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U S Embassy U S State
1,401 wordsA civil war that has raged for seven years in the small West African country of Sierra Leone has turned increasingly brutal. (1, p. 1) Rebels are mutilating civilians without much response from the international community. A strong Nigerian contingency has tried to suppress the rebellion, but the rebels continue to cause major trouble in Sierra Leone. The rebels overthrew President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. However, President Kabbah returned to office on March 10, 1998 to face the task of restoring or...
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Crimes Against Humanity Sierra Leone
1,419 words... e. With President Kabbah back at the head of government, many people faced criminal charges of collaborating with the coup. A former government minister and nine others were sentenced to death for collaborating with the bloody 1997 coup. The sentences pronounced in the High Court by Judge Bankole Rashid brought to 27 the number of civilians condemned to death by hanging in connection with the May 1997 coup and its aftermath. (9, p. 1) Veteran politician Nancy Steele, 75, and two other women ...
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Sierra Leone Rebel Forces
1,738 wordsThe British established a colony at Freetown in 1787 for slaves returning to Africa from Great Britain and the United States and for slaves rescued from shipwrecks. The land of original settlement, where the city later developed, was purchased from local chiefs. The Sierra Leone Company, formed in 1791, administered the settlement until 1808, when it became a crown colony. Britain set up a protectorate over the hinterland of Freetown in 1896. The British were relatively nice towards the people o...
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Origins Of American Slavery
613 wordsIn the early seventeenth century, the English began to rapidly and successfully colonize America. With this rapid population increase also came, shortly after, a booming new agricultural economy. And with this economy came a need for labor, a labor that was, at first, hard to find. Looking desperately for help, big time planters and small time farmers alike, began to develop a system of servitude, which first involved indenture servants from Europe and Native American slaves. But soon the Englis...
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Judeo Christian Modern Medicine
2,485 words... 989 Curanderismo is a 500 year old medical system born in the Americas, its inception began when the Spaniards arrived on this continent and blended their medicine with that of indigenous peoples from Mexico and the Southwestern United States. 500 years ago the indigenous people of the Americas already had a system of healthcare which was thousands of years old, the Spaniards also had an established system which was at that time one of the most advanced in the Western world. The Spanish syst...
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Black English Grammatical Rules
1,237 wordsEbonics, or Black English, was recently a controversial topic in the United States, when the Oakland School District school board attempted to classify ebonics as a completely different language from Standard American English (SAE). There was further controversy when the school board stated that ebonics was genetic. This report will explain Ebonics and its origin, as well as the Oakland school board case. There are over 20 million blacks in the United States today. It is hard to tell exactly how...
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Marketing Strategy And Mix Of Cargo International
1,696 wordsTarget Market As cargo offers homogeneous product, shipping service, the primary target customers thus would be very much approached by the mass marketing approach. Mass marketing is when the needs of an entire market are relatively homogeneous. The marketing mix therefore consists of single product, single price, single promotional program and single distribution system. Cargo will follow this approach with some flexibility in adjusting the theory to its strategy. Cargo's primary target market ...
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Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow Laws
3,520 wordsSarah Anne Stevenson Dave Stock English Language and Comprehension 20 November 1999 Blues Music and its influence on integration From years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history: West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains and sailors-carrying muskets, swords, and shackles-landed on the coast, walked up ...
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Atlantic Slave Trade Late Nineteenth Century
6,974 wordsStudies In The World History Of Slavery, Studies In The World History Of Slavery, Abolition And Emancipation, I, 1 (1996). THE TRANSITION FROM THE SLAVE TRADETO LEGITIMATE COMMERCE Robin Law (University of Stirling, Scotland) Abstract: This study reconsiders several controversies resulting from the historical debate over legitimate trade nineteenth-century exports of African commodities other than slaves West Africa. The controversies reviewed include the incidence of enslavement in West African...
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