OUTLINE OF THE CONFLICT In order to understand the Mindanao conflict it is necessary to go back to the beginning of the 14th century‚ when arab missionaries and Chinese traders brought Islam to the primarily pagan tribes that inhabited the Philippines. In 1521‚ Ferdinand Magellan arrived to the Philippines and imposed Spanish rule just as Muslim missionaries were converting to Islam all the ruling families in southern Mindanao. The Spanish began a campaign to try to Christianize them‚ calling
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Legally Blonde: Personality and Conflict Movie Summary Legally Blonde is a 2001 movie directed by Robert Luketic that narrates the life of Elle Woods. Elle Woods is a young pretty blonde girl that studies fashion merchandising in California. Elle is in love with a young man that has high aspirations to become a politician by the time he is thirty years old. He and Ellen had dated a few months but he decides to break up with her since he is going to go to Harvard school and needs to have a more
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also include religion‚ sexual orientation‚ gender and even generation. Although culture is not visible‚ it plays a major role in how we handle conflict. It is often the starting place of our thinking and our behaviors. Cultures are sort of implanted in every conflict because conflicts arise in every human relationship. When it comes to handling conflict‚ we tend to handle it by using lifelong messages that we have received due to our culture. Cultural messages are unique in different cultures
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A Good Man is Hard to Find: Character and Conflict “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ written by Flannery O’Connor‚ follows the summer vacation of a family in Florida coming from Georgia. While driving‚ the family’s car ends up in a crash after a chain of events caused by the grandmother. In an attempt to rectify the situation‚ the grandmother waves down a passing car‚ only for the passengers to step out with guns in hand. After shouting out her sudden realization that one of the men is an escaped
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Causes of conflict: 1) Competition for scarce natural resources 1) As countries need natural resources as a source of revenue and income for the country. 2) Natural resources are very important to a country as it could be sold for money‚ use in trade or as raw materials in furthering industrialization. 3) Thus it ensures the survival for the nation and thus countries would fight for it to ensure their own survival 4) this can be clearly seen from the Iceland-Britain
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Intergroup Conflict | What is it and how do we fix it? | | Victoria Hull | 1/5/2013 | | Intergroup conflict is when members of a group have hostility towards one another. This can be seen in the cases of juvenile delinquents within a detention center who are also members of active gangs. They all have one thing in common – they are part of a group (the detention center) and are part of smaller groups (their individual gangs). These differences cause the intergroup conflicts. There
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2. Discuss the effect that modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict. The effect modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict is not a great one. Early modernization theorists‚ who were quite optimistic about the positive effects of literacy‚ urbanization‚ and modern values‚ clearly underestimated the extent to which these factors might mobilize various ethnic groups and set them against each other (Handelman‚ 2011‚ p. 113). Modernization challenged
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With reference to examples‚ assess the success of strategies adopted to resolve conflicts of interest in the management of water resources in trans-border river basins. Water conflicts often enough results from opposing interests of water users. This is especially true in trans-border river basins where the freshwater river travels across more than one country. Conflicts among water users arise as water quality or water quantity degrades and no longer meets the demands of each country. Today
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Name: Stefany Chen 陳子妤 Music Dpt. 104 ID: 40090134M Summery: Basically‚ there are three distinctions describing about Culture and Conflict in this article. One common cultural difference is between what is commonly called High-context and Low-context cultures. These terms refer to the degree to which speakers use nonverbal cues to convey their messages. High-context cultures communicate with messages that assume a lot--they depend on an understanding of the
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Assess the impact of the conflict in Indochina for the citizens of Vietnam and Cambodia The conflict in Indochina had both short term and long term social‚ cultural‚ environmental‚ economic and human impacts on the citizens of both Vietnam and Cambodia. Civilians in both countries were affected by political oppression due to American intervention which had‚ and continues to have‚ a detrimental effect of all aspects of society in Vietnam and Cambodia. The conflict in Indochina had a detrimental
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