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    Pre Colonial

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    The Philippine Commonwealth (by law: Commonwealth of the Philippines) was the name of the Philippines from 1935 to 1946 when it was still controlled by the United States. The Philippine Commonwealth was created by the Tydings-McDuffie Act‚ which was approved by the U.S. Congress in 1934. When Manuel L. Quezon became president in 1935‚ he was the first Filipino to head an elected government in the Philippines. The President of Philippine Commonwealth had strong control of the islands and was guided

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    Imperialism In Africa

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    How has the scramble for Africa affected Africans? Europeans have always been known to take over many territories. For example‚ the British have expanded their empire to Australia‚ Asia‚ and even the Americas. Although these changes have made what the world is today‚ nothing has changed more than Africa. Before Colonialism occurred‚ Africa traded with other parts of the world for centuries (RP #1). In the nineteenth century‚ the Europeans started to notice that Africa could be a “gold mine” for their

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    Slavery took place in Colonial America in a complicated way. Around 1960 historians describe slavery in certain in a way‚ which leads them to think that there is differences between Whites and Blacks when it comes to intelligence‚ civilization‚ morality or physical capacity. All of the sudden White starting to think they should be the leader of people from Africa. They think that people from Africa should be the one doing all the hard work. Then the Civil right movement began in the 20th century

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    China in Africa

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    news from the Nordic Africa Institute from the Nordic Africa Institute numBer 3 novemBer 2007 from the contents china and Africa Fantu Cheru theme: AfricAn Agriculture Agriculture and the World Bank Atakilte Beyene Property rights Kjell Havnevik Tor A. Benjaminsen & Espen Sjaastad inequality and climate change contents to our reAders AfricAn Agriculture 1 3 november 2007 Carin Norberg African agriculture and the World Bank: development or impoverishment? Atakilte

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    Africa and Livingstone

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    A review of a recent biography of David Livingstone began with the words “His heroic figure looms over the continent”. Discuss constructions of white ‘heroism’ in Africa‚ focussing on a critical analysis of two  journalistic or non-fiction texts.  The texts you choose to analyse can be from any historical era or they can be modern‚ or  you can choose to analyse one historical  text and one modern text but at least one must be by‚ or about‚ Livingstone. As this is a Journalism module‚ one of the

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    Colonial Broadcasting

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    Colonial Broadcasting Company Executive Summary Colonial Broadcasting Co (CBC)‚ a major American television network‚ must determine which of the different factors plays a key role in optimizing the ratings of its movie. The following report contains statistical analysis on the different relationships between the factors influencing ratings. The Regression Model For a detailed description of the variables and the defined statistical terms used in this report‚ see [ Annex 1 ]. Based on the sample

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    Belgium‚ Great Britain‚ Germany‚ Spain‚ Italy and Portugal to go over to Africa and do the same. However‚ the European countries did not just establish trade‚ they invaded the African territory and took control over it. This became known as the Imperialist Scramble for Africa.1 By the 20th century‚ Great Britain dominated from Egypt to South Africa‚ Nigeria‚ and the Gold Coast; France occupied a vast expanse of west Africa; Germany controlled modern-day Namibia and Tazania; The Portuguese had full

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    Africa Essay

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    voyaged into Africa in an effort to convert the native people to Christianity. In their attempt to enlighten the African people‚ these missionaries ended up completely disregarding the traditional African culture. They crippled the foundation of Africa’s tribal and cultural beliefs. Achebe demonstrates the results of these Western missionaries on a small village in Nigeria through his insightful novel‚ Things Fall Apart. Achebe presents Umofia‚ a traditional village in Western Africa‚ which falls

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    South Africa

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    This article is about the modern country. For other uses‚ see South Africa (disambiguation). Republic of South Africa[show] Flag Coat of arms Motto: "!ke e: ǀxarra ǁke" (ǀXam) "Unity In Diversity" Anthem: National anthem of South Africa Capital Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative) Largest city Johannesburg (2006)[2] Official languages 11 languages[3][show] Ethnic groups ([Note 1][4][5]:21) 79.2% Black African 8.9% Coloured 8.9% White 2.5%

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    COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia

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