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Will African Leaders Learn The Compaore Lesson? Following the resignation of the military dictator-turned-politician and former Burkina Faso President, Blaise Compaore, on Friday after violent protests over his audacious attempt to extend his 27-year rule, the question one might ask is: Will other African leaders learn a lesson from the Compaore nemesis? In an unprecedented move, the former strongman of Burkina Faso, who had stubbornly rejected earlier warnings to step down after his office…

This thesis-driven essay deals with the quandary of order in Somalia, the purpose being to determine the factors that maintain the current condition of statelessness. An important aspect of this exercise is to highlight the differences within the region embodied by the legal unit of Somalia. Located in the North of the country, two major entities have developed, Somaliland and Puntland, in stark contrast to southern and central Somalia which “are marred by violence and the absence of effective…

a hydration tube. The success of this type of treatment was show in the case of Nina Pham. A positive spin can be taking form the survival of nurse Pham, providing a new angle on the matter. Furthermore, Ebola can destroy places as well. In Kono, Liberia, and Guinea Ebola had over run the people; where the Ebola epidemic is the worst, there are hundreds of new cases reported every week. Isaac Newton’s laws prove that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, in life there is a…

On December 7, 1941, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor marked the beginning of the United State’s formal engagement in WWII. At the turn of 1942, the U.S. began military deployment to the western shoreline of Europe. These watershed dates stand out as symbols of the U.S. military commitment in Europe. However, the United State’s engagement in Europe began far before Japan’s attack on U.S. soil. The lend and lease program signed into law by President Roosevelt was essential for an Ally victory in…

Culture is a society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas and characteristics used to generate behavior and reflect behavior and other primates besides humans, like gorillas, chimps, and orangutans do, in fact, have culture. Chimps copy each other into adulthood developing cultural behaviors by imitating their peers and research on gorillas, chimps and orangutans have shown they use tools, communicate with each other and even mourn the deaths of each other. This research paper will explain…

What is democracy? Democracy can be defined as the system of government in which the ruling power of a state is legally vested, not in any particular population group or class, but in the people. Abraham Lincoln(President of the United States of America 1861-1865), said that democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people. The word democracy comes from the Greek word demos and knatia, in other words rule by people meaning all citizens in the city state Athens. Democracy thus…

Why We Shouldn’t Panic About Ebola Ebola or hemorrhagic fever is a virus, which has a high rate of killing people. The virus attacks every cell in the body leading to organ failure and death. There is no known cure at this time. In West Africa the current outbreak is the worst it 's ever been, but this is not the first. The first was in 1976, two cases appeared in Zaire, Sudan, and other in Samburu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus was named after the Ebola River in the village where it…

Somalia is consistently seen as a failed state, undeniably it could be argued that it is the classic case as Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As Messner (2013) argues, “it is also indubitable that the plan to build and sustain a modern state, with internal and external sovereignty as its defining characteristics has failed in Somalia.” However, Robert W. Cox (2209) adds, “many works in political science dealing with Somalia are written from a ‘problem-solving…

The most common and dangerous stereotype that Africa possesses, is that of tribal attitudes and actions. Often, people believe that Africans, above all other ethnic individuals, are unhealthily attached to the tenets of their tribe. One might even be supported in this thought when observing the way African migrants and diasporas act within their new environment. However, through this paper, I decided to explore how those of the African diaspora come to their identity. Due to the connection…

Law and criminality Why is it important to stop crimes against teen age girls? what are the effects of these crimes on there life? Introduction This report is about the crimes happening against teenage girls nowadays, and how these problems bring restrictions in the life of teenage girls all around the world , in India and in my locality. This report also has a number of solutions that the women as well as men can use to overcome these issues. Problems like gender discrimination, poor job and…