Central Africa

Zombies are becoming a very popular choice of what children dress up as on Halloween. People walk around in these costumes not knowing the history of the monster they are portraying. Most people believe that zombies are just a resurrected body. They clearly are ignorant to the fact that zombies were used to keep slaves alive and working for their master. Back in the 17th and 18th century the life of a slave was horrendous. Slaves had a lot to deal with such as famine, cruel discipline and…

Gary Soto uses simile of further help visualize the actualities of the weather conditions that were experienced. Poets effectively use similes and are greatly used to create images in the readers’ minds. It made it easy to visualize the extent the drought had on Gary Soto’s community. In his poem he writes,“They passed the fields where the trees dried as thin as hat racks” Firstly, the simile is used to compare hat racks to dried trees. Normally, trees are seen as organisms that look alive and…

Columbus Day is a national holiday that many people no longer want to celebrate. Columbus Day was made into a holiday because Columbus is credited with the discovery of America. It was first celebrated in the 18th century in the year 1792. It became a federal holiday in 1971 almost two hundred years later. Almost 50 years later, it is a topic of debate. The people who don’t want to celebrate this holiday have many reasons why. One of the major reasons that people boycott Columbus day is that…

Captain Anthony from an infant. She was sorted among the rest, she was too old to work on field or too weak for anything else was put up in a hut away from everyone unable to fetch water or hunt for herself she died shortly after. Learning how to read over the many years in Baltimore and treated less harsh than other slaves he was hired out to another farm since the slave new master Thomas thought Fredrick was ruined from the city life. He was hired by a man who was poor and could only own one…

Jamestown Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in U.S. history. Jamestown was an island near the coast of Virginia. The English came of three ships called the Susan Constant, Discovery, and the Godspeed. It took about 4 months for the English to get there. The English chose to build their fort at a swamp.The fort was built as a triangle with other parts coming off of it. The swamp’s pros were that it was not inhabited by Virginian Indians though they attacked the fort from time…

debate among historians and anthropologists) of Native Americans died after being exposed to European diseases to which they had no immunity.” (Andrew Jackson Signs the Indian Removal Act: May 28, 1830) Another example would be the exploration of Africa. When the French colonized African…

This documentary covers the most important events that happened in the century following the Columbian American exchange. Significant issues are addressed; Native american slavery, and exploitation of people for resources, such as the ”8 million slaves died working in silver mines.” After the new world was founded in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, the “two worlds” collided in a massive exchange of ideas, diseases, agriculture, animals, beliefs, and traditions. It really was like discovering an…

third-world countries such as Africa, where people die from drinking infected water or from disease outbreaks. Outside of the glass bubble are human beings, sick from treatable diseases, who need help. Help that I plan to provide. Malaria, a disease carried by infected mosquitos, cause the death of one African child every thirty seconds. This disease has taken a large toll on third-world countries, but is hardly seen within our glass bubble. While 90% of premature deaths in Africa are due to…

struggling in their own country, the ones that are barely making it day by day. Like most people from Mexico and Africa. The people from those countries have to work hard everyday to keep their families alive. In Africa, so many people starve to death and are being killed by Al Shabaab. This makes them want to leave their country and move somewhere else. I recently interviewed a young girl from Africa, and the most valuable takeaway for me was that it’s incredible to see her so happy here in…

or it will rot. This plant was first discovered in New Guinea, then was grown in Asia. It was not traded widely until around 1317 where the Europeans first tasted it, and became obsessed, starting the sugar trade between South America, Europe, and Africa. Many factors drove the sugar trade, including African slave labor, European capital and Europeans demand for sugar. Humans are naturally greedy for foods that taste good, and the Europeans exploited that greed to make money for themselves…