Just as the uprising was never cleanly resolved, Walcott, at least within the poem, never resolves his conflict about whose side to take. ... Lines 11-14 Walcott shifts gears in these lines and returns to images of Africa's wildlife, in a reminder that the ibises (long-billed wading birds) and other beasts ruled this land long before African or European civilization existed. ... Such killing for sustenance is set against the senseless and random death that native Africans and European settlers perpetrate upon each other. ... Animals kill merely for food and survival, but humans, having ...

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

DDT is a very active, broad-spectrum pesticide, particularly effective against beetles, moths and butterflies, flies, and mosquitoes, it controls insect-vectored human diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, river blindness, elephantiasis, epidemic and murine typhus, and bubonic plague. virtually eradicated malaria from more than "20 countries populated by more than 1 billion humans. ...

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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" depict the 19th century belief that it is the white man's destiny through God to colonize Africa and other under-developed nations. ... The next line, "(the end for others sought)" is very sarcastic and is just another reiteration of the fraudulent European goals. ... One of the indications that imperialism persists is that African tribes, such as the Ogoni tribe and other African states feel the need to write charters and Bill of Rights for their protection and freedom. ... Two of his most oft...

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

Ocean-going technology brought Europeans into large-scale face-to-face contact with peoples who were culturally and physically more different from themselves than any others with whom they had interacted in the previous millennium. ... That this option was never seriously considered suggests a European inability to enslave other Europeans. ... 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. ... In addition, vessels from some regions on the coast appear to ha...

• Word Count: 4994
• Approx Pages: 20
• 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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• Approx Pages: 15

Its importance is greater than the sum of its individual plant parts, as many species of animals, for example, are influenced greatly by the physical structure of the plant community, still others by the actual species of plants present. ... They are affected by all aspects of the environment, both physical (climate, water, substrate) and biological (other species as prey, predators, parasites, competitors or symbionts). Each species is unique, yet it shares particular types of adaptations with many other species. ... Current gyres carry cold water toward the equator on east sides of the oce...

• Word Count: 12375
• Approx Pages: 50
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate