Figari criticizes the intention of Spanish Creole elites to rid the nation of the black population by focusing on the performance of created by African slaves in colonial Uruguay during the eighteenth century, which included the in more elaborate performances occurring around Christmas, asserting the role of black Uruguayans as "innovators and contributors to the national body".

Explain how the ideas of karl marx came to influence american workers in the late 1800s

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

1. what was the premise behind the recording industry association of america’s lawsuit against napster? 2. based on your knowledge of how napster worked, if you downloaded a copy of a song from a friend’s hard drive using napster, would you be infringing on the musician’s or record company’s copyright? 3. describe the scope of the digital millennium copyright act and what or whom it protects. 4. what was the link between the digital millennium copyright act and the napster legal proceedings? 5. what are the legal implications of napster’s online music-sharing service?