<h2>The End of Apartheid</h2>
Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa's Nationalist Party in 1948 to the country's harsh, institutionalized system of racial segregation, came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994. Years of violent internal protest, weakening white commitment, international economic and cultural sanctions, economic struggles, and the end of the Cold War brought down white minority rule in Pretoria. U.S. policy toward the regime underwent a gradual but complete transformation that played an important conflicting role in Apartheid's initial survival and eventual downfall.
Although many of the segregationist policies dated back to the early decades of the twentieth century, it was the election of the Nationalist Party in 1948 that marked the beginning of legalized racism's harshest features called Apartheid. The Cold War then was in its early stages. U.S. President Harry Truman's foremost foreign policy goal was to limit Soviet expansion. Despite supporting a domestic civil rights agenda to further the rights of black people in the United States, the Truman Administration chose not to protest the anti-communist South African government's system of Apartheid in an effort to maintain an ally against the Soviet Union in southern Africa. This set the stage for successive administrations to quietly support the Apartheid regime as a stalwart ally against the spread of communism.
The system of checks and balances were a way to not let any branch get overpowered or in other words, to guard against tyranny by ensuring that no branch would grab too much power.
If I understood your question correctly, then the answer is "it depends". Sometimes, individuals have a large impact on starting a war (think World War I where one individual caused the war to start), other times groups of people have also important roles in starting a war (think World War II).
Answer: You are sitting at a Mexican restaurant waiting for your food. The waiter brings a very hot plate, telling you to be careful about touching it. You touch it anyway, producing a pain sensation in your fingers, a withdrawal of your hand, and an auditory comment of what you are thinking. This scenario represents an <u>involuntary</u> act on the neuronal circuit.
Explanation:
<em>The neurons</em> of an organism form <u>numerous circuits </u>that originate very complex networks. The nervous current that circulates through them produces two <u>types of acts:</u>
- Involuntary Acts. (reflex arc)
They are<u> fast, automatic, and are performed without the action of the brain</u>. In a reflex act, sensitive information only reaches the spinal cord, so the <em>response is automatic</em>. They are the ones that are performed when a quick response is needed.
They are <u>varied, changing, and more elaborated.</u> Voluntary acts are carried out in a conscious way and are <em>controlled voluntarily</em>. Not all are a consequence of the reception of an external stimulus, since t<u>hey can be produced directly in the cerebral cortex</u> without the need for an external stimulus.
