...International Security The future of nation-state as the primary unit of action for world affairs can generally be said to be insecure. This may be mostly due to the increasingly world interconnection and also the move from a society monarchy to a communal one. The idea of globalisation has really intensified the interconnection globally which will lead to the world been interconnected to institutions of economics, politics and society. The challenges posed to nation-state by globalisation include; first, it reduces the ability of nation-state in influencing the economy in that all economic transactions are done in the global stage. Second it increases the transnational bodies which could be political, economic or combination of both. The third aspect is it allows for emergence of super and sub national power centres. Finally, there is the increasing world migrations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) importance. The insecurity of the nation state has great impact on the US foreign and security policies. There are various ways in which this is affecting the US foreign and security policies; through the introduction of the globalisation system the US policies will be undermined and thus negatively impacting on its security. The United States will also lose its control in the international economy a factor which will lea to other countries undermining its policies. This gradual decline will also widen the scope of security and stability and hence nations will be able...
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...are also echoes in this journal of a concept that stretches back into the nineteenth century, and whose most distinguished advocate was the great Liberian scholar and proto-Pan-Africanist E. W. Blyden. This is the belief that black people have unique spiritual and artistic talents, through which they can redeem not only themselves, but also the materialistically successful but spiritually deprived white peoples. While avoiding the racial basis of Blyden's thought, Professor Huggins seems to incline to this view. He portrays a world of black slaves who were not merely deprived of material opportunities and incentives by their circumstances, but also whose cultural heritage from Africa did not concern itself with such matters as profit, commerce and capital accumulation. This view of 'traditional' Africa is highly disputable. For Huggins, the eighteenth-century African arriving in America was a person 'from a traditional and static order'. Though warning...
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...Every country has a degree of self-determination, however, with some countries controlling their own statehood is not good enough. Nationalism is defined as the advocacy for a particular country to be independent. Therefore, nationalist countries naturally want to increase their power out of pride, which in turn has some adverse effects. These countries feel that their country is so great that its influence should be expanded by taking over other countries. The country is then Imperialist. This also sets into place the paradox of Nationalism-Imperialism. The Nationalism- Imperialism paradox essentially shows that Nationalist countries will grow in power until it becomes Imperialist; it will then take over other countries which will eventually...
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...Biography J.R.R. Tolkien was born on January 3rd, 1892, in Bloemfontein, which would be classified as South Africa in today’s world. “John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was the eldest of the two sons of Arnold Reuel Tolkien, an Englishman who was a banking manager in the Bank of Africa, and Mabel Suffield“ (Carpenter 11-13). When Tolkien was merely three years old his mother took him and his younger brother on a trip to visit relatives in England. His father had planned to join them later; however, “he contracted a rheumatic fever from which he partially recovered, until he suffered a severe hemorrhage that cost him his life” (Carpenter 16). After her husband’s passing, Mabel realized that she could not go back to Bloemfontein because she did not...
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...Arocha Professor Aleman 10 November 2015 1424609 Stealing Africa. Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen. 2012. Stealing Africa is a unique film that clearly calls into question whether or not multinational corporations are strategically taking all of the resources out of Africa. Christoffer Guldbrandsen clearly indicates how Africa has been a victim of multinational corporations, and that immediate change must occur. The film does an excellent job in illuminating the macro level issues that are occurring as a result of the exploitation that has occurred in Africa. Specifically, the copper belt in Africa, represents an essential commodity in the global community. All of the copper mines in Africa are owned my multinational corporations, and this is being used to manipulate revenues and taxes that should be paid to these host nations. Stealing Africa is a power film that demonstrates the level of exploitation that is occurring in Africa by the multinational corporations, and how this must be addressed by the global community. The paradox that is presented in the film, is based upon inequality that is occurring in terms of wealth and overall long term awareness that is thus present. On one end the country has the some of the highest natural resources in the world, yet is one of the poorer countries in the region. The film did an excellent job in showing how there is over ten times amount of revenue going out of Africa, comparative to the amount of foreign aid and income coming...
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...Nigeria, located in West Africa, is Africa’s most populous country with the recent estimate at 170 million. In spite of possessing huge human capital, fertile soils and being oil-rich, Nigeria can teach the mineral rich world a lesson or two about what not to do. Corruption, political instability, pollution and poor management are some of the reasons Nigeria has not been able to rise and gain the status it should have in the African continent. Macro-economic factors • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) A look at the real GDP growth of Nigeria shows that it has ranged between 6.4% and 7.8% from 2007-2013. It reached its peak of 7.8% in 2010 and is forecasted to be 6.4% in 2012 as compared to the world average of 2.2% and 3.9% for Sub-Saharan Africa. Economists say that it is in fact the non-oil sector that has pushed the economy forward, and will continue to do so. Growth can largely be attributed to activities in telecommunications followed by building and construction, and the services sector in general. Regulatory body, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was established in 1992, and commenced full market liberalization and reform in 2000. It is sensed that investment in telecom has triggered off an economic chain which has positively impacted other sectors of the economy. GDP growth has not improved the living standards of the Nigerian people. They continue to be inundated with increased unemployment, poverty, poor healthcare among various others. As seen below...
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...The Calla Lily The calla lily has been a personal favorite of gardeners and florists for many years. Originally from Africa, the calla lily has endured many different name changes. Specifically, the flower draws its origins from the tropical area from South Africa to Malawi. In the United States, the calla lily is grown all over. However, the flower is grown as an annual up north because of the threat of frost. From a nomenclature perspective, the calla lily is a bit of a paradox as it is neither a calla nor a lily. Although grown for many generations prior, Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnaeus took credit for the discovery and, incorrectly, classified the plant to be a calla lily; advances in botanical sciences would later create a more stringent requirement for the calla genus, which would, unfortunately, leave the calla lily behind. The calla lily is a member of the Zantedeschia genus, aptly named after famed botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi. Eventually, the calla lily emigrated from southern Africa and made its way to Europe. The earliest report of a calla lily in Europe was a painting of the Royal Garden in Paris dated 1664. Whilst in Europe, the calla lily became somewhat of a fan favorite as it was very easy to grow and could be cultivated to bloom year round in Southern Europe. Additionally, the flower can survive a long time after being cut, providing for long-lasting arrangements. With the demise of monarchies across...
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...Perhaps the largest paradox in United States history occurred in the eighteenth century. This paradox linked the ties between the simultaneous rise in freedom and slavery. Question historians often have while examining this century is: how could freedom be expanding while other individuals, in the same country, were being stripped of all freedoms and rights? Imprisonment of Africans not only made America economically successful, but also helped in creating social classes, helped to aid the colonists in achieving their definition of personal freedom and stopped the indentured servant system. In the 1700s, America was desperate for support from other countries, particularly France. Coincidentally, mainly slaves produced the most valuable cash...
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...Address: 660 Chlorite Street, Elardus Park, 0181, Pretoria Student number: 55128920 Paper code: PYC4811 Unique Assignment no: 536709 Assignment: 01 Contents Page * Introduction pg.3 * Historical Background & Development pg.3 * Similarities between Community Psychology and Public Health pg.4 * Limitations and Differences between Community Psychology and Public Health pg.6 * Conclusion pg.7 * Reference List pg.8 Introduction According to Perkins (https://my.vanderbilt.edu/perkins/2011/09/intro-to-community-psychology/) community psychology (CP) can be defined as the relationship between social systems and individual well-being in the community context. Thus, community psychologists grapple with an array of social and mental health problems and they do so through research and interventions in both public and private community settings. PH on the other hand according to Last (cited in Gilbert, 1995) can be defined as one of the efforts organised by society to protect...
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...Neocolonialism Essay Sociology of Developing Countries Professor: Nanette Baily By: Brandi Powell Due: 11/27/2011 Introduction Neocolonialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization, and cultural forces to control a country (usually former European colonies in Africa or Asia) in lieu of direct military or political control. Such control can be economic, cultural, or linguistic; by promoting one's own culture, language or media in the colony, corporations embedded in that culture can then make greater headway in opening the markets in those countries. Thus, neocolonialism would be the end result of relatively benign business interests leading to deleterious cultural effects. Neocolonialism describes certain economic operations at the international level which have alleged similarities to the traditional colonialism of the 16th to the 20th centuries. The contention is that governments have aimed to control other nations through indirect means; that in lieu of direct military-political control, neocolonialist powers employ economic, financial, and trade policies to dominate less powerful countries. Those who subscribe to the concept maintain these amounts to a de facto control over targeted nations. What are the social phenomena neocolonialism? It is a set of political, economic, social and colonial arrangements or systems which continue to exist in a society, managed and controlled by little local property-ruling class on behalf of their...
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...Date: 5th December, 2005 Name: Ayesha Petafi Student ID: 163327 Degree Title: Bsc. Development Economics (2nd year) _____________________________________________________________ Course Name: Foreign Trade and Economic Development Course Code: 153400106 Tutor’s Name: Sahar Rad _____________________________________________________________ Title of Essay: Discuss how trade leads to the convergence of factor prices in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model. Does empirical evidence validate the propositions of this theory? Word Count: 2,909 words Essay 1 : Discuss how trade leads to the convergence of factor prices in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model. Does empirical evidence validate the propositions of this theory? Abstract The Heckscher-Ohlin model (H-O model) states that a country possesses comparative advantage for those goods whose factors of production are in relatively abundant supply in the country’s endowment. Input combinations depend on the relative factor prices and these in effect, influence the goods prices. Factor prices and the goods prices have a one-to-one relationship. Countries tend to export goods, whose production makes intensive use of the resources. There are four components to the H-O model, and these are: The Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, The Stopler-Samuelson Theorem, The Rybczynski Theorem and The Factor-Price Equalisation Theorem. The Heckscher-Ohlin model (H-O model) was developed by Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin at the Stockholm School of Economics [Krugman and Obstfeld...
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...her lack of identity by absorbing the life around her as her limp literally forces her to move slower through life. Although Adah discovers after her time in Africa that the limp was a mental stigma brought on by herself, she continually observes the perfect balance of the African women. Adah notices that the village women are “pillars of wonder, defying gravity while wearing the hohum aspect of perfect tedium”(31). Her observation of the women reflects the asymmetry between her sisters and herself, and the village women. Practicing to be like the Kilangans cannot create a societal balance for the Prices as their light skin tone defeats that battle entirely, and the women do not have figure like Reverend Price who annihilates their opinions. Upon reflection of their time in the Congo, the female family members realize that “[they] have given up body and soul to Africa”(474). The body and soul is what the pests of Africa took from the Price family. Nonetheless, the epiphany awakens the women to a truth that is reflective of their constructive narration because they gradually strive to emulate the women, who carry objects on their heads, through their decisive narration. As the narrators realize that their balance is weak in comparison to the African women, they realize that “[they] brought all the wrong things” to Africa (65). Rather than bringing along a sense of structure, the Price women have to create it on their own. The mental capacity of the women is tested by the Congo...
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...‘Gestalt’ overviews of situations are touched on. The idea of dyslexia not being a disorder is one that I personally like. I often look upon dyslexia as an individual difference in learning styles—one might describe me as being, for example, ‘dysgolfic’, but luckily, playing golf does not impinge on my every day life! As always with Innovations and Insight, the objective is to put an idea out there and invite people to comment and also undertake some research in the area. Scott N.R. (2004) Dyslexia and Counselling, Whurr/Wiley. Copyright r 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DYSLEXIA 15: 363–366 (2009) 364 Innovations and Insights Dyslexia, Not Disorder K. Ehardt Washington When examining dyslexia, one must address the paradox of how a disorder that is both heritable and disadvantageous can be so common (Keller & Miller, 2006). There is a range of estimates on the occurrence of dyslexia, with the higher end reaching 8% of the population (Turkington & Harris, 2006). Natural selection cannot account for such prolificacy in a maladaptive trait. I propose that dyslexia results from a way of thinking that once provided an ancestral advantage. If dyslexia were an adaptation, we would expect to find it consistently accompanied by potentially useful traits. A literature review reveals three areas of strength for most...
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...Name: __________________________ World History Unit Two: Global Inequality [pic] An Overview of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel Why do some nations have so much material wealth while so many others have so little? This was the question Jared Diamond posed in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel. After identifying a point in time when all societies were roughly equal (over 13,000 years ago), Diamond identified the key variables that allowed some societies to develop highly complex, material-rich societies, while others developed at much slower rates. Guns, Germs, and Steel uncovers how Europeans came to dominate every other group on the planet by virtue of their access to what Diamond terms the “Agents of Conquest”: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond’s journey of discovery began on the island of Papua, New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo (material goods), but we black people had little cargo (material goods) of our own?" Diamond realized that Yali's question penetrated the heart of a great mystery of human history -- the roots of global inequality. Why were Europeans the ones with all the cargo? Why had they taken over so much of the world, instead of the native people of New Guinea? How did Europeans end up with what Diamond terms the Agents of Conquest: Guns, Germs and Steel...
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...HB 490 Introduction to Wine Lesson 1: Wine and Health, Wine in History, Wine and Culture, and Serving Alcohol Safely In Vino Sanitas? Wine (and other alcohols) and Health The French Paradox 60 Minutes segment in 1991 Mounting epidemiological evidence that moderate consumption of alcohol is associated with Reduced risk of death Particularly by coronary disease Red Wine was apparently most beneficial The “J” shaped curve 1 Societal Attitudes The French Paradox report came in the midst of a resurgent prohibitionist sentiment This sentiment has not disappeared, but is somewhat less prevalent or obvious today Societal Attitudes To drink or Not to drink? Some believe the healthiest choice is NOT to consume alcohol, while others tout the purported health benefits of alcohol consumption Others, yet, acknowledge the apparent health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption, but hesitate to discuss them as they fear this may lead some may become alcohol dependent to start consuming alcohol Societal Attitudes Much (dis)information on the issue of alcohol and health! You must consider the data critically Interpretations may vary Research is never fully conclusive Scientist not always “value free” Some agencies/authorities have “agendas” 2 Agenda? Visit the websites of these organizations and see if you can establish if they have an agenda relative to wine and health Epidemiology Epidemiology...
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