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it, during times of Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights Movement. Without its historical context, the statues can be argued as representing a significant time in history, but within it, they reveal much more unsavory motives. On the other hand, the Savannah Memorial Park is the site of a grave, occupied by "pioneers from the Santa Fe Trail [who] would bring their dead along with them...and bury them [there]" (Source D). This site illustrates a memorial that was created as the event it showcases…

Similarly to UNEP et al. (2013), in Brendan Moyle’s (2014) article “The Raw and the Carved: Shipping Costs and Ivory Smuggling,” he also shows how African elephant ivory seizures have increased over recent years. For his article, Moyle (2014) collected and used data from UNEP to make a graph showing total seizures of African elephant ivory from 1996 until 2012. His graph also shows the weight of the ivory from the seizures (see figure 3). From Moyle’s graph, one can see that the most ivory…

know as biological wealth. This can largely determine how one sees a country’s wealth and economical capital. There are about eight different basic ecosystems given in chapter seven. These include to following: forests and woodlands, grasslands and savannahs, deserts and tundra, croplands, wetlands, coastal oceans and bays coral reefs, and open oceans. The overall natural species that can be found in each of these ecosystems are referred to as biota. Collectively, the biota species and the…

Karuna Kayastha Professor Mathew Hinckley History 1301 07/06/2017 Cornerstone Speech Cornerstone speech also known as "Cornerstone Address" is the speech given by Alexander Stephen in Savannah Georgia on March 21, 1861. During the Civil war , he served as the Vice President of Confederate States of America. When was elected to the Confederate Congress, he deliberated the speech that announced about new government where he said that all races are not equal and the whites are always superior…

Integration is the elimination of barriers and enclosures that may limit free mobility and set up of positive non-hierarchical relationships (Marcuse, 2005). It means that spatially distributed resources and assets such as neighbourhoods, public facilities (schools, recreation areas and health facilities etc.) are shared by the members of different groups (Hartman & Squires, 2010). Many studies (Balbo & Navez-Bouchanine, 1995; Deffner & Hoerning, 2011; Kempen, 2007; Madrazo & Van Kempen, 2012)…

Future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948. He grew up in the small African-American community of Pin Point, Georgia, with his older sister Emma Mae and younger brother Myers Lee. His father disappeared early on in his life, and the family divided even further when he was 9 years old. Clarence Thomas has been a judge for 25 years, and during that time he was quoted as saying, “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” This quote relates to Thomas…

The original theory is that when our ancestors parted in two opposite environments they had simply adapted different traits to their specific environment. The apes needed there current traits to survive. Opposed to the apes that had fled into the savannah; those apes supposedly shed their fur due to the blazing sun. Another major change would be from walking on all fours to balancing on two legs, this is said to be because it was necessary for them to peer over tall grasses to hunt their prey.…

The Life of Jimmy Buffett Jimmy William Buffett loves to hang out on the beach, crack jokes, drink margaritas, and is an extremely talented man. He was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi on December 25, 1946. As a child, he was raised in Mobile, Alabama, where he attended a catholic high school (Bio.com 1). When summer ended, Buffett was always depressed because that meant no more sailing, fishing, shorts, T-shirts, and warm beach days. However, school made him look forward to the next summer…

My heart felt as big as the Empire State Building and knowing that I was coming back tomorrow made it grow even larger. My stomach's butterflies were long gone and weren't expected to come back any time soon. A large smile from ear to ear covered my whole face. Nervousness from earlier now seems completely silly. The shelves of books towered over my head. I innocently grabbed the three books that looked most interesting and immediately dashed home. The mailbox creaked open and I took out our…

Africa and its people have been molded and grown into the prosperous place that it is today. Factors that led to this are the African slave trade, the survival of slavery, the economic and social development of America and the south, and went on to conquer slavery in 1865. Africa is home to a large majority of the world’s population. In this day and age when getting a blood test numbers as low as 1% of African American decent can be found in almost every body tested. In fact occasions of…