Running an army is kind of like running a day care, only instead of rattles, the children have bombs and guns. Hey, it may not be easy to win a war, but we should at least expect military leaders to be more adept than some kid playing Starcraft.
The Australian Aborigines are known as the first people to have dwelt in the vast continent of Australia. The word Aborigines refers to people who are the first or the earliest known populations that inhabited the land. It was believed that the Australian Aborigines came from the Southeast Asia...
Cronies are long-term friends who receive mutual benefits from each other. The term cronyism refers to impartiality to long-standing friends who are given positions of authority and favorable business opportunities out of friendship. Cronyism is considered a form of political corruption, and is...
The term “scab” takes on several meanings that evolved through the centuries. In the 1590s, scab is used to describe a vile person. In the 1700s, the term is used for a person who refuses to indulge in labor unions. By the 1800s, scab is used to describe people who break strikes instigated by the...
Jihad is a term that refers to Muslim people’s way of purifying themselves through a process of individual transformations to become a much better person in on all aspects of a person’s life most especially to the spiritual side. It is a constant day to day struggle to make each relationship and...
Confucius is one of China’s great philosophers who was the founder of Confucianism. Though it was never known if he would ever call his teachings a foundation for a religion and if he ever would like it to be venerated, he was still one of the world’s most influential thinker and teacher. His real...
The Kurds are nomadic people who originally came from Southwest Asia particularly in the mountainous areas of Iraq, Turkey and Iran which they refer as the land of the Kurds or Kurdistan. The Kurds has an Indo-European feature and origin and whose lives revolve on herding livestock animals such as...
The term martyr originally refers to someone who is willing to die for his or her belief or stand. Historically, it refers to people who sacrificed their life for the sake of the people, their country and even their religion. They face persecution for not giving up their philosophy. Oftentimes,...
The difference between the Sunni and the Shia sects of Islam is not more on the teachings but on the lineage of religious leaders who have been crucial in the split of Muslims into two major sects. The major difference is that of the belief on the validity of the cultural, political and spiritual...
The central and south America is home to people of different cultures, particularly those with ethnic origins. Those are the places where some of the greatest ancient civilizations flourished. The most well-known indigenous people in the central and south America are undeniably the Mayans, Aztecs...
