Colonization is destructive and ignorant to the preexisting societies that is ruined for money and land. Colonization is rooted in racism, capitalism, and supremacy. Colonization affects poor and indigenous countries. Candide by Voltaire, Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe all paint pictures of the destruction of colonization from different perspectives. Candide has a colonialist perspective with Candide traveling all over the world, causing destruction with an optimistic attitude. Anita Desai sheds a light by telling the story of India after English colonialism and how it affected their society and schools. Achebe tells the story of a man as his village is invaded by white evangelicals on behalf of the colonizers.

The world is turning around at the moment. For months. And a lot of countries have been locked, or are still in lockdown, or are partially open. People still need to work from home, groceries are open but mouth or face masks are obligated in shops and groceries.

Saving energy saves the planet at the same time it saves your bank account. Whether you're looking to cut costs or looking to help reduce your carbon footprint, energy saving is a philosophy you can take with you wherever you go.

The DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria for a Narcissistic Personality Disorder, associated with the term sociopath, is a lack of empathy, with a grandiose sense of self-importance creating the ideology of superiority over others. This disorder is observed through an obvious lack of empathy or the unwillingness to identify with the feelings or needs of others, fantasies of success and power, as well as a sense of entitlement with unreasonable expectations and a need for automatic compliance. The defiance of any of these needs usually causes outbursts and they are often violent. In the movie 12 years a slave, it is hard to not see the correlation between the slave owners and sociopathic disorders. The quote “get some food and rest and you will soon forget about your children”, which shows dissociation between reality and the victim. This particular scene was after a woman had been bought and sold away from her children. The wife of the slave owner said this to her while she was weeping as if it were a valid way to comfort. It shows the deep rooted, and at the time socially acceptable, lack of empathy toward other human beings, it has been justified by the idea that because of the color of another skin they are not human; they are another incapable ignorant group of savages. Without empathy, there is no need to evaluate cruel behavior nor is there a reason to question social norms if it allows them to dominate others in order to fulfill their need for superiority.

Money doesn’t solve your problems. At least that’s what people keep telling me, but is this true? Does money really not affect happiness, or is happiness not the point at all? It’s obvious that at certain levels money doesn’t affect our life satisfaction but it is also important to note that once bellow a specific level of income much more than happiness is influenced. According to the data received, money has a great deal to do with all four conditions specified. Though I cannot determine the statistical significance of the data fluctuations, I can observe many patterns that are involved with poverty level, educational environment and achievements. When comparing the averages of the five poorest schools and the five richest schools, the most concerning result is the inconsistency of the percent that pass reading curriculum.

I, Frederick Douglass, want to speak to all Millennials. I want to tell you all as growing up as a black man born into slavery that life has not been easy. The truth about slavery is horrible. There is so much knowledge that mankind just does not know. Slaves did not grow up to have an intelligent output. There are so many things that we did not know. We lacked information such as our own age, how to read and write, we did not know compassion and kindness. Even though we were victims of slavery and were not even treated as humans and less than dogs. The only thing that kept us fair-minded was being able to sing. Slaves were just a property that endured forced labor to do whatever our masters wanted us to do. We weren’t able to have knowledge of what we were capable of and were surrounded by depression and darkness itself. But, I want you to realize that life has it is bittersweet moments. That the Millennials can actually change society as a whole. Get rid of racial tension built up for centuries and learn to love each other. All I ask is please do not judge someone base on their bloodline and the appearance of the color of their skin.

Congressman John Robert Lewis, an American politician and civil rights leader died of Stage IV pancreatic cancer on Friday, July 17, 2020, at the age of 80. He made the announcement about the disease in a statement on December 29, 2019.

About five or six years ago, I mentioned to a family member that the name Washington Redskins was racist. He said he never thought of it that way and from that point, I began feeling uneasy whenever I saw the logo. I later spoke with my husband about it and said African Americans and Caucasians would never accept a team named “black skins” or “white skins”. I thought of the song from Disney cartoon version of Peter Pan, “ What makes the red man red?”

Two years ago, I ventured into the world of freelance content writing fulltime. I uprooted my life in Seattle and moved to a beautiful place on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington, where I could live frugally, make art, and write.

*100% of the earnings from reads on this article will be donated to the Loveland Foundation (read more about the organization at the end).

Back in October 2019, a video posted by an old school friend popped up on my Instagram feed. In this video, he was sat on the shoulders of another friend, leading chants in Lebanese asking, ‘Where’s the money?’, surrounded by a crowded street of protestors in London who were holding up Lebanese flags and banners. This school friend was Joseph El Kadi, a 23-year-old Lebanese student who is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Cambridge. My interest peaked when I saw the video, but with the pressures of work taking a toll and the lack of media attention surrounding the issues in Lebanon, I liked the video, pushed my interest in the video to the back of my mind, and kept scrolling.

When Emma Stone, at the 2018 Oscars, referred to the Best Director nominees as 'these four men and Greta Gerwig', she was met with a mixture of praise and heavy criticism- and it wasn't from misgoynists. Sure, the actress was right to call out the ridiculously low number of female nominees- but she was swiftly criticised for ignoring the fact that "these four men" included a Latino man (Guillermo Del Toro) and a black one (Jordan Peele). Men of colour, as Stone's critcs pointed out, don't exactly get everything handed to them. Why should they- along with women of colour- celebrate one wealthy white woman for cheering on another wealthy white women, ignoring their experiences, and calling it feminism? (Plus, no-one's forgotten Aloha.)

Bags, bottles and other single-use plastic items will be banned in Canada starting in 2021.

These charities range from women, people of color, low-income housing with children, and the elderly. It's aiming towards the people who have been hit the hardest during this pandemic. Now in no way is this supposed to be political, but in America, we are struggling harder than most countries right now. So I thought I would write this up to remind everyone that there are still people that need our help!

How do we promote change? How do we promote change on a global scale? Especially when it comes to something as ambiguous yet dynamic as poverty. Countries have researched the general sources of global extreme poverty in their nations, but for individuals, day to day distinctive issues can be harder to aid.

The first donations of the Swedish activist have benefited a campaign to fight the coronavirus in the Brazilian Amazon and a lobby that seeks to judge the 'ecocide' in The Hague

As if 2020 couldn't get any more bananas, Kanye West is running for President. And while the ship on his campaign may have already been run ashore before it even had the chance to cast its glorious sail, you should consider voting for Kanye.

When Kayne West stated that he was going to run for President in 2020 in a cryptic tweet, I thought that it was just another publicity stunt. Still, I diligently analysed every word, combing through for any hint about his policy platform. ‘[T]rusting God’? Perhaps he’s running on a religious fundamentalist platform. ‘[U]nifying our vision’? Proposing an end to the bi-partisan system, perhaps. ‘[B]uilding our future’? The usual buzzwords around education, or is Ye considering trying to cause a tech industry boom? Or perhaps it’s an allusion to environmentalism, aiming to plant more trees.

A slow but important week for Congress, as the House addresses the issue of police brutality and DC statehood.

Very partisan happenings the last week of June on Capitol Hill. Sixteen votes and every one of them party line. Steil voted with the Republicans 15 of 16 times.

The DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria for a Narcissistic Personality Disorder, associated with the term sociopath, is a lack of empathy, with a grandiose sense of self-importance creating the ideology of superiority over others. This disorder is observed through an obvious lack of empathy or the unwillingness to identify with the feelings or needs of others, fantasies of success and power, as well as a sense of entitlement with unreasonable expectations and a need for automatic compliance. The defiance of any of these needs usually causes outbursts and they are often violent. In the movie 12 years a slave, it is hard to not see the correlation between the slave owners and sociopathic disorders. The quote “get some food and rest and you will soon forget about your children”, which shows dissociation between reality and the victim. This particular scene was after a woman had been bought and sold away from her children. The wife of the slave owner said this to her while she was weeping as if it were a valid way to comfort. It shows the deep rooted, and at the time socially acceptable, lack of empathy toward other human beings, it has been justified by the idea that because of the color of another skin they are not human; they are another incapable ignorant group of savages. Without empathy, there is no need to evaluate cruel behavior nor is there a reason to question social norms if it allows them to dominate others in order to fulfill their need for superiority.

Money doesn’t solve your problems. At least that’s what people keep telling me, but is this true? Does money really not affect happiness, or is happiness not the point at all? It’s obvious that at certain levels money doesn’t affect our life satisfaction but it is also important to note that once bellow a specific level of income much more than happiness is influenced. According to the data received, money has a great deal to do with all four conditions specified. Though I cannot determine the statistical significance of the data fluctuations, I can observe many patterns that are involved with poverty level, educational environment and achievements. When comparing the averages of the five poorest schools and the five richest schools, the most concerning result is the inconsistency of the percent that pass reading curriculum.

It felt like a record scratch when Sarah abruptly asked me if she could touch my hair. She gawked at me as though I were an exotic zoo animal, and the tone in her voice stung with an antagonizing fascination.

On average, four human rights defenders have been killed every week since December 2015, according to the Global Witness annual report. More than half of the murders occurred in Colombia and the Philippines.

No fewer than 30 members of the House of Representatives have been mandated to appear before the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges for allegedly receiving contracts worth N100billion from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, has denied saying most of the NDDC contracts were awarded to members of the National Assembly.

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To date over 6,000 Americans have died due to our blundering in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Vietnam War we lost over 58,000 Americans and what for? What have these wars brought to the American people I ask you? We are still in Afghanistan and Iraq. Vietnam was a complete failure and what is interesting is all of these wars never had a clear goal or mission in mind. I must ask what is our mission in Iran, if it begets war.

The attacks on the World Trade Centre and on the Pentagon had a lasting effect on the world which we still see to this day. The events that had taken place on September 11, 2001, was quoted by many as the event that had ‘changed everything.' The attacks had caused many changes to happen in many aspects around the world and changed many attitudes as to how to cope and deal with terrorism. It had caused conflicts to begin in Afghanistan and Iraq, with many nations around the world rushing to America’s aid to deal with those that had caused 9/11. Security was increased drastically to try and prevent anything on this magnitude to ever be able to happen again. The biggest change to have come from the attacks was surely the intelligence services.

Colonization is destructive and ignorant to the preexisting societies that is ruined for money and land. Colonization is rooted in racism, capitalism, and supremacy. Colonization affects poor and indigenous countries. Candide by Voltaire, Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe all paint pictures of the destruction of colonization from different perspectives. Candide has a colonialist perspective with Candide traveling all over the world, causing destruction with an optimistic attitude. Anita Desai sheds a light by telling the story of India after English colonialism and how it affected their society and schools. Achebe tells the story of a man as his village is invaded by white evangelicals on behalf of the colonizers.

Mary Queen of Scots, or one could also call her Mary Queen of Tragedy. No tragic Shakespeare play could ever capture nor come close to the horrible events that befell this woman. Made queen at only six days old and then to be swept away from her home at five, off to France never retuning to Scotland till she was eighteen which did not help her establish a true home. Family was ether died, astringed, or thought she was trying to kill them. Religious uproar from nobles rioting and murder plots had her in fear for her life. Life never seemed easy for the young queen. She had three husbands, one made her Queen of France, another joined her at the throne in Scotland and the last would have liked to have seen her take the English throne. Pulled in so many different directions her whole life it is amazing the naive, yet strong Mary didn’t lose her head before someone took it against her will.

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

Monday August the 17th, 2020. Just a few weeks from now. Seventeen Days, four hundred and eight hours, OR twenty four thousand four hundred and eighty minuets, OR one million four hundred sixty eight thousand, eight hundred eighty second, just in case someone is counting UNTIL we as a nation will OFFICIALLY in a unusual way, begin the process of selecting the next president of these states United.

Imagine living in a country where you never know when you wake up, whether or not you will have running water to have a shower, to wash your hands, to flush the toilet or to wash up the dirty dishes left in the sink from last night.

Every day I get a visit from my past. No lie. Every. Day. The visit is not from a childhood friend or classmate; like that scene in a movie where the foggy mist gives a hint the person is somebody from the past or someone from the future visiting the present to give a warning about some major life event.

Peoples in my opinion: Darcy Murdock

"Costa Rica will soon be free of plastic and carbon emissions", several articles state very exaggeratedly, even if the Central American country has indeed put in place measures to fight against single-use plastics as well as to reduce its emissions of carbon.

While immigrating to a country like New Zealand, you must choose the right type of visa for that. And your visa greatly depends on your New Zealand immigration plans. It is suggested to compare the different options offered by the Government of New Zealand to find the best one for you. However, you must note down that the visa policies of this country are quite complex. So, to make sure that you are on the right track, it is good to consult with a licensed and experienced New Zealand immigration consultant to confirm your best fit option for getting the visa that will be mandatory for your stay in the country.

So it was that in the year of our Lord Two thousand and twenty that the world was hit by a great fiendish plague of untold magnitude that spread to all corners of the world bringing disease, dis-ease, malaise, pain, sorrow, and confusion. Like a great whirlwind, it swept through the world - upending countries, governments, communities, education, and life, leaving death, tears, and confusion in its wake. 

A couple weeks ago, I published an article recommending my favorite wellness podcasts. Since then, it has come to my attention that the woman behind one of the podcasts, Jen Gotch, curated a culture of racism at her company ban.do. In an effort to provide folks, especially white folks, an alternative that is rooted in dismantling white supremacy and supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement, I am offering an updated set of recommendations centered on anti-racism work.

Like so many across the nation, I have been lost this week. Lost in hurt and anger and confusion for so many of my friends. I must begin by acknowledging my privilege. I am a white woman of middle-class. I have never been pulled over with the fear, This is how I die.

There was a story about General Washington when his troops were just trained for the Revolutionary War. In the event of their graduation as military troops, Washington would have them watched the play about the man, the Roman Senator who made Emperor Caesar. The play, Cato, would show all the lengths of knowledge that the senator possessed and how he could easily persuade the Roman Senate to listen to Caesar. Cato was a longtime serving senator who could not gain enough popularity to become emperor even though he had all the knowledge and leadership skills. Roman was possessed with Caesar's divisiveness and military prowess. For example, Cato created the first easy to vote system so Romans could vote easier and support his campaign. He tried numerous times to be Emperor but failed to Julius Caesar. Caesar was a magnate and center character, too hard of an opponent to defeat. Cato's ultimate fall was that he placed his trust into the hands of the dictatorship of Caesar. Cato would cover all the misdoings of Caesar and plotted with Caesar to control the Roman Senate until finally, he could not take it anymore. He died in what they identified as a suicide yet the facts remain a mystery. However, this completed the downfall of Caesar because he could no longer control the Senate and the Romans were distraught over his terms of peace and Cato's end made the Senate fear the power of Caesar and the Senate tried to honor Cato with a coin and his invention but it was too late. Eventually, the Roman Dictator's end was on its eve.

Congressman John Robert Lewis, an American politician and civil rights leader died of Stage IV pancreatic cancer on Friday, July 17, 2020, at the age of 80. He made the announcement about the disease in a statement on December 29, 2019.

BRYCE ON POLITICS

A disturbing trend is taking hold in America that is leaving a lot of Black people stunned. They are finding that White friends, coworkers, neighbors, and those in their faith based communities etc. have become openly racist since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Those who support the president say this is obsured and that people need to stop blaming number 45 for everything. The truth is, Black folk can’t help but discuss what they are experiencing. We have all heard the stories of the “Karen’s” who have been calling the police on African Americans for no reason. We have seen the video’s of random police brutality but what is happening now is personal.

Witnessing the recent events of 2020, we have to ask ourselves, how did we let our government become this way? How did we manage to let them destroy our civil liberties, destroy our economy, dig us a pit of debt, get caught up in scandal after scandal, get away with it, and still somehow call this "progress?" How did we let centuries and centuries of historical data go ignored as we once again subscribed to a national-socialist agenda?

I'm what you might call a long standing suffering defender of the BBC, having grown up watching all sorts of BBC produced television and radio and being spoon fed a daily dose of BBC News Online (it being forever the main source of news for the family). I've watched a copious number of superb documentaries and read incredibly insightful feature pieces, got angry over Brexit, and tweeted numerous times over stupid people on Question Time.

When Princess Beatrice gets married on May 29, 2020, she will get a new title. Her sister Princess Eugenie did not get a similar title when she got married on October 12, 2018. There is a reason Princess Beatrice is getting a special title. The reason she is getting that title after her marriage explains why her sister Princess Eugenie did not inherit the same title.

There are now almost 3,000 coronavirus deaths worldwide. And America also records the first death in Washington state. The victim was a woman in her 50s. It had arrived, the US media reported, with "serious breathing problems" at EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland, Washington. It is not clear yet when the patient was hospitalized, when the symptoms first appeared and how long it took to get tested.

The world is turning around at the moment. For months. And a lot of countries have been locked, or are still in lockdown, or are partially open. People still need to work from home, groceries are open but mouth or face masks are obligated in shops and groceries.

Let's discuss the floundering Trump empire (Trumpire?), and why not start with this TikTok crap? I will attempt to demonstrate how one of Trump's problems is that he sucks at marketing.

Black Live Matter activists, anarchists, and Antifa members are coming for you, the president said, in a message to “The Suburban Housewives of America.''