...populated this earth five-thousand years ago happened during the Bantu migration; now moving forward to more current times of African people displaced by political oppressions, famine, economic factors, and conflicts. The slave trade encompassed four continents: Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. When slaves were forced to North America had not only brought people but different cultures within North America, too. Aside from African’s forced to North America, to understand cultural syncretism, one must take into account Asia and the Indian Ocean that took place a couple of hundred years earlier. The coerced labor from 1500 (Asia and the Indian Ocean) was an earlier account of cultural syncretism but Europeans found it more difficult to mingle two different beliefs into one. Over-time the different cultures in North America would not be so much forced syncretism, but would rather create a melting pot of beliefs (Lindenfield, 2008). Cultural Mergence Looking at the two different worlds that were oceans apart in some aspects may have been only miles apart. Thinking of what causes two different cultures to merge is usually simply religion. When settlers found the New World, had settled it in the image of Christianity. Everybody who lived on the New World’s land was expected to take in the ideology of Christianity, just like the Pilgrims did to the Native Americans (Lindenfield, 2008). Fast-forwarding to Africans forced to North America for forced labor were taught the...
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...On February 4, 1789 George Washington become the first president of the United States. Over 200 hundred years later after taking the same oath I stand before you as the first female president to be elected. In this time America has faced numerous adversities and accomplished great feats. We have fought through the depression and survived numerous wars. Women have earned to right to vote and men have been sent into space. However, we must face that fact that new problems have arisen and it is up to us to face them and determine our future. Over the course of presidential terms many famous quotes have been said, but I quote one today that is not so well remembered. Over a hundred years ago our 23rd president Benjamin Harrison said “Not all of...
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...colonization of America all of the colonies were under Britain’s thumb, then only African-Americans and women were under the rule of white men, and even when African-Americans and women were granted rights, there still hasn’t been true equality. America was founded on the idea that everyone should be free and have inalienable rights, so what went wrong? Two hundred and forty one years ago, Patrick Henry was getting the fight for independence and freedom started. He was strong in believing that people’s rights should be protected and that people should not be oppressed. Henry was able to recognize that Britain was an oppressing force....
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...United States Of America Vs Cameroon. A developing nation is one with lower living standards, low human development index, and underdeveloped industrial base. Living in two countries has given me the ability to experience the different lifestyles, understand the cultural differences, and love the different choices presented by life as a whole. There are some similarities between Cameroon and the United States of America, but the differences between these countries in terms of population, infrastructure, standards of living, and government is wide. The population of the United States of America is three hundred and seventeen million, third by population, and fourth largest by area. Eighty two percent of the population lives in urban areas, and the nation is multicultural made of diverse immigrants. English is the main language being taught in schools, and Spanish is gradually being integrated in the society. Americans identify as homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender. On the other hand, the population of Cameroon is twenty million, and the country is just a little larger than the state of California in area. Most Cameroonians live in both the urban and rural areas with the highest population density in the urban areas, northeastern plains, and western highlands. Both monogamous and polygamous marriages are practiced in Cameroon, and they generally have large extended families. Cameroon has two hundred and fifty linguistic groups, but French and English are the official languages...
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...of the Native American chief Powhatan, in 1614, and they had one son, Thomas Rolfe. In 1616, John Rolfe returned to England with his wife Pocahontas. Rolfe returned to Jamestown after Pocahontas’ death on March 21, 1617. Rolfe became a landowner and married Jane Peirce before his death in 1622. Jamestown Settlement, 1607-1625 In 1606, the London Company received a royal charter from King James I to organize an expedition and establish colonies in North America. The Plymouth Company would establish the short-lived colony in Maine (see AJ-042). The Virginia Company set up England’s first permanent colony in Jamestown, Virginia. Their primary goal was profit; investors hoped settlers would find valuable natural resources, such as lumber, herbs, pitch, and even gold, to send back to England. However, the English government also wanted to resist the Spanish colonization of North America (see AJ-077 for the report of a Spaniard on the Jamestown colony.) One hundred and four men and boys came ashore in May 1607-no women arrived until the following year. Over the next three years almost eight hundred settlers would arrive to colonize the Virginia coasts-six hundred of them arriving in 1609. Unfortunately, Jamestown was not an ideal spot for a colony. The low marshy land was not healthy, and clean water could be difficult to find. Attacks by the Powhatan Indians began shortly after the English colonists built their first fort at the Jamestown site. Fighting between the English and...
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...1- Write a paragraph about your first day in America. What did you see, hear, feel, think? I came in the united states almost one year ago. My first day was in New York. My travel was troublesome because I had to sit about 11 hours in an airplane. For this reason,I felt myself so tired. I arrived at GFK airport about four o'clock afternoon. I waited two hours for procedure of visa. when a responsible agency took us to the hotel, the time was six o'clock. Thus I didn't see anything except airport area. After resting I looked out from the window. New York was sleeping in the dark night and lights were winking for it. 2- Write about what you have done and have been doing in America since the first day. I have been in Virginia State of America since March 2011. My first month was beautiful in here. I didn't think about job. I have traveled a few states , such as Chicago, New York. Georgia and South Carolina . In during my travel I have seen many sightseeing places. I have discovered that America is very huge and rich country. After two months I began to find job and to develop my English skills. After four months investigation, I made a decision about my Owen business. So I bought Have A Bite restaurant. I have been working in here for six months. 3- Describe you last week at home before you came to America. Before I came in America my last weeks in Turkey were exciting , unforgettable and sad. They were excited because I would ready go to a new country. Especially...
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...Bank of America: Analyzing Corporate Citizenship In the words of Thomas Friedman, “If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.” With “bad neighborhoods” symbolizing customers, this portrays a direct consequence of what can happen if a company does not take into account the impacts of its business decisions. As society progresses through the 21st century, it is clear that the people along with the government are beginning to demand more from companies. Quality products and services are still highly regarded; however, becoming a good corporate citizen is turning out to be an important part of a company’s reputation. Good corporate citizenship is when companies look beyond business goals and take in consideration the effects of their business decisions. Giving back to the community is also something businesses do, however, is not part of good corporate citizenship. This is true because financially providing to a local community has no correlation to business as it is simply a way for businesses to advertise and market their product. Therefore, actions such as emphasizing an environmental program, using methods that respect social and cultural values, or providing employees with special benefits such as a company car or expense account illustrate examples of good corporate citizenship. Making sure stockholders, shareholders, and local residents are respectfully treated is also important. These actions constitute good corporate citizenship...
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...For many foods which we now enjoy and rely upon, we must thank the people of the Americas who domesticated or discovered them. Many of our everyday foods originated in the ancient New World. Of the world's top 26 crops by tonnage, eight originated in the Americas. A third of United States crop value depends on foods that were first grown in the Americas. Without food crops from the New World, Indonesian satays, Indian curries, and even pizza would be unrecognizable. Let's look at some of the incredible variety of foods from the Americas and their impact on history. POTATOES Today, in the United States, we grow 250 varieties of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum). Incredibly, Andean natives were already cultivating three thousand varieties before the Spaniards arrived. The Spaniards first encountered the potato in 1535. Initially, they fed potatoes, in combination with another well-known plant, coca, (link Medicines that Changed the World: The Wonders of the Coca Plant) to their Indian silver mine laborers, which kept the slaves working at a feverish pitch under incredibly difficult conditions. Eventually, potatoes were transported back to Spain, then dispersed throughout the world. Today at least 130 countries grow some variety of potato. | | Potatoes arrived in Ireland toward the end of the sixteenth century. By 1625, the potato was a cheap and nutritious staple. By the end of the eighteenth century, an Irish citizen might eat up to ten pounds of potatoes a day. Potatoes fueled...
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...I believe America is the greatest country in the world. The variety of people and races have an impact on how other countries see the U.S. The military has millions of people to defend our country from invaders. The right to vote makes us different from hundreds of countries. The people in the U.S are never the same. There are differences in race, language, religion, and traditions. We have immigrants from Mexico trying to make a better life in America. It makes sense that immigrants would come to the U.S because America was founded by immigrants. This makes America very special. Americans eighteen and older can vote. Every four years there is a presidential election where four candidates are voted on. The top two are put into another presidential...
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...American viewpoints of immigrants have been changing for years. Azar Nafisi claims that immigrants to America can feel at home because "they can be outsiders and yet still belong." While this statement may have been true in the past, it falls apart quickly when analyzed in the current decade. There is a place in America for everyone, but success in achieving the American Dream is more difficult for those who can't comply with Americanized standards. The first time I walked through the streets of Chinatown in Philly I felt as if I was in another country. Words I'd never heard before, big, colorful signs in Chinese, and Asian people were everywhere. This wasn't the first time I'd been able to witness the diversity of America. In New York, I'd...
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...Gabriel Garcia Marquez In my essay I want to talk about Gabriel Garcia Marquez two famous works “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera”. Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1928, in the small town of Aracataca, Colombia. He started his career as a journalist. When One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in his native Spanish in 1967, as Cien años de soledad, García Márquez achieved true international fame; he went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important, and the most widely read, text to emerge from that period. It is also a central and pioneering work in the movement that has become known as magical realism, which was characterized by the dreamlike and fantastic elements woven into the fabric of its fiction. Even as it draws from García Márquez’s provincial experiences, One Hundred Years of Solitude also reflects political ideas that apply to Latin America as a whole. Latin America once had a thriving population of native Aztecs and Incas (of the many complex civilizations to arise in the ancient Americas, the Aztecs, the last ancient Mexican civilization, known for their huge city-on-a-lake of Tenochtitlan and for the practice of mass human sacrifice; and the Incas of Peru, whose rigid state structure and many golden treasures so amazed the Spanish invaders.) but, slowly, as European explorers arrived, the native population had to adjust to the technology and capitalism...
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...At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time. Did you hear about the plot to rig global interest rates? The $137 million fine for bilking needy schools and cities? The ingenious plan to suck multiple fees out of the unemployment checks of jobless workers? Take your eyes off them for 10 seconds and guaranteed, they'll be into some shit again: This bank is like the world's worst-behaved teenager, taking your car and running over kittens and fire hydrants on the way to Vegas for the weekend, maxing out your credit cards in the three days you spend at your aunt's funeral. They're out of control, yet they'll never do time or go out of business, because the government remains creepily committed to their survival, like overindulgent parents who refuse to believe their 40-year-old live-at-home son could possibly be responsible for those dead hookers in the backyard. It's been four years since the government, in the name of preventing a depression, saved this megabank from ruin by pumping $45 billion of taxpayer money into its arm. Since then, the Obama administration has looked the other way as the bank committed an astonishing variety of crimes – some elaborate and brilliant in their conception, some so crude that they'd be beneath your average street thug. Bank of America has systematically ripped off...
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...Charles 1 Brandon Charles Mr. Hoffman ENGL 1301 2nd July, 2012 Oil and Gas Throughout the history of America, many controversial subjects are discussed. The oil and gas industry has become an important part of every person’s day. Whether it’s lighting, driving, or cooking, oil and gas has become a conglomerate in big business. Known as one of the most profitable industries in the market today, stocks fluctuate on a daily basis. The history, current leaders, and financial statistics of the industry all play factors in how the business operates. The history of oil and gas plays a factor in today’s society. Petroleum has always had great demand around the country. By the twentieth century, petroleum lead the world in the product for trade market. Countries such as America, Canada, and Russia began to establish oil fields in the early 1900’s and by mid century, these countries produced up to 3,500 tons of petroleum. The first modernized oil refinery was built in Poland. This oil refinery exported petroleum to counties in Europe and in northern Africa. Competition in eastern Europe for oil was getting competitive. The U.S. took over Europe as world leaders of producing oil in the 1920’s. Factories and refineries began popping up all over the country. The hotspots in the U.S. for oil and gas are Charles 2 Texas, Oklahoma, California, and Alaska. These states to this day lead the country with the most oil and gas produced and their economies are based around...
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...accounts prove this demonstrating how some people such as the Puritans seek new opportunities and freedom in a new land while others, like the crew members of the Mayflower, exploit it for their own benefit, creating greed as the basis for which America was built upon. This exploitation of people for the benefit of others was extremely prevalent in the founding of America and followed it through hundreds of years. In the accounts of William Bradford, the suffering of the pilgrims...
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...country's "manifest destiny" to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, and President James Polk (1845-1849) was determined to acquire the Oregon territory from Great Britain and California from Mexico. He secured Oregon through a series of treaties, but California was a lot tougher (Elder, 2013). From January 1848 to 1860, the rivers that flowed from the Sierra Nevada produced a flood and abundance of gold. As soon as word passed around many people migrated to California in hopes of getting a piece of the “pie”. In 1849 almost one hundred thousand people came over from other places, while an estimated two hundred fifty thousand came by 1855. From San Francisco to China, from Australia to Western Europe, the social, economic, and political effects of California gold were profound. Among European nations, the impact in France and on the French was perhaps the most profound. Once it hit, gold fever attracted experienced miners from Latin America, laborers from China, investors from Europe, and speculators from Australia. Almost overnight, San Francisco was transformed from a tiny settlement of 1,000 in 1848 to a boomtown of 25,000 by the end of 1849 (the rush of gold prospectors eventually lent their nickname "the 49ers," to San Francisco's NFL team) (Elder, 2013). France began 1848 with a violent revolution that gave rise to the country’s second experiment in republican government. The course of that revolution was...
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