National Coming Out Day

General Australian refugee facts and figures The 1951 UN Refugee Convention defines a refugee as “someone who has a well-founded fear of persecution in their own country, because of their race, religion, nationality or political or social affiliation” (Refugee Action Coalition, n.d.). In other words refugees are ordinary individuals who have been forced to leave their country to be able to escape war, persecution or natural disaster (Oxford, 2014). Ever since 1945 there have been over 700 000…

currently left the entire continent of Europe in a state of emergency. With refugees coming in fast, the European countries only choice was to aid the tired and weary immigrants. Over two hundred thousand people have died since the start of the Syrian civil war, with eleven million people being forced from their homes and four million fleeing the country the U.K. is facing an immigration crisis and keeping the refugees out is not an option. Four years ago the Syrian civil war began with acts…

nature and the importance of appreciating pieces of art in their original forms and environments. Located in the Early East Asian gallery of the Harvard Art Museums, a collection of five Buddhist carvings and one statue attract many visitors every day. Although these sculptures are curated together in a harmonious fashion, they actually originated from three separate caves in the Tianlongshan mountain range in Shanxi, China. These carvings can be traced back to slightly different time periods as…

rise to songs such as We Shall Overcome and Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, to unite, to feel a sense of comfort and hope. The songs We Shall Overcome and Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika have become musical representations of triumph over the injustice within their national origins. Because of this, these songs have contributed to Peirce’s Sign Theory of icon and index, and have been repurposed to garner support against present societal challenges, such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the promotion of…

believed he could gain political power if the SA was out of the picture. In addition, the SA's police activities were rivals to Goring's Gestapo which had been established in Prussia since early 1933.20 Goring was also the Prussian Minister of the Interior and did not appreciate the SA's bid for police control in his area of influence. To assist in monitoring SA and other possible opponent's…

Activism can been seem in an activity that a large amount of people take part in every day, sports. An example of this comes from the events of World War II and Vietnam. During the World War II multiple athletes went to the war without much thought. A few even missed their respective sport’s season. On the other hand during the Vietnam…

the money be coming from in sources of grants? loans? or what? We struggle every day with poverty although so much money is sunk…

The police officers had conducted over sixty hours of extra training planning in preparation for the this day. There were officers assigned to work over time the night of when the verdict was going to be read, in case a riot broke out. Over one million dollars were set aside for the LAPD for that day. After the verdict was read only a few extra police officers were kept on shift. Most of the other police officers were scheduled to deal with the riots…

market needs,” (Meissner 8). A presidential candidate in 2016 election Furthermore, after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) the immigration pattern dramatically changed: In 1960, 7 out of 8 immigrants were European, by 2010, 9 out of 10 immigrants came from different parts…

English has been spoken in America as a national language for so long. Every American knows how to speak and even right fluent English. The American English, though slightly differs with the British English. In the recent times, there has been an ongoing debate about whether the country should be multilingual or remain with the monolingual ways of speaking English as the national language. There have been various scholars writing about English as a language. Their viewpoints differ significantly…