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The growth of Bantu tribal civilizations was a turning point in their history. The establishment of their cities and empires started after the Bantu migrations ended. The Bantu peoples were comprised of many tribes that had similar aspects of life. They included their agricultural system and their social hierarchy. Their agricultural system was collective. The…

After the Civil War the South went through a period of reconstruction where they tried to rebuild their society that now included freedmen. It is a common opinion that reconstruction in the South was a failure, but it was possible for it to have been a successful revolution for the people of the south through…

As a slave Sojourner Truth went through a lot of masters and all gave her varying degrees of agency. She was born into the employ of the Hardenbergh’s but he died before she every truly had to work. During her stay with her family on the Hardenbergh estate her family suffered great loss in the…

Sojourner Truth, originally known as Isabelle, was a courageous woman who fearlessly expressed her beliefs. Born into slavery around 1797 in Ulster County, New York, Isabella married Thomas and had five children: Diana, Peter, Elizabeth, Sophia, and possibly another child who may have died during infancy. After relocating to New York City in 1843 and…

Alexander the Great is without doubt one of the greatest military leaders of history. Not only did Alexander of Macedon conquer enormous areas of the known world but also he demonstrated dynamic leadership and masterful strategy on a large scale and tactics on the battlefield. During his life, he ruled the largest empire the world…

The movie Troy is about the conflict between the Greek city-states, led by Agamemnon, and Troy, ruled by Priam. These two have this conflict because Paris, Prince of Troy, fell in love with Helen, wife of Menelaus who is Agamemnon’s brother and king of Sparta, and took her back to Troy against the wishes of…

The culture, a bond through any item or event in which many people create a relationship from. The African American culture, is a tight knit community with their own personal advancements and social behaviors. I first was introduced to the definition and background of the African American culture through my dance teacher in the ninth…

Hitler and Stalin – when the evil in a human becomes political. Both caused the biggest mass murders in history, both had the same aims, and both hated each other, because of their different political views – one was National Socialist and one Communist – and this is probably the most important difference. A. Rise…

For anyone that doesn’t, as the saying goes, “live under a rock”, it’s difficult not to hear of twisted acts of corporations. Corporations are powerful entities; in some cases their power seems to rival or even exceed the government’s power. Many corporations are huge amoral beasts that serve the purpose of accumulation of capital. As…

In the introduction to this section on group communication, I refer to Harvard social psychologist Robert Bales’ work to categorize comments made in smallgroup discussions. On the basis of his research with zero-history problem-solving groups in his lab, Bales discovered that dramatizing was a significant type of communication that often fostered group cohesiveness.1 The late…