Essays on Social Conflicts

The reaction of Native Americans towards the white travelers was with curiosity rather than hostility. The manners and customs of the Native Americans were quite different from their own that many settlers were suspicious and afraid. Their mistrust and fear eventually came from lack of...

Drones are small flying robots which have, till recently, been used either as cheap toys or as expensive weapons. They were either small, spider-like devices that could sometimes be seen flying around in parks or on beaches, or large military planes that dealt with shooting...

On July 23, 1983, Tamil separatists, known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), stepped up militant attacks in northern Sri Lanka and killed 13 Sinhalese soldiers who reported for duty only a day earlier in Thirunelvely, Jaffna. The LTTE was fighting for a...

“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi In society today, some individuals will tell white-lies or tell others what they think the other person wants to hear so...

Social conflict It would have been easy to resolve had either one of us wanted to end the squabble. Looking back, it is unbelievable to me that I acted the way I did. Again and again the situation runs through my mind, unveiling new ends...

Upbringing Exposure to violence at a young age has been consistently linked to antisocial behaviour in youths. This link is even more prominent when the violence is witnessed at home, in school or in a community associated with the development and caring of the child....

On Thursday, September 27, I attended the Dignity Initiative’s presentation with the speakers John and Mackenzie Baldwin. Mackenzie and her father, John, are co-authors of the book Almost Gone: Twenty-Five Days and One Chance to Save Our Daughter, the story of Mackenzie’s internet relationship that...

Remember the Titans is one of my favorite movies because it is an inspiring story about defeating and overcoming prejudice. I chose this film to show the conflict theory behind it. In this film the battle between the races for limited positions and scarce resources...

One of the first theoretical approaches which links ethnic identity to civil conflict is primordialism. This argues that attributes are descent-based and relatively visible and so are therefore hard to change. The primordialist image looks at how ethnic groups are comparable to various stones which...

Introduction In this essay I am going to look at what the sociological imagination is as defined by C Wright Mills. I will then distinguish between personal troubles and social issues. I will then look at suicide as a problem that South African university students...

Introduction: Disasters occur when the hazards interconnect with the surrounding environment, specifically in weakly positioned and weakly built areas. Since the capacity of the built-in environment to withstand the effects of hazards performs an immediate function in deciding the losses and expenses of catastrophic events....

An explosive trial leads the moderately quiet town of Hillsboro to question their faith in Brady and thinking factually. Belief is pitted against evolution, and Brady vehemently believes that religion is the only valid sect of the case. In the play Inherit the Wind written...