President of South Africa

Desires are feelings that every human goes through. However, the desire to have power, once acquired is not easy to get rid of. This idea is explored by Kathryn Stockett, in her novel The Help which is a story about three women in Jackson, Mississippi and their efforts to challenge these desires of power. This idea is also present in the movie Mississippi Burning by Alan Parker. Mississippi Burning is about a pair of FBI agents who go to Jessup County to solve the murder case of three civil…

Respect; it’s a word that is used daily. 365 days a year, someone somewhere is talking about the principles of respect. What principles? To listen to each other, to treat everyone equally, the idea that everyone has a voice, so on and so on. In The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, the principles of respect are front and centre, and being analysed with every sentence written. The Help takes place in and explores the lifestyle of 1962 Jackson Mississippi. It explores the relationships of…

Introduction The topic that I am going to write about is why black women never marry. This is a very important topic to me. The reasoning is because I am a black woman. I have been curious about this theory over the years noticing in my community that black women are not married. Hopefully in this paper I will receive the knowledge that I have been looking for. I am going to search the internet to see if I can find a source that can give light of the topic that I am looking rather…

Since the beginning of the human race there has always been social problems and cultural conflicts. Parts of these social and cultural problems changes within the following generation. However the one concepts that doesn’t change is racism. This is shown in social media such as play and in speeches as well. Two examples are Shakespeare’s tragic play Othello and the speech made by Frederick Douglass which was called “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July. These are shown brilliantly for…

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow explores the racial injustice towards the African American race and the steps that were taken to transform the United States from a country of segregation to one of integration. In the year 1918, lynching in the U.S. was very common. In Georgia, Hayes Turner was hung because he was thought to be involved in a conspiracy to kill a White plantation owner. He wife, Mary, pregnant at the time, said she’d challenge any person who thought her husband really killed someone…

Nittle stated cultural appropriation typically involves members of a dominant group exploiting the culture of less privileged groups often with little understanding of the latter’s history, experience and traditional. Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, defined cultural appropriation as follows: In the United States, cultural appropriation almost always involves members of the dominant culture (or those who identify with it) "borrowing" from the cultures of minority groups. African…

African Culture: From Corruption to Change According to Transparency International, within the continent of Africa, the majority of countries (vast majority) slant towards the bottom of the scale of corruption, with Somalia and South Sudan having the lowest ratings of all the countries, yet other countries are thriving such as Batswana and Namibia. (Transparency International, 2014) Among the issues facing many of these countries is the issues of abject poverty, poor government infrastructure,…

FEIMSTER Feimster argues that white men in the postbellum South lynched black and white women as a mode of enforcing the patriarchal social order, enabled by racist tropes about black people on the one hand, and classist beliefs and the threat of socially and politically challenging views among white people on the other. Feimster observes that “[e]ven though women represented a small minority of lynch victims, their stories highlight the violence of white male supremacy and women’s desperate…

black. While the black is guilty until proven innocent, the white is innocent until his or her criminal nature is made very obvious. Richard Pryor used two lawyers, one from the north and the other from the south, who were both complicit in racism to show that racism was not restricted to the south. The Northern lawyer, who argued for the black defendant was complicit in racism in his lack of conviction to the fair trial of the black man as well as in his view that the whites were more evolved…

Introduction South Africa has the largest number of HIV infections, with approximately 6.4 million people living with HIV ( Shisana O et al., 2014) and 29.5% (National Department of Health, 2014) of this part were pregnant women. Figure 1 (Barron et al., 2013) showed prevalence of HIV infection among pregnant women from 1990 and 2010. From 2002 to 2012, HIV prevalence decreased among children (Avert, 2015). However, there were 9% of newly infected with HIV live in South Africa in 2011 (UNAIDS,…