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In Lose Your Mother by Saidya Hartman, Hartman gives the reader a unique perspective on the institution of slavery than is often examined. This work begins to question our previous knowledge of the slave trade and forces us to look at the story from a perspective that as a society we may not want to acknowledge. Her work demands a deeper understanding of the institution of slavery be known and no longer allows society to perpetuate the misunderstandings of slavery and Africa that we have been…

Contrary to popular belief in America, the framers of the constitution did not establish a democratic system of government. The utmost that can be said is the framers established a government of, by, and for white males who owned a fairly substantial amount of property. Blacks and Indians were excluded from participation, as well as all women. It was not until the reforms of the Jacksonian Era, during the 1820’s and 1830’s that the states removed property qualifications for voting and holding…

Grant’s Faith Journey Kile Jones, founder of the Claremont Journal of Religion, states "It is apparent that religion can be seen as a theological, philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and psychological phenomenon of human kind. To limit religion to only one of these categories is to miss its multifaceted nature and lose out on the complete definition." Religion is a very broad concept, which causes it to have many different definitions and meanings for different people. In A Lesson…

also impacted the Middle East by influencing the Arab-Israeli conflicts. The U.S was supporting Israel while the Soviet backed Arab states. As an example of the Cold War in the Middle East is the Yom Kippur War in 1973. In Africa, Cold War impacted Angola by gaining its independence through a civil war. One side, MPLA, was supported by the Soviet Union while the other side, Unita, was backed up by the U.S. Both superpowers offered health, military, and economic aid to their own political…

Frantz Fanon argues in his piece On Natural Culture that a growing national culture grows in parallel to progress in decolonization. This resistance revitalizes and adds to traditional culture, while often injecting new forms of expression. He writes, “a national culture is the whole body of efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe, justify, and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence” (Fanon, 492). Fighting for liberation…

To prevent history from repeating itself, society typically reflects on past mistakes to learn from them. However, the issue of race inequality remains as active as ever, especially in Louisiana. Race inequality is ultimately stymying society by dividing people and creating a distinction in social classes. Its detrimental affects can define a place and prevent it from flourishing. Louisiana possesses an unspoken system that perpetuates its roots of race inequality as seen by the segregation in…

'Ajiaco' is a metaphor used by cuban ethnologist Oritz, describing Cuba as a melting pot. Ajiaco is a popular dish of Caribbean, where the ingredients are put in an earthen pot and simmered in heat for a long time. New ingredients are put in the stew next day and it eventually amalgamates with the older constituents, the process is repeated over time and it ultimately form Ajiaco, a popular dish originated and developed in Cuba by their native inhabitants. This dish is metaphorically used to…

In a complete impartiality of rights and founded on their free consent, states in an agreement process of their will, form juridical procedures by accords or by custom that lead to the international law creation. The creation of the juridical regulation becomes compulsory for all the states. The violation of an international obligation causes international response of the States. In this framework, a State which commits unlawful acts of international perception and whose liability has been…

“The Gods Must Be Crazy” is a 1980s South African comedy classic . The protagonist, a traveling bushman, encounters a modern civilian for the first time. The movie became an international hit. The bushman character was based off of the !Kung peoples of South Africa, a hunter-gatherer society (IMDb, 2016). With this however, the movie displayed many stereotypes, which is defined by Richard D. Bucher as, “…an unverified and oversimplified generalization about an entire group of people (Bucher,…

Globalization is the economy of interaction within the countries over the world and the integration of economics and societies in order to exploit the global economy (Scholte, 2005). Globalization contributed towards increasing and decreasing poverty and inequality in developing and post-communist countries. There are affirmative and negative effects for those countries which are able to attract foreign investors and foreign capital throughout globalization (Robertson, 1992). Economic…