Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: An agent of Change
Region: TX“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” – Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe was a revolutionary genius with a descriptive warrior pen. He was ebulliently meticulous; a man of great wisdom and humility, with a rancor-free personality. But his literary approach and expression spearheaded by his novel Things Fall Apart was anything but radical and revolutionary. It was an indeed a velvet revolutionary book. ... more
Views: 742Ground Report Recognition Awards April 5
Every week, Ground Report spotlights the best articles on the site with the Recognition Awards. The winning articles represent the highest quality journalism from across Ground Report. The winners receives a cash prize, and we will be recognizing the articles by posting them on the front page of Ground Report. This week's winner is user Pmause44 for the article Amanda Knox Prosecution is Beginning to Emit a Strange Odor Pmause44 takes a critical look at the re... more
Views: 925Argentina: Flooding Leaves Thousands Homeless
Written by Laura Schneider · Translated by Amy Gulvin The heavy rains that hit the province of Buenos Aires have left at least 35 people dead [es] [1] and thousands homeless. The blog EA2CPG [2] tells us [es] [3] about the climate phenomenon which hit Argentina on April 2, 2013, coinciding with the Veteran's Day and the Falklands War Memorial public holidays [es] [4]: La ciudad de Buenos Aires tiene unos tres millones de habitantes. Más de un 10% de la población ha... more
Views: 716Hong Kong Dock Workers Demand Pay Raise
Written by Oiwan Lam An ongoing strike by Hong Kong dock workers [1] demanding a pay raise and protesting arduous working conditions is delivering a costly blow to the city's port operators and winning widespread support from the public. A few hundred workers began to camp inside the docks on March 28, 2013 after Wing Fung Forwarders and Containers Service Limited [2] [zh], a major subcontractor for Hutchison International Terminals (HIT) which runs the docks, rejected the... more
Views: 795Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Curse of the Zombie Haters
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan On March 29th, Nina Burleigh, author of “The Fatal Gift of Beauty”, a book about Amanda Knox, placed a story on the Time magazine website. It was entitled, “The Amanda Knox Haters Society: How They Learned to Hate Me Too” and was an expose of what has become an online campaign of vilification targeting Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Knox a... more
Views: 2212A book for every child-Shiksha Nepal a campaign for literacy
Region: Nepal
Kathmandu Nepal: Shiksha Nepal a nonprofit organization committed to the children's education has launched a new campaign to give 100,000 children's books by 2015. The literacy campaign aims to establish 100 libraries by giving 100,000 books in schools of rural areas of Nepal to benefit more than 70,000 children by 2015. The Nepal Living Standards Survey 2010-2011 (NLSS- III) reports that Nepal has an adult literacy rate of 56.6 percent with a huge variatio... more
Views: 956Censorship Disclosed By Argentine Journalism Forum
The Argentinian Journalism Forum (FOPEA [1]) [1] [es] launched the 2012 edition of the Monitoreo de Libertad de Expresión [2] [es] (Freedom of Expression Monitor) in which 172 attacks on the Argentinian press are disclosed. This represents a 41 per cent increase on the figure in 2011 in which there were 122 cases of assault. The Argentinian Freedom of Expression Monitoring Programme [3] [es] began in 2008 with the aim of detecting all kinds ... more
Views: 621Lebanon: Civil Marriage Legally Approved
Earlier this year, Kholoud Succarieh and Nidal Darwich initiated Lebanon's first civil marriage [1]on Lebanese soil, in a country where only religious marriages could be contracted until then, and where civil status is administered by religious authorities. The couple argues that their contract is legal according to Lebanese law, and submitted it to the Interior Ministry. Following contradictory information about the outcome of the submission of their marriage contract to the Ministry ... more
Views: 667Chinua Achebe : Immortalize with stamp and currency inscriptions – Chiakwelu
Region: TXEmeka Chiakwelu, the principal policy strategist at Afripol Organization has urged the government of His Excellency President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria to immortalize the late Prof. Chinua Achebe by placing his image inscriptions on Nigerian stamps and currency. Speaking at Afripol's headquarter in Houston-Texas, Chiakwelu reminded both Nigerians and Africans at his table commentary on the life of Achebe about his great contribution to Nigeria and Africa especially in restoring th... more
Views: 634Reflections on Michael Savage's 'A Time for War'
Region: WAReflections on Michael Savage's A Time for War By Sabin Geyman In A Time for War, Michael Savage’s wake-up call about the Communist Chinese threat to America, the ethno-botanist-turned-radio-host serves up an absorbing story of civilization-butting intrigue. In a nutshell, the point of the story, based largely in fact, is that the Chinese Communists (Chicoms) are not so much a potential threat as they are a real, military-grade enemy that is operating now, real-time, and in the pr... more
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