Of course, Britain had also lost its crucial colonies during the Revolutionary War North America. ... This event gave Europe a new outlook on non-western expansion. ... These colonies, as well as those of other countries, offered a greater sense of power and provided rest and refuge in time of war. ... Also the task of finding new markets to sell manufactured goods had become important. ... Nationalism also played an important factor. ...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first two stanzas refer to the Kenyan conflict, while the second two address the war within the poet-as-outsider/insider, between his roles as blood insider but geographical outsider to the Mau Mau Uprising. ... Lines 7-10 The mention of the words "justify" and "colonial policy," when taken in context with the preceding six lines, finally clarifies the exact event that Walcott is describing - the Mau Mau Uprising against British colonists in Kenya during the 1950s. ... Ironically, wars between people are described as following the beat of a drum - an instrument made of...

• Word Count: 4862
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

CHAPTER TWO: traces and summarizes the political background of Zambia and examines the British government's policy on Colonial Broadcasting before the Second World War. ... CHAPTER THREE: is devoted to discussing the development of radio in Northern Rhodesia after the Second World War and how the Colonial Government used the medium to 'socialize' the Africans. ... They are important means of social control and social process. ... These various points express the firm belief of the time that communication could contribute in an important way to the striving for improved living ...

• Word Count: 8649
• Approx Pages: 35
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As stated by Schraeder, one of "two important developments" contributed to pressures for change US foreign Policy toward south Africa during the late 1950s was firstly, a growing civil rights movement striving for the political equality of African Americans ensured greater official attention to the issues of race in both domestic and international policies...Reverend Martin Luther King led a demonstration on December 10, 1957 to denounce apartheid and call attention to South Africa's refusal to sign the UN Declaration on Human Rights... An important aspect of such actions was that they c...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What is in debate however and the question I will address in the essay is its origins and the extent to which certain historical events influenced the rise of capitalism. ... Firstly ships would leave Western Europe for Africa filled with goods for which sailors would exchange for slaves the most popular and important commodities were weapons and gun powder followed by textiles, pearls and other manufactured goods. ... Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war agains...

• Word Count: 2679
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although economic factors are an important driver of human trafficking and push victims into situations that make trafficking more likely they also influence the criminals trafficking humans. ... Political causes for human trafficking include militarism, war and civil strife including internal unrest. ...

• Word Count: 2490
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

More than 1,900 people have died from Ebola in the four affected west African countries, but many more will suffer the economic consequences. The tiny post-conflict country has been growing at upwards of 8% over the last couple of years, but won't expect anything like that kind of luck now. Finance ...

• Word Count: 2637
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One can easily imagine the state of mind of a warrior or any freeman whose condition through defeat in war radically changes from one day to the next, as he becomes a slave: as in classical antiquity, prisoners of war were automatically subject to being sold. ... The infantry was composed of slaves, former prisoners of war taken from outside the national territory. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate