Continent

Globalisation has brought many dramatic shifts to the African continent, but none more impactful than the international economic interests and the erosion of local African culture. Tendon [cite] states through the cold war, which was a result of the process towards globalisation, has serious consequences for African…

known for the manipulating inanimate objects to speak and move for his own personal cause, this case entertainment. There is, however, an even greater puppeteer then the late Jim Henson. Great Britain (and other European powers) conquered the continent of Africa during the early 1900’s to strip the land of its natural resources and peoples. These colonizers affect Kenya to the point of no return. The British Empire conveyed a major interest in Kenya and the rest of East…

against the British to garner support for a conflict that would become known as the War of 1812. However, American believed that “Manifest Destiny” was a major factor in the cause Mexican-American war, the expansion of white Americans across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God. This belief in “Manifest Destiny” led both country’s into war. There are numerous similarities and difference between the War of 1812 with the Mexican-American war. Those two wars had many different results…

I first present the question, “at the time of the arrival of the British, did Indigenous Australians have sovereign power over their lands? If so, was the doctrine of ‘terra nullius’ which had been used to settle the continent incorrectly applied? Mabo v Queensland (No. 2) (1992) came out with an outstanding conclusion, held at a judgement by a majority of six to one, where the initial claim of terra nullius was invalid at the time of European settlement. The courts’…

one people and one place, the continent is made up out of ethnic groups numbering in the several hundred. Naturally, all these different groups have their own form of communication, and their own cultural heritage, which has been greatly damaged by European colonialization. Indeed, the competition between rival European countries for parts of Africa was relentless, especially during the 1880’s. And, as a result, at the Berlin Conference of 1885 parts of the continent that were conquered, were…

I believe that the events and results of the first world war changed Europe for the worse. World War I was a war that consumed the entire continent of Europe and left some devastating after effects, politically and socially. It left countries in poverty and depression, and a distrust in democracy was formed. After World War I, many of the countries involved decided to put all of the blame of the war on Germany and demanded that they pay for all the damages that were caused. This led to the…

Blood Diamond and The Constant Gardener are two Western movies each attempting to utilise the idea of Africa as a mysterious continent with an exotic, but Western dependant population, as a setting. The Constant Gardener does make an attempt at avoiding Hollywood-Africa stereotypes, however it fails to completely exclude them. Blood Diamond’s entire plot, on the other hand, revolves exclusively around stereotypes. In The Constant Gardener, Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, plays the lead role as…

The Invention of Airplane Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first American inventors to invent the airplane. On Dec. 17, 1903, the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built, and flew the first fully practical airplane. The Wright brothers showed the world that man could fly (“Wright Brothers”). Their invention of the airplane astounded everyone; poor people, rich people, and especially…

through the freezing cold water at critically low temperatures. For sure someone will be numb, with a kind of position like that. "Rather than wait for the ice to break up, thousands crossed the lake on foot to reach Lake Bennett.” As the text “The Continents are Klondike Crazy,” stated. As one can see the image of the group, someone can tell that there is only foot prints and no mark on the snow to show that something has been traveled with, which means everything has been on foot. Many…

Because Africa is one of the most diverse continents if not the most in the world in terms of ethnicity, and religion, western democracy takes this opportunity to tear it apart. One of the tools that it uses to achieve this is the multiparty system. Hence, it focusses more on elections in Africa than on most of the pressing needs of the continent, such as food, shelter, medical care and education (Mountain, 2012). Most political parties on the continent are formed based on tribal lines which in…