Continent

The Response to External Threats of Violence The formation of a modern state is based on its ability to supply security as a public good to its citizens. Security protects a state’s territorial claims, against external threats, and controls domestic disputes. The ability control the use of violence is what provides the foundation for other public goods: freedom to participate in politics, infrastructure, property rights, and a market place that facilitates trade. While a strong state provides…

Starving children in Africa: A sad story of Starving Kids in Africa There many starving children in Africa. One sad story from the continent is about the starving kids in Africa. Kids in Africa are living in tough, unimaginable conditions. They lack necessities of life such as education, good healthcare, and clean water. The worst of all the problems children in Africa face is shortage or lack of food. Hungry children in Africa are everywhere, both in rural and urban areas. As of now there are…

Learning about Sacagawea this week in both Chapter 8 and our other readings and videos was very interesting. Like I've said before in postings, in high school I was given a less descriptive and thorough history of her, though in this instance, it was not a contradictory version. I've read and learned before that she was the guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition across the western half of North America, that she helped them greatly and translated for them when they met Native…

compare individuals within groups, and many other analyses with different combinations of variables which was very thorough. Afterwards, they repeat the calculations in a global scale and discovered that “within-continent analyses complicate the craniometric differences between continents” because with examples from Europe and Japan, “it would seem that the number of biological races may be limited only by the number of samples, contradicting the classic view that there are only a few discrete…

“Letters on the Slave trade” by King Affonso of Congo In the “Letters on the Slave Trade” written by king Nzinga Mbemba Affonso of Congo to the king of Portugal in 1526, Affonso explains his complains and worries about the human trade that has been taking place in his country over the years. In the first letter, king Affonso mentions with concern how vassals from his own kingdom are not complying to his orders because they are receiving goods from white men in greater abundance than what his…

maize in the American Southwest. While there are differencing opinions on the specific location of this introduction, the roots of the maize tradition are found in the deep in the heart of the southern Mesoamerican region of the North American continent. Contemporary studies of the pollen records of the early form of the what we call corn today, Zea Mays, along with clearing of the forest for agricultural use gives indication that pre-Columbian cultivation of domesticate maize appears in the…

Frank Smith once said, “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” The United States should take steps towards becoming a bilingual country. Making English the official language in this country would be unconstitutional. Being able to speak more than one language has several different advantages: cognitive and financial. Spanish speakers form the biggest group of people that speak a language other than English in the United States. Bilingualism…

Chinua Achebe did not initially set out to write a novel that emphasized the triumphs of African culture. Nor did Achebe embark on a campaign of denigrating slander towards European attitudes. Achebe’s contentious novel Things Fall Apart situates itself post-colonially and, having been written in 1958, the novel came at a time of racially charged civil rights movements. Chinua Achebe remarked upon the injustice of Eurocentric African literature prior to writing his infamous novel. For example,…

riches of Asia from the Crusades, in which soldiers journeyed to the Middle East to reclaim Jerusalem. The land road to Asia was generally dangerous and expensive, but the European desire for fine goods caused a race to find another route to that continent. Ships from Spain, England, and France sailed westward in search for the Northwest Passage, and though the Europeans were unable to expand their riches with trade, they were able to expand their riches through conquering civilizations in the…

are personally fond of is close to dying you go and visit them and try to make light of the situation, being able to take their mind of the impending future just for a moment. “Maryanne Clouds Today” by Ivan Gabriel Rehorek. “The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri, has a young man who leaves his home country with a bright future can persevere enough to become a professional in America. He becomes a border with an older woman who he has become fond of. He promises to be a great and…