the Soninke people

Examples of the Soninke people in the following topics:

• The Ghana Empire

  • According to the tradition of the Soninke people, they migrated to southeastern Mauritania in the 1st century, and as early as around 100 CE created a settlement that would eventually develop into the Ghana Empire.
  • According to al-Bakri, the major part of the city was called El-Ghaba, and was the residence of the king.
  • It contained a sacred grove of trees used for Soninke religious rites in which priests lived.
  • The name of the other section of the city is not recorded.
  • When the Gold Coast in 1957 became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to regain its independence from colonial rule, it was renamed in honor of the long-gone empire from which the ancestors to the Akan people of modern-day Ghana are thought to have migrated.

• The 10th Amendment

  • The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or the people.
  • The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

• The Second Amendment

  • The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
  • A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
  • Ideals that helped to inspire the Second Amendment in part are symbolized by the minutemen.

• Capitalism, class, privilege, and oppression

  • These inequalities result from a class system based on increasing gaps in income, wealth, and power between the few people on top and the masses of people at the bottom.
  • Capitalism causes competition, stress, and anxiety among members of the working class and middle class, as people do not have any control over their work and whether they can keep their jobs.
  • Despite the myth that hard work leads to getting ahead and making it, for the most part people have little power to improve their class position.
  • Research shows people are as likely to move downward as they are upward in the class system.
  • Currently, corporate downsizing, the loss of industrial jobs going overseas, the expansion of low-paying service occupations, and the Great Recession beginning in 2007, have combined to result in many people struggling to keep the jobs that they have, rather than being able to move upward.

• Socioeconomic Factors

  • Because of this, these people have the best chance of having their views represented in government.
  • Education has the strongest impact on participation, as it provides people with background knowledge as to how the political system works and how the action of voting is connected with the realities of their lives.
  • Educated people develop the skills that allow them to follow and understand national and international events through the mass media.
  • Eighty-three percent of people with a graduate school education voted in the 2008 presidential election.
  • The 2010 midterm elections were decided primarily by people with at least some college experience.

• Composition of the Older Population

  • In the United States, the proportion of people aged 65 or older increased from 4 percent in 1900 to about 12 percent in 2000.
  • The population of people aged 65 and older grew at a faster rate than the total population.
  • The South had the largest number of people aged 65 and up, while the Northeast had the largest percentage of people aged 65 and up.
  • In 2010, 53,364 centenarians, or people over the age of 100, lived in the United States, a 5.8 percent increase from the number of centenarians in 2000.
  • While the trend of an older population appears worldwide, people in industrialized nations are older than people in non-industrialized nations.

• The Psychology of Persuasion

  • The psychology of persuasion is best exemplified by two theories that try to explain how people are influenced.
  • Social Proof: People will do things they see other people are doing.
  • Liking: People are easily persuaded by other people whom they like.
  • Cialdini cites the marketing of Tupperware, wherein people were more likely to buy from others they liked.
  • Some of the biases favoring more attractive people are discussed, but generally more aesthetically pleasing people tend to use this influence over others.

• The Role of Age

  • Older people are well organized by advocacy groups such as the AARP, which lobby on their behalf.
  • The lower voting rates of young people in the U.S. help explain why things like Medicare and Social Security in the U.S. are facing looming crises—the elderly will retain many of the benefits of these programs and are unwilling to allow them to be changed even though young people will be the ones to suffer the consequences of these crises.
  • As a result, older individuals in the U.S. are seen as having more political power than younger people.
  • Its mission is to improve the quality of life for retired people and people over the age of 50.
  • Obama's ability to focus on these issues and reach out to young people is seen as one of the reasons for his success in the 2008 presidential election .

• The people at the bottom of the pyramid

  • Eliminating the wasting of people is as much a part of sustainability as reducing physical waste.
  • Consider then, that the world's largest consumer markets upwards of two-thirds of humanity – are comprised of poor people that are either ignored or forgotten by most businesses because of tradition, ignorance, or prejudice.
  • However, an increasing number of companies have discovered that poor people, if given a chance, represent an economic force unto themselves.
  • ‘Inclusive business' is the term used to describe efforts that include ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid' (BoP) customers in a company's business model – and the key to tapping into this powerful economic base is ‘local partner selection'.
  • Many BoP companies don't become successful by simply selling products to the poor.

• Marriage and Responsibility

  • The reasons people marry vary widely, but usually include publicly and formally declare their love, the formation of a single household unit, legitimizing sexual relations and procreation, social and economic stability, and the education and nurturing of children.
  • Part of the reason why education is so influential in determining the level of education of one's spouse is because people tend to form groups based on levels of education.
  • First, there are the groups formed in the process of becoming educated; many people meet their spouses at school.
  • Happily married people tend to be healthier than unmarried people.
  • Assess the importance of the institution of marriage, as well as the various reasons why people enter into a marriage