Horn of Africa

Egypt is one of the most fascinating countries. Like many other countries, they have strict rules and religions. Some people still believe that Egypt is still like it used to be, ancient, but a lot of things have changed since years ago. Egypt people are a lot different than Americans, for starters, their attitude are way better than Americans. If you’re in America, you may try to get help from an American and they would just look at you like you’re crazy but if you’re a tourist in Egypt, you’ll…

Imperialism is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. On territories beyond the imperial powers home nation.The 19th century imperialism changed the world in three major ways economically, socially, and politically. A pro and con of imperialism for Europeans were controlling land from many areas throughout the world but having to teach native things was a con because it slowed things down. A pro for Natives was that they learned new…

Ebola Rough Draft Ebola is one of the world’s most deadly diseases. So far Ebola has killed more than 30,215 people in the world and the number is going up by at least 15 people per day (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”). The Ebola virus has completely taken over Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Other countries such as Kayas, Spain, Lagos, Dallas Texas, New York City, Port Harcourt, and Dakar have the Ebola outbreak as well. Ebola is also known as the Hemorrhagic Fever (“Centers…

According to King Afonso, the many benefits that came from the Portuguese presence became overshadowed as the people and the economy began to suffer. The west brought over many diseases that reached Afonso’s people. In order to fix the problem, he wrote a letters to the king of Portugal. In one of his many letters, he asked for proper medication to treat the illnesses. But the diseases brought many to believe that God was not helpful or necessary to their health. Once being cured with other…

tale of his adventures into the deepest part of the African continent. As a citizen of London, Marlow views Africa as a dark place as it differs from Europe physically and socially. Throughout Marlow’s tale in search of Mr. Kurtz, the author exemplifies the differences between a civilized society that is Europe and the savagery in the deepest parts of Africa. The continents of Europe and Africa are complete opposites. In the late 19th century, Europe was far ahead in physical advancements.…

The Indian Ocean world can be dynamically split up into three major regions. Africa, South Asia and lastly the East Indies are three separate areas of the Indian Ocean that together make up a larger and more intricate picture of what life is like in the Indian Ocean. Through migration and trade these regions have helped form each other’s political, economic and social structure by encouraging new ideas and propelling each other into the modern age. When one thinks about the industrial…

The territory of black Ham was where the existence of human lives began, from the soil of Africa. According to the world historians, scholars, scientist, geographers, archaeologies and the anthropologists, they all unanimously believed that the ancient men and women known as (Homo Sapiens) originated from the land of Africa before any human migration to any parts of the world, thus making it the first home of human ancestor (Hobbs). According to Dr. Spencer…

Over the course of the last five wildlife management eras, wildlife management methods in South Africa, the American West, and Mexico have proved successful. This is in large part due to the developing strategies and philosophies in the last three eras that helped resurrect declining wildlife populations. For example, buffalo and buffalo grasses are steadily being restored to the American plains, a stark contrast to the near extermination of them in the 1800’s. Another example in the American…

The notion that all humans are descended from a select group of hunter-gatherers based in early east Africa is called Genealogy. While humans have been around for millions of years, the behaviorally modern human emerged between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago. What changed was our ability to have abstract thought. This is what separated us from animals that followed strictly their set behaviors. The earliest evidence of these abstractly thinking humans goes to Blombos Cave. There are rocks…

Through the lenses of many different communities and individuals in different parts of Africa, Arjun Appadurai’s “–scapes” (ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes) manifest themselves in similar/universal and different forms between three films: “Price of Love”, “African Metropolis”, and “A Screaming Man”. Along with these “-scapes”, one of the strongest themes throughout the movies was the conflict or cohesion of Westernization in each culture and how the main…