Essays on Politics Page 38

I was born on April 19, 1930, in Gold Coast, alongside my twin brother. Are crying was, in my mother’s words relentless, or that was what our father had told us. I am Xorlali and my brother is named Akwete we are the children of a wealthy, educated Ghanaian. My father is a part of…

The Dave Matthews Band’s song “Cry Freedom” reflects on the importance of acquiring and experiencing one’s independence from unjust servitude. The songwriter goes in depth about the struggle many individuals faced, as well as the corruption and loss of innocence that accompanies subjugation. The subject of the song’s text, South African Apartheid, that began in…

As the second most populated country, India has more than 800 million voters. We take pride in calling our country as the “world’s largest democracy, however, with such glorifying title the underlying issues that plague India’s democracy is often overlooked. The success of India’s democracy cannot be measured alone by its voter participation. Such standards…

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is centered on the Russian Revolution and the novel shows how power corrupts, just as Stalin’s power corrupted following the Russian Revolution in 1917. Corruption can be defined as follows: Dishonest behaviour by politicians, who use their power for their own advantage. This becomes evident early on in the novel as…

Dreams we all have those right? Dreams are what we look for to happen in the future and sometimes those dreams even become reality and sometimes they just stay in your mind for pleasure of having a dream. The American Dream is the theory in which supports the idea that equality is possible. Allowing the…

In July 1936, Francisco Franco led the first revolt that sparked the start of the Spanish Civil war. After the election of February 16, 1936 and the election of Republican Manuel Azana, things began to heat up between the Republican and Nationalist side of Spain. This was mainly because of the controversial new reforms Manual…

The indigenous people where the most discriminated since the beginning displaced from their lands, taken away their rights as Rigoberta Menchu declared they were forced to move away into the mountains where they felt safe, families were separated and the role of the women took an important change. Women were involved in the revolutionary arms…

Is it merely speaking the language, and embodying our culture by practicing our traditions or staying, even if it means being robbed of the opportunities overseas. The fact that more and more people leave every year is a vicious circle, when people leave for a greener pasture it makes the situation worst for those who…

Has the person reading this been too lazy to read animal farm? Well here’s the story plain and simple! The theme in Animal Farm by George Orwell is a human’s place in society. The theme is revealed by the setting of the story being on a human platform, and with the humans taking the products…

History has shown us to be a conflict of ideologies, as soon in the Cold War where communism faced off against capitalism. The Lime has passed and it deeply engrained the American conscious with a distrust of communism, Yet, even back then the fear of communism was alive, perhaps even more alive than today. This…