In Unbowed by Wangari Maathai, she discusses the intersections of gender, race, environment, and cultural injustices that were taking place around her in Kenya and how our world needs to strive for not only independence and freedom, but to have it result in interdependence as a whole. Many of the points that Maathai makes throughout this beautiful, empowering memoir, can be applied to the society we are currently living in. She makes a point to discuss these various injustices stemming from a corrupt
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Have you ever heard of Haiti? You might have heard it on the news after multiple, unbearable natural disasters occurred there. Even though Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, there are so many things you can do, both night and day. Hawaii? Overdone. India? Forget it. Haiti? Perfect! To begin, why would anyone want to go to Haiti? Well something fun you can do is celebrating the holidays with the Haitians. Even though most people would expect everyone in Haiti to be sad and depressed
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Since the dawn of time, men have enslaved each other based on race, war, and “money.” Enslavement was a way to show superiority over peoples, demonstrate expert war strategies and tactics, or to pay off some sort of debt or ensure the economic prosperity of a group of people. In the centuries succeeding the Columbian discovery of the New World, major world powers began the race to imperialism. Because of this contest to colonize the New World, extensive trade networks were formed across the known
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The middle passage has its own history of cruelty and violence. During the Atlantic slave trades, the middle passage connected Africa with the Americas. During the passages, the healthy as well as physical conditions were responsible for the loss of life of many slave men, women and children. The slaves were kept in shackles however, the women and children were treated slightly better but the treatment was still inadequate, because after all they were still a slave. The conditions for slaves were
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Andrew Jackson “Let the people rule”- Andrew Jackson Do you know who your ancestors are? My Grandma Beem informed me that my great, great, great, great, Uncle is President Andrew Jackson. After learning this, I took it upon myself to research him. Find what out more about him, besides common facts like he is the seventh president and in the twenty dollar bill. This paper will discuss Andrew’s childhood and what he went through growing up. March 15th of 1767, Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson gave birth
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Bad Sugar This essay will discuss the health factors that I felt influenced the Tohono O’odham and Achimel O’odham (Pima) tribes in the documentary, “ Bad Sugar.” The health factors that I will be discussing are geographic challenges and socioeconomic factors. Geographic factors The Tohono O’odham and Achimel O’odham (Pima) tribes settled in Southwestern Arizona where the Gila River streamed through their land as a primary source of water for the tribe and their farmlands that provided them with
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The impact Bacon’s Rebellion had on indentured servitude and African slavery begaing When the settlers came to the New World they came looking for gold and riches, they soon discovered that there was not much gold in this new land but did discovered that the soil here was extremely fertile and could grow a lot of different kinds of crops. With this new source of revenue in the southern colonies these cash crops required a lot of labor and manpower to grow, maintain and harvest the crops, because
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After Christopher Columbus’s voyage in 1492, he discovered sugar and brought it back to Europe and the Caribbean. Sugar was used as a sweetener for tea and other treats the Europeans ate. The production of cane sugar become a large industry in Europe. Sugar was not well know until it became a larger industry because it could not grow in Great Britain. The economy exploded because of the rapid production of sugar and constant need of it. The sugar trade was driven by demand, economy, and growing conditions
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Explosion of African slaves had happened between 1680 and 1700 because of what the aristocrats realized after Bacon’s rebellion. Bacon’s rebellion was in response to poor white men who did not have land or work after their indentured servitude was up. The rebellion was led by Nathaniel Bacon, who led a biracial group of poor whites and African. During these times, many field workers were indentured servants, these were people who were poor Europeans that signed contracts that allowed them to come
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If you ask some people to describe a place that represents Miami, an abundance of people would immediately describe Miami Beach. On the contrary, when I think of a place that represents Miami, I think of Bayside. Why Bayside? Well, because of its boisterous nightlife, dazzling scenery, and multicultural inhabitants. Imagine driving down the filled streets of downtown Miami and just getting an ear full of that flavorful Latin music, then you arrive at the Bayside marketplace and catch a whiff of that
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