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Hasan Saleem Weekly Critical Reading Review #4 The readings over the past two weeks and the film La Haine focused on the issue of social and spatial discrimination in cities. The major theme present in the movie and essays is the socioeconomic conditions of the marginalized, African Americans in United States and the poor French working class and immigrants. The essays also focused on the power of the states and how those in power marginalize others. The film La Haine centers on the fact that…

Bill Nye said, “Climate change is happening, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, who is most known for being the face of the educational program, Bill Nye the Science Guy. He has become one of the most popular figures in the science community. In his quote, Nye is talking about climate change, which is a change in global or regional climate patterns such as a change in temperature of a region. Climate change is one of…

1. Introduction Durban, South Africa was the place 53 Head of States from across Africa met and created the African Union. The Head of States bid farewell to the defunct Organization of African Unity and welcomed the new African Union. All this happened on July 9, 2002. During the gathering, African leaders praised OAU’s achievements. They welcomed the new Union and argued that this was a new dawn for the Africans. The African leaders elected Thambo Mbeki, the host president, as the new AU…

Firstly, the scramble for Africa was the invasion and imperialistic takeover of the African continent by European countries in the nineteenth century. In the past, in the eighteenth century, trading of slaves was the main source of profit for the Europeans, but “political instability, lack of transportation, and the unhealthy climate”1 all created disadvantages for the Europeans to move further into the African continent. In the nineteenth century, many things changed. The scramble for Africa…

Ziziphus mauritiana and the Muzarabani community. Wild fruits are widely managed and utilised in different parts of the world. In semi-arid region the dependence on the fruits vary from region to region. In semi-arid regions which are prone to natural hazards like Muzarabani have for years relied on wild fruits’ like Ziziphus mauritiana despite, the reliance of the people of the muzarabani community on Ziziphus mauritiana , serious academic considerations of Ziziphus mauritiana as is an…

Introduction Deforestation is a curse since Prehistory, it leads to many consequences in different fields such as the environment or the society. Forests are known to be the planet lungs, how could their destruction impact environment? To understand better this phenomenon, an overview of the areas deforestation around the world, its history and main causes is essential. Then, focusing on a specific area, the Amazonia, is useful to explain the deforestation consequences. I-Overview of the…

There is more to this world than what is out in your backyard. People often stick to what they know out of fear of feeling dumb. It is this fear that perpetrates ignorance and leads to the issues that we currently face with intercultural relations. We as a people need to become more aware of the greater world and the cultures within it. The best way to counter this ignorance is by making ourselves familiar with these cultures, and becoming familiar with the people in them. Some cultures people…

Throughout the entire night, I woke up with feverish bursts time and time again. I dreamt of death. My mother and father’s bony skulls were glinting at me through the blackness. I replayed the same scene over and over again: the persistent screaming in the background as a dull buzzing sounded beside my ears. And then the sound of gunshots exploding in the air as raiders crowded into our room. Their skin was imprinted with skull and dagger tattoos I watched them cock a gun at my family’s…

The Sub-Saharan long distance commodity and slave trade as well as the syncretic interweaving of Islamic culture and traditional African culture accounts for Africa’s major influence as a superpower from the first until fifteenth centuries. Traders from all over the world were drawn to Africa’s riches in gold, ivory, and human beings. The fact that Africa was rich in resources posed influence in itself. Considering that a great number of the visiting traders were Muslims and they begin to…

opportunities in order to prevent it. The tourism sector is increasingly attracting regional and international investment permitting it to stay among the highest in the world. World Bank and International management has empowered nonwestern countries such Sub Sahara Africa to get considerable amount of loans to take care of neediness issues in Africa. For Kenya and South Sudan “The $500 million World Bank Group (WBG) credit will also support other activities designed to improve the livelihoods…