East African Vaca

Every culture in the world has their own customs and ways they do things. All cultures have different ways of initiating people into their cultural groups. The people that are joined into a particular culture group have family that are in the group already. Although, there are cases where outsiders join into other cultural groups. A way that this occurs is by marriage. Every culture has their own ways of going about a wedding ceremony. This paper will focus on the marriage ceremony of the Maasai community of East Africa and then the Jewish community, a religious group scattered around the world with many located in America.

The development and growth of civilizations in African history were contradicted by several American and European historians in the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. The reason for this lack of understanding is because the focus was mainly on Europe’s chaotic society at the time. In addition, Africa didn’t have physically written documents to present their actual history. Instead, it was orally passed down. This is why historians have falsely concluded that Africa was an uncivilized “Dark Continent.” But what does it mean to be civilized? A group of people is characterized as civilized when they are organized as a society, and able to advance it. Since West and East Africa were able to develop advanced forms of economy, education, and government, they are characterized as civilized

Africa transcended before European arrival for many reasons such as their wealth, trade, and developed government.

f. The music in South Africa reflects the country, and the history through the Mbube music. Either male vocalists, and or female vocalists sing such. When the lead singer is singing his or her part, they are said to be telling their stories. Mbube music is said to be traceable to furthest back the 1920’s. It was created in Africa when migrant workers begun holding singing competitions in a form of entertainment after long work days. This carried plenty of history about the country because of how old this form of music was. Dating back to the 1920’s, it was able to help preserve lots of memories, facts, and even stories about what has happened. This was mostly popular in the time that Africa was living in

In The South and America since World War II, James C. Cobb narrates the ever-growing South and southern culture beginning with the attack on Peal Harbor and ending in the present time. Cobb describes the drastic changes the South faced in recent history, ultimately to portray the South in its relationship to the nation as a whole. Cobb comes to the conclusion that one cannot understand America without looking towards the South, and one cannot understand the South without relating the culture to the bigger picture of America. It is important to note that James C. Cobb is a research professor of history at the University of Georgia and has written other books pertaining to the subject of southern history, therefore this book is written within

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the largest African countries located in central Africa. Congo is a country that has grown out of a history of Belgian colonisation. Congo also has a long history of an unstable government with a lot of problems with internal corruption. Being a land rich on natural resources with a poor government, Congo has been the perfect target for foreign exploitation of the lands resources. There is a high demand for cobalt from first world countries and the demand keeps rising every year. The current battery technology enables big technology companies to sell small handheld technological devices. Congo is one of the worlds leading supplier of cobalt. Almost half of the worlds cobalt was mined there. This cobalt can be found in any rechargeable battery such as the battery of a laptop or a smartphone. A cobalt rich battery has enabled us to have phones small enough to can fit in our pockets. These litihium-ion batteries can contain up to 10 grams of refined cobalt. Refined cobalt is the most expensive element in these batteries. Today, several Chinese companies are buying cheap cobalt from Congolese miners who working under dangerous conditions. The Congolese people are poor and desperate enough to do the hard and dangerous work. Families are forced involve their children in the mining work to be able to survive. The work pays less than minimum wage. The foreign mining business in Congo has caused Congolese people to sacrifice their

Mount Everest, part of the Himalayan mountain range, is the highest mountain in the world with an elevation of 29,029 feet. More than 4,400 climbers have reached the peak since Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, first "summited" it in 1953. Edmund Hillary, a

Krakauer climbed Mt Everest in 1996, just 21 years ago. You are going to need a good supply of oxygen, since the mountain is way above sea level. You should never do this alone. It is wise to go with a group of people just in case something happens. If something were to happen to you and

Mount Everest is a very interesting mountain, with it’s bizarre features and deadly dangers it makes for an interesting ascent for many climbers.

The world's highest mountain has been climbed but it's deadly. Apa a sherpa from nepal has broken his own record on May 21, 2009. Born in a village thame, in the foothills of everest He successfully climbed mount everest for the 19th time. People who would want to climb mount everest would face many challenges. “climbing everest is not easy to climb, but after scaling the summit so many times, i am more confident and experienced,” apa said. Climbers would face freezing temperatures and possible avalanches, and high altitudes there would be less oxygen. At 29,035 feet, mount everest is the highest mountain in the world. Apa has the world record for the person to reach the top of everest.

I would climb kilimanjaro because on the chart it says that 13,200 people reach the summit which means it isn't as challenging as some of the other ones. Mount everest is the highest mountain in the world people have climbed.The most difficult one is carstensz because it says only 5-10 people make it up the mountain each year. Compared to everest it seems more difficult since 200 people make it up there each year. The difficult part about everest is the altitude compared to carstensz were the climbing is the most difficult part of the mountain. Everest compared to carstensz is easier since Apa made it up there 19 times which means it's not as difficult.

There are claims that the government is actively trying to under-develop the north (Acker,p. 343). Northern Uganda was mainly populated by the Acholi people, an ethnic group that comprises of over a million people (Acker, p. 340). One of the largest impacts that the under-development of the north was on the subsistence economy. In Africa, cattle is one of the most popular forms capital. In the Gulu and Kitgum districts of northern Uganda, almost all of their cattle were taken during a time of conflict between the government and the LRA. In the Kitgum region, the cattle population fell from 156,667 to 3,239 in just 12 years, while at the same time, the national cattle population has risen from 3 to 5.6 million in the same time period (Acker, p. 344).

Forgotten. Isolated. Alone. The people of Uganda live in constant fear of one man who has torn their lives apart. Joseph Kony is the leader of a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA began in 1986 under the rule of Alice Lakwena and was called the Holy Spirit Movement. Lakwena was an Acholi and claimed to be a mystic fighting for the rights of her people (“Kony, Joseph”). She led a violent rebellion against the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and when she was exiled, Joseph Kony took over her movement. Kony formed a new group, with Lakwena’s followers, called the Lord’s Resistance Army (Johnson).  His goal was to create a new government based on the Ten Commandments and to purify the Acholi people. In order to achieve his

    Reaching the height of  19,341 feet, the tallest mountain on the African continent and tallest free-standing mountain in the world is Mount Kilimanjaro. Within the mountain, there is almost every type of ecological system, including rainforest, alpine desert, cultivated land, moorland, heath, and an arctic summit. Due to the vast ecosystems on Mount Kilimanjaro, there is additionally diverse vegetation and animal species. Furthermore, Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano consisting of three volcanic cones: Shira, Kibo, and Mawenzi. Finally, a fun fact is Pizza Hut set an official Guinness World Record by delivering the highest altitude pizza to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in May 2016.

The world should be pulling their resources together because the way the drought is affecting the Eastern Africa’s people is killing them. Reasonable one can not live in conditions where there is minimal food and water. People need to get their basic needs to survive and Eastern Africa is far from the ideal place to do so due to drought. The Eastern Africa people have limited crops which are mostly failing due to lack of water, little cattle herds due to the hot conditions and poor ground to feed on ,while the rest of the world has the resources to provide large-scale relief (Stewart, 2011). This is a big issue because on a global scale we are letting Eastern Africa’s people suffer when there is no need of it. The drought in Eastern