Many freedmen were abolitionists and had a significant impact on slavery and the antebellum period. Benjamin Banneker and Paul Cuffe are only a few of the significant freedmen of the slavery period. They took up the cause and helped the antislavery movement move forward. Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Banneky Farm, Maryland. He was an astronomer, farmer, mathematician, inventor, and writer. […]

The Bill of Rights, adopted in 1791, was written to protect basic American rights, yet the freedoms it presented were kept from countless African slaves. During the same year, Benjamin Banneker, a free African American and the son of former slaves, decided to challenge society’s viewpoint of slavery. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Banneker illustrates the hypocrisy of the Declaration of Independence, describes the […]

“The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights – these are not simply words written into aging parchment. They are the foundation of liberty and justice in this country, and a light that shines for all who seek freedom, fairness, equality, and dignity around the world.” – President Barack Obama. One might wake up in the morning, thinking to themselves ‘What do I […]

I first realized that I wanted to study politics at the start of the campaigns for the American presidential elections; it was the first time that I truly wanted to follow the whole of the election process, understand how it worked but also how people voted. Then came the Spanish general elections of 2016, which led to Spain not having a proper government nor president […]

In this paper I argue the role of production within community using both Tocqueville and Marx’s theories. Tocqueville speaks about voluntary association being positive for community whereas Marx, speaks about the forced labour and slavery. Tocqueville also discusses how voluntary labour aids at one’s sense of belonging, whereas Marx discusses a loss of sense of self through labour. Inequality is apparent in labour and Tocqueville […]

The Qatar crisis undoubtfully had critical consequences at the local scale, it also reverberated all over the planet. There are mainly three parties to consider at the global level, that is European Union and its members, the challenger Russia, and of course the United States of America. European countries import a huge amount of natural resources from this area of the world, both oil and […]

In Kenya, there has been negative association between inflation and commercial banks’ loaning volumes and base rates on lending. This is due to the fact that as inflation increases, the commercial bank loaning volumes in Kenya declines. Conversely, there exists positive relationship between the base rates on lending and inflation rates. As inflation increases, so does the base rates on lending. The study sought to […]

Introduction Land Value Capture (LVC) consists of a number of different instruments which can be implemented by state to increase the land value market around a certain urban area. Some of these instruments which is associated with LVC includes strategies such as incentive zonings, development levies, land swaps, transit development impact fees, etc. Land value capture investment is also a source of generating public funds […]

The best way to get what one wants is by showing why everyone needs it. George W. Bush told the American why it was necessary to go to war with Iraq. The way Bush accomplished this was highly complex. He first used ethos to get the audience to listen to him. Ethos is appeal to ethics. Then, he begins to introduce logos and pathos for […]

The Canadian government has not befittingly engaged with the Canadian businesses to market shared plan and agenda within the world business atmosphere. However, the Federal conservative government instigated the P3. P3 was initiated to confirm that the provincial organizations support Canada’s council. The P3 initiative implementation failed to occur. The Canadian’s business house owners head of their trade and international business in spite the very […]