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    Poverty in Kenya

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    accessing financing for self-employment‚ poor governance‚ bad roads‚ high costs of health and education‚ HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is most prevalent among young and middle-aged Kenyans‚ the most productive segment of the population. Almost half of the people in Kenya are under 15 years of age. An estimated 700 Kenyans die daily of HIV/AIDS-related causes. HIV/AIDS leaves orphans and woman-headed households even more vulnerable to poverty. The burden of diseases such as HIV/AIDS‚ malaria and water-borne diseases

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    Post Colonialism and The Tempest Background Information: In 1609 a fleet of nine ships set out from England‚ headed towards John Smith’s Virginia colony‚ the first English settlement in the New World. One of the nine ships was separated during a violent storm and ended up on Bermuda. These shipwrecked Europeans began colonizing the island and enslaving the native population. Shakespeare’s Tempest is based on this incident. For over a century‚ a number of critics have tried to interpret the

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    European colonialism

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    European colonialism Colonialism is the control by one power over a dependent area or group of people. The purposes of colonialism include economic exploitation of the colony’s natural resources‚ creation of new markets for the colonizer‚ and extension of the colonizer’s way of life beyond its national borders. The most active practitioners were European countries; in the years 1500-1900‚ Europe colonized all of North and South America and Australia‚ most of Africa‚ and much of Asia by sending settlers

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    Colonialism In Mexico

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    Basically‚ one can describe internal colonialism as a complex web of policies designed simultaneously to include and to exclude. According to Gonzalez‚ the formal equality admired by liberalism on Mexico’s native population has done nothing to reduce the de facto exclusion of indigenous people

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    POST COLONIALISM

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    Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People

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    Legacies Of Colonialism

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    The doctrine of discovery and terra nullius narratives are at the forefront of legitimizing sole sovereign control over the land. Europeans initially used the treaty negotiations as documents that “proved” the Indigenous people ceded right and title of the land to the Crown and documented an alternate history in ways that benefited the colonial project. Terra nullius was used to prove that the land was barren and empty and that there were no civilizations that existed upon the land and the doctrine

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    Effects Of Colonialism

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    think about the problems and effects that colonialism have caused in the world. Is it good or bad? “Colonialism has always had a bad reputation.” I suppose in essence‚ for the people being colonized‚ it can be a good thing. The world is scramble for colonies‚ particularly in the 19th and 20th century had a huge negative effects on economic‚ social‚ and political structures of homegrown people try to use for the benefit of the colonizing country. “Colonialism is the extension of a nation’s sovereignty

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    Colonialism and Inequality 1. What institutions were created by Latin American colonial governments to maintain control over subjugated peoples? Discuss at least two: Two of the institutions that were created by the Latin colonial governments to maintain control over subjugated peoples were the Encomeienda system and the Council of the Indies. The Enomienda system were rights granted to the earlier conquistador. It granted the labor of a group of Indians to an individual Spainaird. It allowed

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    Colonialism and Slavery

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    Colonialism and Slavery “I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined‚ that our nation‚ and the world as a whole‚ shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world.” (Sukarno) When it comes to taking over another country‚ the selfish reasons behind it cloud the minds of the colonizers into thinking that what they are doing is to the advantage of the victims. The lived experience of Okonkwo and Linda challenges

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    Japanese Colonialism

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    Japanese colonialism in Korea played a large part in the development of a high-growth economy. In both readings we get to see that Japanese colonialism greatly differed from European colonialism. In one way‚ this is because European colonialism rarely introduced heavy industry into the economy‚ or even pushed the economy with such a heavy hand. As well‚ Japan left Korea with a relatively high level of industrialization‚ not something we commonly see with European colonialism. In Kohli’s

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