...“East Africa’s Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System” Name: Desmond Akenteng. Course: PHSC 210-A16 LUO October 20, 2013 The article review: This paper consist of a review article written by James Wood and Alex Guth, which explained the details about the “East Africa’s Rift Valley: A complex Rift System.” According to the article, the East African Rift System is one of the most majestic and the geologic wonders of the world. Wood and Guth, (05-2013) Introduction: The old of the earth is ongoing debate, which has been debatable for over centuries, and I don’t think this debate will end until Christ return. In Wood and Guth’s article “East Africa’s Great Rift Valley” they have discuss the complicity of the Rift system that keep on to advance and play out in East Africa. In this case, they have an effort to link this complicated series of geologic wonders to the evolution of man. Brief overview and main point of the article: The article talks about the East Africa’s Rift System. The author’s Wood and Guth main reasons for conducting this article as I can see in this article itself is that, they talk about the general geology of the Rift System and stresses on the developments that comprises their geologic formation. This article gave detailed explanation of the Rifts, but at the same time recorded that precise apparatus of the Rift pattern has been continues debated between geologist’ and geophysicist. The...
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...Barack Obama Dreams from My Father “For we are strangers before them, and sojourners, as were all our fathers. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15 PREFACE TO THE 2004 EDITION A LMOST A DECADE HAS passed since this book was first published. As I mention in the original introduction, the opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. In the wake of some modest publicity, I received an advance from a publisher and went to work with the belief that the story of my family, and my efforts to understand that story, might speak in some way to the fissures of race that have characterized the American experience, as well as the fluid state of identitythe leaps through time, the collision of cultures-that mark our modern life. Like most first-time authors, I was filled with hope and despair upon the book’s publication-hope that the book might succeed beyond my youthful dreams, despair that I had failed to say anything worth saying. The reality fell somewhere in between. The reviews were mildly favorable. People actually showed up at the readings my publisher arranged. The sales were underwhelming. And, after a few months, I went on with the business of my life, certain that my career as an author would be short-lived, but glad to have survived the process with my dignity more or less intact. I had little time for reflection over the next ten years. I ran a voter registration project in...
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