Fabrice T. Banyingela

Topic: Carrying Water on Both Shoulders             It is not a secret that religion and science are independent. While science relies on evidence drawn from testing ideas, religion on the other hand requires to release fear and exercise little faith.            Lowell L. Brown made a remarkable observation about when faith and reason meet in the life of a college student. He identified three critical positions. First, the student holds fast to his faith and lets no knowledge gained in study disturb it. A second position places reason above faith. A third position is to choose to live in both worlds.             There is always a category of converts whose faith is of the heart. Once they are empowered with some knowledge and believe it with their heart, it becomes steadfast and no one can take it out. The Army of Helaman’s fai...

  Fabrice Tshiyoyi Banyingela Brittany James Social Innovation 11 June 2021 Real Solutions for Real People             One of the social entrepreneurs’ goals is to create real solutions for real people. This implies designing and implementing solutions that are realistic about human behavior. Harley Henriques do Nacimento founder of Gopa-Bahia designed a different approach to deal with human behavior regarding the awareness of HIV/AIDS. Teaching people about their bodies and living conditions then training them on HIV/AIDS was more effective than straight teaching them about the virus. Therefore, you cannot make any social changes without actual plans and support to get clients to actually use your products. This approach is the best as it creates a common ground (understand) between the organization and the clients. When a solution takes the audience into account and considers their actual behavior as opposed to i...

  Fabrice Tshiyoyi Banyingela Professor Brittany James Social Innovation 6 May 2021 W06 Essay: Root Cause & Impact Vera Cordeiro is a social entrepreneur as well as a professional physician who founded the Asociacao Saude Crianca Renascer (Rebirth: Association for Children's Health), with the aim to extend care to poor children after they are discharged from public hospitals. The hospital faced many recurring treatments of children. Many of the cycles of treatments that patients came to the  Hospital da Lagoa  with was often persistent reoccurrences disease such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, anemia, birth defects, or ailments. And the cause of these challenges was poverty which she describes as not only a lack of money but a lack of a sense of meaning.   Seeing the children get discharged from the hospital and returning sick again weeks later broke her heart. She said, “I could not stand to go one more day seeing children locked in this c...

  Fabrice Tshiyoyi Banyingela Professor Michelle Donner Writing & Reasoning 14 June 2021 Are gifts and campaign contributions a form of bribery? Bribery involves corruption and comes in several forms. Bribery is a global phenomenon, present in practically all levels of institutions around the world. Bribery has become rampant in recent decades in our society. Despite the efforts government and local leaders are making, they still don’t have the institutional capacity to win this battle. However, this does not imply that they didn’t fight this corruption and bribery pandemic thoroughly, rather indicate that the impact made upon the poor community was not always their top priority and rich minds have continued to be sickened by the "disease" only know as bribery. Since its independence in 1994, South Africa has been struggling to overcome this epidemic of the millennium. Examples like the Gupta family saga , the Zondo commission of inquiry, the Tshwane prepaid m...