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    Sieh Patrick Mayson Composition 2 Jared F.Kornblatt August 08‚2013 Annotated Bibliography Hoffman‚ Danny. "The City as Barracks: Freetown‚ Monrovia‚ and the Organization of Violence in Postcolonial African Cities." Cultural Anthropology. Volume 22 #3 August 2007. pp. 400–428 It all started December 24‚ 1989 when a rebels group lead by Charles Taylor. Enter Monrovia through Nimba county and Freetown Sierra Leone many innocent children died ‚ so many properties was destroyed ‚ the weakness

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    Tricia McCullers End of chapter question Chapter 12-20 1 . What issues most concerned black political leaders during Reconstruction? Reconstruction brought important social changes to former slaves. Families that had been separated before and during the Civil War were reunited‚ and slave marriages were formalized through legally recognized ceremonies. Families also took advantage of the schools established by the Freedmen’s Bureau and the expansion of public education‚ albeit segregated

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    Poverty in Liberia

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    insufficient amount of money. Fourteen years of civil war has left the infrastructure of Liberia in ruin‚ affecting water‚ sanitation‚ food security and livelihood in general. This has left Liberia the third poorest country in the world‚ in terms of GDP per capita. In actuality‚ there are only two classes in Liberia: the very rich and the very poor‚ with the majority classified as the latter. A reporter from the African Development Bank Group estimated that only 4.8% of Liberia’s population could be considered

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    African Imperialism

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    In the mid-1800’s‚ Imperialism began to emerge as a way for countries to expand their territories. It was viewed as a way of increasing land‚ resources‚ and power. Strong European powers‚ chiefly‚ Great Britain‚ Germany‚ Spain‚ France‚ Russia‚ and also the United States began their colonial campaigns to gain wealth‚ power‚ natural resources‚ a market to sell industrial goods‚ national prestige‚ or occasionally to improve the lives of the colonial people. European colonialism expanded to nearly all

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    Story: Liberia Liberia is the second poorest country in the world. People are dying in this country or about to die because of the poverty getting worse day by day. Liberia is now the poorest on the continent of Africa because of the 15 years of war that helped damage this country. This country may have a low poverty rate but it ’s cultural aspects still remain. Liberia has a different style of dressing than America depending upon the part of Liberia you live in. In urban areas Liberians are more

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    historical event taken place during the New Imperialism period‚ between 1881 and World War I in 1914. It was a race for the European countries in invading‚ colonizing‚ and imperializing Africa for its many rich resources. The Scramble of Africa impacted both historical and modern-day Africa and African American Africa was invaded by the Europeans‚ colonized and imperialized for its resources. To imperialize means‚ when a country strengthens its power by taking over another country through military force

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    Firetone In Liberia

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    What occurred in Liberia with Firestone‚ to me‚ is complicated. On one side‚ if you think about the business aspect‚ if Firestone had abandoned the plantation and waited out the civil war that was occurring‚ they would have lost a lot of profit. Firestone needed the Liberian plant because it provided a substantial amount of rubber and they had already invested a lot in the plant. However‚ on the other side Firestone was seen as a source of revenue and support for Taylor’s army. Firestone addressed

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    What Is My Name Liberia?

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    My culture and background have shaped who I am immensely. I eat rice just about everyday‚ and my Liberian accent has been in practice for most of my childhood. My family came from Liberia as the result of the wars. I always think of where I would be if I was brought up in Liberia. I am very happy and grateful to have the opportunities I do. I am a proud Ivorian-Liberian-French-American. Liberia is the oldest republic in sub-Saharan Africa. The country was founded on the west coast of Africa by

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    These were poorly built‚ overpopulated and were in a terrible state. Even now‚ there are bitter reminders of their efforts to centralise the African communities in to big cities. They had been that way for millennia since the land hadn’t supported large populations and that living in villages had meant that the spread of disease was minimal. If a village got it‚ it would remain a local issue and

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    One impact was the brutal treatment of the Africans from specially the Belgians‚ who were known for their announced mission to go and civil the savages‚ but in actuality‚ they inflicted the natives with unnecessary brutality. For instance‚ King Leopold cut off the hands of natives who didn’t meet

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