It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

a more open and competitive manner. Transparency has been replaced instead with the non-performance of contractual obligations, bribery and favoritism. Although there were repeated attempts for the allocation rounds to take place in the public realm, many of the problems don’t take place at this point in the process. The Nigerian government must move to involve countries like the USA, England and Norway in the proceedings in order to integrate consultants better versed in traditional…

The conflict in Kurdistan has a very long history and is very complicated. The Kurdish people are at a crossroads. With the destabilization in Iraq and Syria, Kurdish forces are seizing the opportunity to establish a nation-state. The Kurds have been oppressed and tossed around for the past century and are now in a position to create a sovereign state. Pre world war 1, the Kurds lived rather peacefully under the Ottoman Turks. The Ottomans only acted violently against the Kurds when there were…

cultural norms of a nation or region by a much “advanced” nation with access to superior weapons. The ideology of superiority can be seen in Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man 's Burden, in which he called on the “white” European nations, and the United States, to educate and help those “sullen peoples [that were] half-devil and half-child” of the world, for it was their obligation to take on this “thankless” burden. For years, Europeans had believed that they were truly the superior being,…

In the source, Romeo Dallaire talks about a need for a transfusion of humanity. The source talks about us needing to prove that we are humans, and that we believe everyone else is human. The different ways we can prove this through our actions are discussed in the second half of the source. The perspective that Dalliare holds is that we need to assist those countries that as a result of globalization are less advanced and struggling to live. This is an interesting perspective when you look at…

hard work for what they wanted and dedication to their success. We see in this text that no matter the struggle they kept going and will always find ways to overcome the obstacles. Text 2: “Speech to the Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry “Three million of people, armed in the…

History October 19th, 2015 Step 3 Background Information “If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, the unanimous choice would have been Korea.” (History.com) said US Secretary of State Dean Acheson in reference to the Korean War. The Korean War was fought from June 25 1950, to July 1953, after upwards of 5 million soldiers and civilians from North Korea, South Korea, China and America lost their lives. Although…

people are convicted of felonies- which inhibits their right to vote. However, decisions made in elections affect everyone, thus the opinions and concerns of felons should be counted as a fundamental right. Just because they are criminals, that does not take away their citizenship and basic rights as an American. Also, not all felons that are convicted are guilty, so taking away their right to vote further strips them of their individuality. Although, felons lose almost all their rights when…

New Deal plan is still used today. He was very successful and many people liked what he did for this country. He made sure people knew he was going to fix the economy and that everything would be alright. He spent most of his life in the political back ground. Growing up he was extremely smart. He had all private tutors and went to Harvard and Columbia law school. He wanted to fallow in his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt 's footsteps. He started out as a lawyer on Wall Street and was there for…

executive order allowing more than 4.3 million of “unauthorized” immigrants three years of relief from deportation. This executive order holds true under the circumstance that these unauthorized immigrants have arrived in the United States before “2010, under the age of 16, or have arrived in the US after 2010 and have at least one child who is a citizen or legal resident.” The issue of immigration, specifically illegal, is a hot topic around the world, to which many nations scramble to find…

that would help her lead her to way to medical school. She got in. "I stayed up late at night, made As to get in. What was the point of working so hard when I can 't even go?" she said. She wasn 't awarded any grants and could simply not afford to take out $2000 in student loans, as her parents would pay the $58,000 in annual costs. Turning down UCLA, the place she worked for years to get in, was very hard for Katherine. "I did my part as a student, but my parents felt like they couldn 't do…