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Post-Apartheid South Africa’S Ultimate Challenge, Nahomie Julien
Post-Apartheid South Africa’S Ultimate Challenge, Nahomie Julien
DISCOVERY: Georgia State Honors College Undergraduate Research Journal
Throughout time, South Africa has experienced many upheavals, be they slavery and apartheid or natural, socioeconomic, and political misfortunes.Just after overcoming the oppression of Apartheid, South Africans have to face one of the deadliest illness in the world: HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is currently the number one killer in South Africa(WHO, 2012). This pandemic further worsen the struggles of the nation, obstructing its educational, financial, and political recovery (Oglethorpe, & Gelman, (2008).; Weiser, et al., 2007.). This paper seeks to analyze how apartheid—or rather, its demise—contributed to the alarmingly rapid spread of this pandemic in South Africa. In so doing, the current …
Protestants, Quakers, And The Narrative Of Religious Persecution In England, Shelby Lohr
Protestants, Quakers, And The Narrative Of Religious Persecution In England, Shelby Lohr
DISCOVERY: Georgia State Honors College Undergraduate Research Journal
This project combines early modern and Reformation-era primary source material in order to form a comparative analysis of religious persecution narratives in England. For this analysis, I examine the rhetoric of Protestants and female Quakers. The project incorporates material from Early English Books Online and John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. Taken together, these sources demonstrate how female Quakers’ stories of persecution aligned with the Protestant tome, Acts and Monuments. This essay posits that the persecution of female Quakers paralleled with Reformation-era Protestants’ trials in a few primary ways: (1) both groups were subject to condemnation for preaching, …