Which was invented in my home country, the beautiful Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, during the times of World War II. ... With distinct notes hammered into the surface. ... The war came and went and the drums were left abandoned by the U.S. forces. ... Trinidadians began using discarded fifty-five gallon oil drums, which were hammered, concave, trimmed, and heated to make the material more durable to retain notes in tune, and then it was hammered from the underside to create convex notes on the concave surface. ... Notes were added to the pan to cover the sounds necessary for a particular ...

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• Grade Level: High School

America is full of people from all over the world. ... "Under the American system of justice, civil courts (lawsuits) and criminal courts (prosecution of crimes) Reparations 3 require such proof of wrongdoing, criminal acts or harm" (Editors Note, Slavery Reparations: A Misguided Movement, 2002). ... (p. 3) During the Civil War, there was an enormous number of white soldiers who died because they were fighting against slavery. ... The Japanese-Americans who were paid $20,000 after World War II were either themselves put in internment camps or were family members of the people who were i...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

The first two stanzas refer to the Kenyan conflict, while the second two address the war within the poet-as-outsider/insider, between his roles as blood insider but geographical outsider to the Mau Mau Uprising. ... Ironically, wars between people are described as following the beat of a drum - an instrument made of an animal hide stretched over a cylinder. ... The poet appears to condemn such an attitude by comparing the Mau Mau Uprising to the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Leaders of France and Great Britain wanted to avoid another war that would engulf all of Europe, so they introduced a no...

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION i DECLARATION ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii ABSTRACT v INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE 4 MASS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT...

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Introduction to Africa II. ... Despite this antagonism, the Fathers were immersed in the Graeco-Roman world of philosophies, mysteries, cults, and syncretism. ... Consequently, Christianity was not only turned native in Graeco-Roman cities, but also helped to shape the Graeco-Roman world; conversely the Graeco-Roman world helped to shape Christianity giving it the language and all other creative symbols at its disposal to produce what we practice and discuss today in the sacraments and theology. ... This is the period one may take a wife; however, the 'piercing' (impregnating) of a ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate