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    Chinua Achebe in his fiction novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ highlights the importance of kinship and respect as he details Ibo festivities. To highlight these important factors that hold the Ibo people together‚ Achebe provides details and proverbs that are communication through the main character‚ Okonkwo. As Okonkwo holds a feast and invites his fellow kinsmen to celebrate with him‚ Achebe explains the reason why kinship is necessary. When Okonkwo states that “[He] cannot continue to live on the bank

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    Corruption in Africa

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    countries‚ Africa‚ with its underdeveloped growth and poverty in many regions‚ is considered the most corrupt. The two thirds of countries‚ that are measured most corrupt in the world‚ are located in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of Africans today live below the poverty line because of the disease of corruption. The African continent will not be able to find a solution to corruption on condition that both government officials in the private and public sectors are dishonest. Due to the fact that Africa is

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    Hemingway’s Portrayal of Masculinity When thinking of masculinity in literature‚ one author has who has become synonymous with manliness comes to mind‚ Ernest Hemingway. Critics have spent countless hours studying his writing in order to gain insight into his world of manly delights‚ including his views on sex‚ war‚ and sport. His views can be seen through his characters‚ his themes and even his style of writing. The characters in Hemingway’s stories reveal much about how he feels about men

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    The Pre-Socratics

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    What Philosophical problem was the primary concern of the Pre-Socratics? The pre-Socratics were primarily focused on exploring the main cause of the creation of the world and the basic substance of everything around us. They questioned the one and the many. Instead of acknowledging many of the more traditional mythological explanations of the time for the natural phenomena they saw in the world such as solar eclipses‚ they searched for rational and logical explanations. Their primary concern

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    Demons; the Portrayal of Society’s Morals Civilizations in the beginning‚ separated by distance and utterly unaware of other inhabitants‚ developed without influence from one another. However‚ despite this fact‚ cultures all around the world bear striking similarities. The word ‘demon’ stems from the original Greek word ‘daimon’ which does not carry the negative connotation of malevolence it does today. The term ‘demon’ first started to be associated with evil and the devil in the Septuagint translation

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    Desertification in Africa

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    Desertification in the Sahelian Region of Africa Question 1 There are two schools of thought with respect to the underlying causes of “desertification” in the Sahelian region of Africa‚ the Eurocentric view (which blames desertification solely on the action of pastoral nomandists) and the Systems view (which blames desertification on the complex interaction of several factors including climate change and colonialism). This essay will define and describe both of these views. We will them discuss

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    Scramble For Africa

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    Wilton Hayward Professor Brian Parlopiano History 101 April 29‚ 2014 The Scramble for Africa During the 1800s colonization reached one of its peaks‚ almost every European country was scrambling for any un-colonized lands. The one continent that none of them had really made their mark on was the African continent. Africa was very abundant in natural resources‚ which made the European countries more eager to be the ones to colonize it first. Whether it be gold‚ iron‚ cotton or ivory all of the countries

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    Religion in Africa

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    Peoples and Cultures of Africa Religion in Africa All over the world‚ many religions exist and are found in the everyday lives of millions of people. These religions have many cultural influences on the life of a person but also have influences on the government bodies that govern countries. Religion is also an important look at the history of a nation and gives an inside look at how and why a country is run the way it is. In Africa‚ religion plays a tremendous role in everyday lifestyles. The

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    Pre Ww1 Alliances

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    The Pre WW1 Alliances Dreikaiserbund 1872 Also known as the League of the Three Emperors (1872) Bismarck’s aim for forming this League was to isolate France by making friends with Austria and Russia. The partners were Kaiser William I of Germany‚ Czar Alexander II of Russia and Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. These three rulers agreed: (i) to maintain the existing territorial arrangements in Europe; (ii) to resist the spread of revolutionary (e.g. socialist) movements; and (iii) to consult one

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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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