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Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults. [1] Youth empowerment is often addressed as a gateway to intergenerational equity, civic engagement and democracy building….

In his book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes discusses liberty and the social contract. According to Hobbes, liberty is defined as “the absence of opposition (by opposition, I mean external impediments of motion)” (Ch 21, p.136). He argues that this state of liberty is the natural state of man but also leads to warfare and a troubled…

As an American child, I’ve always been told that I can make a difference, that I can change the world. While that’s always sounded nice, it’s hard not to wonder, “Can I actually change something? ” Such is the case of James H. Meredith. He changed the world not though extraordinary actions, but by rebellion…

After acquiring its independency Texas asked Congress if it could fall in the brotherhood to go portion of the U.S States. Congress accepted and so Texas became an official province. Mexico did non like the thought of Texas going independent and Texas wanted more land so they ended up holding the war in Mexico. The…

Is America stupid or just selective? When I initially reviewed the questions on the survey, I predicted that there would be a higher percentage of right answers on the pop culture questions than the civic literacy questions. After I compiled the data, I was pleasantly surprised to find that more interviewees got the civic questions…

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Liberal vs. Conservative Growing up in a home that could be characterized as a political battlefield was traumatic. I spent the first decade of my life living peacefully with two left- winged hippie parents. My mother had hair like Rapunzel and my dad worked as a jazz musician. Life…

A Georgian shoemaker ’ s boy named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and shortly became a professional radical. In the 1903 party split  he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party Congress abroad and worked in the Georgian party imperativeness. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to…

Johnson was Kennedy’s vice president so he immediately became president. He was the fourth to be promoted to presidency by the assassination of the a president. Johnson’s first message to the nation was the same day as the assassination. One of the most memorable lines from his speech was, “I will do my best. That…

The theory of multiple dimension value will be used to understand the selection Of dominant designs in the market. Sony’s Blu-ray and Toshiba’s HD-DVD was almost similar to each other yet poles apart in terms of compatibility with the complementary products. Blu-ray was compatible with almost most of the complementary products while with HD-DVD compatibility…

Answers to Questions The Most Important Bill of Rights               Amendment I regarding freedom of speech (or expression of oneself), religion, press, and the right for assembly and petitioning the government for a redress of grievances is the bill of right, which I considered most important.  These rights are inherent to a democratic society….