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based on wealth and economic power, rather than traditions and rituals. After 350 years of slavery, the british decided that slave trading was not good, and ordered it to stop in 1807. However, many people continued this practice, so they attacked lagos. In 1861, the british government finally established their first colony in Nigeria. A new economy was built and it was based on raw materials, agricultural products, and locally manufactured goods saw the growth of a new class of Nigerian…

"Americanah" is a fiction written by the popular Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Ifemelu is a young, educated Nigerian woman who satisfies her yearning to travel, abandons her childhood sweetheart Obinze and goes to America without a Green Card to attend college. The story skips between her point of view and Obinze's, yet we are mostly with Ifemelu as she explores her new life in the States. In Nigeria, everybody is dark. There is no separation over race. What she encounters in the US…

My observation for this assignment took place right before the end of the school year. I was fortunate to be paired with my favorite elementary teacher and mentor, Stacey Bingham. She teaches third grade at Lago Vista Elementary School. I enjoyed working with the students while they completed their research projects. This is a diverse class of wonderful students. I had no problem identifying three students with within a wide range of proficiency, to use for my assignment. Student 1 has a…

. Reflective comment: Helpfulness of the interaction 4.1 Active listening The interaction would have been more helpful if the practitioner was engaged in active listening. To better understand this process, an example from the role play will be used. The reason client has decided to use a counselling service is because she has a need, and perhaps in the state of disequilibrium. The client feels a sense of shame and disappointment with her occupational status. In order to mitigate the state of…

Every year 12,000 harassment claims are filed with the EEOC (Bush Lewis Lawyers, 2014). One in four women, to one in 17 men have experiencing sexual harassment (Langer, 2011). Sexual harassment has been so pervasive in our culture that in some organizations and environments, it is so commonplace that it is considered a daily part of life. With the rise of our global technological economy, sexual harassment has taken on additional forms via email, sexting, and through social media. Sexual…

Extraction of alkali from banana peels is known to depend on such parameters as ashing temperature, ashing time, soaking time and particle size of the ashed sample, soil type and variety. Alkali was extracted from three Nigerian grown banana peels namely: Saaro, Oloosun and Paranta for the purpose of determining the concentration of the extracted alkali. The concentration of the extracted alkali ranged from 0.02 to 0.10mol/dm3. The three varieties of the banana peels gave a maximum concentration…

“Oh God, is life as I know it over,” I asked myself while waiting in line under the baking Nigerian sun in front of the American Consulate in Lagos. The prospect of losing my friends, my home, and my life in America caused me to shiver with fear in spite of the scorching 100-degree heat. It was May 2003, nearly 5 weeks since my father, younger brother, and I had landed in Nigeria for what was meant to be a two-week excursion. The Rhode Island School of Design had just offered my father a…

Seine etc. These are the typical or rather popular tourist attractions that you would visit in company. These landmarks have some intricacies about them and they are not anywhere close to the things we in a very commercialized and urban city like Lagos, Nigeria. Several of these places and monuments were built so long ago, yet with all the advancements in technology, they are still captivating and amazing... After a wonderful day out, we will be having dinner (expensive dinner) at top the…

Annotated Bibliography Johnson, Vernon Elso, ed. Race in William Shakespeare's Othello. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Social Issues in Literature. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 Nov. 2016. In this book the author Vernon Johnson, focuses on breaking down the characteristics of Othello as a character and as a free black man in a white culture. At the beginning Johnson talks about what questions maybe running through the audience’s heads while reading Othello which he then continues to…

On completion of my secondary school education in Lagos, Nigeria, and while waiting for my undergraduate admission into the university, I sometimes watched/ assisted my dad whenever he was preparing project proposals or actually executing building construction projects. I didn’t know it as at then, but I think that was when I started having this unconscious attraction toward anything that had the word project written next to it. Any mention of the word project and my ears would be on alert. My…