The two groups share a common language, Kirundi. ... Africa, Ambassador Melady observed, would lose its moral standing in the Third World; the genocide would also undermine black Africa's condemnation of apartheid in South Africa. ... African states, more ethnically heterogeneous than Western European nation-states, exhibited a paranoia about their independence and national security, and African leaders saw malevolent plots by the West against their independence. This misapprehension of world affairs handicapped African governments in confronting dangerous and complicated social, econom...

• Word Count: 2121
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This idea of "language and knowledge is power" is one of the reoccurring themes in George Orwell's famous allegory, Animal Farm. ... Whether or not Hitler was a smart, good, or qualified leader is not to be answered, but he was capable of getting numerous people on his side as a result of the power he obtained from the use of language and knowledge. Many animals on the farm, Old Major and Squealor to be specific, used speech and language to gain power over other animals. ... The answer to this question can be stated in a single word: language. ... His words were not spoken to reach...

• Word Count: 2177
• Approx Pages: 9

Mohandas was a Muslim Indian right out of his studies in London when he first encounters the harsh racism that has embedded in the people of South Africa. Throughout the entire movie, the language used is English, though the Indians have a light variation. ... The trouble enters Gandhi's life on a train ride to Africa, where he is told that he is not permitted to be sitting first class. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He was considered a master of the English language (Cannadine, 1989, 1). ... He had served his country in India, Sudan, South Africa, and World War I (Cannadine, 1989, 1). In South Africa, where he went as a war correspondent, Churchill's capture and daring escape from the Boers late in 1899 won him celebrity (Matthews, 2000, 10). ...

• Word Count: 2107
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The supplemental reader states, "Those who lived in the South Carolina Lowcountry were different in terms of ethnicity, accent, ideology, occupation, religion, music, and language from the people of the southern Appalachians. ... Thomas, an African American coal miner and organizer for the Greenback-Labor party in the Birmingham mineral district, stopped in the town of Oxmoor to post signs announcing a public meeting where he was scheduled to speak. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The regions that are considered as ethnic strife-prone are: Western Europe- Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Spain; Eastern Europe- Yogoslavia and newly independent countries of former Soviet Union; the Mediterranean and the Middle East- Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel; Africa- virtually every nation; Asia- from Pakistan to the Philippines; and the Americas- from Canada throughout the Caribbean. ... Nationalism forges together a sense of people hood or belongingness based on common history, ancestry, culture, language or religion. ...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

1) The greatest cause of World War 1 was the European Alliances. Before World War One began, certain European nations had entered into many alliances to protect themselves from each other. There were ten major alliances formed in Europe before 1914. The countries created alliances between t...

• Word Count: 1738
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Berkeley protesters became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washington D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that practiced militant self-defense against U.S. government brutality, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community-based programs. ... At the time, Afghanistan was largely ...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). These are not absolutely exclusive of each other, and there are various degrees of similarity between them, what does differentiate them from each other are their languages and histories, traditions and cultures, but "most important, religion" (Huntington, 1993). ...

• Word Count: 1840
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate