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Pericles Vs. Obama Compare and Contrast Essay Throughout both Pericles’s and Obama’s speeches it is proven that they share multiple common themes, for example: both beloved leaders would constantly appeal to the audience, often complementing the military and their hard work done for the country. Although both speeches have many common themes they also have their differences. Some of which I will be talking about later on in the essay. In Pericles speech, Pericles’ Funeral Oration from the…

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Segu through a Historic and Cultural Perspective Segu, by Maryse Conde is a five-part prose centered around four brothers born into the prestigious Traore family. It is a novel gravely satiated with the history of a kingdom in Mali during the late 17 to early 1800s, a time of immense cultural refinement. These alterations depicted in the novel are: the spread of Islam, the slave trade, and the mutation of identity due to such refinements. Due to this, the lenses of New Historicism, Cultural…

In President Obama’s opening letter to the 2015 National Security Strategy, he provides an overview of the most serious challenges to U.S. National Security. “Violent extremism and an evolving terrorist threat,” he pens, “raise a persistent risk of attacks on America and our allies.” The violent extremist and terrorist threat is the most pressing national security challenge facing the U.S. in the next five to ten years. This threat is the most pressing concern because weak and failing states…

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Christopher Columbus discovered the new world in his voyages, but by accident. The reason for Columbus’s voyage was to find an alternate trade route to the Spice Islands And at this time the passage required Spain to go through the Mediterranean Sea. The sea, however, was controlled by the Ottoman Empire and required a hefty toll. For this reason, Columbus did “not go eastward by land in the usual manner but by the western way” (Doc 1). To bypass the…

The cotton T-shirt is truly one of the most iconic garments in history. The cotton T-shirt has been seen in a variety of movies, TV shows, and commercials. So where did this white beauty get its start? The cotton T-shirt was originally made as an undershirt for the navy that went under the uniforms of the enlisted. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was the first known person to use the word T-Shirt in his book This side of Paradise. Shortly after the use of the word T-shirt in the book This side of…

on the individual that he is speaking to. After marrying his third wife, El Hadji a business, became cursed as a symbol of impotence. The film was set during the year 1960, when Senegal gain its independence from France after breaking away from the “Mali Federation, which was formed by merging Senegal and the French Soudan in 1959” (SAHO 2000). Although, El Hadji was cursed, he still tried to prove his masculinity by showing that he was still capable of satisfying two wives sexually and…

In the past 300 years the world has seen a globalized market and unprecedented growth. While quality of life has skyrocketed across the world, new challenges have arisen. Serge LaTouche, a French economist, states that geometric economic growth cannot be sustained forever in his chapter “The Territory of De-Growth” from his book Farewell to Growth, calling for controlled economic growth to ensure a successful future. In the chapter “The Territory of De-Growth”, Latouche distinguishes the…

12. James Cook James Cook, a captain of the English Royal Navy and fellow seaman, disproved the theory about the “Southern Continent” when he led the first expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle. Throughout his expeditions, Cook created numerous charts of unexplored islands in the Pacific Ocean. On his third voyage south he discovered many islands, including Hawaii. Cook’s discoveries and numerous charts became invaluable to the future English explorers. 13. Vitus Bering The Danish explorer…

CACAO The Social Consequences of Cacao Trading on West Africa in the 21st Century INTRODUCTION Since the last century, West African countries (Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, plus others.) have seen an increment of what is nowadays one of their major exports: Cacao, bean-like seeds used in the production of cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). This helped them become the largest cacao producer in the world today, harvesting a…