The paper dwells on the concept of Barakah (blessing) reiterating its origin and the position of the Prophet as the most blessed of all the creations. The concept of Barakah as explored in the paper belongs to Allah who allots it to His creatures according to His will and mercy. The paper focuses mainly on how the companions of the Prophet acquired the Barakah of the Prophet. Reference is made to authentic Prophetic traditions on how the companions of the Prophet yearned for the blessing in his hair and in the fragrance of his sweat. The companions had also contested for leftover water of his ablution in order to gain Barakah. It is in the light of this that that the paper discusses the emphasis of the Glorious Qur’an and the Sunnah on the relevance of the barakah of the Prophet in averting the wrath of Allah as well as the effect of the blessings of the Prophet on food and water. As states in the paper, strict compliance with the teachings of the Prophet accorded the companions of the Prophet his blessings. The paper recommends to the Muslims the need to believe that the Prophet is a mercy to mankind and his blessing could be acquired through invocation of blessing on him and compliance with his teachings.

This paper aims to focus, to bring the existing misperception of the letters „p‟ and „b‟ in panoramic view, to make the readers understand that there is nothing defective on the side of the speakers‟ in comprehending the sounds of the letters /p/ and /b/ when they listen to, alike other phonemic sounds. Further, it is to exercise the spectrographic picturization of the aforementioned letters for the scientific development, the theories involved in, and to bring out the linguistic phenomenon spread over the pronunciation of /p/ and /b/ phonemes.

Part-time students are distracted by too many competing demands on their time because of work or family commitments. As a result they are not as involved as other students. This is problematic because what students gain from their college experience depends a lot on how much time and effort students put into their educationally purposeful activities. This study sought to find out challenges encountered by part-time students in selected public universities in Kenya. The study was based on student engagement theory. Data was collected from part-time students, games tutors, deans of students, officials of clubs and societies. Simple random sampling was used to select students while purposeful sampling was used to select games tutors, deans of students and officials of clubs and societies. Data was collected using questionnaires, focus group discussions and interview schedules. The analysis of the qualitative data followed the path of aggregating the words or images into categories of information and presented the diversity of ideas gathered during data collection. The study established that majority of the part-time students lacked time to participate in social activities in the universities. They spent most of their time travelling or looking for means of transport. The study further established that part-time students lacked information on the social activities in the university that they could participate in. It is hoped that the findings of the study will be useful to university management in understanding the part-time students’ social needs and satisfaction predictors so as to keep part-time students more engaged with their academic work and perform well in their examinations.

It is believed that Walter Benjamin‟s theory is the combination with theology and Marxism. His Messianic thought especially expressed the idea of redemption which was the critique of the industrial progress. He was trying to criticize the consumer economy which was full of powers and desires. At the same time, he believed that Messiah is from the secular world and was trying to revert it to the original world. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was a representative work of expressing redemption. It not only redeemed himself but also helped other people get redemption. This paper interprets the book of Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption from the perspective of Benjamin‟s Messianisim. The first part is the introduction of the book and Benjamin‟s Messianic thought. The second part is the interpretations of the three protagonists: Andy, Red and Tommy. This part illustrates the reflections of Messianic redemption thought in these three persons and the Shawshank Prison. All of them wanted to revert back the original life and freedom. The third part is about how to accelerate the coming of Messiah: the pursuit of secular happiness and the death of tragic hero. The fourth part is the coming of Messiah and getting redemption.

HIV/AIDS is a viral malady which is causing havoc with the lives of the people in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It has become notorious in taking away the lives of the people due to the lack of awareness on the part of the victims. The chief sources of the mass prevalence of this disease are: contaminated water, reuse of needles and syringes, carelessness about blood transfusion, lack of awareness about the use of contraceptives while having sex, and non-sterilized shaving and surgical instruments. District Faisalabad, from the central Punjab (Pakistan) was the place where this present research study was conducted. Throughout the course of this research study, multistage sampling technique was widely employed. At first stage, out of four tehsils of district Faisalabad, one tehsil (tehsil Faisalabad) was selected randomly. At second stage, out of eight towns of tehsil Faisalabad, two towns (Jinnah Town and Iqbal Town) were selected randomly. At third stage, two union councils were randomly selected from each town. At fourth stage, a sample of 25 young people was drawn from each selected union council to make an overall sample of 200 respondents. An interview schedule was developed for data collection which was divided into two parts. Individual characteristics i.e. gender, age, conjugal status was included in the preliminary part of the questionnaire. The questions related to the awareness regarding HIV/AIDS were the part and parcel of the remaining part of the questionnaire. The major findings of this study are: majority of the respondents 68.0 % were males, 56.0 % of the informants were intermediate, 48.5% were disclosed during interview that they had adequate knowledge about the preventive methods of HIV/AIDS after blood test or blood transfusion, 30% respondents had no knowledge about the preventive methods of HIV/AIDS after blood test or blood transfusion, 76.0 % were un-married, and 42.5 % were of the view that their source of sexual health information was their friends. HIV/AIDS, no doubt, is a fatal malady but can be controlled by launching awareness campaigns via mass media informing people about the preventive measures such as insisting on new syringe during inoculation, secure and safe blood transfusion, abstaining from extra-marital activities, avoiding contaminated water, and refraining from using the razor, tooth brush, and towel of an infected person.

This paper examines the History of Manyani Detention Camp from 1952 to 1963. From 1952 onwards, the British government established detention camps where suspected Mau Mau fighters and their sympathizers were incarcerated. Manyani was started as a holding camp for “hard core” Mau Mau fighters. Manyani held Mau Mau fighters from 1952 to 1963. The colonial government preferred Manyani detention camp because of its harsh environment that was expected to exert maximum physical torture on the detainees so that they could plead guilty and assist in ending the Mau Mau uprising. The paper shows Manyani detention camps as an institution of political domination and control during the state Emergency in Kenya. The paper is a contribution to the historiography of prisons in Kenya.

Indonesia is one of the countries with a large number of corruption cases. Criminal acts of corruption in Indonesia have been pervasive and have entered into all walks of life. Its development continues to increase from year to year, in the number of cases that occur and the amount of state financial losses and regarding the quality of criminal acts of corruption carried out more systematically that has entered aspects of community life. Increased uncontrolled corruption will bring impacts that are not only limited to the life of the national economy but also to the life of the nation and state in general. This study uses a normative and empirical juridical approach. Normative research is carried out on the theoretical matters of legal principles relating to law enforcement in the case of corruption in Indonesia. This research method uses several approaches to produce a reasonable conclusion. The strategy of prosecuting policies in certain crimes must pay attention to the nature of the problem. If the nature of the problem is more on economic or trade issues, it should take precedence over sanctions for action and/or fines. The formulation of sanctions between Article 2 and Article 3 of this Law is contrary to the general provisions concerning sanctions regulated in the Criminal Code. In the Criminal Code determines if an act is carried out because of position and violates the authority. It is a criminal weight, while in this law in Article 3 which is an act as stipulated in Article 2 but carried out by misusing the authority, opportunity or means that exists because of the position or position but the threat is lighter than in Article 2. If the special law makes a particular minimum criminal threat, then it must be accompanied by rules/guidelines for its application such as comparative problems between specific minimums and maximal in particular. There should be a unique pattern that should be followed in other Article formulations. For example in Article 2 paragraph (1) the comparison is 1: 4 while in Article 3 the comparison is 1:20. There should be a similar pattern applied in each Article in the formulation of specific minimum provisions.

Choice of science based careers by female students in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes and particularly Technical and Training Institutes (TTIs) has attracted a lot of attention of education planners, economists and administrators the world over. Female students choosing careers in TVET science programmes are still few and especially in Siaya County, Kenya. The study was based on social Cognitive. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The research instruments were questionnaires the sample size was 316 female students sampled using census method. Tools in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used to analyze data. Frequencies, percentages and means were computed. Inferential statistics such as regression coefficients, T-statistics, F-statistics, correlation of coefficients shall were derived. Charts, graphs and tables were used to present the findings. It was found out that there exists a negative and statistically significant relationship between socio-cultural factors and female students‟ choice of career in science TVET Programmes (r=-0.546**; p<0.01). The significance of this study is that the findings could be used to come up with policies on how to increase the number of female students choosing careers in TVET. This could guarantee employment opportunities for women in the country which in turn could raise their standard of living.

This study explored Nigeria and South Africa relation within the context of citizen diplomacy. We collated our date from qualitative descriptive method and hence relied on secondary data. We predicated our analytical framework on the basic propositions emanated from the theory of complex interdependent. The study among others, observed that with economic advantage as the major international political issues, states and their citizens are under anxiety not to be outwitted and outcompeted in the fast growing global interdependence and thus subscribe to the rule of reciprocal relations as foundation for cooperation. The study therefore underscored the effect of diaspora in national economic development within the rubric of international rule of reciprocity; while observing the checks of domestic values and culture of host states. Focusing on Nigeria‘s diaspora defence in South Africa, the study explored the basic factors that determine Nigeria-South Africa relations especially as it concerns the contributions of the Diaspora to national development through the application of international best practice and social relations, it equally made useful suggestions aimed at strengthening the capacity of Nigeria to achieve the foreign policy goals and to provide adequate safeguards to her citizens living in foreign countries.

The purposes of this research were to investigate the implementation of screencast o matic integrated with inquiry learning for improving students’soft skill which focused on developing students’ self-confidence in speaking English and to investigate the interaction occured among variables. Quantitative research method was used with true experimental design in order to achieve the aims of the research. Semester IV students of English Department of Muslim Nusantara Al-Washliyah University were chosen as the sample of the research and divided into 30 students for experimental class I and 30 students for experiment class II. The data found was anlayzed by applying ANAVA (General Linear Models), normality test (one sample Kolmogorov Smirnov) and homogeneity test (One way Anova) with SPSS 22 IBM for Windows and MS. Excel in order to explore score obtained from each formulated indicator. The finding showed that the implementation of screencast o matic using inquiry learning significantly develops students’ self-confidence, eventhough there was no interaction occured between students’ self confidence and speaking with Sig> 0.05. The obtained data showed that developing self-confindence through screencast o matic integrated with inquiry learning with Sig > 0,05 (0,776 > 0,05). In short, the students’ speaking skill taught with screencast o matic sofware was higher, but students’ self-confidence was not developed by that software as students were a bit hard to adapt using screencast o matic software that never be used by them in advance.

The purposes of the research were to find out the significances of the implementation of simulation technique and the using of posters as visual aids in improving students’ social interaction and creative thinking. Semester II English students of Muslim Nusantara University Medan were selected as the population of the research, then, two classes were chosen of the sample of the research y applying random purposive sampling. Moreover, quantitative research method was used with factorial design 2 X 2 to achieve the aims of the research. based on the data analyzed, this research found out that students’ social interaction taught by implementing simulation technique and using the poster was being extremely higher with 80,05 than experimental class II with 68,68. Then, the indicator average of creative thinking also showed a very significant effect in which experimental class II was 86,69, while experimental class II was only 60,75. Moreover, there was an interaction occured between technique simulation with the poster with student’s creative thinking toward students’ social interaction with Fobsesrved>Ftablewith 294,740 > 4,00 and Sig < 0,05 with 0,000< 0,05, and with Fobsesrved189,190 >Ftable4,00 and with Sig 0,000 < 0,05. Last, there was an interaction between simulation technique and poster in which simulation technique was being much more effective combined with poster as visual aids with sig <prob (0,000 < 0,05). In conclusion, students whose higher creative thinking in creating the poster would have higher social interaction in EFL speaking class in which the more frequent student’ social interaction in the classroom, the higher speaking skill achieved.

European imperialism and eventual process of colonization of Africa was largely characterised by arbitrary attack on African political and social structures. The consequence of this action was the rise of African independent movements. These movements whether militia, religious (churches) or educational (schools) were founded by charismatic personalities who attracted followers through their lifestyle, preaching and healing, attributed to the power of the Holy Spirit. This study provides a critical appraisal of the life and the educational role played by John Owalo in the establishment of the first independent schools and church movement in colonial Africa the Nomiya Luo Mission.

This study aims to analyze the accountability process of the performance of government officials in the service of electronic Resident Identity Card (e-KTP) in Bantaeng Regency and analyze aspects that affect the accountability of the performance of government officials in the service of E-KTP in Bantaeng Regency. This research was carried out in Bantaeng Regency using qualitative approach, which is a method that has several theoretical perspectives with the type of case study. The research shows that the accountability of the performance of local government apparatus in e-KTP service at the Bantaeng Regency Population and Civil Registration Service still needs to be improved if it refers to several accountability indicators namely legal accountability and honesty, process accountability, program accountability, and policy accountability of the four indicators, indicators of local government must be able to improve the quality of the performance of the apparatus, especially from aspects of the process and program, although on the other hand there are some obstacles to the apparatus in carrying out their duties, functions and authority from these indicators. Indicators of legal accountability and honesty as well as policy accountability have run quite well, but these advantages must always be maintained in order to provide maximum service to the people of Bantaeng Regency.