Introduction Nelson Mandela stands as an emblem of courage, sacrifice, and resilience, transcending the boundaries of South Africa to become a global icon of human rights and justice. His journey from a small village in the Eastern Cape to the presidency of South Africa embodies the relentless pursuit of equality and freedom. Mandela's life was characterized by his unwavering commitment...
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Regardless of the different settings and contexts, Ransom and Invictus suggest that there are universal qualities that outline successful leadership. Malouf and Eastwood depict societies on the brink. Moreover, from these societies, emerge leaders who can challenge expectations and demonstrate empathy with those who are on the other side of the spectrum; this is achieved at great personal cost. Both...
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Many great leaders across the world have inspired everybody with their visionary personalities. Among those great leaders, Nelson Mandela is the one who inspires me the most. Nelson Mandela was the first ever democratically elected black president of South Africa and a Nobel Prize winner. He struggled to end the intolerant culture of racial discrimination in the country. Humility and...
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In 1963 South African authorities discovered incriminating documents and illegal weapons at the headquarters of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a group Mandela had helped found. Facing the death penalty, Mandela gave this speech at his trial. His argument turns on the idea that the legal and nonviolent means that black South Africans had used to struggle for years against the oppressive...
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The recent Rivonia trial which concluded on June 12 1964 brought about the sentence of Nelson Mandela as well as nine other members of the African National Congress to life imprisonment. In October 1963, Mandela (along with Walter Sisulu, and Govan Mbeki) and his other colleagues were tried for treason, sabotage, and conspiracy against the apartheid administration of South Africa....
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The end of World War Two and the establishment of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights intended to end global injustices and put forth a positive influence on human liberty and dignity; however, the South African policies of apartheid outlined in motion undignified and increasingly oppressive, racially segregated laws – polarising South Africa from the rest of the globe....
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The USA's involvement in Vietnam has become one of the most widely known embarrassments in the country's history. Whether USA should have even been involved in the war is a controversial opinion with many south Vietnamese peasants believing they should not have been hence the decision for many of them switching support from South Vietnam to the Vietcong. However, President...
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Have you ever wanted to know what it was like to be able to vote? Well, some believe that the voting age should be changed, in particular, lowered to 16 years. As for me, I do not support this and believe that the voting age of 18 should remain, because we should be more mature to vote. Today, kids under...
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Keith Davis defines leadership as “the ability to persuade others to seek defined objectives enthusiastically. The human factor binds people together and motivates them towards goals. ”Leadership thus defines the difference between success and failure. According to Carlyle (Carlyle, 1841/1907), Leadership is a person endowed with extraordinary qualities that are the source of his or her influence. These internal traits...
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Donald Trump has strong beliefs on how United States veterans should be treated and handled. He firmly believes that veterans are a top priority in our society, and should be respected and recognized. Since his presidential inauguration in 2016, Trump has notably decreased veteran unemployment and signed multiple acts regarding veterans’ safety and rights, one of which being the Veterans...
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The United States once found itself entering a world of rapid economic and industrial growth. Technological advances came forth at a rapid rate in both the transportation and manufacturing industries. Along with such developments, a wave of transformation came over the country and multiple social reform movements came to fruition. The Women’s Suffrage Movement, Child Labor, Abolition, Temperance, Prison Reform,...
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Two years before his assassination, John F. Kennedy gave one of the most motivational and influential speeches to the world at his inauguration. The presidential inauguration of 1961 introduced the new United States president to the world, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The presidential inauguration has one of the objectives to earn the trust of those who did not vote for the...
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This discussion examines what is the meaning of the concept of ideology and tries different approaches to answering this question. However, this term is very commonly used in the academic sphere but many researchers tend to use it in different ways be it pejorative or meliorative. It is considered a ‘notorious pedigree’. It comes from the Greek; idea ‘form, pattern’...
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During the premature 20th century, there was a strong want to break free from the unjust and corrupt politics of the Gilded Age and to improve life for 'the employees in utter ignorance of cleanliness or danger to [their] health' (Doc B). This urge that drove the United States to change its norms was later coined as Progressivism. With progressive...
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Wars, disagreements, and different kinds of economic and political revolutions started the quick and rapid spread of communism in the late 20th century. It spread everywhere and it enforced traditional roles upon women and men. With men who got higher authority and power, and with women on the lower scale with men who had little to no opportunities. Women tried...
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There have been many different articles, biographies, and much more that have been published about the life of Abraham Lincoln to educate people on his life as a president, a father, and an all-American hero. This film was entirely based on the last four months of Lincoln's efforts in fighting for the 13 Amendment to be passed as a law....
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High schools are the building blocks for our careers. This is the time in our lives when we discover our key interest in who we want to become and what we want to do for the rest of our lives. However, this is not always the case. There is a major crisis in high school education that is affecting student...
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Neo-pluralism rejects the idea of a totalitarian society. This means it does not only tolerate many ideas however it accepts other opinions, religions, and cultures. It is not the concept of a pure democracy where the majority gets what they want and the minority remains at a disadvantage (Dryzek & Dunleavy, 2009). This is exactly what happened during the mid-term...
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What if you are traveling overnight by train during the time we are switching our clocks back an hour? You will probably be stuck in a train station an hour longer than you expected. Amtrak trains have a scheduled time to run by, so in October when we change the clocks back by one hour, all trains stop at 2:00...
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Over the centuries there have been so many great men who have made so many great speeches. One of if not the most iconic speeches is Dr. Martin Luther King’s 'I Have a Dream' speech. Another speech that may not be as significant but still important is Senator Barack Obama's 'A More Perfect Union'. These speeches have a lot of...
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Since the beginning of television in the 1940s, it has played a major role in marketing, commercials, and most intensively—most controversially— in presidential elections. Since 1960, presidents discussing their political ideology is not a guarantee for presidential victory, rather it is character, demeanor, presentability, and more than determining the verdict. This is all facilitated by media outlets. However, as the...
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Environmental law is a relatively recent idea that encompasses a wide range of topics such as climate change, energy sources, pollution, and corporate social responsibility. Sinha stated that environmental conservation cannot be realized without sufficient laws. Environmental education and raising environmental awareness are two vital ways to ensure that the environment is conserved for future generations. At the level of...
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For as long as President Trump has been president, immigration to this country has absurdly increased and has become a controversy amongst many politicians and citizens. A state of emergency was placed because the United States was threatened by the invasion of illegal immigrants. The president used this threat as a way to make more tariffs on Mexico if they...
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As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, “Freedom is the state of not being subjected to or affected by something undesirable: servitude, constraint, inhibition.” (“Freedom.” The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 2019). Over time freedom takes new shape and form, especially during breakthroughs, from human rights to politics, citizenships, and even slavery, etc. The term “freedom” is a word that...
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The concept of globalization as used in this essay refers to the multidimensional, accelerated, and interconnected organization of space and time across national borders. Specifically with respect to political globalization, it concerns an approach to the social world that stresses postnational and transnational processes as well as a consciousness of the compressed nature of space and time. Political globalization has...
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The issue revolving around gender equality and the study of rhetoric used in speeches are both widely discussed, involving many debates and theories as to how rhetoric is used especially when addressing an audience. Aristotle details this 'art of persuasion' and is heavily credited with developing the foundation of the system that was written on persuasion - He is seen...
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Small Island, Big Challenge: Irregular Immigration in Malta since 2000 Immigration and more specifically irregular immigration have been current and troubling topics that bear unexpected tasks and challenges for many European countries. Especially if the question of solidarity and burden sharing is raised by other EU members, that demand help and support. After joining the EU in 2004 Malta has...
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Considering the influence of Facebook on the 2016 US presidential election In order to consider the influence Facebook had, if any, on the 2016 US presidential election, I will be analyzing the social media site in two different ways. Firstly, I will explore how the existence of Facebook as a platform allowed the spread of information and misinformation (Fake news)...
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“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Daisy and Joey Cross Introduction Such monstrous amounts of times as of now, those of us who have hit a grand slam for the advantages of human advancement, who have proposed and even executed change, have been supported by the primary part in any case through the loathing of...
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Historians have often disagreed on the origins of the Cold War placing the blame on either the United States, or the Soviet Union, or even maintaining a neutral stance. This is apparent with the various schools of thought as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who is an Orthodox historian, argues that the Soviet Union was aggressively trying to expand its sphere of...
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