ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The Founding Fathers established it in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Read more
Adam Smith is often identified as the father of modern capitalism. While accurate to some extent, this description is both overly simplistic and dangerously misleading. On the one hand, it is true that very few individual books have had as much impact as his An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. …
centrifugal force is a fictitious force, peculiar to a particle moving on a circular path, that has the same magnitude and dimensions as the force that keeps the particle on its circular path (the centripetal force) but points in the opposite direction. Read more
sociology, social science that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them. It does this by examining the dynamics of constituent parts of societies such as institutions, communities, populations, and gender, racial, or age groups. Sociology also studies social status or stratification, social movements, and social change, as well as a societal disorder in the form of crime, deviance, and revolution. Read …
Anthropology is the study of people, past and present, with a focus on understanding the human condition both culturally and biologically. This joint emphasis sets anthropology apart from other humanities and natural sciences. In a general sense, anthropology is concerned with determining what humans are, how they evolved, and how they differ from one another. …
in anthropology and sociology, the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society. The process of assimilating involves taking on the traits of the dominant culture to such a degree that the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable from other members of the society. As such, assimilation is the most extreme form of acculturation. …
In its broadest definition, “civic education” means all the processes that affect people’s beliefs, commitments, capabilities, and actions as members or prospective members of communities. Civic education need not be intentional or deliberate; institutions and communities transmit values and norms without meaning to. It may not be beneficial: sometimes people are civically educated in ways …
The 2007 census report lists about 85 ethnic groups (Table 3.1) along with the respective census population. The report also lists those blended from two or more ethnic groups as one of the groups. This count however is not complete as most blended ethnic group individuals identify themselves as one of (most likely fathers’) the …
Why Oppose Western Powers in General and America in Particular The HR 6600 and S 3199 are two bills under consideration in the United States’ House of Representatives and the Senate respectively. Both bills are designed and sponsored under the guise of promoting democracy, peace, and stability in Ethiopia. The bills purport to end the …
The United States House of Representatives (HR) is working on this Bill which subjects Ethiopia to sanctions based on what the US identifies as actions intended to or group(s) working to perpetuate conflict among belligerent groups in Ethiopia. Here the danger is the fact that the US acts for its own interest and can identify …