Trump is a ‘disgrace’, I’ll support Sanders. Says musician Neil Young. Veteran Canadian rocker Neil Young described American President Donald Trump as a “disgrace” to the United States. “You are a disgrace to my country,” the musician openly tells the U.S. president in the opening of the letter, which is titled “An open letter to Donald J Trump”. The musician equally went ahead to declared his support for the Democratic party candidate, Bernie Sanders for the upcoming elections in November. In the open letter published on his website dated Tuesday, Young, who resides in the United States, wrote that “Bragging about the U.S. economy does not disguise the fact that the numbers today are what you inherited almost four years ago. “Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment, and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable.” “I don’t blame the people who voted for you. I support their right to express themselves, although they have been lied to, and in many cases believed the lies, they are true Americans. I have their back,”…
David R Goldfield David R Goldfield is a renown American who writes and is a professional film director. He is also a professor. He has managed to write sixteen books. Being from the south, he has written a lot about the state of the southern part of the united states. Goldfield is originally fro Tennessee, in Memphis. He wrote a lot concerning the state of affairs in the south. In his paper and essay that they wrote it together with Wilson, they try to explain where the dominant white narrative emanated from, between the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. He draws and makes pointed arguments concerning the south. He postulates and goes further to make links between the mythology that emerged about the lost cause from the chaos that happened due to the confederate loss. The profiling of the south also caused it to intolerance and the Protestantism and evangelicalism of the south. It changes the point of one view of history. He mixes; religion, history and culture in the southern region. His views and notes on this…
Kristallnacht Kristallnacht is the night when the German Nazis attacked the Jewish people and destroyed their properties on November 9, 1938. It ironically refers to the debris of broken glass left in the street following the attack. The attack extended to November 10 and in some other regions it lasted for several more days. The violence was triggered by the assassination of a junior diplomat by Herschel Grynszpan who avenged the crime committed against the European Jews by the Germans. Before Midnight of November 9, 1938, Gestapo disseminated a telegram to all the departments of police informing the on the action to be imposed on the Jews, especially their synagogue. In the telegram directed burning down of all the synagogue of Jews and their properties. The action resulted to burning down of over 1000 synagogues where at least 91 Jews were killed just within two days. The name Kristallnacht is, therefore, significant because it gives a reflection on the damages encountered by the Jews following the event of November 9, 1938. Kristallnacht was a night of broken knives along with…
Position and job of Adolf Eichmann in the Reich He was born on March 19, 1906, in a middle-class protestant family. Eichmann spent his early life in Linz, Austria, which was the home town of Hitler. He dropped out of school after declining to finish his engineering education. He then joined the Austrian Nazi faction in 1932 at the age of 26. After entering the alliance, he became an affiliate of SS, where he performed as an SS corporal at Dachau assemblage base in 1934. In the same year, Eichmann acquired a job in Heydrich’s SD, which was a great SS military service, and he was allocated to the Jewish region. Eichmann encouraged committing crimes that greatly threatened the lives of Jewish in Germany. After Nazi Germany had conceded in 1945, he was apprehended, and he went on the tribunal in Jerusalem for offenses against the Jews. He was found culpable on all charges, and he was incarcerated to death, where he was executed in 1962. Position and job of Adolf Eichmann in the Reich He was the leader of…
A history of Haute Couture Haute Couture is the making of unique fashion pieces, especially when it comes to clothing. The main characteristics include costly and exclusive fabrics, hand-sewing, meticulousness using manual techniques under the watch of the most capable designers and tailors. The French words literally mean ‘high dressmaking’ and imply high fashion clothing customized particularly for the wearer’s estimations and body size. Legally speaking, an haute couture fashion house has to meet the standards that the French Federation of Couture and the Industry Ministry of France set. These include having a designer who makes tailor-made garments for private clients and conducts individual fittings. The designer should also maintain a workshop in Paris consisting of at least 20 tailors and present 2 collections every year in January (spring collection) and July (fall collection). The fashion house can launch the other collections without major formal events. Today the world of haute couture has expanded to include items such as jewelry and accessories, and other items of clothing for both men and women. While the fashion sector is a billion dollar…
Lysistrata Annotated Bibliography General Idea Lysistrata is an ancient greek playwright bawdy antiwar comedy. It was first staged at around 411 BCE as a comic account of women’s mission to bring the Peloponnesian war to an end. Lysistrata primarily aimed at convincing all women to withdraw sex privileges from their men to force them to negotiate for peace. At first, women were reluctant and dubious, but the solemn oath sealed the deal, and all women agreed to abjure sex during wartime. Lysistrata, as such, is considered the greatest works of all times as well as the most anthologized. Various researchers have analyzed Lysistrata since antiquity. Fox, Mary‐Jane. “The idea of women in peacekeeping: Lysistrata and Antigone.” International Peacekeeping 8.2 (2001): 9-22. This work is substantively foundational in supporting my arguments. Succinctly, it reveals the impact of women in war throughout history, dating back when Antigone and Lysistrata were performed and written. Besides, its author has used peer-reviewed articles and scholarly works from women databases, consequently ma king it recognizable and reliable literature. This work implies collaboratively with…
Comparing Pirates of Caribbean movie and Egalite for all to 4 Readings “Pirates of the Caribbean “and “Egalite for all” are two great movies which are based on the history of the Caribbean. There is a great connection between the plot of the two movies and the events that took place in the history of the Caribbean. Both movies are exceptionally popular with fans all over the world but in terms of franchise success, the Pirates of the Caribbean have been a great blockbuster which has earned great reviews and huge financial success as compared to Egalite for all. Both movies target all types of audiences but they appeal more to the young movie fans from across the globe. Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie based on the Story of Captain Jack Sparrow who is claimed to have been a pirate whose ship traveled across the Caribbean seeking for various types of treasures while in the process creating awesome adventures. Apart from being part of the Disney franchise, the movie has a deeper meaning coupled with the ability to…
Movement for Socialism (MAS) Movement for Socialism (MAS) candidate Luis Arce, a candidate installed and being backed by former President Evo Morales, leads in the presidential race opinion poll for the first round of presidential elections in Bolivia. The Bolivia presidential polls are scheduled to take place on May 3, this year. According to a poll by the Ciesmori institute released on Sunday (16/02), Arce is a headof the former centrist president Carlos Mesa and the self-proclaimed interim president, right-wing Jeanine Áñez. However, as per the opinion polls, he would still have to square it out with the runner’s up in a second round. With 31.6% of voting intentions, Evo’s candidate appears 14.5 percentage points ahead of Mesa, who garnered 17.1% support in the poll. Áñez, the curret acting president, came third with 16.5% support. In turn, conservative civil leader Luis Fernando Camacho attained 9.4%, followed by Korean evangelical pastor Chi Hyun Chung, with 5.4%. A survey carried out in January by the Mercados y Muestras institute for the newspaper Página Siete had given 26% to Arce, considered the father…
“Impacts of Globalization and economic policies, a case study in Malaysia” Introduction Malaysia is a country in East Asia which was one of the nations which were still backward before independence. However, Malaysia showed interest in globalization after joining GATT and from then, Malaysia is among the best countries regarding the economy, and it’s the most globalized country among all in East Asia (Ahsan A. M., 2012). According to the research conducted in 2003 on economic growth and development, Malaysia indicated to have 79% on reduced tariffs and was gaining a lot from its manufacturing industries than having more exports. After joining globalization union, Malaysia has been improving regarding gross domestic products and liberalization in every year. Before independence, this country s experiencing trade losses of about 53,691 RM. However, in 1997, the country experienced an increase FDI which means Foreign Direct Investment within the manufacturing industries. As a result of globalization, pharmacy and medicinal sectors were controlled by the rate of drugs price increased from 65 to 110% (Farhan, 2016).As we can see, this is a considerable increase which is why…
EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE IN POPULAR MUSIC According to Plato, the music type to which people are exposed to when growing-up will directly determine the balance of their humanity. Aristotle plainly agreed quoting, “If a person listens wrong kind of music like the ones encouraging immoral behaviors like drug abuse, promiscuity, violence and immoral sex, he or she will automatically heed to such kind of behaviors and become a wrong kind of person; but contrariwise, if he or she listens to right music which contains right contend, he/she definitely becomes the right kind of person.” So, if some specific music genres have a valuable effect to people’s minds, it also stands to reason that impacts from others which entertain negative behaviors may have less desirable impacts like encouraging teenagers and youths to start abusing drugs. There are several positive impacts and benefits associated with listening to music. That’s the good news. On the other hand, studies have associated the content of some types of music with deleterious effects like encouraging drug and substance abuse among the teenagers and young adults.…