She allowed a couple of albums to go public, emphasizing her amazing voice. Her fame continued to rise when she starred in a films such as Silver City, The Desert Hawk, Hotel Sahara, The San Francisco Story, and Tomahawk. However, her contract had been discontinued when the 1952 film called Hurricane Smith was agreed by most critics and fans to be best forgotten. She ended up continuing to do remarkable work in western films…
AN OVERVIEW OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE GOLDCOST: (1482 – 1957) 2.0: Introduction: This chapter presents the political and economic history of the Gold Coast. It assesses the historical and nativity of its inhabitants and also the background to the arrival of the first missionary to the Gold Coast. The section on pre-colonial Gold Coast explains who the people of Gold Coast were; their land and indigenous economic activities before the arrival of the Europeans. Whiles the…
Its 1218 and growing up to have no fear, but war and violence is key to the nomadic empire I am a part of. Overlooking my camp, I have spent fifteen years preparing myself to become one of the warriors of a huge army full of fearsome fighters known in Central/Northern Asia, for the rest of my life. Ever since I was young enough to remember, I have been training with horses with hunting and herding them. Now that I am of age to be a part of the military life, I was given four horses to alternate…
Living in the moment. The infamous line, which we heard at least once or twice in our lives, derives from the notion of the Latin word carpe diem. The 21st century took a tremendous turn when Drake came out with a song called “The Motto”, ultimately having a varied influence on people’s lives. The rapper shoved down the word “YOLO” in everyone’s head, implying to not live by any pressures dictated by contemporary society. But what does carpe diem really imply? Think about it. If we live by…
Within the next few years a series of terrorist attacks against the US and its allies will occur, but there’s more bad news. It is said that there will be state collapse in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and possibly Jordan. Saudi Arabia is also facing a complex succession soon and is likely to acquire nuclear weapons. Turkey and Egypt stand up to real emergencies. Northern Africa fears a developing al Qaeda. What's more, Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine is prone to enable al Qaeda-adjusted…
This paper will provide an in-depth organizational profile of the international terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda, Arabic for “the base”, as well as a look at the leadership, funding, support locations, personnel strength, ideology, targeting, tactics, capability, communications, and overall goals of the group. Al-Qaeda was responsible for the worst attack on United States soil on September 11, 2001, as they planned and executed the hijacking of four commercial airliners and crashed two…
The word Moors derives from the Latin mauri, a name for the Berber tribes living in Roman Mauretania (modern day Algeria and Morocco). It has no ethnographic meaning but can be used to refer to all Muslims, Berber or Arab, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula. These Moors, who were religious fanatics, arrived in Spain in the year 711 and thus began a period of history which would shape Iberia differently than the rest of Europe as the land adapted to a new religion, language and culture.…
In the early years of the earth, the people who lived here were called hunters and gatherers. The only way for this group of people to survive was to hunt and gather their food. They relied heavily on the animals and plants that provided them with a source of food. The only downfall to this life, was that they could not settle in one place for very long. The changes in the weather would cause the animals that these people hunted to migrate, which meant that the people had to follow, or else they…
distribution figure 2: global distribution of malaria mosquito Geographic Distribution of Malaria As shown on figure 1, the risk of malaria disease is concentrated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, such as Sub-Sahara in Africa, north of South America and Southeast of Asia. Malaria is more concentrated here because these areas have similar patterns such breeding of Anopheles mosquito. This is due to the high temperature, dry and wet seasons and…
West explains how he compares and contrasts food insecurity positioned over three different periods of time, “2002, 2004 and 2012” (West 2015:54), for Mossi communities in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is close to the Sahara Desert and wetter Sudanian forest zones (West 2015:54). This particular, environmental, zone results in more frequent droughts, but also good, wetter, seasons (West 2015:54). West asks partakers in his study to compare the droughts he is studying…