Essays on Kristof

Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transport, transfer and receipt of persons through the use of force or coercion, deception and abuse of power in order to control them and use them in providing services for the benefit of the traffickers at the detriment of the victim. Human trafficking is a deliberate act of deceiving or forcing another person against his or her will to move to from one geographical area to another geographical area to be used for labor or crime in ways that benefits the trafficker. Human trafficking is an international phenomenon. This is because it ...

Throughout the history of Europe, Africa and Asia there had been Empires. These included the Roman, Akkadian, Babylonian, Greek, Shang, Persian, Holy Roman, Bulgarian, Byzantine and Russian Empire along with many more. While Africa, Asia and Europe went through many Empires, South America only had three, the Aztec, Inca and Mayan before the arrival of the Europeans. This paper will look at the effect of Europe’s need to increase their empire on the New World. The first European arrivals to the New World were the Spanish, who decided to expand their empire into the Caribbean after Columbus had ...

In our day to day life, it is easy to see individuals who have found ways to cheat the system, and claim social welfare sources that are above and beyond that which they are entitled to, or who find ways to misappropriate the funds that they are given, and we are incensed by the waste of public dollars. However, in contrast we rarely get to see the results of corporate welfare, provided through government subsidies, or how the use of those funds are abused. In reality, though public disgust of corporate subsidies is far less prominent, they cost tax ...

For over 2000 years Christianity shapes people’s spirituality across the world. What started in Judea and gained important momentum in Ancient Rome, spread rapidly across the Middle Eve European societies, who further promulgated Christianity to the rest of the world. Through colonization, missionary work or violent imposition, Christianity is the world’s most spread religion since the age of the discoveries, in the late middle ages (Spielvogel 504). Nicholas Kristof’s (2015) article from New York Times, “For Many, Faith Comes at a High Price” discusses Christianity in the context of the current socio – political events, marked by ...

The Struggles of Maria Full of Grace

In the era of globalization, it might be hard to notice the life and struggles of common people as they are placed in the environment where the borders of private and public no longer exist, where one should make choices which could either give freedom or kill. In Maria Full of Grace, the audience is able to perceive one of many stories that happen with people trying to escape poverty at home and find a better life abroad. The film serves as a representation of complex life in the cities where everything is interconnected and defined in the perspective ...

There is an immense difference between ideological theories and their practical implementations. Often, even the most brilliant ideas become complete failures. So was the case with communism and national approaches to its implementation. Depending on country’s specifics and initial people’s needs, communism had various interpretations from “the human face socialism” in Tito’s Yugoslavia to Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China. The topic of the present essay is the analysis of whether some communist theories and their institutional embodiments were somehow successful. The central thesis is that both communist theory and practice had some initial positive results, ...

Position of vulnerable groups in a society was always a test for political regime democratic performance. While democratic countries are practically trying to improve the situation with human rights within their borders, countries with other regimes prefer official actions instead of practical problem resolutions. The nature of political regimes in countries of transition and communist rule dictated such approach. The topic of the present research is not human rights issue in Balkans and China but the position of women in both societies and exploration of whether their well-off condition had improved recently. In this context, the central thesis is that, irrespective ...