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    Zumbi dos Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian legend and symbol of resistance from Brazil’s colonial time. He was the leader of the quilombos‚ a community formed by fugitive slave farmers‚ Indians and poor whites. He officially became the chief of the Quilombo dos Palmares‚ located in Pernambuco‚ in 1680 after leading a civil war and defeating their current leader‚ Ganga Zumba. Zumbi resisted the Portuguese colonial oppression for 14 years until the expedition led by Domingos Jorge Velho destroyed the

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    Investigation Zumbi dos Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian legend and symbol of resistance from Brazil’s colonial time. He was the leader of the quilombos‚ a community formed by fugitive slave farmers‚ Indians and poor whites. He officially became the chief of the Quilombo dos Palmares‚ located in Pernambuco‚ in 1680 after leading a civil war and defeating their current leader‚ Ganga Zumba. Zumbi resisted the Portuguese colonial oppression for 14 years until the expedition led by Domingos Jorge Velho

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    Question 1: The “Boi-Bumba” in Brazil blends Indigenous‚ African and European culture into one big festival every year and is a nationally celebrated occasion. Citizens gather to enjoy a three hour show with food‚ drinks and entertainment in an arena with 35‚000 people. The Boi Bumba tradition dates back to the colonial days and represents the “kidnapping‚ death and resurrection of an ox.” The plot that is mainly told includes a “Portuguese master and his wife‚ a slave and his pregnant wife and

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    Brazil. It all began when Rosa received a phone call from one of his university classmates inviting him to come to Palmares do Sul‚ a rural municipality in Brazil’s southernmost state‚ Rio Grande do Sul‚ an area famous for its beautiful grassy plains—the pampas—inhabited by gaúchos‚ Brazil’s cowboys. Rosa didn’t know that his friend’s father‚ Ney Azevedo‚ had just been elected mayor of Palmares. Azevedo had previously been the technical director at the state’s rice institute‚ and one evening‚ over dinner

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    did not want to be a slave whatsoever. Eventually‚ he ran away from and escaped the sugar plantation he was a slave at and started a massive runaway slave settlement. This slave settlement was entitled Quilombo dos Palmares or Angola Janga. He was the first leader of Quilombo dos Palmares and therefore had a very important role. Him rejecting his role as a slave became very beneficial to him and many other slaves because of the settlement he created. Without it‚ many slaves would have had no place

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    Emmanuel October 2013 PANEL’S APPROVAL SHEET Approved by the Panel Examiners on Oral Examination with grade of ______________ Mr. Arsenio N. Arellano Jr. Chairman/Member Mr. Cyril Adrian P. Vista Member Ms. Jennifer Palmares Client/Member Accepted and approved in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT). Date October 2013 Mr. Joenard P. Pedro System Analysis and Design Adviser ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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    Perfection Doesn’t Mean Freedom In dystopian novels‚ it’s very common that society is rather corrupted‚ restricted‚ and unfree. Citizens are expected to follow orders without a second thought and behave like everyone else. Nonetheless‚ these dystopias are treated as if they are perfect and ideal. Why do these troubled societies are appear to be perfect? Is it because they appear to be the best option as other countries are even more corrupted? Are citizens brainwashed into believing that their homeland

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    Nigerian sports‚ though always exercised‚ was noted first in the 1950s. Nigeria had it’s first appearance in the Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952‚ and it’s first victory in 1954‚ when Emmanuel Ifeanjuna won a gold medal in the high jump at the Commonwealth games in Cardiff. In 1962‚ the Nationals Sports Council was set up‚ and in 1971‚ the National Sports Commission‚ and they had the following responsibilities (stated exactly as is): * To coordinate and integrate efforts to raise the standard

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    Africa chapter 20 • Factories: forts and trading posts with resident merchants. • El Mina (1482): Most important factory in the heart of gold-producing region of the forest zone. • Nzigna Mvemba (r. 1507-1543): Ruler of Kongo. With help of missionaries brought the whole kingdom to Christianity. • Luanda: Permanent settlement of the Portuguese established in the south of the Kongo in the 1570s. Basis for Portuguese colony of Angola. • Royal African Company: Charted in 1660s to establish a monopoly

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    The origin of the word ‘zombie’ according to Articulteantagonist (2017) is used to represent the name of god or spirit known as snake-deity which is a serpent spirit related to the voodoo cults of West African origin and rural Haitian folklore. The spirit sometimes known as Li Grande Zombi . In addition‚ Coe (2014) informed that‚ in part of Caribbean and southern United States‚ the word zombie referred to the ‘phantom’ or ‘ghost’ due to the association with the meaning of zombie referring to a divine

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