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- 241: Imperialism
- ... nations. These more powerful nations, including the United States, Britain, and several European countries, have in the past exploited less fortunate ones for resources, capital, and knowledge. Yet in return countries located in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia have gained the technology and capital that, over a period of time and development, improves their quality of life. One point of view could be that imperialism results in oppression and abuse ... called the Meiji Period caused newly learned ideas to change the Japanese government, resulting in the more industrialized and prosperous country we see today. In the mid-1800s, interference by both Britain and France in Africa opened up great opportunities for all nations. Ali borrowed money from many European nations in order to better Egyptian society. With this money he created schools, irrigation, and a powerful military. This interference of European ... obtained control over Egypt and the canal because Egypt was going through a great financial crisis. This allowed European ships to pass through the canal and cut thousands of miles off their travel distance around Africa, bringing a great wealth of trade from Asia that helped all of Europe, especially Britain. This interference both improved the quality of life in Egypt and in the more powerful nations of Europe. It ...
- 242: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas. In 1891 Gandhi returned to India. Unsuccessful in Bombay, he went to South Africa in 1893. At Natal he was the first so-called "colored" lawyer admitted to the supreme court. He then built a large practice. His interest soon turned to the problem of fellow Indians who had come to South Africa as laborers. He had seen how they were treated as inferiors in India, in England, and then in South Africa. In 1894 he founded the Natal Indian Congress to agitate for Indian rights. Yet he remained loyal to the British Empire. In 1899, during the Boer War, he raised an ambulance corps and served ...
- 243: Gold Strike, Relating To Cry,
- “Gold mining union plans one-day Free State strike” An article dated March 17, 2000 NUM, or South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers, is organizing a one-day strike at Free State gold mines. They are protesting the poverty and job losses from the mines. NUM is the country’s biggest mining union ... the gold mines because of the huge job losses in the last fifteen years. In 1987, gold, being the backbone of the economy, employed 530,000 miners. After the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa’s economy was open to foreign competition, and the gold industry had to be restructured. The gold price has been decreasing as well, and today only 200,000 miners are employed. This current event relates ... Country, because mining supported Johannesburg, and references were made to the mining industry throughout the book. Many characters voiced their opinion that it was the black men that economically supported the white men in South Africa, and they were diseased and injured by it. That they worked for cheap, were exposed to dangers, and then when they needed medical attention the non-European hospitals were less than inadequate. John Kumalo ...
- 244: Ghana And Mali
- Before Columbus sailed to the New World and before Europe reached their “Enlightenment Era” two significant kingdoms flourished on the west coast of what some refer to as the motherland: Africa. The name of these two mighty states are Ghana and Mali. Ghana was the first West African state of which their was any record. After the downfall near the end of the eleventh century, Mali rose up to take their place as the economic, religious, and cultural hub of West Africa. These two states are very similar yet differ in many ways also. The economy of the two states are very similar. Ghanaians were primarily an agricultural community. Most of the people were substance farmers who ... kiss the Kabba (a black stone believed to have religious powers). Both kingdoms were primarily Islamic because it allowed them to trade freely with other Islamic states. Although both kingdoms flourished, their reign of West Africa had to come to an end. The decline of Ghana began with the invasion of Muslims. Ghana still held on shortly after this, but was finished by a series of droughts that dried up ...
- 245: Great Zimbabwe
- GREAT ZIMBABWE This article which I have chosen to read, is about a ruined city of southeast Zimbabwe south of Harare. Great Zimbabwe is an ancient city on the plateau in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Zimbabwe was supposedly a city that controlled much trade and culture of southern Africa during the 12th and 17th centuries because it was stationed on the shortest route between the northern gold fields, and the Indian Ocean. Archaeologists believed that this masterful stonework was built somewhere around 1100 and ... After Mauch came, a crew of people working for W.G. Neal of the Ancient Ruins Company followed; the leader of the company was Neal. Cecil Rhodes, who was the founder of the British South Africa Company, financially supported Neal to explore Rhodesian ruins. This was a great opportunity to learn about Rhodesian ruins, however, Neal and his comrades were not really going after knowledge. They, instead, robbed Great Zimbabwe ...
- 246: Gandhi Y La Revolucion
- ... de una verdadera conciencia nacionalista. Después del Acta, la gran disconformidad del pueblo hindú encontró su representante, ¨ El Mahatma ¨ Mohandas K. Gandhi, este increíble líder nacionalista estudio derecho en Londres, luego se fue para Sur Africa a trabajar como abogado y a ayudar a los Indios que vivían ahí. Muchos compatriotas suyos se habían establecido en estas tierras como obreros en plantaciones de caña de azúcar; pero poco a poco fueron surgiendo hasta construir una pequeña colonia. Estaban sometidos a todas clases de discriminaciones y abusos, ya que frente a la población negra y blanca, eran una minoría. La estancia de Gandhi en Sur Africa despertó su conciencia política, fue ahí donde puso en practica su doctrina del Satyagraha. Lucho contra la discriminación racial, contra los abusos de la política fiscal, contra la explotación de la mano de obra hindú ... comenzó siendo simplemente como una lucha no violenta, también involucraba la resistencia pasiva, también la doctrina de la desobediencia civil de Thoreau había influido en Gandhi. Gandhi detuvo dos veces su campaña política en Sur Africa gracias a dos conflictos. Durante estos conflictos organizó unos cuerpos de Camilleros indios para ayudar a los heridos de guerra. Al abandonar el país se llevo la admiración de millones, y de hasta los ...
- 247: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... studied law in Bombay, but he quickly denounced it, feeling that it was immoral and could not satisfy one's conscience. Despite this, he used his schooling to help plead for Indian settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white population. His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train in Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to begin a movement to help his people. While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself poor so that he could identify with his the peasants. He then proceeded to start a colony that consisted of abused labourers. The colony became very large and many cities were crippled ... a bar to disunion, quarrels or worse." According to Hinduism, the caste system lies in respect for one another's individuality. Gandhi is well known for his efforts in fighting imperliasm in India and South Africa. His methods were, unique in that they did not involve the use of weapons. During the South African War of 1899-1902 and during the Zulu rebellion in 1906, Gandhi organised an ambulance corps ...
- 248: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... he knew completely, inside and out. Being the perfectionist that he was, Ernest did not feel justified in writing about topics of which he was not comepletely informed. Through his extensive travels in Europe and Africa, as well as other areas, he formed the groundwork for many of his most famed and cherished stories. His work as a Red Cross ambulance driver (mentioned earlier) in Italy ended up providing the theme ... in Madrid. In 1933-34 He went on a big-game safari in Kenya and Tanganyika where he became an avid hunter and picked up the knowledge for his 1935 nonfiction work, Green Hills of Africa. Also derived from his African experiences were two of best stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Dubbed his most ambitios novel, "For Whom The Bell Tolls," about the ... of discipline" (CLC, 180) and the building of one's code. One good example of the latter would be "The Short Hapy Life of Francis Macomber" in which a weak spineless man on safari in Africa (note the similarity to Hemingway's own experience) experiences various achievements and rejections which lead to his timely evolution from a normal twit to a disciplined man. Still the definitive hero of Hemingway's ...
- 249: Early Leaders And Great Kingdo
- ... power and she was forced into exile in Syria. Her sister Arsinoe went with her. The Ghana Empire was founded along the Niger River between the third and fifth centuries. The Soninke people of West Africa, who quickly developed an economic life comprising agriculture, manufacturing, and international trade, established Ghana. They were superior metalworkers and produced iron swords and other weapons by which they conquered neighboring peoples and maintained control over their territory. The empire's growth and development were relatively slow until Ghana began to trade with Arab ports on the Mediterranean coast and with other kingdoms of East Africa on the Red Sea. The Mali Empire differed substantially from the Ghana empire. Its rise to power began in the seventh century, when two great African leaders -- Sundiara Keita and Mansa Musa, transformed a small ... world, Askia Mohammed embarked on an effort to expand trade to include European countries. It was during his rule that the sale of Black slaves became a major business. He eventually controlled most of West Africa -- an area larger than Europe. Askia was a master politician and a superior leader of people. He restructured the army, secured a stronger system of banking and credit, and established the cities of Gao, ...
- 250: Desert Flower
- ... her. In describing her remarkable journey through life, Waris demonstrates examples of a masculine culture with elements high uncertainty-avoidance, and her own individualism amongst such a collectivistic society. Waris’s description of life in Africa is a perfect definition for a masculine culture. She explains, “Women are the backbone of Africa; they do most of the work. Yet women are powerless to make decisions.” She recalls a story of how her loving mother permitted her to be butchered, because of a traditional African ritual to please ... one day it will become a thing of the past. Before reading this article, I could never imagine that something so gruesome is still going on somewhere today. Living in a society so opposite to Africa’s, a lot of the issues presented in the article were new to me, and I did learn a lot. Most of all a respect for African women, who demonstrate incredible loyalty, unselfishness, and ...
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