Economic Community of West African States

constitute more than one-sixth of Israel's population, exist on the margins of the conflicting worlds of Jews and Palestinians. However, while remaining a segment of the Arab people in culture and identity and disputing Israel's identification as a Jewish state, they see their future tied to Israel. In the process, they have adopted Hebrew as a second language and Israeli culture as an extra layer in their lives. At the same time, they strive to attain a higher degree of participation in…

the most important movements in African American history: The Harlem Renaissance. This was the migration of African Americans to Harlem in search of employment, which followed the first World War. These two disconnected worlds coexisted in the same city and once they started their imminent collision course, they found that jazz music would turn…

Gender differentiates itself from sex because sex is based on the biological primary and secondary characteristics, like reproductive organs. Gender, however, is a performance that forms the gender norms and is reinforced through social interactions. West and Zimmerman’s “Doing Gender” explains gender as being learned at an early age, yet it is understood as being an internal institution and not questioned as a social construct. The gender binary regulates society by establishing two very…

The Atlantic Slave Trade was an extensive system of chattel slavery that dealt exclusively in the trade of black Africans. Chattel slavery is markedly different from other forms of servitude as it involved the actual ownership, in law, of one human over another - as opposed to punitive slavery which used convicted criminals as a source of free labour. It is important to remember, when talking about the Atlantic Slave Trade, that slavery was not a new invention and that slaves were to be found…

The American West before its conquest and establishment was a metaphorical ideology formulated by the American government within the Young America movement. In an attempt to encourage pioneers towards the frontier and to “Go West”, the United States explored the powerful notion of Manifest Destiny, creating the perception that the undiscovered land was given to America through support of Providence. This ideology and its strict adherence during settlement, poses the question: Did manifest…

They lived their lives in respect to their white employers in an obedient manner. “Africans would have to seek jobs from white employers, which their jobs would be the lowest paid available, and that without the right to vote they could do little to change the laws that excluded them from the political process and relegated them to the…

Liberia is a country often overlooked on the long list of countries adversely affected by the Cold War. Despite over a century of relative peace and prosperity, the small nation in West Africa would feel the chill of the war between the United States and the Soviet Union. What is interesting is that the Cold War’s effects on Liberia were very indirect. Rather than hosting a proxy war, the effects were much more indirect. Liberia was home to growing internal strife, which built up to a military…

appearance. For many Caribbean immigrants, their appearance and ethnicities will correlate to how they are treated in society, as well as the American school system. Based on her appearance in the Guyanese community and growing up in Guyana, Ramona was and is perceived to be Indian. In the United States, she remarked that people thinks that she is Dominican, for her “dark skin and those features and I live in the Bronx, so automatically I’m Dominican.” In Florida, where she currently resides…

Most of the migrants were men coming from the eastern United States, however, there were also many immigrants from China, Mexico, South America, and Europe. Five years into the migration, there were about 300,000 citizens in California, with San Francisco being the largest and most prosperous city. The Gold Rush had a major impact on the United States by causing mass migration, but it also had an impact on the idea of mining, women, African-Americans, and Chinese immigrants, and it even had…

and the desire of economic growth. These three themes provide great insight on how Islam started to spread throughout Africa. Through trade, culture and the religion of Islam were able to spread to many different areas because of the exposure to Muslim people. Trade correlated to the Islamic conversion since people started to adopt the Islam religion they were encountering through trade. As more people started to convert and Islamic states stated to develop the economy of the states started to…