...of one more dictator. What a beautiful moment to celebrate and watch! The momentous events in Egypt and Tunisia are testimony to the power of nonviolent struggle. When people are united and speak in one voice, nothing can stop them. No guns and tanks have stopped the peaceful revolutions that have ended tyranny and ushered in liberation to ordinary people in many countries across the world. Ethiopians also know what revolutions are like. But they have never tasted the sweetness of freedom and smelt the aroma of true liberation. The new revolution should be different from the tragic upheavals that have turned our country into a land of slaves brutalized and exploited by a handful of slave masters. Revolution is not a new phenomenon in Ethiopia. In the last four decades alone, two toxic and bloody revolutions have occurred in our...
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...Ethiopia is a proud country that consists of 94.1 million people, has over 80 languages, was the first country to win a gold medal at the Olympics, and is full of intricate cultures and people, but that is not what most think of when Ethiopia comes to mind. Most immediately think of the horrible orphan crisis that has overtaken the country. Unicef reports, “Ethiopia counts one of the largest populations of orphans in the world: 13% of children throughout the country are missing one or both parents. This represents an estimated 4.6 million children” (Unicef). Also, it has been reported that this number is continually increasing due to several different factors such as: malnutrition, violence, treatment of women, diseases, and lack of the responsibility...
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...Country Analysis - Greece Bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe,Greece is a country of mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands. From wet winters, to hot and dry summers, greece is a popular tourist destination. With nearly 4.5 million people in the Athens area, Greece is populated with nearly 10 million people in which a parliamentary democracy exists. 300 people are elected whom form the parliament which conducts the legislative duties of the government.The political party collects approximately 151 seats in the parliamental duties of the administration. The president automatically becomes prime minster and then gets appointed to become cabinet ministers. The actual ‘president’ is elected by the parliament for a five year term. The current ‘chief of state’ is President Karolos Papoulias and the head of government is Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. As you are aware, Greece’s economy isn’t doing too well lately. Greece has a capitalist economy which means it has an economic system based on private ownership of capital. 40 percent of the countries GDP is accounted from a public sector. Tourism provides fifteen percent, in which we will discuss later. Between 2003 and 2007 the economy grew nearly four percent per year. This is partially due to the 2004 Olympic games which also resulted in an increased availability of...
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...Ethiopia Name Course Tutor Date Ethiopia’s profile Colonial History and Current Political Context Capital City Addis Ababa Colonial History Ethiopia is among the first independent African republics. In 1935, during the Fascist rule of Benito Mussolini, the Italians invaded Ethiopia. At the time, Ethiopia had a traditional polity comprising a feudal political system. In rebellion to the Italian occupation, Ethiopians engaged in a multi-dimensional ‘patriotic resistance’ in efforts to banish the invaders from their country. The Patriots (Arbegnoch) fought against many odds, such as the indifferences from the West and the League of Nations to establish the indigenous resistance movement. The resistance lasted for five years while Haile Selassie, the then Ethiopian Emperor, took part in an ineffective diplomatic struggle during his period in exile. Under the leadership of Haile Selassie Italians were defeated and withdrew from Ethiopia and as a result, Ethiopia became a sovereign nation (Berhe, 2008, p. 2). Present Leader Mulatu Teshome Current Political Context: In August 2012, Hailemariam Dessalegn was appointed the successor of the Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, representing a historical moment in the nation’s politics. Ethiopia embarked on a constitutional and peaceful transition of power for the first time in her contemporary history. During the 20th century, the country was predominantly under regimes of highly centralized governments...
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...Current Event Somalia Historically known for having one of the most popular trading ports in Africa. Somalia lies on the East African coast of the Indian Ocean bordering Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya. Over 80% of the country’s population is ethnic Somalis of Afro-Asiatic descent. Somalia has a rich history of poetry and is believed to be the first region Camels were domesticated. It is also one of the first areas of Africa were Islam was adopted. A sea full of fish and land full of natural resources one would assume this coastal country would be one of the thriving African nation states in the 21st century; those assumptions were valid a few decades ago. With the push of democracy and the pressure of Western Powers to eliminate authoritarian leader Siad Barre, eventually caused a civil war beginning in the early 90’s. Mogadishu was named the most dangerous city in the world year after year. Many Somalis fled to neighboring Kenya or to North America and Europe. The other numerous millions were abandoned by the world having to deal with civil war, droughts, and famine. Numerous failed attempts of legitimate political leaders gaining power lead to a radical Islamic Militant group rise. Al-Shabaab has been reigning terror in Somalia and neighboring East African for near a decade. With the recent push for democracy in Somalia, a western backed election resulted in a victory for Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in 2012. President Mohamud became president...
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...Essay # 3. “What Sacagawea means to me” There are many contradictions in life, yet none as influential in everyone’s life as the idea of colonization. In “What Sacagawea Means to Me,” Sherman Alexie illustrates how colonization is a contradiction. He states “colonization might be a natural process, tragic and violent to be sure, but predictable and ordinary as well, and possibly necessary for the advance, however constructive and destructive, of all civilizations.” I agree that colonization does have both positive and negative effects. Colonization causes many changes in the lives of the people being colonized and those changes can be both good and bad. To me the ideal form of colonization would be how the missionaries who came to Ethiopia did it. European colonization resulted in many negative effects on the Native Americans. Colonization lead to the destruction of the Native Americans’ life as they knew it. Within a short period of time their way of life was changed forever. The changes were caused by a number of factors, including loss of land, disease, enforced laws which violated their culture and much more. When the Europeans arrived they brought with them diseases unknown to the natives. The natives had no immunity to these unknown diseases, so they were easily infected and died from these diseases. This lead to massive deaths in Native American communities as they came into contact with the settlers. The killing of natives was not just done by these unknown diseases...
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...Ethiopia Ethiopia is located in northeastern Africa, in an area known as the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian’s flag has three stripes. The green stripe stands for rich lands and hope. The yellow stripe means religious freedom. The red stripe hones for those who died for Ethiopia. stripe means Ethiopia has a diverse mix of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It is a country with more than 80 different ethnic groups each with its own language, with most spoken language Ge'ez, modern Amharic and Tigrigna languages.Ge'ez is one of the most ancient languages in the world and is still used today by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has its own unique customs and traditions, which have been influenced by Judaism. Custom The Ethiopian traditional costume is made of woven cotton. Ethiopian men and women wear this traditional costume called gabbi or Netella. Women often wear dresses (Kemis) and netella with borders of coloured embroidered woven crosses, but other designs are also used. Food The Ethiopian national dish is called wat. It is a hot spicy stew accompanied by injera (traditional large spongy pancake made of teff flour and water). Teff is unique to the country and is grown on the Ethiopian highlands. There are many varieties of wat, e.g. chicken, beef, lamb, vegetables, lentils, and ground split peas stewed with hot spice called berbere.Berbere is made of dried red hot pepper, herbs, spices, dried...
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...software architect and work for Apple or google. The only way I can do that is get my education, and graduate with distinction. Education is the most important thing, to achieve our goals. I learn that just by looking at my parents. My dad graduated from college and he has a nice job, but my mom only finished high school, and where I am from, if don't at least have a degree there is not much job for you. I sometimes see money is an issue for my mom, but she made sure my sister and I got everything we wanted. My parents tell us day in and day out that our full time job is our school, and any thing else comes after it. All my life my dream is to make my parents proud and hear them say "that's my girl." I was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We had a good life there but my parents wanted more than good for me and my younger sister, so my mother, my sister and I moved to the U.S. in 2014. My dad works at Ethiopian Airlines, he didn't want to lose his job so he stayed there. I want to stay in school and learn because I am good at it, and it's the only way I can be successful. Any one can imagine how hard it is for African American woman, especially if she is from a third world country. Where when they first look at her what they see some one who doesn't belong in this country. Well I want to prove people wrong, and I can be the best at my...
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...history of Ethiopia is a very long history, Christianity was introduced there in the 1st century A.D. Even the threat of invasion by the Italians couldn't deter this ancient country from expanding. To give a comparison, Ethiopia is almost twice the size of Texas (CIA factbook). The natural resources of Ethiopia include gold, platinum, copper, potash (salts), natural gas and hydropower (CIA factbook). In the late 1800’s, Italy attempted to overthrow the Ethiopian government. Between the mid-1800’s through the beginning of the 1900’s, Ethiopia underwent political changes, such as the expansion of its borders, and the Italian failed attempt to overthrow the Ethiopian government. Ethiopia has undergone significant changes in their culture,...
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...As we know they are Somali Refugee living in the metro area and they come here due to the civil erupted in their home country. This time Somali has a functioning government that controls the majority of the country. The elected president of Somalia decided to come to Minnesota in order to brief the diaspora community about the condition of the country and to be a part of those who are rebuilding of their nation. President did not have the overwhelming support of the diaspora people when he intended to run for president. He got a lot of criticism that he would be biased president and he had to convince the people that he could deliver a great service. President prides himself on being a man for all the people of Somalia regardless of their...
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...Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the world and in the Horn of Africa located 9.0167* N and 38.7500* E. Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the 2nd most populous country in Africa. It has a population of 94.1 million people and the life expectancy for the average person there is 42 years old. The country has a high central plateau and mountains reaching over 13,000 feet, it’s in a tropical zone laying in between the equator and the tropic of cancer. Ethiopia has three different climate zones do to the differences in elevation. Kolla is the tropical zone, Woithna Dega is the subtropical zone, and Dega is the cool zone. The western highlands get summer rainfall and the lowlands and eastern highlands are hot and dry, most people live in or near the western highlands as well as the capital, Addis Ababa....
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...Introduction The purpose of this report is to analyze and illustrate the geographical origins of eragrostis tef along with details of its global dispersion. The common name of the crop in Ethiopia is tef. It was chosen for its cultural significance and it’s importance Background In Ethiopia, about 4.9 million acres of land is devoted to its production every year. From 2003-2005 production statistics indicated that tef accounted for about 29% of the land and 20% of the gross grain production of all major cereal cultivation in the country (National Research Council). Eragrostis tef belongs to the grass family Poaceae, and is species of Eragrostis. It contains about 350 species and tef is the only cultivated cereal (Seyfu). Its name tef is originated from the Amharic word yate-tef-ah, which means, “lost”. Since the grains are so small they are easily misplaced (Kloman). It is the world’s smallest food grain and is as small as a grain of sand. It also has quite similar traits to other grains such as quinoa and millet. Tef grows anywhere from 30 to 120 cm in height, with slim stems and long, narrow, smooth leaves. It is a loose or compact panicle. The really small grains are 1.5 mm long, and there are about 2,700 seeds in a gram (Seyfu). The plant uses a Carbon 4 photosynthesis, which uses light efficiently while having low moisture demands. This gives the plant the ability to stand high heat and bright lighting therefore...
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...Harmonized Curriculum for Civics & Ethics Common Course for Under Graduate Degree Program Ethiopia August 2009 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Course Title: - Civics and Ethics Course Code: - CvEt 201 Credit Hours: - 3 Learning Outcomes A graduate from Ethiopian higher education institution who has taken this course:will be inquisitive, critical, analytic, integrative and morally balanced person. exhibits higher ethical standards like open-mindedness, rational thinking, evidenceoriented personality and problem solving skills with high professional spirit. tends to be more participatory in socio-economic and political endeavors will be practical, highly concerned, responsible and loyal to his/her nation Course Objectives At the end of this course, students will be • familiar with key concepts like civics, ethics and profession • equipped with basic knowledge, skills and attitude of socio-economic and political issues of their country • familiar with government institutions, policies, strategies and legal provisions of their country • able to analyze the dynamics of socio-economic and political transformations of their country • able to develop the knowledge of work habit; professional, environmental, development and public service ethics, and their repercussions • familiarized with foundations of democracy and good governance and tools of democratization process • able to assess the values of multi-culturalism and tolerance for mutual understandings and co-existence • able to gain an...
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...Amazing Place Have you ever thought about a giant building created from a single rock? In this world there are such an admirable exotic and unbelievable unique places to visit. The world is covered by mountains, caves, and rivers. Because we all know that, I have an amazing experience that can help to answer my question that is an historical church found in Ethiopia and called “Lalibela.” It is a place I visited seven years ago for an annual religious celebration. Lalibela state is located in northern Ethiopia is a town by the same name. The church was built in the 12th century by king Lalibela. He had created this Church from a single rock as a result of an inspiration to create a New Jerusalem in his country after the old Jerusalem has been captured by Muslims in 11th century. King created this church from single rock and he used an amazing engendering that last long for generation. This church is externally lines up of 11 churches linked one another. I was so amazed when I see it for the first time because that shows how people at that century were more civilized than they are today. It is hard to believe for today’s scantest and researcher because that kind of huge church can’t be made without today’s technology. But there are facts that contradict with those who believe technology has made a big role to build that church because according to Ethiopian history there was not any chance to use any kind of technology support by the...
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...What connection have you found between the ways in which Duffy and Pugh write about education? In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two of Duffy’s poem. Both Carol Anne Duffy and Sheenah Pugh include education in their writing in different ways, but with subtle familiarities linking them together. In ‘Mrs.Tilcher’s Class’, Duffy blatantly shows her fondness towards her experiences in earlier education. It is obvious that ‘Mrs. Tilcher’ is the woman that molded Duffy’s early fascination towards learning, whether negative or positive, and so, as this poem progresses the reader is taken through Duffy’s journey of growing up along side this teacher in a place “better than home”. Education, in this poem, is represented as a chance for personal growth. Not only physically, through the metamorphosis of “tadpoles changing” to frogs, but mentally as well. The ‘tangible alarm’ of adolescence ringing in Duffy’s ear in the last ‘feverish July’ before secondary school highlights educations provision of growth. However, this perfect imagery of Duffy’s time at school is tainted by her “faded” reference to “Brady and Hindley”. The fact that she decided to include this in an overall gentle, innocent poem, suggests two things. One being that this reference could be a way for Duffy to signify her teacher’s ability to provide a safe place. A place to feel separate from harm and danger. However, I personally think that Duffy chose to include these...
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