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...only to embrace our Western, 21st. century democratic biases. The heroic Spartan warriors fight for oddly modern Western values, in contrast to those of their actual society. At a climactic point in the film, Leonidas encourages his men: “A new age has come, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend...
...four decades; 80 or so were successful. Bitter civil wars erupted, some of them tribal struggles for natural resources, some of them prompted by foreign powers. By the 1970s, Africa had become one of the hottest fronts in the cold war. "We had lots of fears. There was no freedom of speech," says Kwame, about the time of troubles. "You go about, and you see the army. The economy was getting worse." By the late 1970s, Ghana was a mess. A drought had pushed up food prices; jobs had disappeared. "Bribery and corruption is all over the world, but where...
Kwame himself longed for freedom. "I knew independence was very important for this country," he told me. "We needed jobs and employment to come to Ghanaians, to black people. The top administrative level was taken by the British." It wasn't just the colonial authorities Kwame chafed under. Around the time of independence, his father and stepmother chose a girl for him to marry. "But I didn't like her. You know, we didn't love each other," he says. Kwame started wooing Theresa Afua, another girl in the village, instead. Within months they married, beginning their lives together...
...There was not much armed robbery; you could move about at night," she says. Gershon shakes his head. "Suzzy hadn't seen anything different before, so she couldn't compare," he says of Rawlings' time. "I felt we needed something new. You could not speak freely. There was no freedom...
...grandparents worked to keep a roof overhead, and they didn't much bandy about terms like career development and change catalyst. Today, why we work is much more complex. There's still the roof, of course, but success is also measured by the freedom to pursue a lifelong passion, exploit a hidden talent or even try to save one small corner of the world at a time. No amount of success seems to scratch the itch; a survey by Netshare, a career site for high-earning executives, found that almost half its subjects are actively trying to transition into...