Values and Beliefs (Argumentative Essay)

One way to explain people behaviour is by means of their values and beliefs, values are universal and are the same around the world, in contrast beliefs are defined according to religious views or customs of a country, according to this values and beliefs are completely different.


“Values are implicitly related to choice; they guide decisions by allowing an individual's choices to be compared to each choice's associated values.” Also values are transmitted generation by generation by family members. Through the times values have had an evolution and have change some aspects, but its essences are the same. For example honesty is the international rule which explains people behavior about different situations when they have to say the truth and also take only what belongs to them.


On the other hand there are two principal types of beliefs, there are religious and customs, people could choose one and live according to it, each religion have different rules for their followers and they live based on those rules. The other type of beliefs is related with the ideas of a country or a community, and people must take it to get accepted in their specific society.

In some cases people think that values and beliefs can be considered the same thing because people behavior is the same even if they have different beliefs. For example, at college students must have the same behavior but they don’t have the same beliefs.

In conclusion values and beliefs determine the behavior of people but they can not be considered the same thing. Each one has different patterns and rules.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliefs

Famous Criminal. (Argumentative Essay)

Aden Hashi Farah

It is considered that values are personal characteristics about human behaviour, also values are universal and these ones have been transmitted generation by generation. Values show society what is right and what is wrong, for that reason criminal values should not be considered values, especially if we talk about Aden Hashi Farah the leader of al-Qaeda in Somalia.


First of all, all criminal people develop their values in a wrong way. For that reason they react in unusual ways to different situations than other people and they act according to their beliefs, Aden Hashi was the most recognized leder of al-Qaeda in Somalia, he was the responsible for many terrorist acts in Somalia and also around the world, he took hard training in Afghanistan in 1996 and some years later he became member of Chebab group pertaining to al-Qaeda, this activist group have made terrorist attacks many times, like the murdering of a journalist of the BBC.


Secondly, criminal people never recognized their faults and they try to convince the society that their actions are right for them, furthermore they support their behaviour with family problems, associated with drugs, alcohol, and rapes, an other factor that also is influential, especially in Islamic countries, are their beliefs. Aden Hashi was an Islamic believer and his terrorist inclinations were justified and defended by him until his death.


However these people develop many competences and skills like creativity, braveness and leadership only to commit their crimes, they tend to develop their abilities higher than common people. For example Aden Hashi was a great leader who had the ability to convince people to do crimes and damage innocent people.


In conclusion Aden Hashi Farah didn’t had any values, his multiple crimes demonstrates that it’s impossible to consider that criminals have any values, and his Islamic beliefs can never justify their criminal acts.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden_Hashi_Farah, http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2008/May/pentagon_confirms_strike_on_al_qaeda_leader_in_

somalia.aspx

Seven Deadly Sins (Descriptive Essay)

When we talk about “Seven Deadly Sins” many people don’t given the real importance that they really have, but is some specific cases these transcendental points are significantly important specially when people want to be in harmony development life, in this case, I am going to explain and do a comparison about Gluttony one of the seven deadly sins about Somalia.


Gluttony “is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which are requires” more often that idler people can imagine buy or consume many unnecessary thinks that they didn’t need, furthermore, now days compulsive buyers who belong to consumer societies like people from United States or development countries consume big quantities of food or little important thinks, also this is not the main problem, the astonishing disadvantage is flourishing waste generate for this unconscious countries. The most impressive is that are some many countries like Somalia and other countries located in Africa when people die tragically because of hunger and the ruthless undernourishments.


In conclusion this world is very inequitable specially because while some waste others die of hunger, and in this point is when each of us must evaluate it’s behavior and we could be more sensible and to avoid waste.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

Nelson Mandela (Argumentative Essay)

Nelson Mandela was born in July 18- 1918 and he was the eleventh President of South Africa, after that he spend 27 years in prison, much of it on Robben Island, Mandela was as anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress for these reason he became a symbol of freedom and equality, for these ponderous reasons Mandela has been the biggest leader in Africa and he had a big influence in racial matters.


Apartheid was a system of classified inhabitants and visitors into racial groups, Under Apartheid, South African blacks were stripped of their citizenship. Between opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, Nelson Mandela became a symbol of independence and equality; Inspired by Gandhi, he created the ANC, the principal theory of this organization promoted methods of fight doesn’t violence to, this shows the good leadership exerted by him, and it justifies that he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.


In addition many important organizations like ONU support Mandela’s thought especially because human rights were violated, since 1948 the apartheid figure within the program of the general assembly, later in 1966 the apartheid was condemned like “crime of humanity” and on 1994 Mandela speak at the ONU assembly and he indicated that it was the first time that African Chief of State originated of black race towards.


For the other hand defenders of the apartheid in its majority white people, the discrimination against the black was based legally on which these were not citizen of South Africa, also they based their theory in Nazi’s thought and they want to obtain a barren raze in Africa.


In conclusion Mandela is one of the best leaders through the years for these reason he has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Peace Prize.

Sources: http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/mandela.htm

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Education in Somalia. (Descriptive Essay)

Somalia is one of the poorest countries in Africa its terrible illiteracy increase more than 80%, only 17% of little children can go to school. I chose this repressing country located in Africa because their high poverty keeps my attention and I am really consider the better solution for its many complicated problems are when the unfeeling government be consent of the Somalia’s hard problems and development successful strategies inspiring in people big problems.

The popular problem of Somalia’s education is increasing by big steps, only one in 4 pour children of primary school-age is enrolled in school, for these reason the flourishing of economy and the urgent enlargement that needs Somalia are going to be very slow and for this appalling reason its desert country could not progress, furthermore the real base of economy increase it have a complete education and let the opportunities of children to get a good alimentation, medical health, and obviously a complete educational program.

Finally I will invite you to read and know about this repressive country, which in my case touch my heard and really convince me to help since my condition of student and I will also to research more value information to make this blog.

INTRODUCTION

The country that I am going to study in this english level is Somalia, this country is located in Africa, Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu is situated on the Indian Ocean Coast. In the other hand it is one of the most poor countries in the world, and the level of education is very low, only the 17% of children can go to school.
Furthermore I am going to focus in their educational values, because it´s one of the biggest problems in this country, which has critical struggles like hunger, health, violence etc.
Finally I hope to find important information about Africa, and let you know about interesting topics related to Somalia.