ORIGIN AND EXPANSION OF THE BANTU Bantu is used as a general label for the 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak the Bantu languages‚ distributed from Cameroon east across central Africa and eastern Africa to Southern Africa. The bantu family is fragmented into hundreds of individual groups‚ none of them larger than a few million people (the largest being the Zulu with some 10 million).The bantu language-Swahili with its 5-10 million speakers is of super-regional importance as tens of millions
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CONVENTIONAL LEVEL: 4:2 MODULE CODE: 423 MODULE NAME:WORLD AFFAIRS SINCE 1945 LECTURER: DR V. NYAWO-SHAVA ASSIGNMENT QUESTION: Explain the origins and progression of the Russian revolution between 1917 and 1922. The origins of the Russian Revolution can be explained in terms of the peasant consciousness of land which can be traced back to 1861. Russia had been the last country in Europe to abolish serfdom; nevertheless‚ Alexander
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A Hindu ( pronunciation (help·info)‚ Devanagari: हिन्दु) is an adherent of Hinduism‚ a set of religious‚ philosophical and cultural systems that originated in the Indian subcontinent. The vast body of Hindu scriptures‚ divided into Śruti ("revealed") and Smriti ("remembered")‚ lay the foundation of Hindu beliefs‚ which primarily include dhárma‚ kárma‚ ahimsa and saṃsāra. Vedānta and yoga are one of the several core schools of Hindu philosophy‚ broadly known as the Sanātana Dharma. The word Hindu
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In the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality‚ Rousseau holds that the institution of private property has corrupted human nature and humanity‚ such that‚ man‚ whose incipient nature is pure and inclined to goodness and compassion‚ eventually degenerates to displaying traits of deceit‚ cunning and trickery (Rousseau‚ 2008‚ 159). However‚ it is this author’s contention that Rousseau fails to account for any of the possible positives and advantages which arose out of the institution of private property
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Long-term government financial chaos played a lead role in the cause of the French Revolution. This point is supported by William Doyle‚ in Origins of the French Revolution. Government debt and lack of available funding seriously deteriorated authority and credit‚ leading to extreme measures in taxation‚ thereby acting as a catalyst of the French Revolution. Doyle makes his point by arguing that France was approaching a state of fiscal ruin as far back as August 20‚ 1786‚ indicating that "Calonne
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In 1915 the first edition of The Origin of Continents and Oceans‚ a book outlining the Continental Drift theory of Alfred Lothar Wegener‚ a German meteorologist‚ was published; expanded editions were published in 1920‚ 1922‚ and 1929. About 300 million years ago‚ claimed Wegener‚ the continents had formed a single mass‚ called Pangaea (from the Greek for "all the Earth"). Pangaea had split‚ and its pieces had been moving away from each other ever since. Wegener was not the first to suggest that the
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Origin of Standard English Standard English refers to the form of English accepted as a national form by any English speaking country. The history of Standard English is very conveniently split into three parts‚ Old English (450 - 1100 AD)‚ Middle English (1100 - 1500 AD)‚ and Modern English (1500 - present day). Across this period development‚ the English Language has been influenced by many other languages‚ mainly German‚ French‚ Dutch and Latin. In 402 AD three German Tribes: the Angles‚
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The Cold War was a time of distinct beliefs and intimidating behaviors. It all started when Soviet Union wanted to build a new communist society and spread communist ideology to other parts of the world. The opposition between the U.S and the Soviet Union lasted more than 50 years. Ethical‚ political‚ and economic factors drove to a war of major conflicts. Moreover‚ the U.S and Soviet Union’s differences in understanding policies such as the Cuban missile case‚ were just some of the conflicts that
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Definitions: - Guyard: “Comparative literature is the history of international relations. - Aldridge‚ A. Owen. Comparative Literature: Matter and Method.: “… comparative literature… provides a method of broadening one’s perspective in the approach to single works of literature – a way of looking beyond the narrow boundaries of national frontiers in order to discern trends and movements in various national cultures and to see the relations between literature and other spheres of human activity…
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The Big Bang In cosmology‚ the Big Bang is the scientific theory that describes the early development and shape of the universe. The Big Bang Theory is the most accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe. The big bang theory states that at some time in the distant past there was nothing. It suggests that around 10 to 14 billion years ago‚ the part of the universe we can see today was only a few millimetres across. According to this theory‚ at the beginning of time‚ all of the
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