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    Introduction African art has played an important role in the culture of the world. The sculpture is the most common traditional culture expression for the African art. The different sculptures are shown by their local styles and they serve for the specific functions, such as religion. From some of these old art pieces, we figure out this kind of traditional culture expression already existed in the African for such a long time. In this paper, the art piece I am going to analyze is the Female Figure

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    The Queen Bee and Her Court Classification is the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. In The Queen Bee and Her Court Rosalind Wiseman talked about classifying high school cliques. These classifications are: The Queen Bee, Sidekick, Banker, Floater, Torn Bystander, Pleaser/Wannabe/Messenger, and Target. The Queen Bee is the ringleader of this clique. She is the one who tells everyone what to do and she is not intimidated by anyone.

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    Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale tells the story of two young girls named Manyara and Nyasha that are the daughters of a man named Mufaro. Manyara is a selfish girl that is often aggressive towards her sister. Nyasha, on the other hand, is a girl with a compassionate and kind demeanor. The beauty of these two young women inspires the king to disguise himself (as a small green garden snake, old woman, etc.) in order to find the better traits for a potential queen. Against her father’s wishes

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    over time because of race back then there wasn’t any african american or latinos characters in the fairy tales like little snow white and rapunzel all of them were white like snow white the dwarfs the prince the evil queen all of them were white. fairy tales change over time because in little snow white the characters are shown friendly and kind there is not that much violence it’s in cartoon version there not that much african american characters shown in the fairy tale all of them

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    Stereotypes of African-American women have been portrayed in American pop culture date back to when African-American slavery. Many authors credit the majority of stereotypes regarding African-American people to the 1915 film Birth of a Nation, which was based on a novel called The Clansman (Carpenter, 2012). In reaction to the quick development of the African-American community in the United States during reconstruction, this film declared that African-Americans were dangerous, uncivilized, and

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    Scientists and Beekeepers Can Make Killer Bees Less Aggressive People discovered honey since an ancient time and considering it as liquid gold. There are many kinds of bees that produce honey, and it differs from place to place. One remarkable species is African honeybee which well known for its ability to produce more honey than other species and survive in hot climate (Anne, 2006). Evans and Butler(2010) have acknowledged that some species of honey bees are known as Killer bees or Africanized bees, which

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    power of states on the African coast. It was the lucrative slave trade that prompted this initiative by the Portuguese. They needed to be in proximity of the supply (Africans) so they could capture and ship the slaves more efficiently to the New World colonies thereby increasing their profits. Portugal had decided it was going to control this region economically and most importantly with its military. The military soon attacked former trading partners and native Africans in order to acquire the

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    African –American In Motion Pictures How did African Americans enter film? When did they? African Americans had a hard time entering film. Who are some successful black actors today in Hollywood? According to the sources I’ve read, American Americans had a very complex time in the history in the American motion industry. In the early 20’s, things like the Civil War were still being discussed. Society wanted African American to stay in their place, so they were given roles such as criminals

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    person who didn’t give them the happiness. For example back in the day there were racism, racism was really intense. The African American people had a lot of anger towards the white people. The white people treated the African American’s like they were bad people because they were colored people. Whites wouldn’t serve African American’s food in specific restraint. The Africans American’s protested , and there

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    he has no control of everything including his marriage, shower’s style and lifestyle. In his engagement ceremony, he decides travel to America in order to find his own queen that has her own thought and doesn’t obey to his social status. Akeem stays at Queen, a poor neighborhood, because he believes he would find his queen in Queen. Also, Akeem covers his true identity and pretends as a poor student so woman would not

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