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material that contains dentine and is found in the tusk and teeth of animals. The substances has been used in items such as, art sculptures, false teeth, piano keys, billiard balls, jewelry, and other items to show ones wealth. The ivory trade in Africa during the late 19th and 20th century decimated the elephant population and also showed that even with more awareness and protection to animals that are being overexploited and animals that are considered endangered, they are not safe…

Haiti faces a number of social and environmental factors that contribute to disease, while facing barriers to treatment, despite efforts to alleviate health issues. Basic latrine is Haiti is socially regarded as odd, although improper sanitation remains a large problem in many areas of the country (Kennedy, 2013). Warm air and the flowing of short rivers are two environmental factors that welcome the breeding of cholera bacteria in Haiti (Jutla, Whitcombe, Hasan, Haley, Akanda, Huq, Colwell,…

Haiti is a Caribbean country that is found in the island of Hispaniola. It has a population of 10.6 million people. Its main languages are French and Creole. The Haitian Revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1804. The main religions found in Haiti are Voodoo and Roman Catholicism. Voodoo is a religion that is a modified form of Catholicism and they worshipped the black God. It has combinations of African beliefs with Catholicism. A few people practice both religions. People referred to…

Francis Drake partook in some of the first English slaving voyages to Africa and earned a reputation for piracy against the Spanish. Sent to South America by Queen Elizabeth II in 1577, he returned home by the Pacific and thusly became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. The queen rewarded him with knighthood. Drake died in January 1596 of dysentery. In 1567, Drake sailed to Africa in order to join the fledgling slave trade. When he sailed to New Spain to sell his captives to…

The ‘Atlantic World’ is defined by James Carson, writer for the Oxford Bibliographies, as “an historical concept that frames the histories of Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the opening of the age of European exploration to the ending of the American wars for independence in the 1820s.” It had to do with the history and interactions among all the people and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The concept of the ‘Atlantic World’ is interrelated to the economic networks and migratory…

English in the Southern United States (pp. 64-81). Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. Mufwene explores the koine based on the racial make-up of the early United States. The two main racial identifies were white Europeans and desendence of Africa. The article discusses the lack of distinguishable accent and language between the white and black populations during the colonial period. The change in language was most relevant after the time of Jim crow Laws. These changes developed…

slavery has changed drastically as the technique has been passed to different parts of the world.We can see major changes between the Islamic world, Africa and the Americas. Although the concept of slavery is the same, Transatlantic slavery is much different from other forms of slavery. Slavery in the Islamic world boomed as trade became more pertinent in Africa. Although slavery at this time was much different from how we picture it today. People who were enslaved were generally prisoners of…

African slavery in the Atlantic World leads to many problems that have occurred and that are still occurring in everyday life as we know it. The effects of this event have caused many African families to be torn apart and racial differences became an issue within the use of African slaves and even after slavery was banned. A major reason Europeans leaned toward Africans to use as slaves rather than Indentures was because the Africans were immune to tropical diseases. They were used to the…

why the Peace Corps is an important partner of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), bringing aid, awareness, and methods for preventing the pandemic's spread to the countries most affected by it such as those in the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Another international issue that the Peace Corps plays an important role in is the battle for gender equality. Worldwide, many women face…

with dark Africans south of the Sahara and who exchanged little quantities of dark slaves. Muslim Arabs extended this trans-Saharan slave exchange, purchasing or seizing expanding quantities of dark Africans in West Africa, driving them over the Sahara, and offering them in North Africa. From that point, a large portion of these slaves were sent out to distant Asian goals, for example, the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia (in present-day Turkey), Arabia, Persia (show day Iran), and India.…