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    African Culture

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    Africa is the 3rd bigger continent in the World. This continent has an enormous variety of cultures blended inside of each nation. The African culture is defined as an Africans identity composed of habits, costumes, and traditions inherited from their ancestors. This inheritance is transmitted from generation to generation. The African culture is defined by several aspects including the Gastronomy, art, and language. Firstly, the African culture is characterized the African culture is the…

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    Henry Kan Kah Case Study

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    Main objective of the study by Henry Kan Kah is to examine the predicaments of the African continent in the world and how these predicaments are destroying the political economy of the people of Africa. The paper also examines the salience of Kwame Nkrumah’s call for the United States of Africa and how this call remains relevant today in the continents search for a place in global interdependence and interconnectedness. Kwame Nkrumah was president of Ghana in 1957 but overthrown by coupe de tat…

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    Pangaea Theory

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    sense. I will prove it. I have four proofs to support my theories. One of my reasons, is this world is a puzzle, the 7 continents all fit together perfectly, my next theory of pangaea is fossils, then my explanation on mountains, and then i will prove my theory of ice sheets. These are the four reasons why pangaea is real. 300 million years ago there was only one super continent it was called pangaea. 200 million years ago pangaea started to break up, the pieces drifter apart to their current…

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    Christopher Columbus a sailor, a hero. Admiral of the Ocean Sea? Sorry Christopher Columbus, but even your title was taken away. Who really discovered the Americas? And why are you given credit that you don’t deserve? Well, actually about twenty thousand years ago the first Native Americans came over the land bridge during the Ice Age. Christopher Columbus came in 1492 and in 1493 he came back and took everything, as said in the text “Columbus proved to be a better explorer than governor.” They…

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    Atlantis, The Underwater Paradise, A Fantasy Or A Reality? The Lost City of Atlantis is a tale told by a man named Plato who was an ancient Greek philosopher who has left historians, explorers, archaeologists and scientists extremely baffled. According to Plato, the city of Atlantis is a society of people that are half god and half human or better known as demigods. Atlantis was made by Poseidon, the god of the seas, he made Atlantis due to his love for a woman named Cleito. The myth is that…

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    of the flattest continent landmass due to erosion that happened 257 years ago; formed when it separated from the super-continent. In addition, Australia has a wide assortment of landform consisting of a small mountains, ancient crystal blocks, and ancient seas. Australia has ten deserts, largest being the Great Victoria Desert. Australia has one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef. Australia and Tasmania are two landmasses that make up the continent of Australia; it…

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    The arrival of the English at Botany Bay had a considerable affect upon the Australian continent; it completely changed the national identity and had some devastating affects upon the original people of the land. The influence of the English changed more than the landscape as the English changed the continent as a whole, creating a British colony by changing the land, beliefs and culture of the country. From the very beginning of their arrival to today’s technological era, England has…

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    I am African. I am an African marginalized from the continent. My ancestors were brought to North America against their will as slaves. I was born in prison. The knowledge of my people’s language, culture, and religious beliefs were stripped, and involuntary forced to submit to colonialism. I was given a name that for centuries has been carried by my fathers before me and once took pride in being a “Tucker.” The truth is the slave name in which I was given; actually belong to the slave master…

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    For decades, people have been celebrating Columbus Day in the memory of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in America. He introduced different continents to each other, which is why he is considered a hero to most people till this day. But was Columbus really a daredevil? Or was he really a villain? The problem lies, should Columbus be considered as a villain or a hero. But I feel that Columbus is a brutal colonizer. People need to understand that because he did things that were terrific, he still…

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    The 1960s and 70s brought forth a wave of decolonization in the Africa, but it did not mark the end of external intervention in the African continent. As Elizabeth Schmidt states, “the predicaments that plague the continent today are not solely the result of African decisions but also the consequence of foreign intrusion into African affairs” (1). Over recent decades, foreign intrusion in Africa has taken on multiple forms: from explicit political intervention, economic aid, and humanitarian…

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