Radio program: Nelson Mandela
Creative writing - 3 pages - Modern history
"Good morning, New York and welcome to “History and Music” radio! It is 7AM and today we received the famous man nicknamed Madiba who fought against the apartheid in South Africa during his entire life. He was president from 1994 - nineteen ninety-four - to 1999 - nineteen ninety-nine -...
Podcast: Nelson Mandela
Creative writing - 2 pages - Medias
Good morning, London and welcome to BBC radio 4! It is 7AM, and today we will talk about the famous man nicknamed Madiba, who fought against the apartheid in South Africa during his entire life. He was president and he was honored by the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela!
Nelson Mandela-Long Walk to Freedom
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
There is a debate about the main determinant of personality in psychology. Some hold that nurture hold the biggest influence while others insist that nature is a bigger influence. This paper will take both views as determinant in personality. The nature view would imply that his birth had a big...
Interview with Zanani (Mandela's daughter)
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Modern history
This exercise is a piece of creative writing designed to simulate an interview with Zanani, Mandela's daughter.
South-Africa Presentation
Essay - 1 pages - World geography
On 1948, the ideology supported by the National Party government named apartheid was introduced in South Africa. The principal aim was to separate the blacks from the whites by numerous laws such as the prohibition of Mixed Marriages. Obviously, some people disagreed and decided to resist such as...
Do people learn the art of becoming a politician, or are they born with it?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Over the years and all over the world, if we take a good look at the history, we will realise that great people lived and ruled countries and kingdoms. People like Alexander the Great, Nelson Mandela, Napoleon Bonaparte, etc. There are two things that characterise all these people....
Henri David Thoreau - Civil disobedience
Biography - 2 pages - Philosophy
Henri David Thoreau, an American philosopher, naturalist and poet, was also a convinced activist who fought against slavery and advocated civil disobedience. His imprisonment in 1846 gave rise to the essay "Civil Disobedience", a text that influenced Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson...
Places and forms of power - Education and money
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Today I'm going to deal with the notion places and forms of power. It can be defined as the ability to exercise authority and influence over others. It can exist at different levels, for example in economy, politics, and media. We may wonder to what extent higher education can be considered as a...
Mega-Sport Events: Impact on Women Opportunities in Sponsorship and Their Brand Image
Dissertation - 34 pages - Sport marketing
"Sport has the power to change the world," declared Nelson Mandela in his famous speech at the first Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco in 2000. According to research done by A.T. Kearney, the global sports market is worth somewhere between $480 billion to $620 billion. Over and...
Philanthropic Strategies for Children and the Next Generation
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
For millions of children around the world, every day is a struggle. This is why we have to be able to act without delay in a race against the clock where every day counts. In fact, as we know, everything we do as an impact today and tomorrow on our beautiful planet. If we want to save the world,...
Theory and practice: Civil disobedience and the pursuit of justice
Thesis - 4 pages - Civil law
In the Crito, Socrates makes an argument against the notion of breaking the laws even if they are judged by the public to be unjust. This is because by disobeying the law, one is in effect “attempting to destroy... the laws, and indeed the whole city” (Plato 53). Socrates continues...
African conflict and resources
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The history of South Africa mainly revolves around communication and the conflict of the numerous varied ethnic groups in South Africa. Just like other historical accounts of various countries, South Africa is not any different. The themes of race, gender, and the socio-economy are the most...
Universally effective and desirable leadership attributes
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Leadership traits study has quite a long and questionable record. Research may show that having some traits on their own will not always constitute success in leadership. However, there is proof that efficient leaders exhibit some key aspects that are diverse from those in other people. Essential...
Heinekan case study: How to enter South Africa market
Case study - 25 pages - Services marketing
This is a sales proposal written for Heineken on how they should enter the South-African. What we researched is: How can Heineken enhance its sales by expanding its market share to new consumer markets in South-Africa? During reading this sales proposal, you can find the current situation of...
Opposition to the apartheid
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
It was founded in 1912, was composed of the chiefs who had acquired importance during the tribal resistance to European domination, by the year 1943 remained harmonious relations with whites, always in the line that the tribal chiefs wanted. This year he adopts the claims and statements of...
Violence in South Africa
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
While South Africa is one of the richest countries of Africa, why is there so much violence? 25 of the biggest African firms are South African, and its economy is the largest and the most developed on the continent. It grows by 5% every year. Yet, South Africa has a high rate of unemployment and...
The law of apartheid
Case study - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the 1950s, the fight for equal rights has mobilized many Africans, who until then had never spoken out for or against or their rights, is born the people's congress campaign, and Africans are invited to submit their grievances and aspirations would become the basis of a document-from all...
The Stephen Lawrence affair
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
Stephen Lawrence was born in 1974; he was the first child of Doreen and Neville who emigrated from Jamaica in the 1960s. He had one brother Stuart and one sister Georgina. By the age of seven he had already resolved to become an architect. He lived at Plumstead, south-east London, which is a...
Are we born with Charisma or can we learn it?
Essay - 15 pages - Management
For generations, the representation of the charisma concept has been characterized by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, John F Kennedy, or more recently Barrack Obama. Although these leaders engaged in completely different things in their life to be recognized as charismatic, they...
The Political Spectrum: A Different Approach
Essay - 9 pages - Other law subjects
The traditional left-right political spectrum we use to place politicians platforms is outdated. We carried this spectrum over from the French, and any citizen would be hard pressed to be able to even accurately define what the spectrum is measuring. We all know that on the right side sit the...
The South African crime wave
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
In 1997 South Africa had the highest murder rate in the world.1 For the period 1998 - 2000, it slipped to number two, losing the top spot to Colombia, but retained the number one position (per capita) in murders with firearms, rapes, and assaults.2 While there is some controversy regarding the...
Father, Forgive Them: A Review of Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
There is a basic purpose to the literature of Holocaust survivors: to bare witness. Many believe they survived to perform such a duty, to fulfill such a debt to those who did not. As witnesses, they record living history, for they record the history of their own lives. But what happens when a...
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Bartolome De Las Casas was a Dominican Monk of Spanish descent, best known for his moving work A Short Account Of The Destruction Of The Indies, which details the barbaric actions of the Spanish conquistadors in their relations with the natives of the New World. Even though it was written in the...
The Colonization and Independence of South Africa and Kenya
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Independence has been a struggle in the African continent since the first days of colonization. Africa has been territorialized since the days of Jesus, but was not heavily colonized until the Scramble for Africa. The Scramble, which took place during the late 1800s, involved several European...
Race, immigration and changing U.S. - Cuban relations
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
United States - Cuban relations over the last century have been rocky to say the least. Just 90 miles South of Florida, the U.S. has always liked to think of the island as within its sphere of influence. In the long Cuban war for independence from Spain the United States sheltered leading...
The Daily Mail's electronic version, United Kingdom
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The news outlet I have chosen to analyze is the internet version of “The Daily Mail “, a newspaper based in the United Kingdom, very famous especially in England. It includes the daily version of this newspaper as well as “The Mail on Sunday”, its week-end's edition. Gate...
The objectives of the macroeconomics policy critical and assessment in the South African economy
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Although South Africa is regarded as an “economic powerhouse” in Africa and has a strong modern industrial and financial base, it faces severe developmental challenges: poverty, high level of inequality, unemployment…” (Fourie and Burger 2003: 4). The Human Development Index...
International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
After WWII, the world realized the madness of mankind: although the Jewish genocide wasn't the first one in history, it was the first one which the international community became really aware of. In order to punish the terrible war crimes, 2 international military tribunals were created: one...
Democracy in Africa
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In the sphere of comparative politics, and more specifically, African politics, many notable changes have taken place over the last two decades. In this time, considerable research on African politics has centered on democracy and its implementation is different African nations. It was the...
Modernity of African music
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
People listen to music for different reasons. For me it's an introspective individualistic process. I examine the artists' lyrics in hopes that their expression will help me learn more about myself and life, in general. For others, music is the notes strung together to compose an orchestra. For...
