To work the estates, the owners used slaves from Africa. Today there is still an African tradition in Brazil. ... Most were Italians and Portuguese, but there were also Spaniards and Germans, and later Slaves from Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, and Arabs from the Middle East. ... The majority of Brazilians are of European or African descent. ... There is a mixture of tradional African beliefs and Catholicism. ...

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These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ... Statistically comparable, in South Africa there is an estimated 4.8 million people infected with HIV. ... Further, this study compared beliefs among Black South Africans and African Americans. ... Secondly, this study will compare and contrast conspiracy theories among Black South Africans and African Americans. ... The fourth part of this review will discuss the scope of the problem of HIV/AIDS in South Africans. ...

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This phenomenon is called interdependency; and an example of interdependency would be when East Asian countries faced the Asian Financial Crisis altogether beginning in 1997, making the situations even worse because all the neighboring countries were economically suffering. ... Globalization in South Korea can be a challenge. ... South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... Graph of South Korea's annual export from 1971 to 2007. ... Many nations, especially in...

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In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... Anthologies from various West and East cost prisons, including Soledad, Falsom, Attica, and Norfolk also reflected the burgeoning consciousness and militance of the black inmate through works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays (Berkman, 1979). ... Mississippi made it a crime for African Americans to be unemployed or drunk, or to have run away, neglected children, or handled money carelessly. The convict lease system farmed black and a few white prisoners out to work in factories, mi...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater part of the world faces daily, and expects in the future, are inconceivable to those in wealthy nations. World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. Never before, however, has the human race b...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ... In this regard, it is worth noting that the new South African legislation aims at avoiding situations where unscrupulous humanitarian organizations may be involved in fueling a conflict under the guise of "rendering humanitarian assistance"4. ...

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"A final battle was over the provisions of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) agreement. ... South Vietnam was still being defeated and needed a serious intervention from America. ... The Truman Doctrine, which was initially meant for Europe and the Middle East, was adopted and used by future presidents and applied the new Vietnam conflict. ... It was now obvious that the problem of communism went much further than just Europe and the Middle East and this alone proved to America that communism anywhere was a threat. ... Due to this fact, many South Vietnamese joined together aga...

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To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. ... Much later on an unknown number of Africans migrated from Mecca to Ile Ife. At this point the Eastern Africans and Western Africans synergized. ... In addition to these areas they also inhabit the south-eastern part of the Republic of Benin (former Dahomey). ... By about 2000 years ago, farmers would have begun to adopt plantains (bananas) which, having been brought to East Africa from Malaysia, were spreading across the continent. ...

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The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... It was fading in the border states and Southern cities but was expanding in the highly profitable cotton districts of the South and Southwest. ... Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. ... The adoption of this compromise likely w...

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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 i...

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The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South's economy because of the alleged laziness of blacks under free labor. ... It was fading in the border states and in Southern cities, but was expanding in the highly profitable cotton districts of the South and Southwest. ... Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. Pamphleteers North and South rarely men...

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Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 DEMOCRATIC PEACE THEORY 2 3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS 4 3.1 HOW TO SPREAD DEMOCRACY 4 3.2 SECURITY INTERESTS IN SEEING DEMOCRATIZATION SPREAD 5 3.3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROGRAMS 6 4 REASONS FOR NOT SPREADING DEMOCRACY 8 4.1 INTRODUCTION 8 4.2 POLITICAL ASPECTS 8 4.3 ECONOMIC ASPECTS 10 4.3.1 CHINA 10 4.3.2 MIDDLE EAST 11 5 CONCLUSION 12 REFERENCE LIST 13 1 Introduction Last century, the number of democracies in the world increased significantly (Smith & Hadfield & Dunne, 2008: 53). ... Therefore, this work will concentrate on the democracy of the Unite...

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On the quarter farms of Shadwell, Tufton, and Lego -- as well as the home farm on Monticello Mountain -- 130 enslaved African Americans raised crops and tended livestock, made nails and barrels, cloth and carriages. ... Mount Rushmore Architect: Gutzon Borghum Location: Key Stone, South Dakota Date: 1927-1941 Building Type: Mountain Carving Construction System: Granite Sculpting Climate: Moderate Context: Granite Carving Fact: Repres...

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Germany had been divided into East and West. The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into east and West. ...

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I. Introduction The concept of "failed states " has long occupied a considerable place in international security and has been a topic of discussion and arguments (Call 2008). Although this concept has existed for decades, until the historical attacks of September 11th did it come to prominence and s...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens must overcome a number of problems before it can be effectively achieved. Although a political transformation to a westernized style of democracy may never be fully accomplishable because of the differing culture and social norms, Iraqi citizens still must strive for their government to conquer the...

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Last year alone over 1.2 million tourists visited the Great Barrier Reef, which is located 2000 kilometers along the east coast of Australia, and happens to be the largest reef on the planet. ... Currently Mozambique, an African nation, has banned any export on fish or corals for aquarium use until 2001. ... One good example was during 1982-83 El Nino event, during which unusually warm water flowed from South America's Pacific Coast, up to 70%-90% of the corals off the Pacific coasts of Costa Rica, Panama, and Columbia died. ...

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Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by the removal or forcing out from the womb of a fetus or embryo before it is able to survive on its own. surgical methods appear to have a lower risk of side effects. Abortion in the developed world has a long history of being among the safest procedures in medicine when allowed by local law. Uncomplicated abortions do not cause either long term mental health or physical problems. Unsafe abortions, however, result in approximately 47,000 maternal deaths and 5 million hospital admissions per year globally. An estimated 44 million abortions are performed glob...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States his...

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