Hunger remains due to such causes as bad harvests, wars, injustice, environment and the mixing up of priorities. ... Sudan in 1991 was a land in turmoil as Sudanese troops fought a rebel army and the country ran out of food. ... Governments increased the amount of land set aside for so called "cash crops" such as coffee, cotton and peanuts, leaving little land for growing food Africans actually ate. ... In order to maintain the same standard of living, farmers are cultivating more land for "cash crops", leaving less land for domestic crops. Furthermore, "cash crops" rob soil of nutrients le...

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It also made a disadvange to the both the mother land and the colony. ... The more land that England had, the more of a global empire. ... England got more land so they became a bigger world power. Some negative effects were that England had more land to protect. ... Overall in my opion imperialism cause more bad than good. ...

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The colony on the other hand is not as pleased with the outcome of imperialism on their native land. ... The main reason is because of the bad trade, meaning that land in Africa cost more money than it brought back in. ... It was a wealthy land that was taken over by Europe because they wanted Africa's wealth. When the colonizers came to Africa they took over the land by force. ... "When the whites came to our country, we had the land and they had the Bible; now we have the Bible and they have the land". ...

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Africa has only a few natural harbors, for that reason it's hard to land ships around Africa. ... Europeans would first ask to use the land then gradually take over and make the natives their laborers. ... The Europeans build roads, mines, bridges, and dams that helped make land more manageable. ... Some of these ways were good and some were bad. They did help industrialize the African society, but they also did bad things such as create slavery. ...

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During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. ... The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ...

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Once explorers found new land, they could begin to colonize and set up new territories. If there were people already established on the land, they could bring back new ideas, wealth, and goods to their home country. ... They wanted spices to make their food taste better, and because they did not have any refrigeration to keep their food from going bad. ...

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In broad, Africa and Asia have encountered more serious problems, such as sewerage system, potable water, and fertile land. ... The good news is that our cropland has increased by 19%; the bad news is that our consumption has increased by 132%. ... Although it is unfortunate for these countries to run out of land, but it is disastrous for a country to loose land and water. ... Grain leads us back to the decrease of farming land. ...

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They said the white Oppressors (Whites and Afrikaners) stole their land, destroyed their families, and had taken their goods leaving the worst for them. ... Three white women were assaulted and militants drove white farmers off their land. ... Many people have experienced Racism first hand and know how bad it can be. ...

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Though the Europeans used Africans as slaves because they knew how to farm land and also were very hard workers. ... Plus both men and women knew how to work on the land. ... Going back to the video we watched in class it just reenacted how bad this time was but I am sure it was worse than what the video showed. ... See Africans cared about their family and land. ... Also, because there was plenty of land in Africa, which made the African people important, especially to the Europeans. ...

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The passage to India over land was long, slow, and dangerous. ... A colony is a settlement in one land supported by another land, and imperialism is the practice of building empires to support trade. ... Livingstone first planned to become a medical missionary in China, but the Opium Wars made China a bad place for a westerner with good intentions. ... The Bantus attempted to fight for their land, but their spears were no match for the Europeans' guns. ... Members of other races were forbidden to live, work or own land in areas belonging to other races. ...

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Kenya, the land of great sceneric beauty and friendly people, lies in the eastern part of Africa. ... Only 15% of Kenya's total land area is sufficiently fertile to be farmed, and only 7% can be classified as first class land. ... When the policy of reserving land for white settlers was legally ended in 1959, much desirable farmland was transferred to Africans. Today Kenya recognizes three broad types of land tenure: government land, trust land, and private or freehold land. ... Coffee continues to be an important export, though relatively less land (about 3%) is used to cultivate i...

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The African Slave Trade I. Background a. Early history of European trade with Africa b. The beginning of the Salve Trade II. Middle Passage c. Living arrangements d. Death II. Slaves in the New World a. The marketing of slaves b. Treatment of slaves (corporal punishmen...

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This is when the two tribes compete against each other for a reward, such as food items, work tools, special get a ways, new car's, massages, visit's with family members, and even people who are native to the area, to help them cook and teach them how to live of the land better. ... Then each of the seven jury members are allowed to tell the last two tribe members what they think of them, good or bad. ...

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Our knowledge has changed and our land has changed, but our way of thinking in some areas remains pretty much the same. ... They achieved some confidence to start some protests like the Stono Rebellion in 1739, where one hundred slaves attempted to escape to Florida as a result of the bad treatment and the conditions they lived in. ... Their trip to the land of freedom is not so different that it was 400 years ago. ...

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It is so bad, that ghetto neighborhoods share the same characteristics of old former colonies in the third world (Leon pg. 33). ... More importantly, according to Bodley, " even with a tenfold population increase, subsistence resources still would have been marginally adequate if land were equitable distributed. If Goborgari had been organized as an egalitarian, domestic-scale culture, land resources and the risks of food production would have been shared equally" (Bodley 366). ...

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The flowing rivers coming off of giant mountains, filled with thousands of years worth of sediment rock, the vast tracks of land, the wildlife, the minerals that lay beneath this precious jewel, and the labour force already in place to provide physical removal of these valued goods. ...

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These posts were exclusively commercial with instructions from Leopold to claim as much land as possible for the Congo. ... In eighteen seventy- nine Stanley competed aggressively with the French explorer Savorgnan de Brazza for land gains in the Congo. ...

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If this were to be you in this situation wouldn't you like a way out of this cruel treatment into a land where you can be free and live like normal people. ... As ancient empires like those of Greece and Rome expanded, seizing control of one land after another, many of the conquered people were sold in slave markets. ... If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell, if he could." She led so many people from that hell and into the "Promise Land." ...

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Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primiti...

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The world is depicted as a cold, desolate waste land blanketed in ash. ... The medium of film is utilized beatiful by the director as they make a distinction between the good and the bad through colors. ...

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Lines 11-14 Walcott shifts gears in these lines and returns to images of Africa's wildlife, in a reminder that the ibises (long-billed wading birds) and other beasts ruled this land long before African or European civilization existed. ... The settler built roads and a railroad, and, over time, dispossessed a great many Kenyans - mostly Kikuyus - of their land. ... To gain back self-government and their land, the Kikuyu Central Association sent representative Jomo Kenyatta to England in 1929. ... While Kikuyus at large were becoming increasingly angry at white rule, a militaristic wing em...

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Sometimes bad weather conditions could influence communications; atmospheric interference could alter high frequency radio communications. ... It is well known that because of the curvature of the earth the land radars will stop to track planes over a few hundred miles off the shore. ...

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It seems as though America has always been "The Land of Opportunity.... Think about it like this, people who have had bad experiences with African-Americans will automatically just associate that bad behavior with the entire group. ... Now a days, young kids will do anything for attention, whether it's good or bad. ...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). The globalization definition given makes tourism the cause and effect of globalization. Tourism can be argued to be one of the world's largest industries that continues to develop rapidly. Tourism is generally involves travel for recreation, leisure, religious, famil...

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ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together with details of its structure, policy and the constraints placed upon it. The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, s...

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