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    all female artists carried themselves like Salt-n-Pepa or Queen

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    1492 Imagine aliens in big numbers come to our earth in giant flying saucers. Would you run away from the fear of being killed, would you come to greet them hoping they won't torture you or even kill you. Or would you fear of them bringing death upon you, your family, your city, and nearly all the native population? This is what the natives feared. Let's go back a little to talk about the geographic revolution. In 1419 Christopher Columbus (as most of us know this story) went on a journey through

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    misunderstood, but African American women are also stereotyped by other people. Latin women are discriminated in their dressing and service occupations, while African American Americans are stereotyped in sexually promiscuous, caregiving role, and “welfare queens.” Both of them are victims of racial stereotypes, which affect them negatively on their identities and characteristics. However, the differentiation of their cultures makes them being stereotyped in distinct aspects. Some of African American women’s

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    Queen Nzinga was believed to be born during the last half of the 1500’s. During her early life, she grew up with her father as a leader. Her father Ngola Kiluanji Kia Samba was a ruler before her. He started his ruling by leading his people against Portuguese colonialists. Queen Nzinga Mbande was the monarch in Mbundu people. She became the queen when her brother committed suicide. During that time there was rising demand for the slave trade. She always refused to allow anybody to control her nation

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    Queen Cleopatra and Pharaoh Akhenaton Many people have influenced African history, from Cleopatra to Malcolm X. Rulers and leaders have changed the odds on almost everything, Cleopatra gaining alliances, Malcolm X fighting for equality, Rosa Parks for standing up for herself and many, many more. Everyone’s part has helped the United States of America to free slaves, voting equal and women’s rights. Two huge people involved in this is the famous Queen Cleopatra who used her seductive charm to protect

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    students mind to adopt different ideologies. “A school based on African values, it is believed, would eliminate the patterns of rejection and alienation that engulf so many African American school children, especially males”(Pollard). In the public school system it lacks to provide in depth of the African culture as far as learning about Kings, Queens, and missing history. In learning about Kings and Queen it is believed that it would help African American children to have self esteem and to grow into productive

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    from the risk of annihilation, the roles of the females trend towards the domestic sphere where the primitive hunter-gatherer society requires a greater contribution from girls to survive. Gender roles within particular cultures such as the Asian, African, and Native American societies varied depending on the means of garnering sustenance and religions of the periods, but regardless of similarities, each isolated community formed singular opinions about women distinct from others developing at the

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    student collaboration. Queens fostering a diverse community of students, will help in creating a conducive learning environment for students and staff. It will improve the overall performance of students and create a more collaborative

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    have many things that are not common to the American continent , a young African man learn how to hunt, how to do farming and how to build houses and how to raise animals, their languages are different from ours, their models of transportation are totally different from ours. Most Africans are people of colors (black), some tribes in Africa have kings, queens, princes, and princess. To take the subject further, some African countries have more than 100 languages or speaks more than 150 dialects.

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    The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano depicts African slaves as being treated as property but in his case, he gained experience from his time as a slave. Despite the horrible experience of slavery Equiano was able to gain something positive from being a slave, which might be completely overshadowed by all the negative parts of slavery. He had the opportunity to learn European customs, to travel to Europe and see the development of the culture and economics behind slavery, and to

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