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A History of the World in Six Glasses “Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt” (Chapters 1 and 2) 1. Beer became important to hunter-gatherers. To ensure the availability of grain, hunter-gatherers switched to farming. Beer helped to make up for the decline in food quality as people started to farm, provided a safe form of liquid nourishment, and gave groups of farmers who drink beer a nutritional advantage over people who don’t drink beer. 2. First is that somehow ancient civilizations understood in…

This movie helped me to better understand the struggles of Black women in the patriarchal society of the world. Watching this movie allowed me to reflect on my perspective of the treatment of black women by men and women of other races. Throughout the movie black women are demeaned by white men, black men, and white women. This movie truly showcases the need and call for black women to not only uplift one another, but also to support one each other in their times of crisis. Initially, Celie…

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative written by Harriet Ann Jacobs in the time period of the 19th century in America. Jacobs uses a pseudonym to portray her first-hand accounts of the life of a slave to show people of the world the unglorified reality of slavery as a character in her novel. The main protagonist, Linda Brent, is a girl who is born into slavery and is faced with countless struggles in her formidable life. However, in Linda’s younger years, she is living a…

If one were to ask a young girl want she wants to be when she grows up, she would proudly say a princess, or maybe a rock star. I’ve never been the typical girl though and my answer was always different. Some days I wanted to be a dog trainer or a zookeeper and being a marine biologist wouldn’t be too bad. In middle school I realized what all these jobs had in common; animals. I knew whole heartedly that I wanted to work with them, to improve not only their health and welfare, but also that of…

The transatlantic slave trade is responsible for the traumatic migration of millions of African to the Western Hemisphere from the mid-15th – 19th century. The trafficking of African is sometime referred to, by the Swahili word Maaf. It was the involvement of Africans from other African kingdoms come procuring captives for trade to the European possible. It is inaccurate to think that all captured Africans became slaves due to passive resistance. African fought their capturers even at the cost…

Sally’s call is an invitation to treat as in British Car Auctions v Wright. The car in the case had not been offered for sale and there was only an invitation to treat; so is Sally’s phone call. He invites Ron to answer the questionnaire but if Ron declines the invitation there are no consequences as he is not contractually bound by the call. The issue raised by the question is whether Sally’s call constitutes an offer. If it does, Ron’s answer of the question is an acceptance of the offer,…

speak. ¨Elizabeth: Giles is dead. He looks at her incredulously. Proctor: When were he hanged? Elizabeth, quietly factually: He were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge they hang him surely, and auction out his property. So he stand mute, and died Christian under the law. And so his sons will have his farm. It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay.” (Document F, 4-11.) Later on, it is…

Catch Me If You Can follows the young con artist called Frank William Abagnale Jr., as he escapes the misery of his parents’ divorce. From being a pilot to a lawyer to a doctor, Frank did this all before he was even 19, employing the tactics that he learned from his father. Frank is continually pursued by an FBI agent called Carl Handratty. Frank is also picked on at his new school for dressing up, which leads him to his first impersonation: a substitute teacher. When his parents are informed,…

Inspired by her hardships and trial during slavery, Mrs. Jacobs wrote this autobiography, recounting her experiences as a slave in the deep south and her eventual escape in the hopes of “[convincing] the people of the Free States what Slavery really is” (Jacobs 6). In this inspiring novel, Mrs. Jacobs gives us real insight into this ‘peculiar institution’, the means used to justify it, as well as the attitudes of Northerners and Southerners toward the subject. While it is mainly directed to…

East African Slave Trade There are many atrocities in this world that result in the social injustice of certain people. In the case of the East African Slave Trade, those people discriminated against were the women traded along the East African coast. They were traded as domestic servants that served people in the Middle East, East Africa, and West India. The slave trade stretched from the east coast of Africa to the west coast of India. At first the slaves were traded mainly from northern…