Expanding European empires in the New World and recent maritime innovations during the mid 1500s led to imperial superiority and a need for cheap exploitation of labor. ... During this time, empires ruled as the discovery of gold and other precious materials as well as various new innovations occurred across Europe, Africa, India and other countries. ... The labor-intensive agriculture of the New World also required inexpensive labor. ... Physicians occasionally attended to their health, and gave them medicine if the slaves were sick and assessed their physique for future sales in the New Worl...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Once in the new world and on the plantations Africans had to deal with the continual pressures of enslavement and dominance from another culture. ... When the African slaves were brought to the new world, they wanted their children and future generations to know about Africa, and its splendor, and how wonderfully Africans lived and thrived before the onset of slavery. ... Through the telling of stories, folklore and fiction these slaves illustrated for other slaves an array of experiences including, pre-slavery Africa, the "middle passage" (period of time that the slaves traveled in horrible...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Poverty The Young girl thought to herself as she sat under the Cypress tree in the blazing sun watching the heat waves shimmer above the blinding brightness of the hot sand, "I wish I had food in my stomach. ... Also, higher education gives one the opportunity to create new ideas and from here new businesses arise. ...

• Word Count: 2145
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School