Standing up for what is right, even when facing isolation, is a profound manifestation of integrity and moral courage. This essay explores the significance of advocating for one’s convictions, the challenges inherent in such a stance, and the transformative impact it can have on individuals…
Essays on World Leaders
Providence College has been granted $250,000 to construct a statue on campus that commemorates heroism. The statue will help as a reminder to educate students and future generations qualities like independence, courage integrity, and resourcefulness. This is why Nelson Mandela should be memorialized, he embodies…
The researcher chose to investigate this to gain knowledge of its Caribbean neighbor Cuba and its infamous history. This topic was chosen because there was available information and resources to use for research. The researcher also felt it important to choose this topic as Cuba’s…
In his didactic play ‘An Inspector Calls’, Priestley presents Gerald, and the upper class as a whole, to be extremely callous and unwilling to accept the opportunity for redemption. He explores themes and ideologies such as patriarchy in order to excoriate those for living protected…
Femininity can be defined as having or demonstrating qualities that are regarded as characteristic to women, whilst the specific expectations and beliefs alter depending on the societies views of the time, this then implies that femininity is a social and cultural construct- ‘one isn’t born…
A leader is not someone who leads people. A leader is the one who does more than just lead people. They have to be driven by the right motivation and make a positive impact on the people around them. Leaders can work toward making their…
Introduction Charismatic leadership are the qualities that influence the subordinate with action and behavior. Charisma is a trait which is associated with leaders. The term charismatic comes from Greek word charis which means grace, kindness and life. Charismatic people are considered as graceful and virtuous….
The world would never forget the name Fidel Castro, the Cuban Prime Minister/dictator who ruled for almost 50 years. However one of the highly secretive issues in his life was his dalliance with Dalia Soto Del Valle. This Cuban lady who bore 5 sons for…
On February 11,1990 in Cape Town Nelson Mandela delivered a speech sending gratitude to the millions of people who followed in his footsteps and campaigned for his release. He acknowledged that Cape Town had been his home for nearly three decades and the mass marches…
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 and was a South African lawyer, liberation leader and politician. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was South Africa’s first black president from 1994-1999. Mandela graduated as a lawyer and opened a law office with…
Main Facts about Mandela In the 20th century many countries in Asian and Africa were conquered and colonized by the western nations like Dutch, British, Portuguese, Spaniards and French. South Africa was under the Dutch rule before the minority British took over the government. The…
The Cuban Missile Crisis was truly one of the world’s worst esculations of tension between two willing and able superpowers that could have resulted in damages both parties would still be recovering from today. Beginning with issues concerning Cuba, the crisis came to involve the…
A worldview is how someone views the world. Everyone has a different view of the world because a worldview is shaped through personal experience, attitudes, beliefs, and values. Nelson Mandela, the first-ever black president of South Africa, is an example of an individual who clearly…
Aim The aim of this paper is to analyze the leadership qualities of Nelson Mandela and with regard to their applicability in the present context. Introduction ‘Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people’ Nelson Mandela In the 20th…
What kind of leader was Mandela? He once said, “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your…
Nelson Mandela’s life is full of hardship and suffering, but those who persist and never give up are the ones who accomplish their task. One such person was Nelson Mandela who was born on July 18, 1918, in Mvezo, South Africa. Mandela was the first…
Gazprom issue The Russian government holds a 50% stake in Gazprom or Public Joint Stock Company Gazprom. Gazprom earns the government about $12. 5 billion and thus when Ukraine started to divert the gas line which connected Russia to Europe (Europe depends on Russia for…
Susanna Kaysen, author of the bestselling 1993 novel Girl Interrupted once wrote, “….I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.” There isn’t a more appropriate statement for Fidel Castro, a man who was nothing short of a…
Was the Cuban revolution more a socialist revolution or more a war of liberation from American dominance? The Cuban revolution was quite complicated due to the intertwined conflicts taking place within the period of revolution. There were three wars during and the aftermath of the…
Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first ever female Prime Minister following the general election in May of 1979. She and her cabinet inherited a country in peril. The economy was marred by a rising rate of inflation and levels of unemployment not seen since the early…
In office, 1979-1992, a major change came with Margaret Thatcher´s `conversion´ following her reading of a paper on global warming and a major speech in September 1988 to the Royal Society. She followed this with an address to the UN General Assembly in November 1989,…
Margaret Thatcher & Obama Problem Identification Margaret Thatcher was raised in a strict British household with a strong commitment to “self-improvement and a dedication to duty”, and followed a distinguished academic path at Oxford into a career as a politician. Her status as a female…
Mrs Thatcher was Prime Minister of Great Britain from the Third of May 1979 until November 22nd 1990. She was the first female and the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century. She brought with her a completely new ideology to base policies upon…
The Battle of Plassey was a pivotal skirmish that decided the fate of British colonization in India and spurred the Industrial Revolution in England and the British conquest of Northern India. Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah’s army lost to Robert Clive’s considerably smaller one at the banks…
Marx – Engels: Assignment “. . . not criticism but revolution is the driving force of history, also of religion, of philosophy and all other types of theory.” “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie. the class which…
Similarities Revealed in Lord of the Flies' Character Jack and Russia's President Vladimir Putin
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Lord of the Flies Final Essay Assignment “We need meat,” – Jack, from Lord of the Flies. “Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia in the hearts and minds of people,” – Vladimir Putin, in his address on March 18th, 2014 (Myers, New…
Have ever wondered how your teenage kid drives? Well this write up of mine may help you figure out how fast or dangerous your kid is going. Tracking devices are needed to be put in cars because they help reduce the deaths of teens, they…
Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected president of post-Soviet Russia in 1990,strove to serve Russia’s national interestsbyenforcing his pro-Western ideas. On the other hand, Vladimir Putin, Yeltsin’s successor in 2000,reinforced traditional ideas and was much more passionate about the current situation in Russian society and…
In modern stories of oppressive government, an archetype of a ruler who doesn’t care for his people, violently ends protests and seems to simply be the villain. Debatably, the man who created this archetype is Fulgencio Batista. Batista was elected president of Cuba in 1940…
Cuba is one of only a handful of countries that still stands as Communist in the world of today. This is in thanks to Fidel Castro, who led the country for over half a century upon overtaking the role of dictator from Fulgencio Batista. Castro…
In January 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power after overthrowing the current dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro caused radical changes within Cuban society, especially with social issues such as women’s rights, and gender relations. These changes have been beneficial as well as bad for Cuban society. One…
The current discourse around #FeesMustFall is often fuelled by Biko’s philosophy on being black and the role of white people in the struggle. The piece “Whither the Black Consciousness Movement?” (1977) is Mandela’s response to these views from inside prison. He praises Black Consciousness in…
Home to 52 sovereign countries, Africa is the second largest continent in the universe. Over the years, the story of Africa has been synonymous with that of hunger, poverty, and illiteracy. However, this is fast changing. Africans have now realised that the future of Africa…
Have you ever had a vision that seemed unattainable because you had to wait so long for all the pieces to align? Do you think you could wait 27 years to accomplish this vision? This is what Nelson Mandela went through when he spent 27…
Russian Domestic Propaganda Russia has a long history of using propaganda to control the population. Russian domestic propaganda truly took root in the society during the Cold War era when the communist leaders used newspapers, posters, and the radio to spread their message across a…
After the severe allegations that Russia had interfered with the US 2016 presidential election, President Trump wishes to invite the Russian President Putin for a visit to Washington. Though these two presidents are ruling powerful nations on earth, most sensible, fair-minded individuals or groups of…
The agency functions together with the MID (Main Intelligence Directorate) which is entrusted with the responsibility of military intelligence. For instance, the agency is authorized with the responsibility of managing anti-terrorist corporations as well as sharing intelligence arrangements to analyze and disseminate intelligence information to…