Essays on Kenya

Domino’s Pizza in a New Market

History Domino’s Pizza, being the largest pizza franchised chain in the United States, shares the same history with Pizza hut, which is its rival. It was started by two brothers, Tom and James Monaghan in the nineteen sixties through borrowed equity. They bought a Michigan Pizzeria and named it Dominick’s and ran it jointly. Later on James sold his shares to raise money for a second hand car. As a result, Tom revitalized the company’s image including changing its name to Domino’s Pizza. The company had grown to more than 200 franchise businesses in the ...

Social Issues in the Films “Anna Karenina” and “The First Grader”

“Anna Karenina” is considered to be a great historical novel written by Russian world renowned novelist Lev Tolstoy. It is also a film directed by Joe Wright. It serves up all the important issues intertwined with tasty, thrilling, salacious and tantalizing gossip. It is a story with varied affairs, complete with sex, heartbreak and eventually, suicide-by-train (Anna Karenina). Having written the novel during the 1870s, there were lots of political and societal changes in Russia. The novel occurs against the backdrop of liberal reforms represented by Emperor Alexander II in the 1860s. These reforms involved prompt growth and development ...

Literature Review

This section review literature on the responsibility of Western Powers on Civil Wars as well as Rebellion within Eastern and Central Africa. From the reviewed materials, it is evident that the style of Western administration on the African continent left African countries unprepared economically as well as politically for independence. For that reason, it undermined the state of security within most countries from their start of self-governance. The influence of Europe within Africa has contributed significantly in establishing conditions within many countries for rebellion and civil conflict to take place. The Western powers treat African states as strategic economic ...

Kenya is the 43rd largest country in the world situated in the east coast of Africa along the equator. The country borders Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south and Uganda to the west. It is mostly termed as the cradle of mankind since archaeologists and palaeontologists have discovered very ancient remains of man which shows the earliest evidence of the ancestors of man. Kenya has a population of 41.6 million people (Kenya Ministry of Finance and Planning, 2009). The currency used in the country is the Kenyan shilling. Kenya’s capital city is Nairobi which acts as ...

Company description

Dataset Technology Company provides web and software development software, mobile applications development services, and consultancy in information communications, technology. The Company is located in Houston, Texas, the United States. Dataset provides custom web designs, software, and IT solutions to different companies. The Company has established a longstanding reputation for its unique web content development capabilities, user-friendly software, and a diversity of experts that provide consultancy in information technology. The Company has its branches and franchises in different cities in the United States and other cities in the world. In the United States clients can access services in Seattle, Washington, ...

Essay #1 (Rough draft)

The purpose of this documentary essay is to provide significant insight of the movie ‘Born to Be Wild’ alongside exploring the criteria of the documentary which are entailed as rehabilitation of species into their natural habitat, destruction of natural habitat, nuanced animal behavior, and spreading awareness about saving animal lives. It is an American documentary, which was released in the year 2011. The documentary is based on the heartwarming efforts put forward by two women for the protection of wildlife. The story is entrenched with the essence of love, dedication, and the commendable bond between humans and animals as ...

Jane Doe

Introduction Women’s rights throughout the world have continued to be the subject of human rights concerns for members of the various nations and regulatory groups throughout the world. Not all entities have the same concerns for the fair and equal rights of women in their nations, but with the world watching, pressure is put on these nations lacking proper adherence to human rights policies for women in these countries. Africa, often known for its volatile circumstances and harsh treatment of women is the focal point of this research paper in helping to create a best practices policy suggestion ...

Practical Application: Technology Acceptance Model

Part 1: Theory and Application A theory is one of the instruments to comprehend a given topic and develop concrete explanation on it. The theory is described as a given relationship between two or more observed phenomena. It is defined as the coherent statement or collection of concepts that propound phenomena or facts observed, from which principles and laws can be established. Thus, it can provide verification to a hypothesis by experiments or observations. The application is the practical domain of the theory in various areas. However, they are interlinked with one another. Practical application cannot take place without ...

Islam

The root causes of Islam terror can be traced back to the factors that inform ideologies. Islam terror is based on an ideology. There are two root causes of Islamic terror. One is Islam and the second one is Islamism. Islam is the religious faith and belief of the Muslim people. It is informed by the words and acts of the holy prophet Mohammed. Islam is, however, a lot more than this. It is also the historical aspects of the faith, its literature and texts and leaders. It also incorporates the interpretation of these books and literature. It is ...

Relationships are very complicated societal institutions, which ensure that human interaction in the community is continual and progressive. There are positive and negative relationships in the society from family level interaction to friends, relatives and other members of the society. Interpersonal relationships are very important in maintaining community identity and are always a symbol of togetherness. Nevertheless, in every relationship, conflict is bound to arise. Even so, the major issue is dealing with these conflicts whenever they arise such as conflict resolution based on win-win, win-lose, or lose-lose situation. As a member of the society, I live amongst other people with ...

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Introduction For the research project on food production, social justice, and globalization, I will investigate the impacts of genetically modified maize crops on

South Africa’s environment and economy. I am interested in both the environmental implications of GM maize (such as decrease in biodiversity, chemical application, etc) but also the economic significance for subsistence farmers because of its potential increase in crop yields which could address hunger issues in the region. I chose maize rather than rice, corn, or soybean because it is one of the most researched GM crops in Africa, specifically southern Africa, and it ...

Jicarilla Apache culture, norms, values and symbols

Jicarilla Apache claims to formerly own eastern and central portions of northern New Mexico and some part of southern Colorado. Apache recognizes Arkansas river as their extreme northern boundary, while Canadian river separate them from eastern side, the location around the contemporary place of Mora by way of the southern outpost, then a line ranging north and south after where Chama currently stands by way of their frontier to the west. That portion of their land to which they limited their actual home-grown sites lay amid the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh grades north leeway, extending no beyond east than existing site ...

The point of this paper is to trace the origin of the maasai through their stories in order to find out if they were myths or legends.The Maasai is a group of plain Nilotes mostly living in the east African region. Their culture, mostly surrounds nomadic pastoralists that move with their cattle in search of water and pasture. Their creation myth surrounds livestock and mainly cattle which they hold sacred. They attribute their way of life to a myth in which Enkai sent them with cattle from heaven to look after them.

This story does not fit the outfit of ...

Kenya has depicted some interesting trends in the socioeconomic sphere, since its independence some of them are portraying consistency like urbanization and fertility rate while others like per capita income, life expectancy and official development assistance, etc. show some marked changes. Some of these changes and their reasons along with their mutual correlation are explained in the following lines.

However, in the 90s the per capita income started decreasing and with it the average life as well. The downward trend in average life is also accompanied by a decrease in income and the reasons are no different from the ...

Uganda was a British protectorate. The Buganda agreement (1900) defined the boundaries of the kingdom of Buganda. These boundaries were extended eventually to include the whole of the British Uganda protectorate. This agreement gave Buganda monarchy a large degree of their internal autonomy within the Uganda protectorate.

Githaka refers to an assemblage of land, which was owned by a sub clan (mbari). The members of the sub-clan were entitled to own portions of each clan’s githaka. The Kikuyu tribe of Kenya had a system of land holding based on the githaka. The githaka was hereditary passed on from one generation to another.The ...

In the recent past, I have been observing the changing economic trends in Africa with great concentration on how African countries have been trading with international nations. The trend has been rapidly changing with a great shift from Europe to the Asian continent. The European countries have always held the greatest share of the Africa’s imports and foreign direct investments. Additionally, a significant percentage of the African countries’ grants and external debt is accounted to European countries. The major trade partners are United States, United Kingdom and Germany. However, the latest invasion of African resources by China is a concerning trend ...

This article examines the difference between communication strategies in Japan and in the United States. The author’s goal is to assess the difference when people from Japan and people from the United States want to create friendships and marriages. Topic choice was determined to be of importance to both cultures. The conclusion of the study will be useful in my research because it reveals that when both parties are better informed about the differences between topic choices in the United States versus Japan then the parties are able to make better communication strategy choices. Richmond, V. ...

Question 1: Give examples of how regional educational policies in various regions (countries) influence school curriculum

The systems of education of various nations are strategically designed to meet the national goals and objectives of the particular countries. This means that, a global trend of knowledge acquisition is an issue of less magnitude compared to the specific issues that directly affect a particular nation. Every country draws their education system with the primary objective of solving their internal problems and meets their internal demands. Therefore, policy makers and specialists often engage in a thorough consultation with all development stakeholders of a country. The political class becomes the main players that determine the development agenda of the nation. It is upon ...

Part A

Education is one of the major concerns that any government addresses. The world nations embrace education as the key strategy towards attaining economic growth and development. Politicians have advocated for a constant funding to the higher institutions hence low fees to enable high standards of education. This is an aim to improve its accessibility as a way of enhancing skills in the society and more so increase innovation, science, and technology (Levin, 2005).

In a case where the government maintains a constant university funding, the demand for higher education increases in the country. The initial equilibrium price for education will decrease due to ...

Question one

- Modernization theory is a sociological phenomenon that focuses on the evolution of the society from traditional practices to modern. The study of modernization theory dates back to the 17th century where it focused on the progression of the world driven by technology. Coined by sociologists, the theory entails many disciplines especially in regards to technology. For instance, the theory discusses the advancement of the mass media/communication sector in relation to the societal changes in culture, politics and economy. Furthermore, the theory enlightens the society on the emergence of advanced technology and communication systems that have reduced the world to ...

Policing is a complex endeavor to say the least since these brave men and women are tasked with the heavy load of preempting social deviance and ensuring law and order. It’s however a very thin line that exists between a decent law abiding society and a lawless hopeless wasteland. The line is made even thinner by the fact that, in this modern society things are not as black and white as they would normally appear to be and grays are apparently the new order of the day (Carter, 2005).

Undoubtedly the most monumental development in policing in the United States has been ...

Introduction

Parenting is the process of acting like a mother or father to a child and providing/promoting them with emotional and physical support .

I interviewed an African (form a community called Gusii in Kenya) elder who resides in our town and his family has been living here for the ten hundred years. This gave me the insights of parenting in this community.

At the age of thirty (after circumcision and marriage), religiously boys were involved in the religious activities with elder in the community.

Extracurricular activities

In first generation, activities included the wrestling at twenty in boys where as girls were collecting firewood and smearing ...

During the course of the assignment, I interviewed Mr. Zachary James (CPA). I was attracted to Zachary as a result of his African background. He moved to the United Kingdom immediately he completed his university education in a Kenyan university. He is a comical guy who at first meeting may be taken to be a failure. However, the more you interact with him, you realise the sobriety with which he handles life issues. Zachary is reportedly married to Sarah James and is blessed with three children. During the interview, he reports that he has the fewest children among his family members. He attributes ...

This study provides a critical analysis on the changing notion of comfort standards in building systems through a critique of Cole, Robinson, Brown and O’Shea’s (2008) “Re-Contextualizing the Notion of Comfort”. Diverse climate conditions across several locations around the world highly characterize standards of comfort met through the construction of residential and commercial buildings, thus the understanding that people derive comfort based on the normal weather conditions in their respective locales. Various standards for buildings –where people use spaces for habitation or work, ensure comfortable living in accordance to distinct climate conditions. Climate change, in this case, ...

Executive Summary

This report is intended to give a critical overview of the strategic position of Essar Energy by making an analysis of the current position of the company by the use the balanced score card. An analysis is made on the three non financial aspects; the customer perspectives, the internal process perspectives and the learning and growth perspectives in relation to the financial performance and position of the company to draw a conclusion on the strategic direction that the company ought to make so as to successfully achieve its stated strategic vision. Essar Energy’s financial performance in the financial period ending ...

Fundraising activities play crucial role in a modern world, because global community is continuously struggling with various problems that need external assistance. One of the nonprofit fundraising campaigns is Water Is Life. This organization has a mission “to provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene programs” (Waterislife.com). In the developed countries, people take such utility as water as a must and often do not think that other communities value clean water as a precious thing and experience many problems due to insufficient amount of clean water. Water Is Life wants to make a difference and encourages everyone to donate to the improvement of life of ...

Finance

Executive Summary The differences in NGOs and for-profits may be the solution to problems in providing sustainable projects to developing countries, if the two entities find ways to merge what they each know how to do best. For-profits and NGOs can be identified by a look at their financial statements. The NGOs have more experience taking on board the methods that ensure resilience and durability in the global marketplace; on the other hand for-profits can make long-term investments pay off. Sustainability is one significant impact and globalization is another. NGOs based in the United States are regulated for ...

Ancient tribal religions around the world seem to have some commonalities and similarities. Ancient tribal religions predate institutionalized Judeo-Christian monotheistic religions and they are often observed by people in small communities who live basic lifestyles. However, in modern times, some people still adhere to these religions in different parts of the world. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze two of these ancient tribal religions, the Shawnee Religion of Native Americans and Traditional African Religions of the Maasai of East Africa in order to deduce their differences and similarities.

Background of the People

The Shawnee are a Native American people who originally ...

Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in South Africa

Introduction Rift Valley Fever (RFV) is viral disease that affects animals but can be transmitted from animals to human beings. To be more precise, it is a zoonotic arthropod-borne germ that leads to stern mortality and morbidity in both livestock and human beings. It is usually spread by Culex or Aedes mosquitoes. The disease was first discovered in Kenya around Lake Naivasha in 1915 following deaths of many sheep in a farm. According to the studies that were undertaken during this period, it was discovered that the disease was originated from a virus that infected goats, sheep and cattle as well ...

Social work was introduced to me in high school. The inherent desire to serve the less fortunate in the population was coined, planted and nurtured by my parents. I always accompanied them to social welfare organizations like foster homes, and community based organizations, to grant basic needs to the less fortunate and the endangered. When social work was introduced to me, I really liked it especially the principles of, a social worker his /her roles made me get an inherent power that propelled me to consider studying the course at the deepest end. I want to credit my parents for ...

Dark Star Safari trails Paul Theroux's African adventure starting from Cairo and ending in Cape Town in a witty, observing and often irascible tone. The journey is spread with danger, pain, adrenaline, disappointment and dismaying circumstances. The traveler gets a taste of everything life in Africa means, from history and politics to health care, education, poverty and decay. He gets in contact with people of various nationalities, belonging to various social classes and activating in various fields, managing to get a glimpse of their own perspective on things before clarifying his own. Diversity is the word that describes the experience best, ...

Xerox in Kenya

Xerox Corporation conducts business in more than 160 countries and employs about 140,000 employees. Furthermore, Xerox is a member of the Electronic industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) that helps promotes standards in areas such as social responsibility, health and safety and environmental activity. They are also supporters of human rights throughout the globe. They are also big on the promotion of women throughout their corporation. Their CEO, Ursula M. Burns, is a women. They participate in human right throughout the globe (www.xerox.com). Kenya is a country in East Africa. It covers approximately 58,000 square kilometers of land and has the ...

The technology that I have selected for this paper will be that of cloud computing. The utilization of cloud computing in associations helps in the entrance of data, for example, client information, remedy, and earlier analysis. As indicated by Augusto, Huch, and Kameas (2012), cloud computing has basically enhanced the registering environment of a few associations and subsequently expanded proficiency. This is on account of the whole buzz around there of cloud about-faces to centralization. The way data and information are put away in association has additionally changed. The cloud computing realized cloud storage. Cloud storage is the place the ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, the American government maintained high secrets on security information. The public never knew any information pertaining government activities on security. The policy made it hard for enemies to attack the United States of America. It was not after the Watergate hearing that new rules were released and the government activities of national security became open. However, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in America, the federal security agencies realized the importance of secrecy in issues associated with national security, especially on the fight against terrorism. The war on terrorism is a global problem affecting ...

The world portrays certain patterns in the way contemporary issues arise. These patterns are only reasonable since issues arise and spread within a certain region before extending to the rest of the world. Furthermore, many families, nations and communities share common beliefs, laws, economic and political predicaments among others. Such matters as ecological concerns also affect certain groups of people who live in a similar resource endowed region. Therefore, matters such as climate change or environmental conservation are concerns for the entire community. Issues such as international terrorism and proliferation of nuclear war are also matters of concern to the global ...

The American dream is the full definition what drives the American society since it was found. It involves many goals and objectives stated by the country’s greatest politicians and scholars. Americans strive to achieve their dreams, so that they become more successful and wealthier than their competitors worldwide. Although achieving and being successful is a challenging task, this dream has been instilled the minds of all Americans daily. However, the country has greatly influenced how other countries operate in different ways. Over the years, it has faced many drastic changes that have made it stronger and also raised many ...

International Marketing

Introduction

The geography of Kenya is highly diverse. The Western and Central Kenya is categorized by the Kenyan Rift Valley, Mount Elgon and Mount Kenya. Kenya is present across the equator within east-central Africa, on the Indian Ocean coast. It is two times the total size of Nevada (Central Intelligence Agency, 2014). Moreover, Kenya borders Ethiopia in the north, Somalia in the east, Uganda in the west, Tanzania in the south and lastly, Sudan in the northwest. Additionally, in the northern region, the land is barren while the southwest area is within the lush Lake Victoria Basin. The climate ...

For a long time, Australopithecus afarensis was considered as the earliest known bipedal hominid. This made this species, which was dated to have existed around 3.5 million years ago, the oldest member of the human clan. However, the discovery of the species, Australopithecus anamensis pushed the age of the bipedal hominids further back by around 600000 years (Tomasik, 2002).

History of the Discovery of Australopithecus anamensis

In 1965, the first fossilized specimen of A. anamensis was discovered by a research team from the Harvard University in the Kanapoi region that lies on the west of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Although at that time the fossil, which was a humerus ...

The Turkish independence war led to the birth of the Republic of Turkey. The post-colonial government was expected to be a bastion of freedom and civil liberties. The Ottoman Empire had been defeated in the First World War, and the Sultanate abolished. The Turkish people formed the Turkish National Movement to wage war against the allied nations to grant independence to Turkey. A nationalistic government was formed in 1923 after the Treaty of Lausanne, which led to the establishment of the Turkish Republic. After independence, the government was considered to be despotic in relation to the human rights. The Kurdish ...

Introduction

Ethnography refers to a designed research that explores the cultural phenomena of a group of people residing in a certain geographical location. The discipline reflects on the history, way of life and all social characteristics of the targeted people. An analysis of the organization, relationships between ethnic groups, settlements, and climatic terrain are substantial factors towards understanding the way of living and the reality of the habitat group. Furthermore, ethnographical research gives a clear view of how people and the society deal with sociological problems as they encounter in everyday life. Racism, drug addiction and illiteracy are among the common social problems facing ...

Use of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) in urban areas has not been successful due to challenges such as need for prior population registration, limited access to urban dwellers, acquisition of specific parental consent, inadequate programme support, low compliance due to insufficient information, non-uniform need for MDA across different socio-economic strata and inadequately motivated Community Drug Distributors (CDDs) who are few, (Njomo D. W. et al, 2014, p. 2) Compliance could be improved by ensuring adequate information and education is availed to the targeted community through social mobilization. This is emphasized by Hodges et ...

Kenya is a country that is found in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. It is a country with an approximate population of 40 million people. With a square kilometer area of approximately 582000, Kenya is among the third world countries that are under developed. A former colony of Britain, Kenya mainly depends on agriculture as its main economic backbone although the type of agriculture practiced in the country is not mechanized. Most of its land lies in arid and semiarid climatic areas. Alongside agriculture, the successive governments of Kenya have stepped up campaigns to promote tourism. Tourism has contributed to ...

A tall, lean man wrapped in a bright red cloth around his waist or slung on his shoulders holding a spear and with one leg off the ground hooked behind the other. In most cases, the man will be shown sporting long hair that has been tightly braided in an intricate style and which appears reddish! That is the image that comes to the minds of many people when the word Maasai is mentioned. Maasai is a nomadic community found in grasslands of Kenya and Tanzania. The community is famous for its retention of a strong culture that is built around nomadism (Saitoti, 1986). ...

Detailed Outline

Introduction This section shall provide a distinct presentation on what the whole paper is about Introducing the 1st Specie This section specifically provides of distinct presentation on the details about the first specie that has been discovered in Kenya Introducing the 2nd Specie This section provides a specific description of the second specie that has been discovered and how it could have a relative connection to all the environmental elements they relatively exist with.

Definition of social culture among primates

This section shows how the overall culture of primates relates to those that have been recently discovered in Kenya as noted in the ...

In the context of the country Kenya, the marketing of product like clothing should take into consideration several environmental factors so as to formulate a successful marketing mix. The environmental forces in Kenya should be fully and carefully analyzed because the country consists of various categories of people and various socioeconomic forces. The marketing of clothes in Kenya should, therefore, take into consideration various forces in order to determine the prices, distribution channels as well as the target markets in the most appropriate manner. The Kenyan environment has a great influence due to its diversity in influencing the marketing mix of ...

My name is John Edgar and I am applying to the Department of Finance at the University, fall 2012. My career goals, GPA, desire to be a financial expert and my experience in the field of finance and skills make me an excellent candidate for your program. My overall GPA is 3.22. My major GPA is 3.47. My minor GPA is 3.56. My option GPA is 3.56. In addition I have an upper division of 3.57 and the transfer credit of 2.92. Finally, my lower division is 2.89. I have always wanted to be a financial expert ever since I ...

Jim stood on the balcony of his pent suite sipping a glass of champagne as he stared into the horizon and at the breath-taking view of New York. Not once did it ever cross his mind that he would be so far from home and this time, instead of working in the coffee plantations toiling to feed his siblings, he was attending a conference for business executives. This time he was not running errands for his harsh and merciless employers, but had been invited to be the distinguished guest speaker in the financial literacy conference. James McLaren was born and ...

This film documents major struggles for independence in African countries such as Ghana, Algeria, Kenya, Mozambique and Belgian Congo. It gives focus to the vision of Pan-Africanism by Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah. Events that led to the attainment of Ghana’s independence are documented. Similar uprisings in Belgian Congo, Kenya, Algeria, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau are also highlighted in this film. The film features the organization for African Unity (OAU) and the end of Apartheid in South Africa. The narrators raise a number of issues in this film. First is the origination of African Nationalism which occurred mainly after ...

1. Observation and background information One of the major agents of global environmental change is deforestation. Deforestation is a consequence of land use change which is often affected by both biophysical and socioeconomic factors. Human decisions heavily influence land use in response to global markets. Geist and Lambin (143) noted that tropical forests are disappearing because of pressures coming from both local and regional scale having synergistic effects in different parts of the world. Human activities such as agricultural expansion, human population dynamics and agricultural policies have direct and indirect impact on forest cover change. Deforestation in the ...

The cow became one of the idols in Africa. Africans generally learned to appreciate and adore the cow. The Dinka, in a show of their love for the cow, have designed four hundred different names used to refer to the cow. The Maasai of Kenya are exceptions to idolizing the cow and their love for the cow. This has led them to believing that the cow was given to them by the gods, and on that basis they are true and dear to the cow. It is considered to them a blessing to herd and keep more herds of cattle as ...

Introduction

Globalization and modernization refer to the influence that modern nations have on non-developed or traditional nations and societies. At times, these influences result from direct contact, such as the opening of a Western corporate office or manufacturing plant in an underdeveloped nation. Other times, the influences can be indirect, such as the transmission of Western cultural values to non-Western societies through mediums such as television, literature, and goods shipped to local areas. Globalization and modernization can have both positive and negative impacts on the cultural practices of non-Western societies, and deciphering the impact of these influences can involve a complex analysis. ...

Introduction

Social policy often refers to a broad framework within which a country’s social welfare plans and agenda is put together in order to achieve the fundamental ends of the government and people of the nation. This includes a set of policies and practices concerned with promoting social welfare and wellbeing. Social policy is a process where policy makers use scientific methods to formulate important processes and regulations for the attainment of results relating to the social wellbeing for individuals and for the communities within the society and community groups. There are various constituents of social activities that affect and are affected ...

As previously mentioned, I have used the following rubric to grade your paper. Please review to the rubric itself to see the details for what my comments mean. Here is the link: http://www.southwestern.edu/live/files/2215-hhmi-summer-research-proposal-evaluation

Introduction:

Mental health issues results from different sets of emotions, behaviors and thoughts that cause some level of distress among people. These mental issues are thought to be a consequence of collaboration between biological, social, genetic, and economic factors (MHCC, 2010). Psychotic disorder has an intense effect on an individual’s health. Though there are quite a few ways to describe the reasons for any medical situation of ...

Introduction

An ethnic conflict is also called ethnic war at times and is usually the term used when referring to particularly armed conflict, or at times, war between two or more ethnic groups. This is usually contrasted with the civil wars where the major difference arises at the number of parties involved. The civil wars involve only a single nation or at times, a single ethnic group that is fighting within itself, in other words, it only includes one party. One undeniable fact is that the world is a pool of diverse ethnic societies that differ in almost every aspect of their lives ...

(Title of the Paper) (Name of Researcher) Swahili is one of the best documented and most studied African languages and much work has been done in analyzing various aspects of the language. However, one area which has thus far been left unexplored is that of the syntactic elements of Relative Clause. To this end the paper will focus on by providing a detailed (though not exhaustive) analysis of relative clauses without attempting to grapple with morphology. This is done deliberately so that time is not wasted on restating too much previous research as morphology in Swahili is already a ...

Introduction

Unemployment refers to the inability to get an opportunity of active employment when they are searching for one. Unemployment is one of the measures of the economic health of a particular country because it determines the level of productivity that a particular country has. Frequently, the most usable measure of unemployment is the rate of unemployment. The rate of unemployment can help to determine the amount of idle labor in the economy. When computing the unemployment rate, economists often divide the number of persons who do not have active employment against the number of people in the workforce. Based on the ...

12. 3. 2014

Banning Mini-skirt in Kenya

Beginning in March 2014, there is a heated discussion on wearing mini-skirts in public has been questioned. Many Kenyans are claiming that aside from being a violation of a women’s right and curtailing their freedom to wear what they want, for many people, it was a direct discrimination. However, what drew people especially for women to even the greater disgust and fury was the public humiliation. The women who experienced the hands of some people after they have been stripped and assaulted for the clothing article of wearing. After the incident, women and human rights activists protested on the ...

The film Nowhere in Africa by Caroline Link tells the story of a German Jewish family that relocates to Kenya after the persecution of Jews broke out in Germany. Walter, who is the husband of the family first relocates and is later joined by his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. The family moves from a life of comfort in Frankfurt to a remote place called Rongai, somewhere in Africa. She loved jewelry, luxuries, and beautiful clothes and was very elegant, befitting the status of the wife of an accomplished lawyer. But things are never the same again because they all end up ...

International trade

Technology is a critical factor in production and international trade. The competitiveness of a country correlates with the level of technological development. Posner’s technology gap model explains the trade that exists between an innovative country that comes up with a new technology and the country that imports products from the innovative country. According to Posner, a country that has a technology lead will benefit from international trade so long as it keeps the lead. Due to the economic differences between countries, technological advancement and product innovation do not take place simultaneously in countries (Krugman & Obstfeld, 2012). Innovative countries enjoy quasi-monopoly benefits in ...

Islam is one of the fastest growing and the second largest religion in the world judging by the number of followers and conversion each year (Ezzati, 26). The religion is known to be strict in its doctrines and observing the teaching of Prophet Muhammad, who is said to be the last prophet sent by God. Islam basically started when the prophet began relaying God’s message that was revealed to him by way of visions and dreams. This was from the year 613 CE when according the Muslims, the prophet formed the first Ummah or the community of Muslims, ...