One possible answer draws on the different values of societies around the Atlantic and, more particularly, the way groups of people involved in creating a trans-Atlantic community saw themselves in relation to others in short, how they defined their identity. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... Because Amerindians died in large numbers, and insufficient numbers of Europeans were prepared to cross the Atlantic, the form that this demand took ...

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• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

More importantly, the practice of FGM/FC "represents an act of socialization into cultural values and a connection to family, community members and previous generations it preserves cultural identity- (Rahman and Toubia 5). ...

• Word Count: 2538
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

More importantly, the practice of FGM/FC "represents an act of socialization into cultural values and a connection to family, community members and previous generations it preserves cultural identity- (Rahman and Toubia 5). ...

• Word Count: 2538
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

But now, instead of becoming a synonym for economic growth, development is seen more in rounded terms – which brings into consideration questions of distributive justice, human fulfillment and cultural identity. ...

• Word Count: 8649
• Approx Pages: 35
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Female circumcision, the partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia, has been practiced for centuries. 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...

• Word Count: 2909
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 settle...

• Word Count: 4862
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the late twentieth century, South Africa was a country devoid of many of the freedoms that we in the United States take for granted. In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights...

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Africa, a nation of immense natural resources, has been the victim of imperialism for many years. Europeans, declaring themselves "missionaries of God," have worked to pursue manifest destiny and bring God to the "savage" Africans. In order to do the Lord's work, in the 19th century, European countr...

• Word Count: 4292
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate