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- 201: John Coltrane
- ... disease) despite bizarre stylistic metamorphoses in the next five and a half years. Coltrane signed with Impulse Records in April of 1961 and the next month began rehearsing and playing the long studio sessions for Africa/Brass, a large-band experiment with arrangements by his close friend Eric Dolphy. This was in part an extension of the modal experimentation in which he had been involved with Davis in the late fifties ... corresponding only vaguely to traditional major and minor scales. The modal approach proved to be the modulation from bop to free jazz, as is clear in Coltrane's revolutionary use of a single mode throughout "Africa," the piece that takes up all of side one of the album. Just as his prolonged modal solos were emulated by rock guitarists (the Grateful Dead, the Byrds of "Eight Miles High," the unlamented Iron ... rapid permutations and combinations of pitches on sopranino sax to simulate chords as sustained tones. From the start, and especially from the opening notes of Coltrane's solo, which bursts forth like a tribal summons, "Africa" is the aural equivalent of a journey upriver. The elemental force of this polyrhythmic modalism was unknown in the popular music that came before it. Coltrane experimented with two bassists a hint of wilder ...
- 202: IMF And The World Bank
- ... has fallen in most of the world's poorest countries since 1980. In Uganda 4$ is spent per person on healthcare compared with 23$ per person on debt repayment. Because of budget cuts, Sub-Saharan Africa is very vulnerable to basic disease such as Cholera, that are making a come back at a catastrophic pace, owing to the breakdown of water and sewage systems triggered by the economic crisis (Dark Victory,p55). The IMF encourages governments to cut backspending and to downsize government department, thus a rise in employment. the damage in Education Sub-Saharan Africa is significant. for example the percentage of 6-11 years old enrolled in school has fallen from approximatively 60% in 1980 to less than 50% in 1990 (WWW.Jubilee2000uk.org/silent.html). The cut in ... they cause a glut in International Market and price tend to fall. Farmers are forced to work for more lower wages than ever. The goals of the SAPs have failed. the world Bank chief for Africa has admitted: "we did not hink that the human cost could be so great, and the economic gains so slow in coming" (Dark Victory,p55). Solutions available The World Bank has to reform its ...
- 203: Slavery
- ... economy based on plantation. The north was creative in the development of the southern economy because of its domance in the slave trade that brought African labor to the colonies. The trasatlantic slave trade between Africa and North America lasted less than 170 years, even though slavery existed in the colonies and the new United States. The constitutional delegates were able to reach a compromise on the issue of slavery representation ... of slavery in their own time and in their own ways. The African slave trade would continue for twenty more years, until 1807. Although fewer than 500,000 of the 30 million slaves kidnapped from Africa had entered North American parts, generations of breeding had raised their number in United States to 4 million by 1860. The invention of the cotton gin and spinning and weaving machines at the end of ... 75 percent of the worlds cotton. This meant that they needed more land, but also more hands to do the terrible and painful labor. The slave traders of New England and the native cheifs of Africa produced the necessary slaves. There have been two basic types of slavery in the past. The most common was the household slave or domestic slave. Although these slaves occasionally worked beyond the household doing ...
- 204: The African Queen
- THE AFRICAN QUEEN Short Summary: "The African Queen" is the tale of two companions with different personalities who develop an untrustworthy love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I. They struggle against the climate, the river, the bugs, the Germans and, most of all, against each other. In the course of much misery, they develop love and respect for each other. Detailed Summary: In September 1914, the German occupying forces hold East Africa. The story starts in a small village that is overlorded by a stuffy British missionary, Reverent Samuel Sayer and his spinster, prudish sister Rose Sayer, who is utterly devoted to her brother. Rose is also ... to use the old, ramshackle African Queen, since he has blasting gelatine, cylinders of oxygen and hydrogen as new cargo. They have a dangerous and difficult escape route: They have to pass the large Central Africa lake at the end of the dangerous connecting river, the Ulanga and Bora Rivers. But a large 100-ton German gunship, the Louisa, controls this area. In front of the lake, the Germans occupy ...
- 205: Modibo Diarra
- ... just because they met him and hope he succeeds. Modibo is some one special He has a gift on and off the court. Modibo is no stranger to basketball. In his home country in Mali, Africa he was able to catch a glimpse of USA basketball through satellite. Just like any kid in America who has dreams of making it to the NBA, kids in Africa do have that dream as well. They have goals of being successful in life and taking care of their family. When a down and out coach from American University was trying to recruit another player ... wearing sandals and some just playing on barefeet. Scott saw a young 6'9" kid who swatting every basket in sight and immediately thought this kid has potential written all over him. After staying in Africa for a couple of weeks and convincing Modibo's father and two wives that it was alright for Modibo to go to the United States and play basketball, good luck took a major hit. ...
- 206: Hemmingway
- ... and power in the minds of its readers, even those that are most disgusted by the bullfight. After Ernest finished Death in the Afternoon and Pauline gave birth to another boy, they set off for Africa. It was there that Hemingway hopped to find the true meaning of heroism. Three stories would result from the events of Africa. The Green Hills of Africa, which lacked effective meaning and carried a false tone of masculine hunting spirit, was the least successful. The Snows of Kilamanjaro was a much more potent tale about the hunt. Arguably one of Hemingway' ...
- 207: Heart Of Darkness
- ... traveling to the African Congo on a "business trip". He is an Englishmen through and through. He's never been exposed to any alternative form of culture, similar to the one he will encounter in Africa, and he has no idea about the drastically different culture that exists out there. Throughout the book, Conrad, via Marlow's observations, reveals to the reader the naive mentality shared by every European. Marlow as ... millions from their horrid ways"(18-19). In reality, however, the Europeans are there in the name of imperialism and their sole objective is to earn a substantial profit by collecting all the ivory in Africa. Another manifestation of the Europeans obliviousness towards reality is seen when Marlow is recounting his adventure aboard the Nellie. He addresses his comrades who are on board saying: "When you have to attend to things ... in the name of imperialism! The Europeans feel that this is an honorable battle, and therefore, all get emotionally excited and fight with all they have. Marlow, however, sees it differently. He is now in Africa where reality broods. It's lurking everywhere. The only thing one has to do to find it is open his mind to new and previously 'unheard' of ideas. He looks at this event and ...
- 208: Heart Of Darkness
- ... nature, the insensibility of reality, and the moral darkness. We have noticed that important motives in Heart of Darkness connect the white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white men who come to Africa professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders; they also have been alienated from the old tribal ways. "Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly damned by ... be so corrupt by their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will need to lay their memory among the 'dead Cats of Civilization.'" (Conrad 105.) The supposed purpose of the Europeans traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead they colonized on the native's land and corrupted the natives. "Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen ...
- 209: Nelson Mandela
- South-Africa was settled by Dutch spaking whites, the boers, in the seventeenth century. Later they were followed by the British, who they several times fought against to keep the power. In 1948 the white people felt ... economical, political and cultural supremacy. There came new laws that devided the population into white, black, coloured and Asian groups. the foundation of apartheid was already made when the first European settlers came to South-Africa, and since then the suppressed have been fighting to abolish it. Maybe the most famous opponent of the apartheid regime throughout the years have been Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. He went to college to study law ... was called "non-white". The campaign got attention also internationally. The participants dicipψine, their self sacrificing work and relationship to eachother was noticed all over the world. After a while Nelson Mandela was considered South-Africa's national foregrounds-figure in international media. ANC was banned in 1960 because the party opposed strongly to white supremacy. Mandela was forced to work underground, but he managed to travel abroad to obtain ...
- 210: Ignorance and Racism in Heart Of Darkness
- ... creates a division in the society in which he lives in: "us," the Europeans, and "them," the Africans. Achebe states Conrad's ignorance towards the natives by stating, "Heart of Darkness project the image of Africa as 'the other world,'
a place where man's vaunted intelligence and ferment are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality" (252). "Heart of Darkness was written, consciously or unconsciously, from a colonialistic point of view" (Singh ... ignorance of a society that he doesn't relate to his own forced him to separate the two worlds. C. P. Sarvan wrote in his criticism "Racism and the Heart of Darkness," "Conrad sets up Africa 'as a foil to Europe, a place of negations
in comparison with which Europe's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest.' Africa is 'the other world,'..." (281). Conrad's was not a racist but rather an ignorant who did what society expected him to do; separate the good (Europeans) and the bad (Africans). Biblography Achebe, Chinua [ ...
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