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The Divine Wind ‘The Divine Wind shows how difficult it is for communities to accept cultural difference.’ Discuss. The community of Broome before the advent of World War II in The Divine Wind at first appears to be an idyllic town in which Malays, Koepangers, Japanese, Manilamen and Australians all work in relative harmony in…

As I was growing up, I experienced being discriminated by other children when I went to summer camps. Not many latinx children went to summer camps and especially not in San Mateo. I was always left out when it came to group activities or to even eating lunch on my own. That’s a part of…

            Once upon a time, women were considered the inferior sex whose acts are strictly defined by society. They were restricted to household chores, bearing and rearing children. Education for them was limited to the arts and homemaking. In politics and governance, they had no voice. They could not vote. In certain societies and cultures,…

Our Changing World Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was just a colour, and reality TV was that one show sandwiched between music videos on MTV? There were, of course, huge political and social upheavals that roiled our world in the past decade. But there…

When we think about the many problems that US Veterans face when coming home from war, we usually imagine PTSD from battle, facing possible homelessness, and the struggle of finding a job. But there’s another, very large problem facing veterans: sexual trauma, Many of the lasting problems that affect Veterans are typically caused by enemies…

Did you know that about two hundred thousand juveniles are charged as adults every year? Over the past decades there have been many debates on whether juveniles should be tried as adults. These new policies came about because of the raise in violent crimes among teenagers in the late 1980‘s and early 90‘s. In response…

The world is changing, advancing and growing in all aspects. Populations constantly increase in size; this leads to the adaptation of the environment. The expansion and the development of new communities must satisfy the need for social equity, economic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. “Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of the present without…

QUESTION: Discuss how gender can be mainstreamed into the Zambian policies, giving examples where possible. The Zambian society is dominated by patriarchal structures internalized in both the traditional and cultures and in both political and economic systems. This is reflected in unequal gender roles, with regard to participation in decision-making and economic opportunities. The patriarchal…

Hate speech, I have to say is one of the most controversial arguments when considering the fine line that we have to draw when people claim that it is their constitutional right to oppress others with their words based on their religion, nationality, gender, sexual preference, or skin tone. Since 1942, where the Supreme Court…

Catherine Ellis’s “The Younger Generation” and Omnia El Shakry’s “Youth as Peril and Promise” examine reactions to adolescents in from the 1930s through the 1940s and during the postwar era respectively. When analyzed together, these articles examination of political and social discourse questions whether inherent adolescent issues create problematic dichotomies between youth and older generations….