International Women's Day

In Chapter 6 of our textbook, we learned about the following: state power, the types of state violence, exogenous violence such as genocide, torture, international conflict, terrorism, and lastly endogenous violence such as state executions anti-communist attacks, domestic spying, etc. I found these topics extremely interesting, as well as, believe that they are particularly controversial topics for discussion. A few things that really stood out for me in this chapter were the topics of…

Exploration of Topic. The topic of the research is based around the concept of cultural adjustment process, how international students cope with it and integrates into the American society. The importance of this topic is very well understood in USA. Students from all over the world come to USA to get higher education and all of them go through this process of cultural adjustment in many different ways. This makes cultural adjustment a very significant subject of studies here. Hence,…

Globalisation is the "integration of the political, economic and cultural activities of geographically and/or nationally separated people" (US Department of Defence, 1999, p1) which results in the widespread economic interdependence of nations across continents through the exchange of: capital and goods; information and ideas; people and environmental substances. This massively increased scale of trade and cultural interchange has been aided by a variety of processes: Improvements in…

a non-profit international disability and development organization that strives to aid people who have an impediment or disability. They treat disabilities and empower individuals to become active member in society. Light of the World specializes in inclusive education, eye health, prevention of blindness, and community based rehabilitation; through these four concentrations, they aspire to change the world. They are currently engaged with multiple local, national, and international…

Groups such as the European union (EU) and to a lesser extend those such as the African Union, Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Caribbean Community are all organizations that exist as either a supranationalist or quasi supranationalist organization. Each of these organizations experiences both positive benefits to the agreements between their nations and selective pressures against them. While there may be unforeseen benefits to the creation of one world wide supranationalist super…

Humans have always owned a sense of survival in doing their best of what they can do to live, thrive, and survive such as the survival of the fittest however, we as humans feel the need to help those in need to help everyone for the better good of all. A way that we as humans fulfill the desire to help and better enable the prosperity of others is to donate foreign aid to other countries this has been done for a long, long time in which a group of people as in a country will donate money or…

land is put into cultivation and this became a cycle with the lower classes very unhappy. This was also seen in Document 6 as it goes into details of the working conditions. In silver mines, many Indian workers were forced to work with hammers all day and hike miles to produce silver coins. This document also discusses the secret silver that was often taken without paying tax or registration fees. Many coins have been taken out despite the rough life many Indians had to suffer to produce them.…

spoke with international students, the more I noticed familiar refrains that both educated me and reminded me about my own U.S. and academic culture” (Nathan 67). An anthropologist, Rebekah Nathan went undercover – she goes back to school as a freshman at her own university to see the campus through student eyes. This decision was made as she wanted to analyze and examine the campus life fairly instead of having the often professor-student research studies. By interviewing international…

In the early days of the revolution, before the efforts of all the political parties was fully organized women fought along side the men on the front lines. Many fought to end the social disparity between men and women as a way to prove that women could handle just…

person should be given one more chance before being sentenced to the death penalty..Regardless,people believe the death penalty should not exist because there are other punishments that can be taken place. In the article Death Penalty by Amnesty International explains how everyday, people are executed by the state as punishment for a variety of crimes. In this quote, “We have been working to end executions since 1977, when only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice.…