There were exchanges of ideas, products and crops that greatly advanced the cultures of all involved, but on the other hand, new diseases, and harsh treatment of one another were also present. ... This all changed when the European settlers arrived. The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... The Europeans brought back from the New World, tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes, which provided food for the now greatly populated Europe. ... Europeans unknowingly brought with them many diseases that eventually plague the Native Americans. ...

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Indian and African cultures are widely known for their use of plants for medicinal purposes. ... Aside from this European tradition, the importance of the culture and use of medicinal plants in the New World has to be mentioned. When European colonizers arrived in America they were fascinated by the knowledge that the natives had on the medicinal use of the plants. ... Much like Asian cultures African societies are known for their use of medicinal plants. African cultures utilize plants. ...

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The two countries fought against Germany during World War II, but this alliance began to dissolve in 1944-1945, when the Russian leader Joseph Stalin, seeking Soviet security, used the Red Army to control much of Eastern Europe. ... Truman opposed Stalin's policy and moved to unite Europe under American leadership. ...

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Culture, the thing that defines a group of people, is truly interesting. Culture is a phenomenon that is directly linked with the development of its respective group of people. ... Music is one of the defining aspects of a culture because it is a direct expression of the people. ... A reason for this lack of actual song is how the slave trade broke up the African cultures and families. ... In the late 1700s, slaves began to learn how to play various European instruments (like the piano). ...

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It is at this important juncture that cars and culture collide. ... Through these generations, the automobile culture would grow and transform, progressively building upon itself and extending its influence further into American society until outside forces, especially the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, would deal a fatal blow to driver's wallets and subsequently the cars and the culture they had shaped. The Rise of the Automobile An obvious but central component of the impact of the automobile on American culture was the drastic increase in car production. ... Much of the rise of the automobil...

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What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American slave? These two questions are ideal thematic rhetorical statements that both Crevecoeur and Douglass write about in various ways. Crevecoeur was not born in the United States, but once he arrived here, he was a free man who ma...

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(p.51) Blyden concluded that Christianity attempted to repress aspects of traditional African culture, while Islam granted Africans the freedom to join their previous traditions with their new beliefs. ... (p.52) Turner argues that Blyden's work influenced Pan-Africanist to adopt Islam as a means of uniting the darker races against tyrannical, White European Christianity. ... Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, the first known European-American convert to Islam, acted as a spokesman for the movement in America. ... Additionally, the realization that blacks may never be accepted into the...

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Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the accounts of the past are related orally, and many cultures have produced intricate and sophisticated oral histories. ... Byzantine historians had also early fallen into the writing of chronicles, although the greater unity of the Byzantine Empire and the persistence of a unified culture gave somewhat more literary quality to the Byzantine works, from Procopius through Anna Comnena to ...

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Introduction When I first sat down and researched into American exceptionalism I discovered an idea that was complex in not just its definition but also its understanding. I quickly learned I was researching something that spanned political, historical and religious backgrounds and tapped into the heart of the American attitude most recently seen in Obama's election victory speech of "yes we can".1 Despite this, the president recently appeared to be hesitant to proclaim views of support for exceptionalism. Asked by a reporter in Strasbourg, France, whether he subscribed, as his...

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A group of people, a belief, a culture, however you wish to call it was famously known for their love for their relaxed personalities and freedom of expression. They were the hippies of 1960, then a new culture made up of the younger population. They didn't follow the teachings of their elders, and rejected them for an alternative culture that was their very own. The Hippy Movement started in San Francisco, California and spread across the United States, through Canada, and into parts of Europe. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. ... The second part of this review will discuss conspiracy theories among the African American culture. ... Communist leaders, Stalin and Hitler, brainwashed millions of Europeans in believing that the Jews were evil traitors and should be exterminated. ...

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The first was immigrants, especially from Western Europe, who were willing laborers that displaced women as the first choice as employees (Epstein/Easton 99). ... The economy of both Europe and Japan were in shambles. ...

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This area was "polyethnic from its' inception5" which is an interesting find as New York City eventually became the mecca for European immigration and is now (and seems to have been since it was first bought by the Dutch West India Company) a melting pot for various cultures, races and ethnicities from all over the world. New Amsterdam, the original Dutch name before the English captured and renamed it New York in 1664, was the center trading post between the colonies of America and Europe. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms in which minorities are dealt with and looked upon show the true forms of intention and persecution these groups feel because they do not and can not assimilate to the majority party. It is a keepsake that revolves upon the premise and ideas that the majority will always be in power and that it is a...

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First, schools were intended to transmit culture from one generation to the next, Second is the way they were created to screen and select those who were capable of doing the work from those who were not. Third is they were to integrate students into a common culture and encourage the development of a relatively homogeneous society with shared value. ... In the American culture, life is based on the notion of rugged individualism. ...

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Many people see culture as an all-encompassing overview of large groups of people. However, the word culture can be used to describe the way of life of much smaller groups, like the difference between men and women and their access to education. ... The first based traditional education was in Europe. ...

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Abstract An exploration of the aging boomer and how they will age differently from their parents, creates a powerful new epicenter of marketing in America. This Internet article analysis will address a significant sales management trend in the domestic marketplace and its interrelationsh...

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1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ...

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Immigration is the foundation of the United States as a whole. Every person came from somewhere, mainly different parts of the world, and decided America was a fertile and prosperous place to settle and thrive. This unique quality allows America to be the melting pot that it is today, full of divers...

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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. ...

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