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- 551: Cry. The Beloved Country
- ... and my words alone would do it an injustice. Its pages echo with the dirge of a battered country that has suffered far to much for far to long. The book takes you to South Africa, where the land itself is the essence of a man. It as if the mountains, soaring high above the clouds, are the high moments in life, and the valleys are those low and suffering times ... reading the pages, begin to envision Johannesburg being a polluted, very unkind, and rushed city. The setting is more of a emotional setting than a physical setting. As I stated it takes place in South Africa, 1946. This is a time where racial discrimination is at an all time high. The black community of this land is trying to break free from the white people, but having little success. It is ...
- 552: Julius Caesar
- ... throne and took a cruise down the Nile to celebrate. After months in Egypt, Caesar left because he had many other provinces to conquer. He went off and conquered all of Pompey’s lands in Africa. After he was leaving, he said the famous words “veni, vidi, vici (I came I saw I conquered)” (Suetonius 279-281). Caesar wanted to kill Pompey’s sons too. They had raised an army in North Africa with the help of one of Caesar's great enemies Cato. Caesar invaded the rebels camps at the end of 47bc, and by April of 46bc he overpowered them. Now he returned to Rome and ...
- 553: Sweetness And Power
- ... dominance would not last due to French competition, though. Trade became very important due to production needs for sugar, and the infamous triangle trade became significant. "The first and most famous triangle linked Britain to Africa and to the New World: finished goods were sold to Africa, African slaves to the Americans, and American tropical commodities (especially sugar) to the mother country and her importing neighbors" (Pg. 43). Mintz then mentions the importance of plantations to sugar production and the importance of ...
- 554: The Story of Sugar
- ... was demonstrated by the place where raw materials, such as sugar cane, was processed. (E.g. East Anglia/ British ports.) The technological changes involved for mass production. Here railways were built, in areas such as Africa, using the United Kingdom’s capital. The railways provided a way for the goods to be transported. An historical aspect, which reflects upon these economical changes, is that of slavery or as it was coined “labour transplantation”. During 1601 and 1870 ten million people where shipped away from Africa. Almost four million people were sent to Brazil, over five million people went to Spanish Americas and the Caribbean, and a third of a million people were sent to USA. These people were put to ...
- 555: Langston Hughes
- ... we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves." In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and ... 1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to popularize black authors and their works. Some of these are: An African Treasury (1960); Poems from Black Africa (1963); New Negro Poets: USA (1964) and The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers (1967). Langston Hughes died of cancer on May 22, 1967. His residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York ...
- 556: AIDS
- ... researching AIDS to help people understand it was a major problem back then, as it is today. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus. The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 20 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. Primarily female prostitutes there probably spread it especially fast. AIDS has already become a crisis of staggering proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country. This was a result of the ...
- 557: Kwanzaa
- ... tradition, which began in America, provides an emotional period of bonding between the family, community, and culture. Each year, Kwanzaa is celebrated from December 26 to January 1. Its roots lie in the motherland of Africa during the first harvest celebrations from which it takes its designation. The name Kwanzaa, evolved from the phrase “matunda ya kwanzaa” means “first fruits” in Swahili, the chief language spoken throughout Africa. These celebrations date back to ancient Egypt, and are also found among large societies like the Zulu, and smaller tribes such as the Matebele and Thonga. Kwanzaa is viewed by the African society as a ...
- 558: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... at times seems as empty as the faith that can be commercialized and sold by dramatists on television. In analyzing "Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" and "On Being Brought from Africa to America," I will consider Christian faith as means of coping with nothingness, rather than a pious way of life. While making references to Anne Bradstreet’s similar development of faith, I will contend that ... nullity rather than a confident belief or trust in God and the acceptance of God’s will. Phyllis Wheatley’s first appeals to Christianity emerge as she is transported on a slave ship from West Africa to Boston in July 1761, which begins the poem under analysis. In this voyage, she is still indentured into slavery, indicating that she has no material possessions of her own. Slavery has also stripped her ...
- 559: Function of Zoos
- ... extinction, (mostly because of poachers) have been placed in zoos, and they are now breeding. Eventually, elephants should become plentiful. Zoos also should rescue animals or plants whose habitat is being destroyed. For example, in Africa grasslands are becoming deserts, through a process called desertification. This occurs because of overgrazing and over population and many animals can’t survive the tremendous alteration. Also Africa forests are being destroyed, through a process called deforestation. This occurs because of stripping the land of its trees (mostly done by woodcutters). This is also a great change that can’t be survived. In ...
- 560: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... would benefit from the therapeutic surrey air. Then they traveled up the Nile River to Sudan, an East African country. This trip later provided the background for The Tragedy of Korosko. They traveled to South Africa during the Boer War in 1900, because Doyle was acting as a war correspondent. While in South Africa, Doyle published a novel called The Great Boer War in 1900. Then other short stories appeared in Cornhill Magazine, such as Some Military Lessons of War, in 1900.24 Following the end of the war ...
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