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    Ife is a subcommunity of Yoruba community that is found in Nigeria and in the Republic of Benin. They are also found in other part around the world. It is rightly regarded as the corner stone of some of the greatest achievements in art and culture of Africa‚ combining both technical and strong aesthetic appeal to their art. Ife community was powerful and a wealthy city state in the early centuries in west Africa. It was a center of trade that was influential interms of trade. It connected extensively

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    B In no more than 500 words‚ after reading the following text‚ how can it tell us about cross-cultural encounters? --- This piece of text can offer a great deal of information on cross-cultural encounters between the Western world and the Benin people. It is an entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica from the entry on ’Negro’‚ published in 1910-1911. The author was T.A. Joyce‚ an Assistant in the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum‚ at the time of publication. It was written aimed

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    the African way. We had the trans-Saharan trade between the various empires that dotted the areas known as West and North Africa. The Songhai (15th-16thcentury); Kanem-Bornu (9th-19thcentury); Mali (13th-14thcentury); Ghana (circa 700-1240) and the Benin empire (16th-18th century) – all traded with and amongst themselves‚ generating revenues/incomes and maintaining their dominions and spheres of influence. They all had their own entrepreneurial ideas and mind-set; were creative‚ had sources of capital

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    Before the arrival of Europeans‚ African empires‚ kingdoms‚ and cities were very wealthy‚ well educated‚ and had protection. Key Evidence & Support The gold and salt trade. Kingdom of Ghana gaining power and wealth‚ Mansa musa and his generosity. Benin figures were considered wonders; Leo Africanus described the well educated men in Timbuktu. Ibn Battuta writes about Mali’s no mercy to unjust people and their complete security. Group 1 Arab scholar‚ Al-Bakri writes about the ancient Ghana kingdoms

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    3 October 2013 A Confident Black Man Dudley Felker Randall born in Washington‚ D.C.‚ January 14‚ 1914. The Randall’s moved to Detroit when Dudley was nine years old. Randall’s earliest recollection of composing a poem was when his mother took him to a band concert. Randall ’s poetry is illustrated by simplicity and realism. Randall’s date of birth was January 14‚ 1914 in Washington D.C. He was the son of Arthur George Clyde a (Congressional Minister)‚ and Ada Viola a teacher Randall. Randall’s

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    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner President of Argentina Incumbent Assumed office 10 December 2007 Vice President Julio Cobos (2007–2011) Amado Boudou (2011–present) Preceded by Néstor Kirchner National Senator for Buenos Aires Province In office 10 December 2005 – 28 November 2007 National Senator for Santa Cruz In office 10 December 2001 – 9 December 2005 In office 10 December 1995 – 3 December 1997 National Deputy for Santa Cruz In office

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    remarkable Terra cotta pottery heads were made from fired clay. They came from the Nok culture of Nigeria that date from 500BCE-200BCE. I also found the art and history of Benin to be so amazing and advanced. Benin had a great style of art that was quite different from the other regions in the area. They produced many fine bronze and brass heads‚ figurines‚ brass plaques and much more. An interesting part of African art is how it is used to serve specific objectives in each geographic region.

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    to protect the youth and control the spread of immorality. This new “love of luxury” was seen as being sexual and not appropriate for children and the average middle class citizen to view in a public space. On the other side‚ artists such as Ernst Kirchner did not see the harm in expressing their artistic opinion of the new culture‚ and felt threatened by the censorship that took place during this new era. The author gives many examples of Berlin as a cultural center. The lifestyle that was found in

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    similarly titled "Bathers Beneath Trees"; a work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. These artists‚ both born in 1880‚ were part of the same German Expressionist movement‚ but belonged to different schools of the movement. Kirchner belonged to the group named "Die Bruke" that worked in Dresden and Berlin while Marc was centered in Munich with the "Blaue Reiter" painters. The work by Marc was completed in 1910‚ three years prior to the piece by Kirchner‚ which he completed in 1913. Both works are oil paintings on

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    The next wall clockwise hold three paintings: Yellow Still Life by Gabriele Munter (1909)‚ Windblown by Marianne Werefkin (1910)‚ and Road in Multicolored October also by Munter (1959). The third wall contains two large painting by Kirchner: Street Scene (1926) and Street at Schoneberg City Park (1912-1913). The fourth‚ and final wall contained three more paintings: Lady in Red by Oskar Kokoschka (1911)‚ Roses on Path by Emil Nolde (1935)‚ and Hot Blooded Girl by Paul Klee (1938). All

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