Velvet Revolution

In the picture, it is December 2005, close to Christmas. My family and I are visiting my dad’s side of the family in Chadron, Nebraska, for a family Christmas party. The cheerful atmosphere is captured in the smiles on my cousin Spencer and I. The one in the front is me, and I am six years old. I am playing with Spencer and his guinea pig. While we were playing, my mom snapped a picture, capturing the silly moment when Spencer put the guinea pig on my head. When I was as young as I am in the…

In my own words, I believe that there are so many issues that I’ve experienced personally when it comes to dealing with autonomous and positive face creating conflicts. Some of the issues that I can relate to, was a moment that I came to concerning the things that I loved doing. Continuing this new ideal thoughts as part of my truly needed some sort of a time away from family. This became an issue toward my parents mainly since I never really came forth face to face and told my why I’ve been…

We have seen vast amounts of movies that have been made about revolutions against groups of people. Les Miserable, one of the most notable and recognized musicals of our time is set during the French Revolution. Unfortunately, we see images that tend to glorify the act of revolting against something and while movies like Les Miserable are entertaining, they tend to be lacking in the true facts department. The real French Revolution was horribly bloody and got way out of hand. The original intent…

Family Matters Oh, how the times have changed. Whether it is socially, politically, or environmentally, the world is evolving. Some of the changes are for the better and some for the worse. One adjustment that has seemed to be put aside in society recently, is how much time families spend together. The main source of familial bonding is normally dinnertime. However, many families do not take advantage of this opportunity. Only about forty percent of American families eat dinner together more…

Parental Leave Laws are an extremely important but overwhelmingly overlooked necessity in America. Other countries have proven for years that Paid and Protected Parental Leave strengthen the family unit, as well as the economic and corporate structures. The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate paid leave for mothers of newborns. We must make Parental Leave Laws a priority for all parents if we wish to improve the standard quality of life in this country and…

The essence of security sector reform especially in the military according to Dun and Tar were to change institutional norms, support professionalism, advance resource utilisation and operational effectiveness (on the side of the military), better policy management (on the side of civil authorities), in consonant with accountability and respect for human rights and international law and involving inputs from a variety of stakeholders and actors (Dunn, and Tar, 2008: 23). Effective post…

The moment that Hawaii Five-O aired on TV when I was 12, I knew that I would be able to count on watching it with my family every time it aired. We put aside our individual tasks and problems and gathered around the TV every Friday to watch Five-O. The shows characters gave prominent examples of leadership, honor, and morals, and many lessons from the show still stick with me today. Hawaii Five-O taught me a lot of things about family and what’s really important, and it brought me closer to my…

Communism. Following his death, Snowball rules over the farm, but is overthrown by Napoleon. In time both leaders ignore the equality Animalism meant and conditions worsen. The story has a very present similarity of the Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin’s leading In the revolution, much of the working class had been told . Disillusionment has an effect on attitudes and behaviors because it changes opinions of people, it causes mass confusion…

In the second chapter of, “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent” by Eduardo Galeano had a lot of information in it. The chapter also had a ton of themes going on, but the three most important themes in my opinion that I thought was represented in the chapter repeatedly was slaves and cheap workers such as peasants. Another theme was the devastations that occurred throughout Latin America. The last theme that I will summarize was the theme of violence that was…

In October of 1916, in small town Ely Minnesota, a local grocery store was built on nothing but the foundation of family. The small company has spread all around the Iron Range, giving that sense of family to all who have visited. The Zupancich’s have carried on their family traditions for over a century, making their family name well known, along with their famous “Zup’s” sausages. Throughout the many years of service, the family traditions have been passed along from generation to generation…