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When the word immigration is conjured up especially in today’s world where the economy is moving toward recession, an image of poor, uneducated, job takers and opportunities for a better future come in mind. The media blew it totally out of proportion that politicians only talk about the undocumented immigrants like Mexicans rushing across the border. the media is convincing the citizens to believe that immigration is mischievous and dispensable in our society. the conception of migration as a…

Analysis of a Midterm Election Race Introduction A midterm election is a type of general election in which the representatives of the people are elected in the middle of the main term. In the United States, midterm elections are held two years after the quadrennial presidential elections. This paper is based on the analysis of the 2014 Louisiana Senate race. This is one of the most competitive and important races in this year’s midterm elections. The 2014 Louisiana Senate Race Like other…

other hand, started a school of navigation, recruited the best mapmakers, and explores in Europe. In the early fourteen hundreds to late fourteen hundreds Henry’s navigators explored most of West Africa including Guinea, the Madeira Islands, Azores, Senegal, and many more . With his help, the Portuguese were able to trade cloth, iron bars, metal wares, firearms, jewelry, and liquor in exchange for slaves. African slaves provided labor for plantation colonies that produced sugar, tobacco, rice,…

Discovering Sub-Saharan Africa Sub- Saharan Africa is located south of North Africa and in the middle of the south Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Being such a large continent, it was picked to pieces territorially by early colonization’s from large countries in Europe. With colonization completely withdrawing from the continent, it lays divided and has many challenges to overcome becoming a functioning continent. Few countries in that continent have normalized the transition from a colony into a…

European Imperialism in Africa had a negative effect on both Africa and the rest of the world by destroying African society, technology and culture. Europe, In the late 1800’s made its way into Africa. As Africa grew countries such as France, Britain, and Germany came in for personal benefits and started taking their resources. These European powers went into Africa destroying their society, materials, and culture because they only cared about their strength and resources. Africa was an easy…

There have been discoveries of haplotypes for distinct region specific mutations of the HbS genes. The four African Haplotypes include the Senegal, Benin, Bantu, and Cameroon haplotypes. There has also been one discovery of an Asian haplotype referred to as the Arab-Indian haplotype [1]. The occurrence of these haplotypes indicates that the increase in sickle cell anemia is related to the incidence of malaria in the surrounding regions [8]. Evidence that supports the link between the…

The first age of colonization, puts a spotlight on the birth of European exploration of the Americas and the peoples who inhabited them. Numerous countries of Europe sent adventurers to explore, with primary intentions to discover resources, to trade, and spread Catholicism to the “uncivilized” natives of the areas. Spain, after the Reconquista, started their golden age. After Columbus’ discovery of the new world, explorers and treasure ships made their way to the Americas. The Spanish conquest…

Imagine sleeping in your warm bed after a great home cooked meal, and out of nowhere there is a loud scream. Then there is another scream, which both sound all too familiar to you. You get up to see what all the noise is about and upon walking into your living room you realize that your only son has just been kidnapped. You can hear his screams getting more and more distant as you frantically run outside hoping that it is only a sick joke. As you stand there you realize that he is gone. This was…

Do subjective ideas of liberty inevitably entail that liberators marginalize others? Herman Melville’s novella Benito Cereno and Greg Grandin’s historical analysis Empire of Necessity illustrate the cases of the Tryal, a Spanish slave ship which Melville fictitiously calls the San Dominick, and the Perseverance, fictively known as the Bachelor’s Delight in Benito Cereno to pose this question. At the turn of the 18th century, on tightly packed commercial ships, passengers experienced patriarchal…

World security: The United Nations World War II left behind complete devastation in Europe and Japan; entire economies had collapsed, people were starving and infrastructure had been destroyed. In an effort to prevent an event, such as a World War from ever happening again, the United States, under President Roosevelt vowed to carry out a plan of peace. The United Nations became an international organization that was founded as a direct result of World War II, in an effort to maintain…