ABSTRACT The research investigates some selected political speeches delivered by John Evans Atta Mills. The selected speeches span almost every sphere of his political life, including; a campaign speech (as an opposition leader in the run- up to the 2008 elections), an inaugural speech, an independent day speech, a republic day speech and a new year‟s eve message to the nation (all as president). The objective is to unravel the stylistically significant features prevalent in the selected sp...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine how terrorism is financed in the world and the efforts being made by the UNSC to prevent terrorism financing. The study relied on both scholarly literature and key UN documents, especially UNSC resolutions adopted by the UN from the year 2001 to 2015 to analyze and discuss how terrorist activities are financed, the efforts by the UNSC in combating terrorist financing and the prospects and challenges in the efforts by the UNSC in combating terrorist financi...
ABSTRACTThis study investigated how state institutions in Ghana communicate with their publics, using the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ )as a reference point. In a survey, the researcher sampled 150 respondents, comprising 100 respondents from the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, with the other 50 made up of persons who had filed complaints with the Commission at its head office in Accra. Underpinned by the media richness and systems theories, the study re...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the spread of homosexual practice among Ghanaian youth n the Accra Metropolis, and the prejudice against those with this sexual orientation. It also discussed the social policy implications of the prejudice in relation to access to education, health and employment. In the employment of qualitative research design, data were collected from participants through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Discussions from the findings revealed that hom...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the spread of homosexual practice among Ghanaian youth n the Accra Metropolis, and the prejudice against those with this sexual orientation. It also discussed the social policy implications of the prejudice in relation to access to education, health and employment. In the employment of qualitative research design, data were collected from participants through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Discussions from the findings revealed that hom...
ABSTRACT During the ninety years of operation on the Gold Coast (1828-1918), the Basel missionaries did not limit themselves to their primary task of evangelism. As part of the efforts to achieve their aim of total social transformation of converts, the missionaries promoted the establishment of schools, linguistic studies, agricultural experimentation and other economic ventures. A trading post which evolved into the Basel Mission Trading Company (BMTC) was established at Christiansborg in 1...
ABSTRACT This work seeks to analyse the difficulties learners of French at the S H S level have with the transformation of active sentences into passive sentences. We collected data from two Senior High Schools, namely: Accra Academy and St Mary’s Girls’ Senior High, both in the capital city of Ghana. In this study, we used twenty (20) learners from each school, making up a total of forty (40) learners, to enable us get data for the analyses. We used questionnaires and exercises to colle...
ABSTRACT The study sought to do a comparative analysis of how two Charismatic preachers (Archbishop Duncan Williams and Pr. Mensa Otabil) use the clause as an interactive grammatical unit to establish interpersonal relationship between themselves and their congregations. The Mood system of the clausal units of four selected sermons was analysed. The fundamental categories of the system of Mood that were analysed are the Mood, Subject, Modality, Tense, Polarity and Vocatives. The analysis ind...
ABSTRACT Waste management has become one of the social menace in Ghana, thus the need to find remedy to the situation. Therefore, this research promoted the use of found objects in designing costume thereby, exhibiting the beauty of what is considered waste in the production of The Slaves; a play written by Mohammed Ben Abdallah and directed by Elijah Twum. The thesis further explored the concept of recycling and reusing of waste materials as an experiment to create costumes; thus bestowing a...
ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the improvements generated in teaching and learning because of new facilities provided in some basic schools in Shai-Osudoku District in the Greater Accra Region. These improvements and challenges were captured in the collective experiences shared by respondents- teachers and pupils reflect the gap between policy prescriptions for school resource provision and actual practices at school level. An exploratory and descriptive approach was adopted through the...
ABSTRACT Research has shown that the main challenge of prisoners remains how they will readapt to life in the community after their release. This is always a huge adjustment for prisoners to make, especially after a long sentence, and where a number of factors come into play. As pointed out by Zehr, the Western (criminal) justice system which views crime as a violation of law other than of relationships, is beset with difficulties as victims, offenders and community members often feel that ...
ABSTRACT The economic performance of democratic states in Africa is a rising concern against the assumptions of the modernization theory that, developing nations must adopt the values of the western societies (democracy) in order to develop. The third wave of democratization in Africa rather led to harsh economic conditions, especially from the international financial institutions as a means of receiving aid. These conditions deteriorated the economic development of most African states and ca...
ABSTRACT One of the major challenges in translation process is to find the most appropriate strategy to deal with texts from specific fields of specialty, hence the birth of terminologies according to the type of text that we are confronted with. Complex terms or multiword expressions are one of the key issues in translation process. This research aims to first investigate and identify obstacles encountered in translating texts with complex terms or multiword expressions, and then suggest st...
ABSTRACT The increased use of social media in the corporate world has led public relations practitioners as well as academics to seek to understand how to better use them to communicate. Many studies have explored how social media is used by practitioners in other industries in the corporate domain but few have focused on the telecom industry. This study explores how telecommunications network operators in Ghana make use of social media as a public relations tool. Through a content analysis o...
ABSTRACT Marriage is God’s ordinance for humankind from the beginning of creation. It is intended to be a life-long relationship, but it is being thwarted by the problem of divorce in both the faith and secular societies. Unfortunately soldiers who are known to be disciplined personnel are also affected with the phenomenon of divorce in contemporary times. This study was conducted to explore the fundamental issues of divorce in the Ghana Armed Forces and how pastoral care and counselling ca...