...of Ashic Volunteer Club (AVC) set out on a street rally to mark the occasion of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. The rally consisted of the president of Ashic Foundation Salma Choudhury, AVC volunteers, who are students from various universities and schools, and the parents of the children present in the Foundation. The rally started from the Ashic Palliative Care Unit (PCU) in Dhanmondi 3/A and went up to City College. Again, the rally began from Dhaka National Museum and continued all the way across University of Dhaka to the Press Club where members from the Bangladesh Cancer Society joined in the event. AVC achieved its purposes of creating a human chain and rallying on the streets on that very day. AVC wanted to share its vision of increasing the availability of hospice and palliative care throughout Bangladesh by creating opportunities to speak out about the issues involved. The second aim was to raise awareness and understanding of the needs – medical, social, practical, spiritual – of disease-stricken people and their families. The third was to raise funds to support the cause. While the rally was on, many took interest and AVC volunteers exchanged meaning conversations with countless people – stating the dire importance of better hospice and palliative care in Bangladesh, demonstrating how every single person can be of great help by contributing even little, giving away informative leaflets, etc. This rally was a motif to celebrate and support hospice and palliative...
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...In 1787, Napoleon and the people of France began to fight what would later be known as “The French Revolution”, it was Napoleon’s rise to power that brought victory. Yet, years later they were back under a monarch, and a revolution started again. Napoleon’s revolution not only brought forth the idea of a revolution, but proof that revolting against a monarch was possible. Looking a Source 1, the first you notice is the flag. The bleu, blanc, et rouge of the flag of France was a rallying point for the revolutionaries. It provided common ground, and something for people to associate with their home. Flags have history of representing their countries, and the French flag was no different, providing a feeling of National pride for whomever saw...
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...3/20/2015 Final Examination Stable and unstable democratic outcomes may take many shapes and forms over regions and time and circumstance. Due to its nature, democracy is best fit in terms of incentives. Moreover, it is in a state’s vested interest in terms of democracy to adhere to gradual democratic change, in contrast to a political overhaul such as we see in Germany, France, and Italy. In these cases, democracy simply cannot thrive as democracy, by nature, requires gradual social change and must overcome bargaining costs and stabilizing change. The evidence that stands today, tested by the outcomes of history, maintains exactly this: democratic transition must be slow and concessional, thus mitigating the exit costs and cost of unilateral decisions or actions in terms of bargaining. Moreover, the difference between a stable and unstable democracy does not depend on education, economics, nor the middle class; rather, the success and stability of a democracy is formulated vis-à-vis it’s institutional factors. (Magagna 2/18). As actors, states are indeed rational and thus adhere to cost-benefit analyses in terms of bargaining power. In this analysis of political instability, it is evident that the sources are as follows: the potential benefits of transition exceed the costs of bargaining, fragmented party support creates a democratic deficit, linkage between democracy and redistribution, and the integration of violence unravels the social peace democracy needs to...
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...out to the government that they need to take out American soldiers abroad and to bring them back home. Many people had believed that the U.S. had no chance of winning the war and therefore was a waste of resources to continue fighting in it. One of the most notorious cases was the My Lai Massacre. It has been considered to be one of the most horrific acts of violence against innocent civilians. A group of American soldiers had viciously slaughtered a large population of about 500 inhabitants of My Lai in South Vietnam. What stunned families back home was that this incident had been covered for close to a year before it was revealed to the public. This massacre generated outrage and horror to the Americans sitting back home. People began rallying and protesting by calling out the government. Many of the anti-war protestors had actually been young college students. When they heard of the news they decided to take action. One group known as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) took matter into their own hands. They believed that on moral grounds, there was no need to further participate in the war and that fighting was clearly not an answer. Several members that joined the organization were because they did not want to be drafted. The average age of American solider was 19 years old. They claimed in their defense that society saw them as old enough to fight a war but not old enough to be allowed to vote or drink. A young man by the name of Stephen Smith was one of the first...
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...seems to be the standard for women on the news, whether it’s local or national. I don’t normally watch either of these particular shows, so I was unsure what to expect as far as their actual reporting was concerned. On the ABC news cast, the first story that was covered was about Donald Trump, the rally that he held in Arizona, and the protests in Arizona and New York City. The host claimed that “despite the protests, Trump was louder and more forceful than ever”, which in my opinion, had a very negative slant to it. The report showed how the protestors in Arizona used their cars to try and block traffic and how the protestors in NYC were marching and picketing in front of Trump Tower. At the end of the story, the reporter talked about Donald Trumps’ “feud” with Megyn Kelly, whom he called “highly over rated and crazy”. An unnamed republican insider said that Trump’s “extreme obsession with Kelly is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate”. This story, from start to finish, lasted six minutes. The first story on The Fox Report was about Donald Trump, as well, but also mixed in information about the other presidential candidates. For Trump, they focused mostly on his rally in Tucson and the protestors there. The...
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...how one will know the wonderful season fall is upon us. When fall arrives, Starbucks starts to sell pumpkin spice lattes, and Wal-Mart sells pumpkins to carve. Some will start to see women and men drinking the hot and delicious pumpkin spice lattes and children planning what to carve on their pumpkins. With children planning to carve pumpkins, people will start to see the pumpkins with rather menacing, and some humorous, faces carved into them sitting on porches in a neat row with a little tea candle in each one of them. One marvelous craze about fall is football season. On typical high school Fridays one can find a large mass of teenagers in the pep rally and can hear the cheerleaders rallying up the students for the battle on the football field that night. On Friday nights one will find the same teens from the pep rally...
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...According to “The Washington Post”, Last year 963 African Americans were shot and killed by police. Ever since the 1960s Africans has been fighting for equality; in the Eric Garner case and Michael Brown, it demonstrated how White police officers abuse and misuse their power towards African Americans. Since the increase of police brutality communities has had marches, rallies, and even the Black Lives Matters movements as a response to show that Polices’ abuse of power is unacceptable. The Black Lives Matter movement was created after radical discrimination it is a political movement to inform and protect Black Lives. (Wesley Lowery. Para 1.) “After police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old. The fatal gunshots, fired by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on 9 August 2014, were followed by bursts of anger, in the form of protests and riots. Hundreds and then thousands, of local residents, had flooded the streets. The killing of Michael Brown created a new generation of black activists, with thousands taking to the streets, and a hashtag used more than 27m times. (Lowery. Paragraph 52.)...
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...we must analyze the political leader’s personality. Some leaders are known to be impulsive or stubborn and often yield too little in bargaining, while others are cautious and willing to compromise. In this case, the leader’s personality can determine if bargaining will or will not lead to war. Some leaders are also rational and take into account all their possible gains and losses from going to war. Other leaders are irrational either because it is their personality or it is basic human nature. War is costly and can bring any nation into some serious debt. Therefore in hopes of avoiding certain losses, leaders might adopt risky strategies in the international world in hopes of avoiding all loss. Some leaders also make decisions for war to rally the nation behind them and gain popularity, or simply to divert attention from other bad decisions they’ve made domestically. One might argue that to understand the causes of war, we must observe those who influence the men in these positions, rather...
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...The First Rally It was a cold morning in Johnston, New York. Cady Lee Stanton wakes up from a deep sleep, to get to her tutor in time. She puts on her skirts and petticoat on and runs to the foyer. Her dog, Garnet, run up to greet her. She pushes the dog aside and runs through their Victorian age house to the foyer. Down the marble stairs through the kitchen, she could make it today. The old-timey clock beeps signaling 8 o'clock just as she runs through the door. “Just in time Cady, though you might be late yet again.”, her tutor says. Cady greets her and apologizes for her past tardiness. Her tutor Mrs. Bradley explains how she must be perfect, punctual, and a bunch of other things she couldn't care less about. She had to live up to the women she was named after, her grandmother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her mother was a prominent figure in the equal rights for women movement. She spent her days learning about what her Grandmother...
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...Every year on September 11 the people of Catalonia celebrate a daylong festival called the National Day of Catalonia. This day is meant for Catalans to remember September 11, 1714, when the French Bourbons won the War of Spanish Succession and started to suppress Catalonia’s self government. Today, Catalans from all over the region gather on September 11 and have huge demonstration that calls for Catalan Independence. People from all over Catalonia gather and hold hands creating a human chain that stretches across the region. Very rarely do you see a group of people celebrate the loss of a war, usually people celebrate if they when win. The people celebrate this day to remember the independence they once had, and attempt to try and regain the independence they lost centuries ago. On this day Catalans show their national pride to the rest of the world, but this pride is not towards Spain it is for Catalonia. There is a very strong sense of nationalism in the region and the people want to become their own state. Many people have a mistaken belief for what nationalism actually is; nationalism is a feeling of loyalty people have toward their country or nation. Nationalism is generated when people have a similar history and culture but it is suppressed or combined with another culture. This is exactly what has happened in Catalonia for centuries and is why the nationalist movement is so powerful here. When you walk through the city of Barcelona you see how evident this is. ...
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...Gun users For the gun issue Boycott A Los Angeles Times report suggested that the most visible result of this week's boycott was the contrarian buycott, which included Ohio State University students rallying outside an Ohio Starbucks holding signs, including one that said, “Because I CAN'T carry a cop!” Once learning of the boycott, gun owners sprang into quick action, organizing a "reverse boycott" and taking a page from the NGVAC by coordinating through Facebook. Support for the "reverse boycott" was so successful that, before Valentine's Day arrived, the NGVAC was reportedly forced to remove the list of boycott participants from public view on its Facebook event page after the tiny number was dwarfed by more than 24,500 Facebook users committing to participate in the "reverse boycott." (What they cannot hide, however, is the tiny number of followers on this supposedly national anti-gun groups' Facebook page - just 258. By comparison, Buckeye Firearms Association has over 11,700.) Many participants agreed to pay and/or tip with $2 bills to signify support for the Second Amendment. And while it is impossible to measure the exact financial boost the reverse boycott had on Starbucks' bottom line, the anecdotal evidence posted at the Facebook event page for the 'BUYcott' suggests it was substantial. The comments also suggest that most store managers weren't aware of the NGVAC boycott, but they were definitely aware of the increased business thanks to gun owners! In case you...
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..."Black lives matter,” the rallying cry of the new movement against racist police violence, is brilliant in its simplicity. But more striking than the slogan’s ability to express so much in so few words is how painful it is that its message needs to be asserted. What began as a small but fierce rebellion in a St. Louis suburb exploded into a wildfire that has engulfed the whole country. The movement has done something all too rare in our time: it’s escaped the control of the ruling establishment. Neither police repression nor Democrats have been able to stop the movement. which has confounded the politicians and the news media, accustomed as they are to using the same old scripts to discuss race and protest without challenge. City governments across the country had to accept the disruption of business as usual, as, for example, when activists from the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP 100) occupied Chicago’s City Hall on November 26, and marchers in New York City repeatedly shut down most major bridges and tunnels leading into and out of Manhattan in November, while police appeared powerless. Strong at its beginning In a matter of weeks, the movement shattered what remained of the notion of a “post-racial” America and reoriented the entire national conversation on anti-Black racism. The movement follows in a tradition of Black struggles in the United States whose impacts far exceed the numbers of people involved and go well beyond their point of origin. The civil rights revolt...
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...A transformational leader is defined as “a leader who influences, inspired, mobilizes, and transforms followers to achieve organizational goals beyond their self-interests” (Weiss 2011). Effective transformational leadership consists of four factors known as the “four I’s”. They are: idealized influence, individualized consideration, inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation. The first female Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, is using these traits to transform Jamaica from rule under the British monarchy to a republic and is using charisma, the “four I’s”, and ethical leadership to bring about the change that Jamaican citizens are asking for. Charisma played an important role in PM Simpson Miller’s bid for reelection. Successfully campaigning for a second term in office despite being removed from that very office after little more than a year, truly takes charisma and political fortitude indeed. After a recount in the 2007 elections, Simpson Miller conceded defeat but three years later, she successfully campaigned for and won the seat of PM again despite “a relentless negative advertising campaign that ‘demonised’ her, mocked her intellectual capacity, managerial competence and unsuitability” (Robinson 2012) for the position of Prime Minister. Another hurdle the new PM had to overcome was discontent over US$400 million that was mishandled during her short term in office. In the true style of charismatic leaders, Simpson Miller created and articulated...
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...Howard 1 Around the fall of 1966, the black civil rights movement was changing its strategies and goals all overnight. Many white Americans wanted to know what was the sudden change in the blacks because they haven’t been use to seeing such a proud race that was demanding equal rights. The black movement shift became obvious to the public in August of 1965, when President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act that caused all the blacks to have pep in their step. After the signing there was many chaotic events that was occurring. Just one week after the of there was an explosion of ghetto violence that resulted in35 dead, over 900 injured, more than 3,900 arrested and over $46 million in property damage. The riots and damaging didn’t just stop there, weeks passed and more chaos was raised. Weeks after weeks more people were killed and many were arrested. The racial turmoil of 1966 spread to over 43 cities ending the summer with over 3,500 injured, arrested and dead. The number question that was on every white American mind was “What gave the blacks the courage to stand up after all these years?” The violence was always around when it came to racial problems and it affects everyone and everything that involve black Americans. That is why Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self –Defense. In Oakland Grove, Louisiana, young Huey Percy Newton didn’t grow up in the best living conditions. He was born the youngest of seven children to a low in-com family...
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...where the first women’s rights convention in history was held (Lewis, J. 2001). In 1840, two women; Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stranton were attending a convention in London as delegates with their husbands. It was here that the credentials committee ruled that women were “constitutionally unfit for public business meetings.” (Lewis, J. 2001). The men were permitted to speak, the women were not and there was a curtain that separated the women from the men in the building (Lewis, J. 2001). These two women decided to hold a mass meeting to address the rights of women, which over 300 women and men attended on the first day to rally to the cause of equality for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Seneca Falls Declaration outlining the new movement's ideology and political strategies (Rampton, Martha. 2008). This was only the beginning of women rallying together to make a difference and equalize rights. Discussions about the vote and women's participation in politics led to an examination of the differences between men and women as they were then viewed. Some claimed that women were morally superior to men, and so their presence in the civic sphere would improve public behavior and the political process (Rampton, M....
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