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society that features various levels of wealth (defined, among other things, by group specificities) and a “visible” MSM minority – provides enough preconditions for a single group to become obviously vulnerable. In a more homogeneous society, like South Africa, a certain set of MSM problems recedes into the background of the ongoing humanitarian disaster in general. As a result, MSM appear to be affected by the very same determinants, even if to a somehow greater…

"The Prisoners of War,” a relatively short poem by Tom Disch, written in 1972, is riddled with imagery and deeper meaning. Even in the opening line, Disch cuts to the point. “Their language disappeared a year or so after the landscape: so what can they do now but point?” (line 1-3). Here it does not take much to get an interpretation. He is saying that our society has lost something. We have lost our “language,” meaning our ability to have intimate face-to- face conversations. That…

different reasons why we should not have gone to war. First off, the United States spent around one-hundred and eleven billion dollars during the war. The only reason the United States joined the war was that North Vietnam was only trying to make South Vietnam a communist government that America did not want. Secondly, the number of casualties was 90,000 meaning that half of the troops we lost was on the battlefield, and the other half had died after the war from serious injuries. My…

A song written by the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, titled “Ohio,” tells the story of Kent State and embodied the feeling of many of the American Youth. The song has lyrics such as, “Gotta get down to it/Soldiers are cutting us down” and “We’re finally on our own.” The war had finally seemed to reach the home front. All of these events, and others, worked together to build resistance against the Vietnam War in the public’s eye. The Soldiers and What They had to Endure: There is no single…

a couple of years before his release from prison in 1990, for example, Mandela is described as a militant pioneer and an ANC radical leader who turned into a world statesman amid the twentieth century. There cannot be a more natural figure in South African history than Nelson Mandela, whose own individual account is inseparably bound up in general society creative energy with that of the more extensive battle against politically-sanctioned racial segregation.…

The film Hearts and Minds is a documentary made by Peter Davis in 1974 to portray America’s unethical involvement in Vietnam and examine the opinions of many by showing interviews and vivid footages. The film focuses more on those who were against the war than those who supported it. For the U.S. all that mattered was the victory. However, those who were opposed to the war felt that there was no right or reasonable justification for their actions. The real issue illustrated by the film was…

permissible until the Protocols were amended in 1975. However, a lack of enforceability by any international governing body allowed a nation like South Africa to secretly create its own such program, one that operated unchecked and actively employed its toxins and agents throughout the 1980s. With apartheid as the nation’s backdrop, the ruling power of South Africa faced foes both abroad in neighboring nations in the form of leftist and communist groups in Angola, Namibia, and Rhodesia, and at…

“The Gods Must Be Crazy” is a 1980s South African comedy classic . The protagonist, a traveling bushman, encounters a modern civilian for the first time. The movie became an international hit. The bushman character was based off of the !Kung peoples of South Africa, a hunter-gatherer society (IMDb, 2016). With this however, the movie displayed many stereotypes, which is defined by Richard D. Bucher as, “…an unverified and oversimplified generalization about an entire group of people (Bucher,…

Opening My Eyes to a Familiar Yet Unfamiliar World 1,200 feet above sea level and 30 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles, I woke up as the birds chirped and the sun shined straight into my face in the suburbs of Palos Verdes, California. Waking up in a house on top of an actual hill instead of an apartment on the 27th floor of a manmade building I used to live in, in Seoul, South Korea. Moving back to America after my freshman year of high school was a complete switch for me in environment…

While ROK and Japan clearly has the advanced technology to become a NWS especially the latter having nuclear reactors along its archipelago, their long-standing policies will make this difficult. For South Korea, the people are less inclined to anger its northern neighbours because they want to rebuild ties instead. In Japan’s case, its Pacifist Constitution which we imposed upon them would make it almost impossible to legally become a nuclear country…