Violent non-state actor

Our society develops an appreciation to the living situation we are accustomed with. This understanding comes from the comfort associated with that. And it is not until these comforts are discoursed or amplified that we get uncomfortable placing our self’s there. Being uncomfortable radiates in Brazil. This is not a Brazil as a whole but multiple ‘colonies’ that live within Brazil that expands this feeling. While the rest of Brazil lives in a mainstream way of life, they often cast a judgement…

According to the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) the costs we bear for overreliance on youth confinement is “sticker shock” (2014). There is a criterion which affirms that temporary confinement of juvenile offenders is still overused in the United States. An established and expanding embodiment of research shows that pre-trial detention and post-adjudication confinement for youth can have remarkably adverse consequences for the juveniles’ ability to get back on the right track.…

South America, ‘non-European’ and aiming to give indigenous people some form of voice. 'Cidade de Deus ' (Meirelles and Lund, 2002) is constructed in a similar way to a Hollywood 'Gangster Film ', using many of the genre 's tropes to demonise the society it depicts. It is Eurocentric to consider societies outside of Europe as being ones which lack concern for the value of human life (Eurocentrism, 1). The 'Gangster Film ' genre revolves around the sinister actions of violent members…

American often time are not given the roles that they are to play. The film industry has not represented Native Americans favorably. Sometimes films have portrayed Native American as a fierce or violent group of people ready to attack. Native American on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths and the “Good Indian” states that “These same terms – savage, ruthless, merciless, fanatic – had been used for centuries to describe American Indians.” Arabs have also faced racism in the film industry. They have…

colonizing efforts they attempt; however, as Asad highlights, they are the ones who determine the differences between war and terrorism, military and non-military action, and moral and immoral. Although war is inherently cruel, terror inducing, and threatening to civilians, all characteristics which define terrorism, countries such as Israel and the United states cloak their war efforts in the terms of just war theory, good intention, and domestic security. Moreover, not only have they created…

PROPOSED ROPOSED CAUSES AND CONTRIBUTING FACTORS OF THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE “... a Kampuchea which is independant, unified, peaceful, neutral, non-aligned, with sovereignty over its territorial integrity, in a society in which happiness, equality, justice, and true democracy reign, without rich or poor, without exploiting class or exploited class, a society in which the entire people lives in harmony and great national unity and bands together to contribute to the production effort and, together…

due to the fact that the Oscars, for the second consecutive year, did not include any people of color in the nominations list for the acting category. Society voiced their opinions’ on the award show, claiming there to be countless African American actors well deserving of an Oscar. Similarly, Mark Twain’s novel is also accused of being racist. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn depicts a story of a young white boy, Huck Finn, helping Jim, an African American slave, get his freedom. Thus,…

In the ten days following the 2016 United States presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights and legal advocacy organization, recorded almost 900 incidents of hate-motivated harassment, intimidation, or violence in the United States. This “outbreak of hate” was primarily directed toward ethnic, racial and religious minorities, and perpetrators often invoked President-elect Donald Trump’s name during their assaults. These incidents were self-reported, thus it…

Nowadays, bullying becomes one of the major social challenges that American people are facing. An article titled "Bullying Laws ' ' published on the Bullying Statistics Website states that bullying can happen in and out of school, in person or through other forms of communication. There is another form called ' 'Cyberbullying ' ' when the bully uses e-mails, text messages, or posts on websites to perform this kind of behavior. The same sources underlines two types of bullying : verbal…

food, territory, riches, power, and prestige have been an almost constant recurrence. Indeed, much of what is written in human history is simply a history of warfare. The world that we know today, from the states that we live in to the technology that we use daily, has been greatly shaped by violent struggle.” This ties into human rights violation in countries that has poverty, high percentages of poor education, corrupt governments, and lack of important resource has the most child soldiers...…