The failure of Libya
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
While studying the situation in Libya, we are facing a case that is really different from the other failed states. Contrary to Irak or Syria, there is no ethnic differences. Libyans are, like most people from North Africa, a mixed people made of Amazigh and Arabs. Contrary to Irak, Syria or...
Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress (1835) - Territorial Expansion
Text commentary - 3 pages - Political science
« Americans are not perfect people but they are called to a perfect mission », such is one of the key visions of the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, a period in which America had to face many struggles to achieve a real and one federal nation. To that purpose, the...
French civilization, description and analysis of a publicity for Banania
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This is a visual analysis of an image with a lot of reading of secondary source texts.
Decolonizing Academic Capitalism: Reimagining Research Ethics and Knowledge Sovereignty in Indigenous Contexts
Dissertation - 11 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This research examines the intersections of academic capitalism, colonial legacies, and indigenous knowledge systems within Cameroon's higher education landscape. Through qualitative methodological approaches, including institutional ethnography and critical discourse analysis of policy...
The Indian Political Situation: Memorandum by the Lord Privy Seal for the War Cabinet - Clement Attlee (1942) - Why is it important for England not to lose India and what does it entail considering there is a world war going?
Text commentary - 4 pages - Modern history
In 1942, at the time Clement Attlee presents that memorandum on "The Indian political situation" as Lord Privy Seal for the War Cabinet, the British Empire was well entangled in its Second World War, a little more than twenty years after the previous one. (...) This memorandum is most...
Sociology of Science: Algerian War
Case study - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Algerian War's historical context and its impact on the country's independence, exploring the unequal management and underlying resentment that led to the conflict.
Colonial History Timeline
Worksheets - 7 pages - Modern history
Key dates in colonial history, including the Berlin Congress, Fachoda Crisis, and conquest of various regions.
Zambia History Overview
Time lines - 2 pages - Medieval history
Discover the rich history of Zambia, from its early occupation by the San to its independence in 1964 and beyond.
Post-Colonial African Society in Ahmadou Kourouma and Mongo Beti's Works
Text commentary - 5 pages - Literature
Analysis of the reflection of a society shaken by colonialism in two Francophone African novels: Ahmadou Kourouma's 'The Suns of Independence' and Mongo Beti's 'Too Much Sun Kills Love'.
Outline some of the key features of the way in which Camus depicts Franco-Algerian relations during the colonial period. To what extent do such visions of Algeria and Algerians continue to be reproduced in France today?
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
Born and raised in colonized Algeria among the Algerian population but educated as a Frenchman by the French education system, Camus had always developed a specific vision of Algeria. Indeed, even if as a humanist he was against many excesses of French colonization, though he truly...
Discuss how "race difference" was constructed and deployed in the Irish/British struggles
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Ireland is an island situated off the west coast of England. It is the oldest colony of the powerful British Empire. Indeed, the British were attracted by Ireland's fertile lands. Furthermore, this part of their kingdom could be a springboard for the Crown to spread the English hegemony....
Mercantilism - publié le 09/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
Mercantilism was both an economical policy and different theoretical ideas. It was typically a European phenomenon which reached its highest development in the seventeenth century. It slowly disappeared during the eighteenth century. Thus, mercantilism covered the period from the Renaissance to...
Corporate labor and the sweatshop
Case study - 5 pages - Management
United States economist Michael Watts said in the film, The End of Poverty? that "capitalism cannot operate without free labor." The term free labor has evolved in meaning over the centuries. In Feudal Europe, free laborers were known as serfs who worked the land in return for protection. During...
Mercantilism
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Mercantilism was both an economical policy and different theoretical ideas. It was typically a European phenomenon which reached its highest development in the seventeenth century. It slowly disappeared during the eighteenth century. Thus, mercantilism covered the period from the Renaissance to...
Spanish assumptions of Native Americans in the new world
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Early assumptions about Native American cultures and religions played a large role in justifying the reformation of Indians' ways of life. Assumptions made by the Spaniards included that Indians lacked morality, ethics, reason, and political institutions, and were therefore ripe for...
Critically discuss the contributions of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement to international legal scholarship
Thesis - 6 pages - International law
After the World War II and its atrocities, a new international institution, the United Nations (UN) was created in 1945 to focus on the new challenges faced by the international community. One of the major challenges was the wave of decolonization which started between the two World wars. It was...
The history of the Mediterranean 1798-1956
Tutorials/exercises - 24 pages - Medieval history
The history of the Mediterranean region deals with the interaction of cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea which was the central superhighway of transport trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples. This history is important in order to understand the...
Sub-Saharan Africa, of the middle of the years 1950 at the end of the Eighties
Case study - 8 pages - Geography
The process of colonization was marked by dominance and imperialism and dates back to the 16th century. From that time, the Portuguese and Spanish shared the known world and established colonies (territory under a foreign state, the mainland). A new doctrine called colonialism was born and...
Colonialism in Things fall apart
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
Colonialism is the enforcement of political, cultural, economic, and military troops over the weak nations in order to exploit them; it is the method employed to spread capitalism and its values. When Britain embraced Capitalism, it started to colonize nations so as to secure its material...
Mini-epidemics of infection by Pseudomonas and its outbreak
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
Although outbreaks of infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pseu extra-mural have been described, this germ is not pathogenic in the immune competent host. For against, it is a major agent of nosocomial infections, especially in the ICU, where he is responsible for pneumonia, urinary or skin...
"The Autobiography of my Mother", Jamaica Kincaid (1995) - "What makes the world go round? (...) cocoa tree grew in England"
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
Jamaica Kincaid wrote 'The Autobiography of my mother' in 1955. She was from the small island of Antigua located in the Caribbean area. It was colonized by the Spanish and by the British. In this way, the reader easily understands the importance of the colonial theme in the book. The...
American colonies
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The colonization of North America began in the early seventeenth century and was mainly carried out by Spain, France and England. British colonization was inaugurated in 1607 by the establishment of the first colony, organized around the city of Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout the...
Did the League of Nation fail?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The idea of an international organization find its roots in the early 18th Century, carried out through Kant's nib. As the world changes and goes towards a globalization of political, economical and social factors, the will of a new form of a society appears to be one of the major concepts of...
West African Anglophone Literary Productions
Course material - 21 pages - Literature
By and large, the objective of this course is to get students in the humanities to cast a meaningful glance at the landscape of the aesthetico-social and political realities which have affected the continent, ever since slavery days through colonization up to the contemporary stage, in the...
"The Tempest", William Shakespearean - Prospero's relationship with the natives - publié le 13/01/2009
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Prospero is presented as the colonizer, and Ariel and Caliban are seen as his «colonized subjects ». These two Natives had to accept this newcomer twelve years ago, and we rapidly learn that both didn't react the same way. Ariel feels grateful towards Prospero...
Development and causes of poverty in Rwanda
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
Rwanda is a socially and politically unstable country. It has been divided and ruined since 1930, by Belgian colonizers and wars. It cannot be denied that Rwanda suffers from many troubles. The first trouble has been colonization. Rwanda still suffers from the colonization period....
Mozambique: a cold war conflict? - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
The colonization of Mozambique by Portugal began in the 15th century. The first settling was made in 1498, near the mouth of Zambezi River by Vasco de Gama himself. A few years later, the Portuguese founded a city in Lourenço Marques bay, nowadays known as Maputo. Thanks to the trade of...
Upward mobility of children of Algerian's immigrants in France: between inclusion and exclusion
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Eric Besson, the French minister of Immigration, triggered a debate recently centering on the question of the national identity. This debate is supposed to give a definition of the meaning of being French. This debate highlights the lack of integration that some minorities living in the French...
The conquest of Mexico: Indigenous actions, Iberian Influence and hegemony
Thesis - 3 pages - Political science
Throughout history, nations and states sought to dominate subordinate groups under many different circumstances. In the first quarter of the sixteenth century, the Spanish Conquistadors began to conquer and colonize the area that would become Mexico (this essay will primarily discuss the events...
European issues since 1989
Thesis - 6 pages - European union
Europe has been an economic, commercial and financial power since the 11th century (middle Ages). At that time it boasted of two major shopping centers run by the “Flanders” in Northern Germany and Northern Italy. • The discovery of America in the late 15th century and the...
