However, she realizes her children seem to have little concern for her wellbeing. ... Karanja says that Dedan disguises himself as a white man to get what he wants and of which Karanja concludes: "Dedan can change himself into anything- a white man, a bird, or a tree. ... He learnt all this in the Big War.... From Tambu's father's point of view, Tambu will marry into another man's family, consequently leaving hers, and only be beneficial to her husband. ... Effectively, this logic implies that African families have little incentive to send their daughters to school to recei...

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Where those people once had homes and where free till the one day the White man took them and bought them back to a new world which then leads to history and that this point I can trace a chronological records of significant events such as slavery, the civil right movement and the civil right act. ... A whole century passed and I see a little change for the African American people. ... (Manning Marable page61) Glasgow separates the black "underclass" from lower income blacks by several rough social criteria: an absence of generational socioencomic upward mobility, the "lack of real opportuniti...

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Often performed without anesthetic under septic conditions by lay practitioners with little or no knowledge of human anatomy or medicine, female circumcision can cause death or permanent health problems as well as severe pain. ... When (it) began, I put up a big fight. ... It is not required by the Qur"an or the Bible (Little, 1988)." ... "The West asserts that female circumcision is practiced in Africa to prove a man's masculinity and virility by achieving the difficult act of penetrating a circumcised women (Perry, 1998)." ... Although the societies that practice circumcision vary ...

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With the abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire in 1803 and a complete abolition of slavery across the empire in 1834 there was little interest in Africa by Britain until the end of the century. ... Advances inland were becoming a little more practicable because of advances in technology; People had known for centuries that quinine was a useful drug for tropical diseases, but it was really not until an expedition up the river Niger in 1854 succeeded in keeping its death rate very low by laying down that everybody must take a regular dose of quinine that the drugs value comprehe...

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On August 4, 1950, Mau Mau was declared illegal, even though the government knew little about it except that militant Kikuyus were winning over, coercing, or forcing other Kikuyus to take an oath against foreign rule. ...

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BIOMES OF THE WORLD RATIONALE FOR HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTS Life on Earth is extremely interesting, as most of us already know from television, if not from our own travels, and it becomes more so when each piece of the complex pattern fits understandably into the whole. One important goal of a biology curriculum should be to educate students about nature, in order to promote empathy and support for the natural world around us, and the interrelationship of all aspects of nature must be an integral part of the message delivered. Biomes (bioclimatic zones) ...

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