Africa's people and culture have been subject to many external changes that left a trace in the way they think and act nowadays. ... European colonialism evolved benefitted from African markets they had created yet contained the African population. ... After the Europeans officially settled the scramble for territorial claims began called the Scramble for Africa. ... Supporters of colonialism in Europe claimed that the average African welcomed colonialism. ... (trace.tennessee.edu) THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN CULTURE IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES MARKET EXPANSION The imposition of colonialism on A...

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Popular music is ubiquitous; from shopping malls and advertising to gymnasiums/fitness classes and political campaigns, popular music is a common feature of people's everyday lives and a significant aspect of consumer culture. ... Popular music is commonly understood as being intrinsically linked to popular culture. ... Theodor Adorno, a critical theorist and leading member of the Frankfurt school in Germany, coined the term culture industry in his critique of mass culture that made specific reference to popular music. ... Popular music is an international multi-billion dollar industry th...

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However the appeal for new workers was primarily aimed at white Europeans people who had all gained immigration to Britain during the century before the Second World War and still played a very important role after 1945.Even in 1970s the Irish remained the largest immigrants' community in Britain. In the years immediately after the war, new arrivals came from all over Europe. These included a small number of German prisoners of war, a large number of refugees from the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the soviet union (130,00uprising poles arrived the first few years after the war ...

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It is not until the 1860's that Britain and other European powers began to assert themselves in terms of gaining African territory making treaties. ... It's actions change radically though because of newly discovered economic opportunities and a need to respond to the actions other European powers. ... This is when a big impact from Social Darwinism played a huge role in Europe's imperial ways. ... The debts were still not able to appropriately managed and rebellion broke out because of the wretched economy and the European presence in Egypt. ... The Belgians were making claims ...

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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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Chapter one: Introduction 1.1 Introduction "Asterix" or "The Adventures of Asterix" as it is sometimes called is a series of French comic books. It is one of the most well-known around the world along with Tintin, Lucky Luke and Spirou. According to the BBC as of 2007 there had been "325 million cop...

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Introduction The Victorian Age gives the impression it was an age for proper formal behavior, and that behavior is upheld by modern popular culture through movies and television. It was an age where men and women courted with chaperones. The language men and women used in writing letters to one an...

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(Giddens, 1993) Inequality within schools is not disputable among most sociologists, the consequence of social origins; ethnicity, culture and gender all have significant values on the attainment in schools. ...

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The Context for Britain's `Wicked Urban Problems' Britain's urban areas, like those across Europe, have to varying degrees, since the 1950s, undergone major structural changes. ... Thus urban areas in Britain, in common with those across Western Europe and North America, have undergone a major process of restructuring (see Buck et al, 2005 for a recent discussion of these ongoing changes and Brenner and Theodore (eds), 2002 for a more international perspective). ... These areas remain `Excluded Spaces' or `Places Apart' (Power and Tunstall, 1995; Lupton, 2001) that ar...

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Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? Despite a continued growth of production and wealth in absolute terms, the economy of "the first industrial nation" began to decelerate after 1870, in comp...

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