Universalism

Ali Shari’ati is considered to be one of the most significant ideologues of the 1979 revolution in Iran- the events that overturned the Pahlavi monarchy and ushered in the Islamic Republic. Despite his death in 1977, just months before protesters spilled onto the streets of Tehran, Shari’ati’s lectures and published writings are said to have defined the tenor of the uprising. In some of his most influential lectures, delivered during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Shari’ati attempted to fuse…

Servant Leadership and Benevolent Organisation: Abstract Introduction Benevolent Organisation has recently become a significant topic of interest amongst the organisational researchers who are exploring and creating environment of human progress and compassion (Karakas,F.Sarigllu,E,2012).Organisations are considered making rooms for emotions, meaning, spirituality and community which were viewed only as a rational system (Ashmos and Duchon,2000). Around the world, the leaders are contributing…

Imagine living in Atlanta from 1979-1981. Imagine the warm weather, the late nights, and the timeless moments spent with family and friends. Imagine your child telling you about the classmate who has disappeared. Imagine coworkers missing work to search for their missing babies. Imagine a city full of children paralyzed by fear. Imagine a city full of grieving parents haunted by regret. Imagine wanting everything missing found—peace of mind included. No, you do not want to imagine yourself as a…

Jack Donnelly would grant Fauziya Kissindja political asylum in the United States based on the definition of a refugee. A refugee is “any person who has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of particular social and political group...unable or, owing to such fear is unwilling to return to it” (Fullerton, 2006, p. 138). Donnelly’s reasoning would revolve around Kissindja’s well-founded fear of persecution by a social group, not on the sole basis…

In the fall of 1929, the economic downturn of the Depression was triggered by a rapid decline in values of stock at the New York Stock Exchange in the fall of 1929. During this time, the national income had been cut in half, over nine million savings accounts evaporated, and five thousand banks had collapsed. Such a terrible economic climate inevitably impacted the entertainment industry, specifically Hollywood. In response to these times, the film industry created a studio system in which only…

1. Examine ‘Négritude’ as both an intellectual movement and literary phenomenon in the light of Sartre’s assessment of it. Négritude is both a literary phenomenon and an intellectual movement founded in Paris by three young, disenfranchised colonial subjects: Aimé Césaire, Léon Gontran Damas and Léopold Sédar Senghor from Martinique, Guiana and Senegal respectively. The two principal aims of Négritude were to demonstrate to the world the value of black culture through the promotion of black…

The Great War and the Expiration of Religion The Great War, characterized by its international scope, its incredibly underestimated duration and magnitude, and its completely unpredicted and enormous consequences, sits upon the human saga unlike any event previously recorded throughout all of history. Before 1914, Europe had not faced a notable war for one hundred years, much less one of comparable magnitude. As war-barren as Europe’s landscape was prior to the First World War, it was equally…

Introduction The rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain led to dramatic change within many nations throughout the nineteenth century through the expansion of British Empire abroad, as well as other forms of encounters between British colonisers or conquerors and its vassal states. There has always, however, been a double aspect to such expansions. This gives clear attention to liberalism 's ability to negotiate difference in a context of empire and to inspire the audiences through the analysis…

Development concept has been emerged since the enlightenment age as a number of social scientists did some research and came up with interesting concepts. However, the idea of development was not still known widely. As result of the devastating effect of World Word II, powerful countries consulted together to find the solution to recover the impact of this war. After the successful reconstruction, those countries drew attention to poor countries to assist them to develop. Therefore,…

Surge of Ultra-Conservatism: The US Presidential Election and Citizenship President-elect Donald Trump’s victory was shocking to Americans, but the world community saw it coming from a mile away. The past year has been full of liberal democratic politics shifting to far right conservatism, such as with Trump’s presidential victory. Scholars such as Nissim Mizrachi and Menachem Mautner contribute that the surge of radical conservatism has in fact been the product of the “liberal democratic form…