Political Cartoon Reflection

This is a very interesting cartoon! The person who created this was obvoisly in favor of Africa. He is trying to show that Africa is Europes doormat. How do i know the foot print represents Europe? Its color. The footprint is WHITE, and the African Continent is BLACK. It makes the African people look like *lesser humans*, which obvoisly isnt true, but back then, thats what the Europeans (the white man) thought of Africa and its People.

History and Culture of East Africa

East Africa is a very diverse place in terms of its culture and history. Europeans introduced christianity to Ethiopia as early as 300AD. 200 years later, its spread a little more into parts of Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia even ended up having a Christian Emporor, Lilibela, who built many churches in the area. Islam also spread into East Africa. The main reason was trade. There were many traders who came across the Indian Ocean who would bring along their culture, language, and religion. As the years past by, the religion spread across the whole region. The slave trade was also big in East Africa. Africans were bieng kidnapped by the Europeans and imported as slaves. The island of Zanzibar became and international slave trading center. Most European countries stopped slavery in the 1800s. They started to focus mainly gold, ivory, and rubber. Later, Great Britain Set up its own colonies using imperialism. In the early 1960s, most east african countries finally gained indipendance from European colonizers. East Africa BY FAR does not have just one local language. They speak French, English, Swahili, and many other African languages.

East Africa Physical Geography

East Africa is a region of diverse physical features, climate, and vegetation. There are rift valleys, forests, plains, savannas. A rift valley is a place on earth where the tectonic plates move away from each other, breaking the earths crust and creating a valley. The cliffs in these valleys can rise to up to 2,000meters. East Africa also contains the largest mountain in all of Africa, Mt. Killimanjaro. It is about 19,340 feet tall. Despite its location, its peak is covered with snow due to its high elevation. There is also The Serengeti Plain, which resides in mostly Tanzania. Most of East Africa's spectacular wild life is located around the plain. As for the regions climate, it varies from place to place. There is the tropical areas, the cool and dry areas, and soggy, grassland thats good for farming. Dont forget the Deserts :P where you cant even plant a twig because of the droughts.

Can we trust To Be a Slave?

I think this is a pretty good story to trust. Julius Lester has a history of Civil and Social rights work behind him, and he, himself is a African-American. Hes wrote countless books in the past about similar issues on racism, slavery, and political corruption, though most his books are about the issue of slavery and discrimination. He wrote this book using the stories and opinions of past slaves. He got help from The Federal Writer's Project, who did more interviewer work with the former slaves, and tried their hardest to translate their stories to the English Language.

MR. HELP for image of Prague

Movement- This shoes movement in a few ways. First, the most obvious, is that the people are moving (durrr). Then, there is the buildings. The materials used to make the building might not have been from Prague (wood, concrete, tiles, etc.) There is also the Cathedral in the backround, that may show that religion moved around and got to Prague.





Region- It looks pretty cold, because it has a gloomy feeling, and people are wearing jackets. It also has european architechture.





Human/Enviroment Interaction- Well, there is obviosly buildings, which were built there by people. You can also see some partially scarred and rusted buildings, which was caused by nature.


Location- Prague, Czech Republic. Europe, EARTH. I do not know the EXACT EXACT location.


Place- There is alot of historic architecture, hundreds of years old (Castles, Chapels, Churches etc.) Many churches in Prague, which means it is mainly a Christian oriented country. Once again, it is also cold there. There may by a c
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Does Voilence lead to...more voilence?

From reading this playwrite, if there was one thing i learnt, it was that, voilence, definatly does lead to more voilence. Act 3 is when it all started. Ceaser assasination started a short, but brutal chain of voilence in Rome. You see, after Anthony managed to get the croud on his side to go against the conspirators, that croud grew into an angry, bloodthirsty mob. On a few occasions they were all yelling "Burn! Kill! Rip them to pieces!...etc" when trying to find the conspirators. In their craze, they even killed a random person only because he had the same name as one of the conspirators (Cinna the Poet). Then, as we watched in the movie about Acts 4 and 5, there was a massive battle between the forces of Brutus and Octavius's Army, which means hundreds of people dying. Then there was after the battle, when Cassius and Brutus, both suicide, seeing that there lives were pretty much destroyed now. Rome lost a few very important figueres in this timespan, and also many innoccents. Who knows, there might have been more killings in this time, but it just wasnt mentioned.