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Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction Upon the discovery of new lands all over the world, the European countries sought after ways to capitalize their newly established colonies and the indigenous people. The earliest Atlantic slave trades are dated to the 15th century, when the first major European world powers the Portuguese and Spanish empires that began with the transportation of slaves from Africa to America for cheaper and easier controllable labors. The slave trade culminated during…

Midterm exam Christopher Columbus is definitely one of the most important figures of the world history. Not only for the fact that in 1467 he travelled to Iceland when he was sixteen years old, but also for the fact that he discovered America in 1492 at the same time as he was searching for a new trade route to the Indies. Columbus was now making the first connections between the Europeans and the Americans. Leading then to the famous “Colombians exchange” which was extensive transfer of animals…

Imagine for a moment being captured, taken against your will, and forced into enslavement. For many of the enslaved peoples who wound up in The Caribbean and Latin America, this was a hypothetical scenario but instead their harsh new reality. As the yearning to escape their enslavement peaked, many became desperate for an escape to freedom. With the view of the vast ocean before them and the actuality of their enslavement behind them, many turned to a new form of slave resistance, marronage.…

Power over others, in the form of slavery, is also a broad theme in Candide. Through a great deal of struggling, nearly each major character could recall a significant encounter with slavery. Candide himself has a conversation in the Dutch colony of Suriname with a nameless, crippled slave who has been savagely mauled by his master. The slavery itself, the ownership of human beings, is a form of power that has existed for thousands of years. It dehumanizes an individual, often taking their names…

threat to the tropical rainforest ecosystems (R. Butler, 2012). In the world, mining exists in most places, especially in Guyana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and ASEAN countries, or in the US In South America, Amazonia region, Guyana, Suriname, and other South American countries. These places…

The destruction of the Earth’s Lungs: During any given moments in the average human’s typical day, a large portion of the Amazon rainforest will have just been destroyed by bulldozing government agencies that work on an industrial scale in efforts to increase marketing globalization. The Amazon in South America is the largest rainforest on Earth despite it’s increasing destruction, the Amazon remains as half the planet’s remaining rainforest, inhabiting a diverse group of species of plants and…

Part One: Current State of Juvenile Delinquents in Haiti Disappointing, that William O’Neill, a human rights lawyer who ran the legal department of the first United Nations mission in 1993 said pretrial detention has never been a priority of the Haitian government. (Juevinille Justice, Accessed 7/28/2016) This is a flaw in the overall justice system in Haiti. However, for Haitian youth affected by this bad judgment, it can prove to have longer lasting negative effects on Haitians in the future…

Mental Health in South America When someone gets a broken bone or develops diabetes or cancer, it is obviously taken seriously by medical professionals, friends and family and treatment is encouraged and given. So why are mental disorders often denied the same level of concern? Mental illness is serious, and thousands of people commit suicide every year because of undiagnosed or improperly treated mental health disorders. In fact, an estimated 63,000 people commit suicide every year in the…

During childhood we are always told to be positive and look on the bright side of problems, but is there a limit to how optimistic one can be? In the novella Candide by Voltaire, satire is used to mock optimistic philosophers like Gottfried Leibniz during the Enlightenment movement. Voltaire uses the experiences of his characters to demonstrate the faults in optimistic philosophies, however he gets his main message across by using their reactions to horrific events. The main characters, Candide…

Under population and Overpopulation When the number of people in a region or country is more than the available resources, the country or region is said to be overpopulated. In other words, overpopulation refers to the situation in which the country’s population is more than what its physical resources can support to maintain adequate living standards. Singapore, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Korea Republic, Jordan, Iraq, Belgium and UK are among the overpopulated countries of…