...Malik is carrying out, and to inspect the nearby villages, when what they really need is Medicine and food. Malik is looked very badly upon as his effort is not helping, and he broke his promise. The next day the female doctor drives off to inspect the villages, while she is gone, Malik receives word that the village chief is dead, and is afraid of the locals retaliation as they assume the female doctor has killed him, they are saved by a sandstorm. Malik has a good heart he really wants to help the locals, his luck is sadly just not as good as his heart, most of of the time things seem to go against him. He is educated at the university of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, he feels humiliated by the female doctor probably because the African people isn´t used to women walking and talking as they wish, furthermore women´s rights in Islamic religion is very restricted, and therefore her straight forwardness is quite a shock to him. The Female doctor seems as she wants to help, but in her way, which is probably the way regulations prescribe, things will go to slow and human lives will be wasted. I also think she might want to study up on traditions and how things work in the places she go, as her way to act is very embarrassing to Malik and all Muslim men she might come...
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...Samantha Rodgers Current Event: Africa Africa Can Feed Itself According to the World Bank officials, the African people can now feed themselves. The vice president of World Bank, Makhtar Diop, says that the African government will be changing their food trade policies as one of the efforts to help the food shortage. The articles notes a study done by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, that over the past four years, that the number of malnutrition and hungry people has increased from 175 million to 239 million! Amelia Matos Sumbana, Mozambique’s Ambassador of the United States, thinks that the Africa can feed itself as long as they get things done right. In addition, Ms. Sumbana says that since a lot of the problems with food have been identified, then it is up to the African government to enhance policies. At the end of the article, the vice president of World Bank says it is only Africans that can solve their problems. He also says, “Until local people are empowered it will be difficult for some of these problems to be solved.” Lastly, the World Bank reports that by 2020, the demand for food is going to double because of African cities are growing at such a rapid pace. Therefore, they hope that farmers will cultivate more land and grow more food, in order to meet the demands of the people. I think as long as the government can really gain control of the food and encourage the farmers to meet the new demands said by the government, and...
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...His In Ian Strachan's "The Power of the Dead: African Beliefs and Rituals in the Bahamas" he declares that Christianity is the primary and most endorsed religion of the state and emphasizes that The Bahamas is a Christian nation. However, he argues that "something else has shaped the Bahamian religious experience, vision of life and death, and how the phases of life should be celebrated, mourned, marked and masked". He illustrates this by using the example of Christmas and New Year's , which are two of the most religious days of the Protestant year-- he goes on to describe how "thousands of Bahamians gather to beat African drums, mask themselves and dance in an event which has nothing to do with Christ: Junkanoo". Consequently, the author asserts that we are more content and easily accepting of our European antecedents of Bahamian cultural practice rather than the African. Despite adopting many African derived practices such as socializing, speaking, healing and cooking, references to Africa elicit embarrassment and condemnation by numerous Bahamians. Subsequently, Strachan unveils the African roots of many Bahamian practices pertaining to death, the dead and the relation to the living. He illustrates this by proving that many Bahamian beliefs about the aforementioned originated from African tradition, have spread across the Diaspora and some are still being practiced today in spite of evolution. Conversely, in the sixth chapter in "Bahamian Society After Emancipation"...
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...To respond to question three, Conrad portrays the indigenous African people in many different ways that are all negative. He conveys the message that the Africans are savages and that Africa itself is a place of no order and no civilization. To begin, on page 17 of Heart of Darkness, Conrad has his protagonist Marlow describe the Africans in many inhumane ways. “Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees, leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth in all attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation One of these creatures rose to his hands and knees and went off on all fours towards the river to drink.” After calling the African people creatures and shadows of disease and starvation, it was apparent that Conrad definitely did not think of the Africans as human beings. This portrayal shows the natives as "shadows" and unearthly "creatures," not as dying and sick men. The men are not other human beings, but in fact incoherent shapes with no humanizing characteristic to classify one man from another, which furthermore makes the indigenous Africans people into animals. Although the story has many different statements such as the one above, due to the time period of this story, I do not believe that it can be seen as racist. In our time, statements such as these would be seen as complete and utter racism and totally unacceptable. However, at the time of when Heart of Darkness was...
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...question no.3 The film focuses on the lives of three women of different social classes who get publicly harassed. It starts with Fayza (Bushra), a low income government employee who gets harassed in a taxi and a bus (numbered 678) on the way to work. When she arrives home she resists her husband's attempts in sleeping with her and doesn't explain why she can't sleep with him. It then moves to Seba a middle class jewelry designer who gets harassed in a stadium by a group of men while her husband is unable to reach her to stop what is happening to her. Following that, her husband was unable to live with what happened and she was left with no one to take care of her emotionally. She separated from her husband and started a harassment class in al Sawi cultural wheel. Finally the movie focuses on Nelly, a standup comedian and call center employee who gets harassed verbally on a call with a customer as well as physically while walking home when a truck driver grabs her and pulls her through the street. When he finally leaves her she runs behind the truck and doesn't let it go until she and the crowds were able to pull the driver out and hand him over to the police. She tries to file a report for harassment but the police officer resists and send her to another precinct. She appears after that in a TV show as she was the first Egyptian to file a report for harassment. Cast[edit] question no.3 Egyptian flim...cairo 6,7,8 ২০১০ সালে মোহাম্মাদ দিয়াব ছবিতি বানায় মিশরীয় মহিলাদের যৌন...
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...African art history Every civilization throughout history has recorded their beliefs, history and ideologies through different mediums and artwork. Three core beliefs of African societies included honoring ancestors and animal deities, elevating rulers to a sacred status and consulting diviners and fortune tellers. You can see this in their artwork by the use of symbolism in the sculpture to portray how important someone was by making a rulers head oversized and the use of tame animals near the figure to show his power over all things. They also honored their ancestors by way of body decoration and modification, rituals and masks. Being firm believers in the spirit world, they made grand forms of architecture using brick and living rock to create places of worship. The early African people had a few ways of remembering and honoring their ancestors and family, like making sculptures for display in shrines or making pendants and jewelry depicting the likeness of those who perished. One example of this is the Waist pendant of a queen mother, from Benin Nigeria, ca. 1520, thought to portray the mother of Oba Esigie. The naturalistic ivory pendant symbolized the legacy of a dynasty and was made to honor the king’s mother. There are Portuguese heads on the top and bottom of the head. The Portuguese were thought of as people from the spirit world who brought wealth, power and prosperity to the king. Trade networks led to the wide spread of religion throughout early African...
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...The concept of identity is a complex and ambiguous one to say the least. What is it about society that makes us feel the need to add the footnote: Jewish, Black, Muslim, etc., to our existence? This self-imposed segregation of our own species thus far, has only served to assist discrimination and hysteria. The blight this casts on society according to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainer Bill Cosby, and writer Tony Judt, is caused by ourselves, creating these race and religious identities in order to feel safer, blame others for own problems, and an attempt to make a perfectly imperfect world uniform. After the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, Americas view on Muslim society drastically changed, Muslim Americans went from neighbors and citizens, to potential enemy combatants in the eyes of an overwhelming amount of Americans. Determining whether or not someone was a Muslim became of paramount importance to Americans. Citizens, who were once doctors, lawyers, and politicians especially, now had to identify themselves as a Muslim doctor, Muslim Lawyer, or the dreaded Muslim Politician. It was this type of fear that promoted the controversy over whether Mosque being built near the former site of the twin towers should stand; to which Mayor Bloomberg said “Let us not forget that Muslims were among those murdered on 9/11, and that our Muslim neighbors grieved with us as New Yorkers and as Americans. We would betray our values and play into our enemies’ hands...
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...Ethnic Groups & Discrimination Course ETH125 October 3rd, 2010 I chose to identify with African American. I chose to identify with African American because I am half white and half black. I am multi-racial. I believe that African Americans went through a lot more issues that I would like to learn about. For more than 200 years before the Civil War, slavery existed in the US. After the war, things got worse for blacks. Former confederates passed laws called black codes after the war to limit the right of blacks and segregate them from the whites. At that time, 95% of slaves were black. However, they were still segregated all over town. Republicans wanted to make sure that when the south revamped itself, that the blacks would be freed to become viable members of society. Unfortunately, in 1877 the Democrats regained power and crushed all laws that were created by the Republicans. The Democrats were able to strip the blacks of everything they worked to gain. They took away their right to hold political offices, vote, and participate as equal members of the society. Gradually, the laws of discrimination were reinstated. The main reason for the laws was to take away the power that the blacks finally had gained. The Democrats wanted to stop blacks from voting. The Democrats made sure that there were fees charged at voting booths and was too expensive for the blacks. There were also literacy tests. Since teaching blacks was illegal, most adult blacks were...
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...freedom from the oppression of society’s expectations. The plot takes place over a 30-year period in the reconstruction South of Georgia. They live in a rural farm community and were a hotbed of activity for civil rights and suffrage. This book was written from the other side of racism, from the victim’s point of view forcing the reader to see the result of bigotry. Racism not only affected Celie’s life but also the life of her friend Sofia. Sofia was a headstrong young girl who took charge in her life, and provided a role model for Celie. She taught her how to stand up for herself, and they both were victims of the corrupt justice system of the South. The prejudice in this time made it virtually impossible for any woman, but especially African American women to find work outside the home, and thereby escape abusive situations...
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...English Paper The racial situation in Obama’s America Black and white are the most basic colors we know. They work together everyday to helps us deal with everyday problems. But somehow this two colors has become the heart of an interracial war. People let the color of their skin tell people who they are and judge people the same way. Are we really a world filled with people who would judge a book by its cover. Or have we forgotten about the past and strive towards living together as one entity ‘Humans’ 1: Different attitudes to the racial situation. Text 1: In “Black is being seen in a whole new light” lawyer and columnist Yolanda Young reflects upon the changes in the racial perception that has taken place after Obama took office in 2009. Her first sighting of change came in form of a compliment from white tourists who said: “You’re so pretty. You look like Michelle Obama.” This compliment lead to her conclusion that a “cultural paradigm shift” had happened. This is not only because she was compared to Michelle Obama, but the fact that she got a compliment in the first place from a white person. This is a big change in the ordinary conduct of interracial interaction and is perhaps the result of Obama becoming the most powerful man in the world. This change also show in certain test that psychologist have conducted where the preference of white only was 51% in comparison to previous test that show a white preference of 81%. So by accepting a black man as their leader the United...
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...it be? After all, she thought of herself as perfectly healthy. But it turns out Shermane had been at risk all along. Like many other African American women, she had a strong family history of high blood pressure and heart disease. Unfortunately, she didn’t discover this until it was almost too late. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in women, and stroke disproportionately affects African Americans. Importantly, African American women are less likely than Caucasian women to be aware that heart disease is the leading cause of death. Diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, physical inactivity, obesity and a family history of heart disease are all greatly prevalent among African Americans and are major risk factors for heart disease and stroke. What’s more, African American women have almost two times the risk of stroke than Caucasians, and more likely to die at an earlier age when compared to women of other ethnicities. Here are a few unsettling stats: Cardiovascular diseases kill nearly 50,000 African American women annually. Of African-American women ages 20 and older, 49 percent have heart diseases. Only 1 in 5 African American women believes she is personally at risk. Only 52 percent of African American women are aware of the signs and symptoms of a heart attack. Only 36 percent of African American women know that heart disease is their greatest health risk....
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...We call depression "the blues" in the black community. We have been taught, at least in the past, and, to a certain extent even now, to shrug off this mental state. For many of us, it is not just a fact of life; it is a way of life. When bluesmen used to sing, "Every day I have the blues" or "It ain't nothing but the blues" or similar words from hundreds of songs, they do more than mouth lyrics. They voice a cultural attitude. They state an accepted truth at the heart of their music: Having the blues goes along with being black in America. In addition, from the time we are young boys, black males have ingrained into us an idea of manhood that requires a silence about feelings, a withholding of emotion, and ability to bear burdens alone, and a refusal to appear "weak." The internal pressure to adhere to this concept of masculinity only increases as we sometimes experience various forms of racism in a society that historically has sought to deny us our manhood. The internal wall that often keeps black men away from psychotherapy goes along with external barriers built just as high, if not higher. Mental health practitioners are overwhelmingly white, with the proportion of black psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts estimated at less than three percent of the nation's total. This would mean that even if black men were to break through the self-imposed barriers and seek professional help for mental issues, it may be difficult to find someone with whom they can build...
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...Stereotype Paper Stereotyping can be defined as “a conventional, formulaic, and over simplified conception, opinion, or image; one that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type”. (Herbert, 2008) Originally, a stereotype was a metal plate involved in the printing process. Once it was struck with an image, the imprint became permanent. Stereotyping is generally associated with prejudicial, erroneous, or misleading view of social groups not anchored in direct experience. (Holmberg, 2010) For this reason, it is generally thought that stereotyping is negative, and that it has widespread harmful effects. It can be noted that nearly all humans participate in a certain amount of stereotyping, whether it be from thoughts or values passed down to them through the generations, or views they’ve come to by their own thought process. One particular stereotype that I’ve observed being perpetuated in my own family is regarding gender roles. It is generally accepted in my ex- husband’s family that traditional gender roles should be observed (a woman’s place is in the home and that men should be the sole providers for the family etc.) The boys are raised learning to hunt and shoot guns and are strongly encouraged to participate in sporting activities in school. For the most part, young girls are strictly encouraged to participate in “girly” activities and are not encouraged to join sporting teams or do any athletic activity. In fact, my daughter was even...
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...Misogyny Page1 In today’s view hip hop is blamed for the negative images of women in music videos. When it comes to degrading and sexist representations of women in music, it is often perceived as misogynistic. Misogyny in hip hop culture refers to lyrics, videos or other aspects of hip hop culture that justifies exploitation of women. Hip hop has influenced modern popular culture, saturating mass media through music videos, radio broadcasts, and a variety of others. Most of the lyrics and images you see today in the hip-hop industry portray women of all ethnicities as sexual objects and depicts the exploitation of women. The image of dozens of semi-naked women dancing provocatively around one famous rapper has become the usual in music videos. Hip hop has become a mess of unrealistic images of female sexuality. Some defend that the sexism in hip hop is a part of a hip hop artist life. If that’s the case then how did this image become the accepted standard of hip hop music video format? Many artists try to manipulate their fans in believing that this is their lifestyle, but the main reason behind that is sex sell and it draws people in. Some women have made careers of this lifestyle. If you pay attention to hip hop videos you may see some of the same faces in multiple videos. The more revealing they are the more casting calls and more money they will receive. To me I find it embarrassing that rappers degrade females in their music videos but still have the same ones in every...
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...Throughout world history, governments have violated and ignored the human and civil rights of their citizens. In some instances, they demonstrated this disregard through customs, etiquette, and racial caste systems that denied dignity and respect. In most cases, in addition to these customs, segregation rules and laws were established. Governments have also endorsed the extermination (ethnic cleansing) of entire classes or races of people. Racism is devastating to a country and its culture. Racism causes tremendous moral, cultural, and economic suffering to a country. When the seeds of hatred and ethnocentrism are planted and fostered in society, it negatively affects every area of life. In a relevant example, white supremacy in America extends over centuries, and even the abolition of slavery could not end racism. Instead, it permeated throughout society in other ways in a racial caste system known as Jim Crow. More than a set of laws, it was a way of life that kept people of color from exercising their rights as full citizens. Jim Crow sent a message that whites were superior to other races, particularly the black race, in all ways, including behavior, intelligence, morality, and social status. The laws were so pervasive that they regulated every aspect of life, including socialization, sexual relations, marriage, housing education, entertainment, use of public facilities, and voting rights. Those that took a stand against white supremacy risked threats, intimidation...
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