many occasions. Although we are now known as a country that accepts all cultures and races, we haven’t always been deserving of that status. During World War I, World War II, and post-war times we treated other ethnic groups unfairly…

The Law the Fit All of Us In this paper I will analyze CEDAW (Convention) against the UDHR (Universal), Tsisti Dangarembga’s “The Letter”, and Judith Butlers “Beside Oneself” to show that the universal claim of equal rights isn’t equal in a sense that not everyone had the same chance to experience the same human rights. Although the UDHR states in article 2 that “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind,[…] including sex…

The Adoption Journey When a couple has an emotional journey trying to have their own biological children, but at the end they were unable to, they may consider adopting a child of their own. Although adopt a child may not be same as having their own biological child, they are still able to provide the same amount love and care to their adopted child as they would have given to their own biological child. By adopting they can give the child a better life; however, there are some up and down of…

The Hope for the Hopeless Light in illness Have you ever been so sick that you feel as if you are going to die? All you can do is lay in bed helplessly and wait for your body to heal itself due to our strong immune system. We get to skip school and go to our doctor 's office which is usually within an hour drive. We get diagnosed with a cold or the flu and get prescribed a medication and are on our way home within the next hour or so. We get to go home and fight off the illness. We eventually…