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- 111: Female Genital Mutilation 2
- The practice of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, occurs throughout the world, but it is most common in Africa. Female genital mutilation is a tradition and social custom to keep a young girl pure and a married woman faithful. In Africa it is practiced in the majority of the continent including Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mozambique and Sudan. It is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual, which is performed by Muslims ... dated 163 BC refers to operations performed on girls at the age they received their dowries. A Greek geographer reported the custom of circumcision of girls he found while visiting Egypt in 25 BC. In Africa female circumcision has been reported in at least twenty-six countries and can be viewed as a public health problem because of its wide geographic distribution, the number of females involved and the serious ...
- 112: Pre-Civil War New Orleans
- ... inception and continues to distinguish the city today. Like the early American settlements along Massachusetts Bay and Chesapeake Bay, New Orleans served as a distinctive cultural gateway to North America, where peoples from Europe and Africa initially intertwined their lives and customs with those of the native inhabitants of the New World. The resulting way of life differed dramatically from the culture than was spawned in the English colonies of North ... Filipinos. THE AFRICANS: African Americans compile about half of the city of New Orleans population to date. How did this come about? Well, during the eighteenth century, Africans came to the city directly from West Africa. The majority passed neither through the West Indies nor South America, so they developed complicated relations with both the Indian and Europeans. Their descendants born in the colony were also called Creoles. The Spanish rulers ... historical record of shipping manifests attests to the fact that the majority of slaving merchant vessels that deposited their goods at the mouth of the Mississippi took on their cargoes from those areas of West Africa with significant Muslim population. As the Islamic belief system forbids suicide and encourages patient perseverance, the middle-passage survival rate of captured African Muslims was quite high. For example, one such courageous survivor was ...
- 113: New Orleans - Before The Civil War
- ... inception and continues to distinguish the city today. Like the early American settlements along Massachusetts Bay and Chesapeake Bay, New Orleans served as a distinctive cultural gateway to North America, where peoples from Europe and Africa initially intertwined their lives and customs with those of the native inhabitants of the New World. The resulting way of life differed dramatically from the culture than was spawned in the English colonies of North ... Filipinos. THE AFRICANS: African Americans compile about half of the city of New Orleans population to date. How did this come about? Well, during the eighteenth century, Africans came to the city directly from West Africa. The majority passed neither through the West Indies nor South America, so they developed complicated relations with both the Indian and Europeans. Their descendants born in the colony were also called Creoles. The Spanish rulers ... historical record of shipping manifests attests to the fact that the majority of slaving merchant vessels that deposited their goods at the mouth of the Mississippi took on their cargoes from those areas of West Africa with significant Muslim population. As the Islamic belief system forbids suicide and encourages patient perseverance, the middle-passage survival rate of captured African Muslims was quite high. For example, one such courageous survivor was ...
- 114: The Heart of Darkness: The Horror!
- ... appearances of success and power. Inevitably Kurtz collapses, his last words epitomizing his experience, The horror! The horror! (Dorall 306). The horror to Kurtz is about self realization; about the mistakes he committed while in Africa. The colonizers' cruelty towards the natives and their lust for ivory also is spotlighted in Kurtz's horror. The white men who came to the Congo professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders. The supposed purpose of the colonizers' traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead the Europeans took the natives' land away from them by force. They burned their towns, stole their property, and enslaved them. "Enveloping the horror of Kurtz is the ...
- 115: Female Genital Mutilation
- The practice of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, occurs throughout the world, but it is most common in Africa. Female genital mutilation is a tradition and social custom to keep a young girl pure and a married woman faithful. In Africa it is practiced in the majority of the continent including Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mozambique and Sudan. It is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual, which is performed by Muslims ... dated 163 BC refers to operations performed on girls at the age they received their dowries. A Greek geographer reported the custom of circumcision of girls he found while visiting Egypt in 25 BC. In Africa female circumcision has been reported in at least twenty-six countries and can be viewed as a public health problem “because of its wide geographic distribution, the number of females involved and the serious ...
- 116: Heart Of Darkness
- ... appearances of success and power. Inevitably Kurtz collapses, his last words epitomizing his experience, The horror! The horror! (Dorall 306). The horror to Kurtz is about self realization; about the mistakes he committed while in Africa. The colonizers' cruelty towards the natives and their lust for ivory also is spotlighted in Kurtz's horror. The white men who came to the Congo professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders. The supposed purpose of the colonizers' traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead the Europeans took the natives' land away from them by force. They burned their towns, stole their property, and enslaved them. "Enveloping the horror of Kurtz is the ...
- 117: Blacks And Indians In The Deve
- ... claiming the New World as their own, another interest came about. They needed slave labor. In the Americas, the Indians offered slave labor. In time, the need for more slaves with better technological skills arose. Africa provided a wide array of products and also the technological skills the Europeans needed to advance in their colonization. The technological skills were provided by the African slaves. As Europeans explored the world, it seemed ... events that have taken place in history dealing with both the Indian and Black slave condition in M. L. Conniff and T. J. Davis', Africans in the Americas. As the Europeans explored, their interest broadened. Africa exemplified their greatest interest because of the slave labor it had to offer. Unfortunately, slave labor was at the expense of people who were a different color other than the Europeans. Like Africa, the Americas offered slave labor. When the Europeans landed on the Americas, they encountered a different race. This race consisted of different Indian tribes. Before the Europeans came to either continent, both cultures flourished ...
- 118: Gandhi
- ... about many changes all over the world but especially in India. His means of bringing about change and the effect he had on people made him a respected and loved individual. Gandhi travelled to South Africa for the first time in the summer of 1892, to try his luck at a law firm. He was not aware of how deeply he would be involved in South African affairs while he proceeded on his journey. Indians in South Africa suffered many disabilities. For instance, an Indian “had to carry a pass if he appeared on the streets after 9 p.m.”(Pg. 24). Gandhi felt this was completely unfair and by the time he had finished his campaign against colour prejudice in South Africa, “the three pound tax on farm indentured labourers was annulled, Hindu, Muslim and Parsi marriages were declared valid; free Indians and their wives could continue to come into the country from India” (Pg. 47- ...
- 119: World Populations and Development
- ... led to numerous migrations over the centuries. - Asian tribes moved to the west and south (5th century BC - 16th century AD); - Europeans colonized large areas of the Americas, Australia and the Pacific region, India and Africa; - African slaves were bought and taken to the Americas and to Arabic and Turkish areas; - Russians "colonized" the eastern reaches of Eurasia. By the 18th century the world's population numbered about the same as ... Many countries of the world, mostly the less developed ones have not yet achieved this stage. Most of today's highly developed countries were able to exploit the resources of the less developed nations of Africa and Asia long enough to give time for the impacts of the higher standards of living, longer life spans and abundant resources to change the attitude of these nations and result in decreased population growth ... is especially important to understand that we all live on the same planet. Cooperation and assistance to the developing nations are usually cheaper than another set of missile defenses... 4.) Migrations Europeans traveled to America, Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand. These were the migrations that were the most important of this period. They allowed the ever growing population of Europe to find a new habitat. These migrations resulted in ...
- 120: African Art
- ... foundation in the history or the culture of the land and the people. However, this statement is very untrue, to the individual who has taken the time to study the history and culture of the Africa on its own while eliminating as much bias thought as possible. For example, when we look at pottery we can disprove the theory that all early Africans were nomadic. In African History, it is stated ... made to preserve them as aesthetic accomplishments. This was secondary, if even a thought to the individuals of that time. Survival was of greater importance than having an extensive art collection. In “General History of Africa Vol. 1” we find that “the Kuba often directly expressed historical characters, culture and events in different types of sculptures (p.11).” In this scenario I’m sure that how many different types of sculptures ... when dealing with African art. First it was denounced as not having any artistic merit or validity then as time went on it was taken or adopted by the mainstream. When settlers first arrived to Africa armed with Christianity they declared the artifacts they identified with Africans as being “heathen” and “evil”. However, instead of destroying these things because of the “evil” nature, they were shipped to Europe and other ...
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