Sarafina! – Freedom Is Coming Tomorrow During this time, South Africa was experiencing quite a tumulus period as the Afrikaans were decrying the mistreatment they were getting from the Whites. At this time the country was segregated according to races where the black were pushed to the fringes of the city and living in Soweto slam. They were not allowed to interact with the white or even get good-paying jobs. The system that was dominating the country at this time was the apartheid system. It was at this time that the apartheid movement emerged. The focus of this movement was to challenge the domination of the whites on the Afrikaans. The song thus calls for the Afrikaans to emerge and fight against this domination. The song is just a way to tell Afrikaans to hold on as freedom is coming. The song is sung in the Zulu and thus a piece of traditional music. The target audience is the Afrikaans living in South Africa. The audience at this time was suffering because whites had taken their country, and they had…

    Education and Employment   Question 1 As we all are familiar that, communication is an essential part of our daily life. Without communication, we cannot share our feelings and frame of mind with others (Samovar et al., 2017). Communication is a crucial aspect which is being used in many different professions and our daily life (Lindlof, and Taylor, 2017). Thus, we could say that communication is a process through with information between two or more than two people is shared. Therefore, practical communication skills are fundamental in a professional context (Lemonnier, 2016). There are mainly two practical communication skills applicable in both the academic and professional context: verbal and non-verbal. Effective communication means a person’s ability to speak well and communicate in such an understandable way (Giles, 2016). Students at the university level need to adopt practical communication skills (Frye et al., 2018). As a student, I have learned that every student needs to adopt practical communication skills as they are essential at both the academic and professional levels (Bambaeeroo, and Shokrpour, 2017). On the contrary, I also…

Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (J.M White)  How did the Egyptians live? What were their practices and beliefs? These are some of the questions that many people have sought to ask and find interesting when studying ancient life in Egypt. J.M White offers a detailed explanation of accounting the lives of Egyptians through time.  He explores their lives across dynasties in an intuitive and captivating manner. In his book, he demystifies the Egyptian lives from the end of the third millennium all through Greek occupation around 330 BC. The roles and functions of each individual in society are well elucidated as he refers to the Pharaoh, his noble advisors, scribes, and artists, among other Egyptian civilization leaders. Additionally, the book illustrates how people spent their time not working, constructing their houses, and various forms of transportation in Egypt. It is also notable from the book on the great value for religion embraced by the Egyptians and how they built their pyramids, temples, and tombs. Therefore, this paper aims to explain in-depth analyses on how J.M White fulfills the activities mentioned…

  Should Psychopaths be held responsible for criminal acts they commit Should Psychopaths be held responsible for criminal acts they commit? Psychopathy has long been a challenge in our social-liberal societies and their criminal law systems. Psychopathy is a complex human phenomenon that even scientists have not fully explored. It is for this reason that scholars and lawyers have had conflicting views on criminal culpability for psychopaths. Nonetheless, the question begs how we should judge psychopaths. After an extensive literature review, my answer is yes-psychopaths should be criminally punishable for their atrocities. Lacking moral responsibility should not excuse criminal responsibility. Even though this standpoint is contrary to that of many scholars, it is consistent that psychopathy is not diagnosed as insanity; hence, it should retain some criminal responsibility. Arguably, the main point of contention is a moral responsibility. Available literature from various law, psychology, and neuroscience positions has tried to build a case around moral knowledge among psychopaths. For instance, Levy (2014) does pose salient points on why psychopaths should be excused based on limited moral knowledge. He argues that…

Psychopathy Should Psychopaths be held responsible for criminal acts they commit? Psychopathy has long been a challenge in our social-liberal societies and their criminal law systems. Psychopathy is a complex human phenomenon that even scientists have not fully explored. It is for this reason that scholars and lawyers have had conflicting views on criminal culpability for psychopaths. Nonetheless, the question begs how we should judge psychopaths. After an extensive literature review, my answer is yes-psychopaths should be criminally punishable for their atrocities. Lacking moral responsibility should not excuse criminal responsibility. Even though this standpoint is contrary to that of many scholars, it is consistent that psychopathy is not diagnosed as insanity; hence, it should retain some criminal responsibility. Arguably, the main point of contention is on moral responsibility. Available literature from various legal, psychology, and neuroscience positions has tried to build a case around moral knowledge among psychopaths. For instance, Levy (2014) does pose salient points on why psychopaths should be excused based on limited moral knowledge. He argues that psychopaths, while they intend to harm, they are specifically not…

    Carel’s Phenomenological Approach to Illness Havi Carel has claimed that one can be sick and live a meaningful life. A significant part of her argument for this seemingly contradictory assertion is that sick people may establish positive reactions to illness, particularly in creativity and adaptability. As characterizes the phenomenological emphasis on the integrated nature of illness perception, these two constructive responses contain several types of experience.  Illness highlights two gaps that exist in health. On one end, there’s the lived and biological bodies; on the other, the physical and social worlds. It takes substantial adaptation and creativity to restore or substitute these experiences, and thus illness, adequately conceived, causes adaptability and thus becomes a source of creative responses to it. Carel’s interpretation of sickness and happiness deepens her understanding and shows valuable new links within philosophy to other related debates. This paper expands on Carel’s phenomenological approach to illness and that constructive response to illness can lead to happiness and make life meaningful Carel criticizes prevailing illness and illness theories. The dominant theories of the illness are predominantly…

    Persons and Selves Self is a role term, the role is identical with, and oneself is simply the person who plays a role in one’s life, that is, oneself. The basic theory of oneself and people maintains that oneself is simply people. But we also use the word ‘self’ in a way that means that there may be multiple selves per person or different selves that fight for one person’s power, to the kind of extreme cases once known as multiple personalities in a variety of reasonably typical cases. I argue that this use of ‘self’ and persons can be seen as a symbolic interpretation of the term, the meaning of which I attempt to understand, to inspire complexes. However, if the narrative argument is not acknowledged, it seems clear that persons are primarily intersubjectively and collectively defined. Their anatomy is usually identified distinctively; however, bodies’ identification requirements are rather normative and societal. The need for such identification occurs only in intersubjective circumstances.   Beyond that, our functional personalities, from our names and families to our relationships, professions, backgrounds,…

  Psychological assessment Introduction According to Goodwin (2004), psychological assessment refers to the process of testing that uses several techniques to arrive at some hypothesis about an individual and their behaviour, capabilities and personalities. Psychological assessment is also known as psychological testing. There are different psychological assessments, such as personality tests, clinical interviews, mental ability tests, neuropsychological tests and achievement tests. In most nations, only licensed psychologists conduct psychological evaluations and tests. Psychologists are the only professionals who are trained expertly to perform as well as interpret psychological tests. Nevertheless, psychological testing should never be carried out in a vacuum. It should always be done first before a psychological assessment is carried out. Psychologists always seek to take the information they gather from the testing and weave it into a complete picture of the tested individual. The recommendations are centred on all the assessments and crucial discussions with family members and peers. Anna O. case (Bertha Pappenheim) psychological assessment case The background of the case  Anna O.’s real name is Bertha Pappenheim. She was born and raised in Vienna, Australia.…

  A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868)   What are Howell Cobb’s reasons to oppose reconstruction policies? He felt that the Southern people’s submission at the end of the war as more than admirable and that the policies that were taking their property and putting them under military rule was oppressive as it stripped them of their constitutional rights.  He felt that since the point of the war was to bring the states back into the union, that after conquering them and stripping them of their rights, which this was in a form hypocritical. Which policies does he particularly dispute? Why? Provide specific examples. Howell Cobb particularly disputed making African Americans equal citizens.  Since after the civil war they were given equal rights and allowed to vote, with the North’s military protecting their right to vote.  He felt the military intervention and the North’s aggressive push to give them fair representation and allow them positions of authority was in part unconstitutional and only served to force the south under the rule of their former slaves.  As he said, “…

Asset Management Strategies Peter Briger Expounds on Asset Management Strategies at the Fortress Investment firm. Peter Briger is among the Fortress Investment Group’s founder members with its head offices in New York.  The Fortress Investment Group is the leading financial Investment firm in the world officially launched in 1998.  It is the fast financial firm in the world to be formally traded publicly in 2007 on the New York Stock Exchange platform. The Fortress has grown exponentially under the leadership of Peter Briger and other leaders. The financial firm is in charge of over $43 billion worth of assets under its management. It also has more than one thousand seven hundred and fifty private investors in the departments of hedge funds and capital vehicles. Peter Briger is playing a critical role in the firm in taking substantial investment risks for its investors.  Fortress Investment Group has its subsidiaries based in different parts of the world, with more than nine hundred employees.  Since the Fortress is massive to be handled by one CEO, the company has several leaders situated in different…