Cape Verde

three continents. There is an estimate of twenty-five to thirty million people including, men, women, and children were deported from their homes and sold as slaves. The Portuguese ships were shipping the African slaves on sugar plantations in Cape Verde and Madeira islands in the eastern Atlantic. During the trade, some European countries had control over the different slave trades that was going on. The Spanish took some of the African slaves to the Caribbean for their rich soil. The French…

of Hg hurricane Isabel caused great catastrophic damage. On September 1, 2003 Isabel was born off the West Coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands and rapidly developed into a category five hurricane. Isabel intensified over a period of 84 hours. She increased her sustained wind speed 55 mph while dropping pressure of 51 millibars to be at 27.02 in. of Hg. This presented the lowest…

where it is believed that Vespucci parted ways with Ojeda and went on to explore the coast of Brazil. During this expedition, Vespucci is said to have discovered the Amazon River and Cape St. Augustine. On May 14, 1501, Amerigo departed on another journey. 3 Now on his third voyage, Vespucci set sail for Cape Verde. Amerigo’s third voyage is largely considered his most successful. Vespucci did not start on in command of the expedition, but when Portuguese officers asked him to take charge of…

It was her first time on a plane. Anna Santos, a native to the Fogo island of Cape Verde sat trembling in the arms of her older cousin. At only nine years old, Santos was on a flight under a temporary student Visa to the United States. “I was afraid. I was leaving my mom, my dad – my whole country behind.” Unknowingly, Santos would later become one of the 11 million undocumented immigrants that reside in the United States. The Migration Policy Institute, estimates that 71% of these…

I’ve always been a firm believer that college is what you make out of it. Me being 18 and just starting college I finally see how the world really is, it’s as if a cup of hot water had been thrown in my direction randomly, in other words I wasn’t ready. High school was a cake walk for everyone including myself simply because there wasn’t a huge amount of money over your head after you got your diploma. Just the thought of having a debt makes me cringe and it pushes me to use the time and the…

Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate around the world in 1522. He was a Spanish explorer that sailed from 1519-1522. He enlisted under the Spanish King Manuel, and set forth his project for a trip around the world. The expedition set sail August 10, 1519. Magellan was killed in April 1521 in the Philippines, but they had already reached the eastern edge of the known world, and his men completed the voyage to Spain. The voyage proved that the earth is round. Sir Francis Drake was an…

strong military, jobs that require high-skill, and capital-intensive production. Some current semi-peripheral areas include countries such as China, Mexico, and Brazil (Dunn, Kawana, Brewer, 2000) and some peripheral areas include countries such as Cape Verde off the coast of Africa (Melissa Hurst). I think focusing mainly on the capital production aspect of countries when theorizing globalization is most important because the production of capitol is what effects a countries prosperity the…

hurricane so powerful. 682 people died during that storm, and that could’ve been avoided, but how? Weather is also a key factor, considering the hurricane of 1938 is a weather phenomenon. The hurricane grew up on the coast of Africa next to the Cape Verde islands. The islands are on top of a deep warm ocean, perfect for hurricanes to form off. The hurricane then moved off in Florida's direction, but took an unexpected turn and headed up north. The source (youtube video) states that everybody…

It was a clear Saturday night, full of excitement and anticipation. Two teenage brothers, Chip and Zander, were headed to one of the biggest Halloween parties in the county. Chip dressed up as a mechanic, and Zander went as a zombie based from the television show, The Walking Dead. Their mother had given them strict instructions to be home by midnight as she wanted to ensure they would make it home safe before the night became too crazy. Even though the boys were having a great time dancing,…

Judith A. Carney’s article, “African Rice in the Columbian Exchange” published in 2001 in the Journal of African History, discusses the fundamental role of Africans in shaping the New World through their knowledge of rice cultivation and African food crops. Carney wants to demonstrate the other side of the Columbian Exchange that gets overlooked by other studies and show how Africans are agents in shaping the New World, and that behind this labor force of slavery there is a skilled African with…