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A Mesh of the New and the Old
A human, by definition; “of or pertaining to the social aspect of people� (Merriam Webster). By composition merely “65 percent oxygen, 18.6 percent carbon, 9.7 percent hydrogen, 3.2 percent nitrogen� (madsci.org), and an abundance of other trace elements. However, when you describe humanity as a whole, the perspective changes and describing it gets much more complicated than a simple definition, or a matrix of elements. This is because humanity can not exist without change. Change is the driving force behind all that is and will be, as well as defining the past. For this reason alone, the colonization of the Africa, as described in “Things Fall Apart�, was to the natives benefit. A stagnate society will not prosper, we are renowned and remembered for the changes and choices we make. The colonization of Africa did not just change the land , but the people that inhabited it as well.
One of the major changes in Okonkwo village was the......

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