Old imperialists recognized the economic burden in colonization as it could possibly lead to colonial wars and raise taxes, hence harming their economic interest. ... The availability of cheap 1(Deepti, M. 2001) labor helped European countries to construct railways and waterways. Thus, transport and communication improved, bringing all parts of the world within easy reach. ... This "world power status" frenzy fueled a trend of colonization and nationalism. ... Cecil Rhodes, a British quintessential capitalist and the outstanding imperialist of his day, once said " I contend that we [B...

• Word Count: 1994
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Julian Calendar composed of eleven months of 30 and or 31 days a 28 day in February (extended to 29 days every fourth year) was very precise and only errored 11 1/2 minutes per year. ... And change for some was as late in 1918, Russia converted after there revolutionary war , Greece finally change in 1923.In contrast still many orthodox churches follow the Julian calendar to the day. ... It is wondered if this type of grandeur was inspiring to the great Orson Wells and his dramatic caper he hoaxed with iis members of a theater that created mass hysteria although not and April fools joke bu...

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Some causes for this situation range from their parents dying because of AIDS or war, lack of money, lack of resources, and above all, lack of support from the African government. ... The reason for this is that many of the childrens' parents have died from AIDS or wars. ... One of the most widely known organizations, UNICEF, was created in 1953 to help post-war child victims in developing countries. ... Because of technology people are able to go to third-world countries and broadcast to the first-world countries the horror children live in. ... The World-system theory sees the gap ...

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War is raging in Africa, and thousands are killed each day. ... The war is AIDS. ... In l998, 200,00 Sub Saharan Africans died in war, but two million died of AIDS. ... (Document 1) Cultural mores dominate many groups where arranged marriages, polygamy, and female circumcision are still in practice. ... As stated in document 3, ninety percent of the world's HIV-infected children live in Africa. ...

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Part I: Short Answer Questions Provide short answers, in not more than five lines each, to fifteen (15) of the following questions: 1. ... An example of independence won through violence was the Algerian war. ... The ratio of white to black African incomes (on per capita basis) was still 9:1. ... The structural adjustment programs from the IMF (international monetary fund) and the world bank and they were also known as SAP's. ... African Women and Violence In times of war women were used as a weapon. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Economic condition in Africa spiraled down in the post- Second World War period as the empires channeled all resource into rebuilding their own countries. ... People all around the world try to take as much advantage as they can in Africa which leads to poverty and the African government doesn't take much action on these problems. ... Today, some people still have this oppression for power and money appear in so many places around the world. ... His absence soon been known to the world lead to "a problem for French President Jacques Chirae and Foreign Office. ... However, it remains one...

• Word Count: 2438
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If the intentions are right, and research is done to respect their culture, affluent countries and their citizens should take a greater role in helping third world countries. In the past, when the world was still growing, Europe began to get curious about the rest of the world and started an exciting, yet harmful trend. ... About 805 million people in the world do not have enough food to live a healthy, active life which is about 1 in 9 people and 791 million of those people live in "developing" countries. ... In 2015, the World Bank estimated there were just over 1 billion poor pe...

• Word Count: 2257
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Africa is performing a peripheral role in the capitalist-world economy. ... Better policies in developing countries, together with improved allocation of aid since the end of the Cold War, imply that aid is more effective today at reducing poverty than ever before. ... However, thirteen years later the dam only managed to provide 1% of rural population with the electricity and Ghana was still facing severe power shortage. ... The number of people subsisting on less than $1 per day rose steadily for nearly two centuries, but in the past 20 years it has begun to ...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: High School

The pattern of the trade of humans is usually from developing (third world countries) to developed countries ( first world countries). ... This will result in further social, political and economic impacts all over the world. ... The tiers are as follows: Tier 1 – countries whose governments fully comply with trafficking victim's protection act's (TVPA) minimum standards. ... Tier 2 Watch list – do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so and meet one of the following criteria: 1. ... Polit...

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Pollution has become a major problem throughout the world. ... New "super chemicals" have been in use by the general public since as early as World War II. ... The United States, along with the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, and 119 other countries, have banned the use of eight POP"s in the dirty dozen.1 Other countries, mostly underprivileged countries, still use many of them. ... During World War II, soldiers were sprayed with large amounts of DDT to protect them from head lice, which causes typhus. ... After the war, DDT was used for insect control all over the world. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Without a doubt, those who manage the communications world wholly influence what we even define as news, what we read and hear, and what we do not read and hear. Be it peace protestors, war in Africa, crime, new legislation, poverty, or budget cuts, few of us know the details of the news other than they are portrayed by the media. ... Yet the candidates of such parties as the Peace and Freedom Party, Communist Party, Citizen's Party, Socialist Workers Party, Workers World Party, and others were unheard of on Election Day (Parenti 62). ... Figure 1. ...

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America is full of people from all over the world. ... (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 in them. ... (pp.1-2) In a sense, the thought of reparations for slavery poisons young black minds. ...

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Especially in Africa, as of 2012 the population of Sub-Saharan Africa was 910.4 million, but 48.5% of the population was living off of $1.25 a day as of 2010 (World Bank). ... A common argument is that a very small portion of the US federal budget, 1% goes to foreign aid. ... The lack of results indicates that aid efforts have failed not because of a lack of aid, but rather "corruption, mismanagement, war, unaccountable donors etc.... The Africa Development Bank is a bank modeled after the structure of the World Bank (Browne, 109). ... According to Browne, African development has been so ...

• Word Count: 1916
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The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... The poem talks about the narrator's life in the house where he and his family lived and kept "pre-war Europe alive" for nineteen years. ... The song opens with hope and aspirations, " My child just arrived the other day, he came in to the world in the usual ...

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All of these slaves were a result of prisoners of war ( he slave was battle captive), payments of debts, and punishments for crimes. ... As mentioned, the Qur'an greatly influenced the positive treatment of slaves.1 The Qur'an designated that there were different colors and early Muslims saw color as merely a fact with no negative or positive connotation or superiority and inferiority complex (Gomez 2005, 45). ... For example, Arabs viewed their slaves as inferior and most slaves entering the Arab world were black. ... As the Muslim world and European world began to merge, commercial...

• Word Count: 1892
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