Many countries throughout Africa, Middle Eastern, and Asian hold religious and cultural beliefs that condone and often require female circumcision. ... Female circumcision is considered a very deeply rooted tradition and is still practiced throughout African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries. ...
In contrast, there is virtually no human trafficking in the eastern northern hemisphere in the north American continent and in almost all of the southern hemisphere especially in the Australasian continent. ... In the Middle East, particularly in countries such as Saudi Arabia, women have very low social status and are often seen as the property of the men in their lives, either their fathers or husbands. ... In the middle east the low value of women and the belief of ownership of them my men can be linked back to the pattern where a cluster of tier three countries can be found in the middl...
At the same time, many European artists of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance did not sign or date their work either. ... There are many elaborate and important objects from Igbo-Ukwu, in eastern Nigeria. ... The naturalistic memorial heads of deceased kings of Ife are dated to the middle of the 13th century by archaeologists. ...
Egyptian mismanagement of the economy and military and a continually more strained relationship with France who had held considerable sway since the Napoleonic era in Egypt created an opportunity for England to become more important in Egyptian affairs which the English desired because of the importance of the Suez Canal as an eastern trade route (Porter, p. 92-93). ... The British had been present in Nigeria since the middle of the 19th century with many small companies involved in the palm oil and coco industries in 1879 these small companies were merged together through the leadership of...
It did not start in London or Paris, Berlin or Rome; it grew out of Africa, a place that was thought of as a place bearing primitive savage cultures and people till the middle of the last century. ... I believe in answering how Africa has contributed to our world history you have to show exactly how advanced these races and cultures were before even setting foot into what is now thought as the modern western and eastern world. ...
A group of science divers led by Alberto Nava Blank from Project de Espeleologia de Tulum found the skeleton along with remains of a giant ground sloth, gomphotheres, saber-toothed cats and many other extinct animals deep inside a submerged chamber in the Sac Actun cave system in eastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, in 2007. ...
Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...
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) ...
