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- 561: Cry, The Beloved Country: Differences Of The Ruled And The Rulers
- ... Ruled And The Rulers The novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton illustrates the differences of the ruled and the rulers. It presents a more enhanced portrayal of black and white relations in South Africa during the apartheid era. The author shows, in a subtle non-preachy manner, how racial discrimination made it difficult for blacks in South Africa to succeed socially and successfully. The theme of the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country revolves around the idea of prejudice causing violence. Throughout the novel, the author reveals how the laws of white men caused ...
- 562: Female Genital Mutilation and Culture
- Female Genital Mutilation and Culture The number of mutilated woman and girls in Africa and the Middle East is increasing due to population growth, according to Win News. But internationally financed population, health and safe motherhood programs ignore Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and have failed to implement effective preventive ... clitoris and most of the external genitalia. This is practiced in a broad area from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Coast. The most dangerous operation, Infibulation is customary in Sudan, Somalia, N.Kenya,, W. Africa and all along the Red Sea coast. After the clitoris is excised and all external genitalia are carved away, the bleeding raw edges of the libia majora are held together by thorns or other fasting ...
- 563: Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
- ... countries, but that’s not true. In 1989 Ebola made it’s way to the United States. The virus hit Virginia, but luckily only in some Monkey’s. The monkeys were shipped in from West Africa, for experiments. What most people didn’t realize right away was that some of the monkeys were infected with Ebola. When the monkey’s arrived, the World Health Organization had found some dead, and diagnosed ... can limit themselves to which places they travel, but what about insects? The American “Screw worm fly”, which transmitted deadly maggots that kill livestock, turned up in Lybia in 1988. It quickly spread through North Africa and its natural habitat was the USA. (Garrett, P.576, 1995) “In temperate ecologies, keeping wild insects at bay was quite easy, provided abatement and control systems remained intact and vigilant. Even a year of ...
- 564: Female Genital Mutilation
- ... severe pain during intercourse, sterility, kidney stones, sexual dysfunction, depression and complications during childbirth. Female genital mutilation is usually performed on young girls prior to puberty. It is practiced in more than twenty countries in Africa, in Oman, Southern Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East and in Indonesia and Malaysia in Asia. Statistics have shown that 90% or more of the women in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sierra ... to grant refugee status to women who fear being mutilated if they return to their country of origin. Female genital mutilation has been outlawed in Britain, Canada, France, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. In Africa, legislation banning FGM, specifically infibulation, exists in Sudan. Some mention of FGM is seen in Egyptian and Somalian law. Obviously increased legislation is needed in these countries to deal with those performing the operations of ...
- 565: Critique Of Joseph Conrads Hea
- ... utterance of the phrase, The horror! The horror! , as he lay dying. Yet, first we must explain what Kurtz was before he stepped over the edge. From the moment Marlowe arrives on the coast of Africa, he hears tales of an incredible man, who runs a trading post deep in the Congo. The accountant at the first station said, He [Kurtz] is a remarkable person.... Sends in as much ivory as ... so-called humanity ; but, Conrad achieves his goal of demonstrating that humans are not so far removed from what their society and civilization condemn. The true heart of darkness is not the Congo, the natives, Africa, or even Kurtz, himself; the heart of darkness is not a place, but a part of you and me, a part of all of us, which we all must keep in check or, in the ...
- 566: Shaft
- ... 000 for his work on the first Shaft, which grossed over $7 million dollers, but Riding his immediate success, he went on to star in two Shaft sequels, Shaft's Big Score! and Shaft in Africa as well as a short-lived Shaft television series. The Shaft theme song, witch was performed by Isaac Hayes reached number one on the charts and won both a Grammy and an Oscar. Unfortunately, the ...
- 567: Artists of The Harlem Renaissance and Lost Generation
- ... death more than once – when shells blew up in his hotel room during the Spanish Civil War, when he was struck by a taxi during a blackout and in 1954 when his plane crashed in Africa. His writing contained two types of characters (which defined the Lost Generation). The first consisted of men and women deprived, by WWI, of faith in the moral values in which they believed, and who lived ...
- 568: Crooklyn: A Review
- ... imitation of the straight hair of the Whites” (Herskovits 1941:148). Myth of the Negro Past, by Meville J. Herskovits points out many traditions among African-Americans today that can be traced directly back to Africa. For example decoration of the hair is considered a prime object of importance. “We do not know whether definite names are given the many patterns into which the hair of Negro women and children is ...
- 569: Automobile Racing
- ... being opposed by the IRL, Indycar Racing League, whose owner also owns the Indy 500 track. The elite Grand Prix races are held at various international sites, such as São Paulo, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa, and through the streets of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Points scored by winners of these races are totaled to establish the world champion driver. The 24-hour race at Le Mans, France, is the most famous ...
- 570: Swahili
- ... Persian word Shiraz, the capital of faz in Persia. The Swahili and Shirazi people have almost indistinguishable from each other. They are mainly traders and small businessmen. Trade was increasing. The material attractions of East Africa were ivory, rhino horn, turtle shell, and slaves. The three most important dialects of Swahili are Kiunguja, spoken on Zanzibar and in other mainland areas of Tanzania; Kimvita, spoken in Mombasa and other areas of ...
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