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authorities selected him for the job as they wanted a "young and energetic man" to administer it. Michael was married to a woman named Nancy she is slightly egotistical but is always kind and considerate towards him, “We shall do our best”(188) the wife was always looking up to the modern ways, “We shall have such beautiful gardens and everything will be just modern and delightful….” (188). She was sad for a moment when she found out that all of her husband's colleagues are young and unmarried…

We hear almost every day on the news or on the radio how politicians argue upon correct solutions. What the politicians do, can we as citizens in minor degree effect, but what small steps can each one of us take to stop the climate change? In this contribution to my local newspaper, I am going to reflect upon this…

The National Party came to power in 1948 and implemented the policy of Apartheid which remained entrenched in South Africa (SA) until 1994. Sport is an important factor in South African’s lives owing to their strong sports culture. It unified people as well as publically highlighted the Apartheid racial policies through the use of media coverage of sporting fixtures. Essentially, international factors created external pressure on the Apartheid government through the use of sports boycotts.…

Born on the second of October in 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is according to the views of his worldwide followers, the father of the Indian independence movement. He got this title as a result of spending the better part of twenty years in South Africa bravely working to fight against discrimination. It is here that he came up with the notion of satyagraha; A peaceful way of protesting against injustices. Upon his return to India, Gandhi's humility and uncomplicated way of life did not go…

We Were Soldiers One… And Young is a thrilling novel the recounts the First and Second Battalions of 7th Cavalry Regimen during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. The events in the book are told by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore the commander of the battalion and Joseph L. Galloway a war journalist. Moore is in charge of two battalions that are some of the first to incorporate helicopters into their tactics. They go into Vietnam under manned due to expiring enlistments; they had to fight a true…

The movie We Were Soldiers is based on the Battle of Drang in November 1965. The United States Army 1st Battalion specifically, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division was in charge of Lt. Col. Moore who from the beginning demonstrated his leadership among his soldiers. From the moment Lt. Col. Moore began training its soldiers acted in such a way that he could win the confidence of his soldiers while serving as motivation for them. Before leaving American soil he promised…

The song we shall overcome is a protest song that became a key anthem of the civil right Movement. Which derives from a gospel song, possibly a 1903 song by Rev. Charles Tindley of Philadelphia containing the repeated line "I'll overcome some day", In Charleston, South Carolina in 1946, striking employees the American Tobacco Company, mostly African American women were singing hymns on the picket line. A woman named Lucille Simmons sang a slow "long meter style" version of the song, as "We'll…

The majority of portable tiny home builders tend to use recycled materials as they are cheaper and sometimes even free. Kristin Davis writes in “Tiny Home is Modern Housing” “Kristopher Angstadt said “We build professionally and under code,” just as if they were constructing a regular house.” When building a traditional home there is a very specific set of regulations that one has to follow during the construction of the home. The type of wood, the…

exactly the same. Dealing with problems the same. Even the way we thought was scarily similar. Imagine imagining almost the reciprocation of a dream room, imagine thinking about how you were back in middle school starting from 8 grade year. She’s like the other half of me when i was younger. Besides the bratty ways. Which is why Alice, the protagonist of “Alice in time” by Penelope Bush and I are similar in more than one way then i expected. We both share just about the same views of the world,…

wagering that "he can get the best of that woman." This begins a very long battle of trying to see who would break first but it starts a lot of progress with the development of the patients because they all begin to follow McMurphy's lead and this is where we begin to see him as a Christ figure. If McMurphy was at his strongest so were the patients. They all began to follow his teachings and lifestyle just like Jesus did with his followers. McMurphy teaches them how to speak up and do right when…