Underdevelopment

Borderline personality disorder is a dreadful mental illness that affects every aspect of a victim’s life. Holden Caulfield, the main character in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, seems to be suffering from BPD. Holden is a sixteen year old boy who was recently kicked out of his school, Pencey Prep, and he decides to travel to New York City and live there by himself for a few days. During his time in New York, he shows undeniable signs of the mental disorder, Borderline Personality…

Whilst national independence in Third World nation states was one of the main objectives of the Third World project, leaders quickly came to realize that this would not be possible without ensuring Afro-Asian economic independence first. These nations pledged their support for each individual country’s economic development – they vowed to rely on themselves rather than on Western foreign aid. Foreign capital was seen as a tool for ‘exploitation rather than for the development of the less…

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The…

Africans. The African leaders elected Thambo Mbeki, the host president, as the new AU president. Mr. Mbeki promised that AU would liberate Africans and bring stability to the continent’s economy. He correctly pointed out at poverty and perennial underdevelopment as the central issues to be addressed by the new union. Other African leaders…

Starting at a young age, citizens of any given nation begin to learn the history of their nation. Including the specifics of the history within the nation itself, or history outside the nation that lead to changes being made within. It is typical not to hold back on the history that is taught to the young people of a nation, because we are taught history to both understand how we got to the state that we are now in as a country and how we can prevent repetition of horrific historical events.…

Travelling is inevitably a change from routine, a break or perhaps even freeing for some. With the right amount of romantic evocation, attractions and plenty of nature’s sceneries, anything beautiful can undermine the reality when it is written on paper. “A Small Place” by Kincaid seeks to challenge this very notion by revealing a darker side of tourism, a dimension that looks beyond Antigua as a tourist locale. Behind a romanticized narrative of Antigua reveals the challenges of…

implemented a series of reforms that attempted to further guide China towards a socialist society vis-à-vis a communist society. These reforms that Mao implemented were in regards to the increase corruption found within local leadership and underdevelopment found within villages, for example: Chen Village. Chen Village, a village within the People’s Republic of China, experienced massive waves of reforms and backlashes under the reign of Chairman Mao, such narrative of Chen Village’s radical…

in the Teenage Brain 2.) Teenagers nowadays are expected to act and make decisions like adults. However, this high expectation should not be placed on a teenager’s shoulders if their brain is not fully developed until their mid 20s. Because of underdevelopment of the brain, teens still need to understand the responsibilities they have. Additionally, “The teenage brain is constantly changing, even right now.” (Insight into the Teenage Brain, Adriana Galvan.) The teenage brain is very sensitive to…

Family life in my community. Introduction Families are like branches on a tree, family members all grow in different directions yet the roots remain as one. As one of my favorite quotes by Scoot King states, that ‘The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members and families”. Family is a complex word to define, because it differs from culture to culture and society to society within one country. One definition provided by White paper on…

On April 26, 1986 in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, a failure in emergency shutdown procedures caused an eruption of Chernobyl’s fourth reactor. The nuclear explosion caused the initial death of a single person, but many later would die of the particles put into the atmosphere early that morning. Since Chernobyl was a nuclear plant, radioactive materials were dispersed into the air. Some of the products are very lethal, some are not, but they still affect the world even today. The…