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  • The History of Apartheid in South Africa Strategists in the National Party

    The History of Apartheid in South Africa Strategists in the National Party

    The History of Apartheid in South Africa Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means to cement their control over the economic and social system. Initially, aim of the apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation. Starting in the 60's, a plan of ''Grand Apartheid'' was executed, emphasizing territorial separation and police repression. With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. Race laws touched every aspect

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    Essay Length: 989 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Articulation of Pan-Africanism

    The Articulation of Pan-Africanism

    This week’s theme is the articulation of Pan-Africanism. The readings on which this response paper will focus are “Pan Africanism” by Jeremiah Dibua, “from The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, by Malcolm X, and “’Negro Women Are Great Thinkers As Well As Doers’: Amy Jacques Garvey and Community Feminism in the United States, 1924-1927” by Ula Taylor. This essay will briefly summarize each reading as well as offer my response to the authors’ readings in relation

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    Essay Length: 621 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Mikki
  • African Traditional Religion

    African Traditional Religion

    In this paper I wish to examine the place and the role of women according to African Religion. The paper focuses on three areas: mythology, proverbs and prayers. In the area of mythology we are confronted with the picture of women in the early state of human existence. This is not history. The myth is broader than history in explaining some aspects of society. It is a language of expressing truths or realities for which

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    Essay Length: 5,558 Words / 23 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Philippines Is Bordered by the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean

    The Philippines Is Bordered by the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean

    The Philippines is bordered by the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. It has three major island groups which are the Luzon, the largest island and where the capital is located; Visayan, and Mindanao. Eleven islands make up 94 percent of the Philippine landmass, and two of these--Luzon and Mindanao--measure 105,000 and 95,000 square kilometers, respectively. They, together with the cluster of the Visayan Islands that separate them, represent the three principal regions of

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    Essay Length: 1,463 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: regina
  • The Challenge of Effective Governance in a Democratic South Africa

    The Challenge of Effective Governance in a Democratic South Africa

    Introduction There are many events during the course of a transition which signal the passage from the old order to the new. In the period immediately following South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 these symbols of transition were everywhere. Yet there is one event which stands out in my memory as among the most vivid symbols of the enormity of the change which South Africa has experienced. On 10 May last year, Nelson Mandela

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    Essay Length: 326 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Doing Business in South Africa

    Doing Business in South Africa

    Doing Business in South Africa Introduction The South African culture compromise of: black Afrikaans , white Afrikaans, mixed-race Afrikaans, Asian-Indian, White Chinese-Taiwanese (Koopman & van Muijen 1994). The black Afrikaans are the majority race in South Africa. The Zulu nation makes up the majority in the black Afrikaans, The white Afrikaans are the minority race and have the majority of the power. The white Afrikaans are predominately from the English origin. The mixed-race Afrikaans are

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    Essay Length: 1,267 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • South Africa Budget Review 2008

    South Africa Budget Review 2008

    Surname: Jackson First Names: Matthew William Student Number: Subject: Economics Assignment Number: One Tutors’ Name Mr. MC Seedat Date Submitted: 2008.03.14 Submission: First Postal Address: PO Box 704 Shelly Beach 4265 E-mail: matthew.jackson@worldonline.co.za Contact Numbers: W 039 315 0151 H 039 312 0055 Cell 0832834460 Course/Intake: MBA Year One – January 2008 I hereby declare that the assignment submitted is an original piece of work produced by myself. Matthew Jackson = 2008.03.13 Question 1: Use

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    Essay Length: 3,556 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • Strengths and Weaknesses of the North and South

    Strengths and Weaknesses of the North and South

    An important strength of the North was its manufacturing capabilities. Factories could mass produce weapons while the South had few facilities capable of providing weapons. The North had experienced an industrial revolution in which many factories produced supplies necessary for an army. Another strength of the North was that it had better railroads and highways, including naval shipping resources used to re-supply forces. The North possessed a large amount of the country's railroad and canal

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    Essay Length: 562 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Effects of Westernization on the Ruling Class of South Africa

    The Effects of Westernization on the Ruling Class of South Africa

    South Africa: In the Hands of Many Africa is land of various climates, deserts to the north, in the middle of the contenent, lays large jungles, and plains and mountains to the south. The whole southern end itself is various, not only in its in its cultures, but its peoples too. Between the beginning of the 19th century and the beginning of World War I in 1914, there was a power struggle between 3 major

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    Essay Length: 1,450 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: July
  • African History

    African History

    African History The pre-colonial African past is a subject that everyone should know about. Africa is where we originated from, and that is why I think it is very important to know about this subject. In order to know what happened in this time period the work of historians, archaeologists, and paleontologists is critical. I think historians are very important in the study of the pre-colonial African past. If historians didn't do their job than

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    Essay Length: 1,068 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Clothes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Clothes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    The short store “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about a young Indian woman, Sumita, and her cultural transition to America that is symbolized by her clothes and the color of her clothes. The traditional Indian attire for a woman is a sari and each one has its own purpose. Her clothes also indicate her progression from daughter, to wife, to woman. The story starts off with the bride to be in a yellow sari

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    Essay Length: 968 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jon
  • South Beach Diet Fanatics

    South Beach Diet Fanatics

    South Beach Diet Fanatics Experts say many people are dieting because of the government's recent warnings about the U.S. obesity epidemic. About 64 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Yet helping people control their weight is a tricky issue. "It's a balancing act, because on the one hand, clearly we have concerns that more and more teenagers are becoming obese," said David Sarwer, associate professor of psychology and director of education at the Weight

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    Essay Length: 1,931 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • Has the Amount of Information on African Americans Increased in Secondary School American History Books?

    Has the Amount of Information on African Americans Increased in Secondary School American History Books?

    With new discussions and debates about the changes needed to the curriculum of the United States Education System, especially in the area of history which scholars say that the curriculum leans toward an euro-centric model of teaching with information about European Countries and the Anglo-Saxon move to the United States. I wanted to look at American History and analyze it to see how much information is in books about African Americans and the details

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    Essay Length: 811 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Steve
  • African History

    African History

    I think it is very important for us to learn about our African history. As John Herrick Clarke states in African people in world history, “History is a clock that people use to tell their political and culture time of day. It is also a compass the people use to find themselves on the map of human geography”. As African people we have been misinformed and mis educated about great African leaders and some of

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    Essay Length: 572 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ecstasy Produced for 'riot Control' in South Africa

    Ecstasy Produced for 'riot Control' in South Africa

    Ecstasy Produced for 'Riot Control' in South Africa According to Reuters, on June 9 1998 a fomer South African government scientist told South Africa's Truth Commission that in the final days of apartheid the government ordered its chemists to make one tonne of ecstasy, for 'riot control'. The scientist, Dr Johan Koekemoer, former head of chemical and biological weapons research at the secret Delta G facility, told the commission that he did not approve of

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    Essay Length: 405 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: regina
  • African History

    African History

    African History The pre-colonial African past is a subject that everyone should know about. Africa is where we originated from, and that is why I think it is very important to know about this subject. In order to know what happened in this time period the work of historians, archaeologists, and paleontologists is critical. I think historians are very important in the study of the pre-colonial African past. If historians didn't do their job than

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    Essay Length: 1,068 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: David
  • Being an African American Woman

    Being an African American Woman

    As stated in Webster’s II Dictionary, a woman is defined to be an adult female human. In today’s society being an African American woman is a rigid task to live up to. It means to reside to what their ancestors have left behind, which means to be stronger than ever. Rosa Parks was strong, Harriet Tubman was also strong, and Jezebel was even stronger. So what exactly does it mean to be a woman? It

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    Essay Length: 893 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Thematic Unit/ South and Central American Authors

    Thematic Unit/ South and Central American Authors

    Introduction (Two days) Major Concepts _________________________________________________________ Familiarizing ourselves with South American and Central American literature is a worthwhile endeavor because: a. It is a way to experience other cultures without traveling. b. Millions of South and Central Americans live in our country today. c. South and Central American literature often displays magical realism a device rarely used in traditional American literature. d. It will offer students an opportunity to learn history, geography and sociology from

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    Essay Length: 300 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • South Carolina Gamecocks Football

    South Carolina Gamecocks Football

    South Carolina starts a new season with a new head football coach. Steve Spurrier is his name. His lifetime record is 142-40-2, which is a winning percentage of .777. He is Carolina’s 32nd head coach. He is looking forward to changing the Gamecocks around to a better team. He has nine returning starters on offense and eight returning starters on defense. Coach Spurrier says, “They have three keys to victory, they are; no freebies,

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • Augustne the African

    Augustne the African

    Augustine the African Augustine was born in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria) in 354 and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius (modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years between he lived out a career that seems to moderns to bridge the gap between ancient pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages. But to Augustine, as to his contemporaries, that gap separated real people and places they knew, not

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    Essay Length: 5,146 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Kevin
  • African Americans and Youth Violence

    African Americans and Youth Violence

    Over the decades, the perspective of juvenile delinquency has seemed to intensify, as it has been regarded as an epidemic. Youth violence has appeared to proliferate in many areas, but specifically in Chicago, Illinois. Quite often what is missing in conceptually understanding youth violence is the acknowledgement that certain factors place children, youth, and families at risk for violence. Special attention is directed at the effect of poverty, character of the neighborhoods, character of the

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    Essay Length: 956 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • Oceania, Continent Between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean

    Oceania, Continent Between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean

    Location: Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean Geographic coordinates: 27 00 S, 133 00 E Map references: Oceania Area: total: 7,686,850 sq km land: 7,617,930 sq km water: 68,920 sq km note: includes Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island Area - comparative: slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 25,760 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone:

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    Essay Length: 397 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Stenly
  • African American Women

    African American Women

    From Africa to America, African American women have embraced the spirit of creativity and survival. For years the black woman has been the backbone of our culture. It was our faith and positive spirits that played a great part in surviving slavery and being treated as second class citizens during the Civil Rights Movement. Now as we enter the 21st century, it is time to exert our strengths at a new level. The African American

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    Essay Length: 621 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • South West Airline

    South West Airline

    Southwest Airlines Executive Summary Incorporated in 1967, Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) is a Customer Service Organization that offers air transportation in the United States. Southwest Airlines flies Boeing 737 aircrafts and provides services to 64 cities in 32 states throughout the United States. Southwest focuses predominantly on point-to-point service, rather than hub-and-spoke service. Southwest offers 411 non-stop city pairs. For the most part Southwest serves short-haul routes with high frequencies. Southwest’s average flight length was

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    Essay Length: 251 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Central & South America

    Central & South America

    For more than a century, Central and South Americans have continuously immigrated to the United States. Their countries of origin include: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Belize, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uraguay and Venezuela. These countries vary greatly in size, geography, history, language, levels of urbanization and industrialization and number of immigrants who have resettled in the United States. Immigrants from these countries have been incorporated into the social

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    Essay Length: 2,355 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: David

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